Spiritual Forum

My dear friend,

We all, despite having different approach to a common goal, have joined this platform - with each one of us being motivated with his own objective.

It is supposed to be an unique experience on this platform with vivid approach to and various interpretation of the single objective, while respecting individuality in a group.

I would like all my friends on this platform to share their inspiration, motivation, objective of joining and their experiences, learning and unlearning at this platform.

good, bad, pleasant, unpleasant,enriching, confusing, inspiring, demotivating, light, darkness, ........................ experience makes the entire journey worth it.

Allow me to share my story.

I am a man from an average middle class economical background with not much learning from India, commonly referred as eastern world.

Sometime back, almost a year and a half or so, I suddenly found that things which used to denote happiness and fullness in my life were not so anymore. I started having difficulty in recalling what made me happy.

I could not figure out WHAT WAS GOING WITHIN and WHY.

The harder I tried to understand WHY, the more it was leading to confusion.

I started reading, attending seminars, conferences, satsangs, joined various yoga groups, healing groups, spirituality associations - initially I found all this very interesting, and enriching. But soon I started realizing that what I initially found interesting was actually unknowingly serving other's INTEREST and what i felt enriching was the root cause leading to CONFUSION, which many may mistake for ascension.

Our's is the right path, rest all is gimmickry was echoing from all sides and soon I started feeling that what I was listening to is nothing more than what can be called NOISE.

I started feeling what I am searching is for much more beyond than following the foot steps of someone's journey, even the same, (journey) was suspicious as it appeared to be more of a marketing of motivated spirituality, apparently for worldly gain.

I found that what was being promoted as freedom was more suffocating.

People, the followers, were not much than blindfolded volunteers promoting a professional's dream for FREE FREE FREE.

I  started to feel the meaning of words that SPIRITUALITY BEGINS WHERE RELIGIONS END.

Religion is for this world, as only physical bodies identify themselves as christian, muslim, budhhist, hindu, jain.......................................................

only physical bodies, which are nothing more than outer covering, can be identified as male or female- beneath the cover there is no such discrimination -  We all are one as we all are a part of what is DIVINE, that's why I can see myself in all and say I AM YOU.

Then I took shelter in meditation and started meditating. Initially I found it too difficult sitting in a calm posture with eyes closed- all sort of thoughts used to come in and make me restless.

Still I continued with my gradual but regular practice.

Gradually I realized that more I reacted to or judged my thoughts, more would come in to make me restless.

I started accepting them as mere thoughts without reacting to or judging them and soon I found that I started feeling internal peace- something which I was longing for - like droplets of rain in a burning desert.

I started getting some strange sensations, but I am not sure whether they are what to some people refer as "experiences", but whatever they might be but every such sensation I started sensing moving a step closer to the feeling of completeness within.

I have begun falling in love with NATURE, I find that I connect with nature with much comfort than I ever did.

I have learnt to take break and holidaying at places which are rich with nature's treasure or add to elevation of the spiritual side.

My needs and desires are getting limited, but the urge to know WHO I AM is increasing with everyday passing by.

I am in search of friends who are treading the same path and learn from them by sharing and making my journey a journey, before I reach the stage of unlearning.

YES I can sense stage of unlearning is inevitable, if I wish to travel within as all this ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE is purely worldly. At times I find words said as mere noise and words written as mere blackening of pages.

I have strong feelings that Sharing is growing till we reach the gateway, from thereon it shall be purely something which no words or means can express- It has to be felt and no two experience may be same. EVERYONE HAS HIS OWN EXPERIENCE AND TRUTH during the journey. One who has realized self doesn't do the talking unless the one asking the query is a real seeker with immense thirst for the answer.

What we share here is lessons left behind from the foot steps of the one who left for the journey, we cannot even trace their footsteps beyond a certain distance in this journey - not because they did not travel any further but because after a certain distance we travel on a surface where no traces are left behind and everyone has to find his own way- for his experiences.

I am here on this site to learn simple acceptance of prevalence of varied views without affecting my learning so far, and pick what I can connect with, leaving behind what I cannot connect with.

I appreciate everyone's opinion as it is THEIR opinion and I respect the same.

Even parallel lines meet at infinity.

Hence there is no need to evaluate other or judge their view / opinion / experiences.

NO JUDGMENT-hence no need to argue or prove.

opposites, like minded and neutral view shall always co-exist because POSITIVE and NEGATIVE can only create energy, the current, and the NEUTRAL helps with grounding.

There can be no current without "+"  and  "-".

till then SHARING IS GROWING.

What about you?