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Chapter IV - The
Spiritual Path
The spiritual path may, in the beginning, appear to be very
hard, thorny, precipitous and slippery. Renunciation of
objects gives pain at the outset. If you struggle hard to
tread the path, if you once make a strong determination and
firm resolve, then it becomes very easy. You get interest and
new joy. Your heart expands. You have a broad outlook of life.
You have a new, wide vision. You feel the help from the
invisible hands of the Indweller of your heart. Your doubts
are cleared by themselves by getting answers from within. You
can hear the shrill, sweet voice of God. There is an
indescribable thrill of divine ecstasy from within. There is
deep, abiding, everlasting joy and unruffled peace. There is
ineffable, unabating, undiminishing, undecaying spiritual
bliss. This gives new strength. The footing in the path
becomes firmer and firmer. The Jivanmuktas, Yogins,
Nitya-siddhas, Amara-purushas, and Chiranjivis lend their
helping hands to the struggling aspirants. The aspirants feel
this actually. The feeling of loneliness and of being
neglected and forsaken vanishes entirely.
You are backed up at all times by a mighty power that works
everywhere in the cosmos. Therefore you have nothing to fear.
Take care of the details in Sadhana. The major factor will
take care of itself.
Some aspirants leave Sadhana after some time. They expect
great fruits quickly. They expect many Siddhis within a short
time. When they do not get some, they give up the Sadhana.
There are several ranges of consciousness between the ordinary
human consciousness and the supra-consciousness of Brahman.
Different veils have to be torn down on the way; many lower
centres have to be opened up; many hurdles have to be crossed
before the final goal is reached.
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