Skepticism and Ego

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Skepticism and Ego

 

Can knowledge be an obstacle to anything? It is not too rare to hear

the experiences of the educated that admit their discomfort at topics

related to spiritual matters that defy their logic and elude any

conclusions. How could one train the mind so used to completing a

book or a thesis and take home the message in minutes, to accept the

reality of an unfinished treatise? God's wisdom is as infinite as

space. Skepticism in spiritual path is destructive. In the mad rush

to defy nature, human logic so bound to advancing itself,

conveniently neglects to contemplate on its very purpose. Sad would

be the situation when the spirituality remains eternally parallel and

its fruits forbidden.

 

Skepticism, the initial bar to spiritual progress ends as soon as the

necessity for the Unknown and the Unseen felt. Necessities may arise

due to causes as simple as a material shortcoming. Once in the path,

the difficult bar called ego takes over the reins, at times almost in

complete control of the pursuit! This attribute is the one that makes

the seeker, accept and reject, rejoice and condole, elate and deject,

and in the process making believe that s/he is responsible. This is

the attribute that makes one think how " Right " his/her pursuit is,

and how pitiful is the others' plight. This attribute establishes the

superiority of one Religion over the other, and denounces everything

dissimilar.

 

" Maya troubles even me " , said Sainath. But, He also assured that

those seek Him will be saved from its perils and those who turns

away, lashed. What could be easier than resorting to the Merciful

Fakir that never stopped anyone from asking? The one who taught by

His very living? How difficult would that be to listen to the most

benevolent Sai who does not expect His children of rigorous rituals,

but just faith and patience? How inconvenient could that be do simply

submit to that Guru whose demands are love and devotion? Stay with

Him and the ego will vanish.