Which Way? in Spirituality

Narayani Namostute!

I offer my obeisance in the divine lotus feet of my Guru…

Just like others, I was wasting my time in scrolling my phone screen, while doing so I ended up here. At this website I found beautiful pictures from allover the India and one which attracted me most, I shared that on in featured image, left a beautiful wisdom in this mind.

I can easily see my destination in front of me but the sign board directs me to go somewhere else? Why Hari? Isn’t it possible to jump and reach you (ultimately you are going to reach him after that painful death, just kidding). Here we can see where we have to go, it’s not like a silhouette about which we are not sure. Neither spiritual or materialistic life is different from this picture, we know what we want, we dream or we decide something. But just by deciding, dreaming or by seeing anything we can’t achieve it. We have to walk a path, not straight always.

Now in materialistic world, we learn from those people who have already achieved this goal, by reading or listening to them. In spiritual path, Guru plays the most important rule. Guru shows us the way and we walk and reach that place.

It’s not like that your mind will be your friend here, actually your own mind will be your foe. If you don’t believe me then you’ll see on your own. To prove this point, I have Krishna with me. Lord told this earlier in BG 6.6

bandhur ātmātmanas tasya yenātmaivātmanā jitaḥ
anātmanas tu śhatrutve vartetātmaiva śhatru-vat

Translation: For those who have conquered the mind, it is their friend. For those who have failed to do so, the mind works like an enemy.

Don’t worry we have Guru, our Swami Ji, these saints are here to help us. Follow their instructions and get liberated in this life only. Yesterday I was reading a book and there a saint gave a beautiful wisdom to the author:

Make a zero first then put one afterwards 01. Every zero has value if the one is put first but zero has no value if the one is not put first. All things of the world are like zeros and without being conscious of the one Reality they have no value at all when we remembered the one reality then life becomes what worthwhile. Otherwise it is burdensome.

Don’t worry, keep walking, your path will lead you to there where you’re meant to be.

Arjuna asked Krishna:

The mind is very restless, turbulent, strong and obstinate, O Krishna. It appears to me that it is more difficult to control than the wind. BG 6.34

Krishna gave solution this problem:

O mighty-armed son of Kunti, what you say is correct; the mind is indeed very difficult to restrain. But by practice and detachment, it can be controlled. BG 6.35

With this I end my post here.

Stay blessed and keep walking on the path of Sadhana, always.