Way To Spirituality

WAY TO SPIRITUALITY| A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FRIENDS OF ETERNAL PATH AND ANANT SRI.

What is the real way to spirituality?

Spiritual seeker is on a journey, which demands heightened alertness and awareness. It is a journey from mind to beyond mind. Mind plays many tricks. One has to remain aware of one’s mind. Mind functions like a projector; it is a process of continuous projection. Living through a projected life is real agony.
Mind accumulates knowledge, experiences, emotions and memories only through colored filtration of limited vision. That’s why every knowledge, experience, emotion and memory is illusory. Spirituality is a way to transcend this illusory state of mind.
The mind creates its own judgments about right and wrong, high and low, sacred and evil. It tries to search a heaven which is merely a projection of its limiting thoughts and eventually falls into a hell, which is also its own creation. Never rely on your mind. Observe it’s every movement, color and trick. This choice-less observation is the only real way to spirituality, all else is only a play of mind.

What are the basics and fundamentals in spirituality?

Don’t run after conceptual prisons in the name of basics & fundamentals in the spirituality because there is none. Every creed, dogma and ritual comes as readymade clothing, trying to fit in that invites great suffering. Any philosophical or psychological knowledge or device can’t redeem you.
All spiritual experiences are product of your mind and all spiritual practice is only a futile effort to conquer phantoms. The only possible thing that you can do is total negation of all borrowed knowledge and all experiences that your limited thought has brought along. Self realization is your natural state which has become clouded only by your efforts, knowledge and anxiety to achieve something you already have.

What should be the attitude of a seeker towards the body?

Your body is your temple; there is no need to visit temples outside. Keep your body pure and clean for the soul to reside within. Your soul reflects through your body all the time but you only feel it when your body is pure and vibrating with aliveness and presence.

But how can you keep your temple of body pure and clean?

Remain constantly aware of your food, thoughts, feelings and the world around you. Your awareness will soon start guiding you for the best suited conditions. And as soon as temple is vibrating in all its glory, your soul will start dancing within and without, then celestial music of Godliness starts echoing from nowhere to everywhere.

We get confused passing through so many ideologies and verbalization of truth. What is the way to get out of this confusion?

Don’t get stuck in verbal and ideological circus. Truth can’t be named. As soon as you name the truth, it becomes untruth. A name is only a workable reality. One can be a fool or can befool others in any name. Some words are rotten now; it is time to drop whole ideology and mythology. Words, ideas and philosophies are worthless if one is enveloped in unconsciousness.
We have to disturb the deep unconsciousness by any mean. Everyone is divine and luminous being within but darkness overshadows due to unawareness. Don’t be serious, be sincere, we are passing through a very critical transition of humanity, where falseness will not remain for too long.

Why we go on living so unconsciously?

Basis of unconsciousness is complete identification with forms- physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms and mythological forms. Knowing forms only as forms and attaching zero value to forms but total value to the knower is the basis of consciousness.
The basic problem is identification, when you start identifying with anything, your aliveness gradually diminishes. You may use wonderful words but deep within everything remains shaking. Forms of any kind, physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms and mythological or spiritual forms give you a pseudo identity. Pseudo identity is always fearful and defensive.

How to make your dream real?

Your dream has to be great. See the big picture but you shouldn’t ignore the smallest detail. Create a mental picture of the situation exactly and clearly as per your great dream. And think of it in the present tense. It already exists in the cosmos. Include and think about as many details as you can. Remember that God lies in the details. See mental picture of your dream often with your mind’s eye – meditatively and casually. Focus on your dream goal clearly and gently with all your positive energy and positive attitude.
Think of your dream that it is very real and possible. In order to go ahead one has to leave the ground where he is standing. Don’t resist with the present situation. Resistance brings only frustration and maintains the status quo. In the beginning, within the seed you can’t see the whole big tree. But the big tree is there in the seed, waiting for the manifestation. Care for your seed and leave the rest for the existence. Don’t get confused and don’t involve your mind in futile activities. Collect your confidence and courage. You are a spiritually creative warrior – born to win.

In my spiritual seeking sometimes I feel that everything is going perfectly right and sometimes suddenly I face a dead end and start feeling blocked and helpless. How can I end this game of mental seesaw?

You are seeking answers but don’t really know what your question is. You feel randomly, sometimes restless, sometimes excited, sometimes confused, sometimes clear, sometimes irritated and sad, sometimes happy, sometimes defensive, sometimes bold, sometimes depleted, sometimes euphoric, sometimes sensuous, sometimes extrasensory, sometimes sleepy, sometimes alert and aware, sometimes you experience fine coincidences and divine help and sometimes blocked and helpless .
This is your picture and this is the picture of everyone. Nothing is wrong about it. Feel normal, because every normal person feels like this. Purpose and meaning of life and death, mystery of karma and unfathomable working of cosmic law remains like a koan or puzzle. You don’t know your innermost intentions and influences. It seems that you are living blindfolded. If this type of life goes on without any conscious choice and effort of evolution, then emergence of pain and misery in the long run of life is inevitable.
You should disengage yourself from the unaware flow of life. Neither fight nor flight from the unaware flow, but float with that flow and stay focused in the present moment. Be open and feel the clarity and love coming in. Spend some time gazing at the clear sky. If it is not possible then visualize clear sky with your closed eyes and feel the clarity and vastness of sky descending within you. Do this process whenever you feel confused, irritated and sad.

How can we live life to the fullest?

Life is a dance of mystery; you don’t need any art or science to learn in order to live it. You don’t need any method or explanation about it. Life is like a flowing river, anyone who tries to guide it, will end up only misguiding it. Always remember that you have only this moment to live in which you are. Drop your past and future in order to live fully and consciously. See every movement, colour, feel and expression of life with utmost alertness and awareness, and this seeing will guide you effortlessly, spontaneously and intuitively.
Life is so simple that you may miss it; simple things need great awareness to perceive. Try to unburden yourself from all borrowed ideas and live as if you know nothing. When you are not connected to the deeper core or source of life, you believe that you know something, but when you get connected to that core or source you come to know that you actually know nothing. This is a state where you encounter the mystery of life. Be conscious and courageous and encounter it, rejoice it and let it overpower you.

Sometimes I miss my loved ones helplessly, what should I do then?

Don’t do anything but see the whole happening with complete openness, receptivity and sensitivity. Life is full of strange things; miraculous unfolds in most unexpected ways! Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, leave deepest impressions on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. Your best friend is one who brings out the best in you, and a great person is one whose presence makes your ordinariness simply extraordinary.
Let life flow and go with the flow, don’t resist change. Enter into your heart, see loving impressions, they are windows into eternity. As you live with the deepest impressions within your heart; eternal starts overpowering you and transient starts loosening its grip over you. Celebrate the extra-ordinariness of your ordinariness. Rejoice in the moment and sing the song of silence in the universal language of love.