Spiritual Path

(adpated form “One Hundred & Twenty Five YEars of Grace, Sri Ramana Maharshi)

The Human Being is essentially divine in Nature, the endless chain of irrelevant thoughts and desires veils this divinity in man.
True Happiness lie in spirituality. What does a man need to undertake a spiritual journey?

Right Guru
Only a Guru can remove our ignorance and bring us the abode of God.
A teacher should: (i) have the knowledge of the spirit of the scriptures, (ii) be pure and sinless and (iii) teach out of love for mankind, not for name, fame or money.

Prayer
Prayers do materialize one’s wishes when in tune with natural laws and cosmic harmony. They send powerful vibrations to the cosmos and create a magnetic field and can attract the object or person of desire. We should pray for the lifting up of our consciousness from darkness to light. Above all they demand conviction and patience.

Spiritual Progress
What one should seek is permanent bliss (Ananda). This can only be find in the Lord. Without love, life is meaningless. Love with excessive attachment blind us. Love as devotion (bhakti) rises us above personal limitations and see the Lord in all.

Meditation
In Meditation one progressively disengages oneself form any interaction between sense and the environment. This enables one to experience an inner peace and tranquility. When we are in sincere contact with our inner life force we are recharged with an energy that sustains our lives against all odds. When we come to view reality in a holistic perspective we can interact with others in a more human manner. And are gentle with ourselves because understand better now who are we and why we once acted as we did.

Spiritual awakening
When we find no material solutions to our suffering, we instinctively turn to a higher power, which we call God. We increasingly want to know more about this entity or force beyond our limitations.

Learn and benefit from relationships
A human being can function as mirror for other human beings so they can reflect on the on the condition of their own faces. They can see mirrored their own beauty or ugliness, jealousy or generosity, cruelty or compassion, love or hate. We can really benefit from all relationships if we let them function as mirrors. By thus examining ourselves we can grow to be real human beings.

Inculcate spirituality
Spirituality teaches tolerance and forbearance, the acceptance of life more readily as it comes and how to cope with adversity and tragedy. It also brings peace by helping the control of the mind, senses, desires and the freeing ourselves from negative emotions.

God Realization
Every soul is one with God but there is a need to remove the obstruction to His Divine Light. Ignorance consists of a false identification with the body, mind and senses. When the ego is dissolved, the indwelling God is realized as Self. It is important to love God with total devotion. Perform your duty and leave the rest to God. Perfection is working hard with no thought of the reward. Our love for God must be without bargaining for fulfillment of petty worldly desires.