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Many people use to ask me what their spiritual path is and what is their spiritual dharma? Now this is confusing for many people. Every one makes money in different ways. Of course it depends on one’s own karma and prarabdra. Spiritual path has 3 phases -The search, the practise and the phase of love. Many people get attracted to spiritual path, spiritual guru and travel to different places. This happens in different ways. For each one the path is different and then they have to fix their sadhana path and do the sadhana for a period of time. Then they finally help people around them. Of course the sadhana does not stop. It just expands in to different levels that is all. One has to become flexible, use common people and common situation for spiritual growth. What are the different parameters by which one grows? Now this is a broad sketch and I am giving the combination one knows. Single guru vs. multiple guru- some people have one guru in their life time. They do not change. They grow, evolve and have speeded growth due to the guru. Multiple guru - some people have many teachers and finally settle down with a single teacher. Single path vs. multiple paths - I know one swamiji who believes in the advaitha and a life long advaithian. There is nothing wrong in it. Many westerners experiment with many paths and then choose a particular path or make some unique practise which is ok, like I know man who uses the meditation on loving kindness with mantras. This is ok, as long as the person is growing in spiritual life. People become Buddhist Zen monks and then move onto tantra etc. they require combination to grow.
Family life vs. spiritual life -many people require family model to grow in spiritual life. Most people cannot love one person fully, then how they can love the whole world. There fore many people are given personal life in combination with spiritual life. Now this proportion can be 30 - 70% or 50% - 50% . One grows through conflicts and some people grow through easiness- I know some people who have to fight inch by fight to grow in spiritual life. For example the great milarepa grew due to attacks of spirits and spiritual psychic warfare. Even the great guru padmasambhava grew in the same and great manner like this. The great gnanasambhandar had to fight the Jain monks. For some people their spiritual life will be well defined, very early, very easy and the will be successful in the path.
Outside people vs. inside people- some people work for the world and help the world to become better through preaching or showing miracles. Some
people work for their family members. In my case great growth and
development happened because I tried to help my brother. Each one’s
spiritual opening will vary for people to people. Field of prayers and field of work- some pray in one place and they work with different set of prayers. They cannot share their prayer with other people. For example mother Theresa worked for poor but she also prayed. Rarely did she teach prayers instead she gave food. Some people’s field of work and prayer is same. For example priest work in temple and prays to the same deity. Some people require women in their path. This is called as left hand path. Some people use the right hand path which keeps them celibate. For some money is needed and for some people money is not needed in their sadhana. Some people have to give up money to become successful in their sadhana. Some start with bhakthi and end up yogis. Some people start a bhakats and ends up as yogis. Ramakrishna disciples are gnana yogi’s whereas he himself belonged to bhakthi yoga. One can be spiritually great yet need not help people to evolve spiritually. It is M.S.Subhalakshmi who was a great singer. But rarely did she train people. Some people can have great methods, techniques and feed back like master choa who was a master in the methods.
Secondly churning will happen. Our concepts, notion and ideas will get shattered. Both can happen and one needs to be open Any way I pray to god that many people may get clarification in their mind with regard to the sadhana. I wrote this article so that many people who have confusion will get clarified in their path.
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