Spirituality Does Not Put Food On The Table!

True spirituality does not put food on the table.
You cannot earn or take a livelihood if you are a true spiritualist.
Your frugal food and other requirements are met only by the divine through the agents nominated by the divine itself. These may be some very pious folks or associations connected to the spiritual.
We often mistake religion to spiritual and sometimes we believe that one is in spiritual whereas that individual is purely into devotional service for profit alone.
Spirituality is all about finding the true God and not some deity who fulfills your demands.
Mistaking desirous living as being spiritual is a common folly.
The One we call God in the material world is some sort of a banker or provider of mundane stuff.
He makes judgements and gives punishments and rewards you also.
If you believe you are here for getting some wants fulfilled or desires met then you are in the wrong place. You should not stay here but carry on the search for your provider.
To be a true spiritualist you have to first and foremost give up the beggars attitude and come with an open heart. There are no miracles or magic potions offered here.
If you need good health, wealth, joy, peace, children, house, vehicles, ranks, admissions, cases solved in your favor, afflictions and all sorts of diseases removed then you are completely off the track. You will not get any of those things here. No solutions at all.
Spirituality teaches you to know your own true Self. Not the one you call "myself".
You know your name, place, parents, etc.. That is not knowing yourself.
The One who is the true you. You are calling out to your body all the time and that is not what is taught in spiritual. You have heard the term that, "God lives in everything". But you have never had the chance to meet Him. So who is this God?
The search for the truth alone is called Spiritual and not some fake god or deity! If you pray to your god and he gives you something know that I am not talking of this god. He is just another agent of the bank or a Santa.
The God in spiritual is called That, Brahman, The divine Unmanifest, etc. He has no name and cannot be seen also. He is neither Man or Woman.
So there are no specific courses to do to get to this God.
Three things happen to a person who gets into spiritual.
First is called dispassion. You do not seem to like anything at all. You become completely dispassionate about everything. Nothing seems to interest you or hold your attention except your aim called, "Knowing the truth about this Divine". Even food, work, clothes and all sorts of desires seem to fall off. You have complete disinterest in life. You have no idea what hit you. You want to be left alone.
The next is called detachment. You are completely detached from everything in the world. No relationships seem good enough for you. You will only be interested in having relationship with this Divine. You do things for the sake of doing and that too without any motivation for results.
The third thing is called discrimination. You know that everything is unreal and only God is real.
This way of seeing God in everything yet knowing everything in the material is purely a dream like and completely unreal.
This state is brought about only by the grace of God.
The next step is to find a guide who will take you forward in your search for this divine.
He is called the Guru or Preceptor. He actually searches you out. Both their paths cross each other.
Only a true knower of truth can be called a Master or Guru. He is not in this for material gains. Remember those who are in spiritual are not in it for money or material benefits! So if you find someone who tells you your future or gives you magic talisman or cures, he is not a spiritualist at all.
The pathway to spiritual is fraught with umpteen pitfalls, obstacles and disasters so if you are not ready for it, stay out of it. Better to know some mundane god of yours who provides you stuff than get into this dangerous path where you are not even sure where your next meal is going to come from.
So my advice to all those who feel they have no time or need quick fix, go to the one who can offer you that and stop thinking you are in spiritual. Now if you feel you don't have to stay here, get out and be happy in your own world. There are no free meals here!

Which Path Is Suitable Today?

Which path in spiritual is the right one?
This question was asked by one of my disciples in the satsang.
Let us see which path can be more suitable here and now.
The discussion always starts with Dnyana or Knowledge path.
The idea is to dissect God in many ways so as to know Him. Making a mincemeat of God, you can hardly find the truth about Him. You will only find the bits and pieces about Him. Mansur Al Hallaj himself was cut to pieces for saying Anal Haq! Its extremely difficult in today's day and age to know God with all our limitations. Ego rears its ugly head even at the sign of little knowledge.
Then we can take up the path of Karma yoga.
To live in this world dedicating all actions to God seems extremely tough and then not bothering about targets, achievements and results.
You do all your actions for some purpose and you always expect results.
Even when you write your examinations or go to hospital for blood or other reports.
Your life is constantly logged into daily affairs even if you are in the Himalayas.
Then to dedicate all actions and results to God seems very far fetched too.
The other paths like Kriya or Kundalini yoga have a lot of stuff where total undivided attention is needed and where do you expect that to happen? In the mountains or in extreme cold? First and foremost, to find a Guru like Babaji is the impossible thing and then to top it all you gotta pay for tuition's even if you find some guru!
Hatha yoga or pranayam and any other path related to the above are too far fetched. I went to places where the great book-writer yogis resided to attend their classes and saw all foreign shishyas there and could never compete with their Dollar paying skills. Education in all sorts of kriyas come at a very high costs. Groups that you may join have too many do's and don'ts and you better be ready with your visiting cards since these places are good for business.
Then there are places where they offer you magic charms and poojas to overcome difficulties. Have you wondered why these same goons cannot change their money making deficiencies?
After going to yogis and babas who are dime a dozen you are sure to come to channels on television or Youtube. If only the great exponents could stop their media hungry ways you can understand the truth.
Then we can come to Tantra and believe me its is the most distorted method of reaching God today.
The word Tantra only seems to smell of SEX! Check up the various websites and you can get to it sooner than anything. Better to visit some shady massage parlour and learn that then reach God through Tantra. Though it is the most eligible path today but highly risky.
Then finally what are we left with Japa? If you could get ONE charmed mantra I would be happy.
I met a great Swamiji who doled out mantra to a million candidates. Wow, a million realized souls! Or maybe billion? If you could get mantra diksha like this then everyone would be God sooner.
Lastly we are left with Bhakti Marg.
Here the catch is Absolute faith in The One. You do not seem to have faith in anyone especially the one who asks for money or whom you have lent it. Forget that-you don't trust even your own self to keep to your promises or commitment and here you are asked to have absolute Faith in God?
Next is Complete surrender. You can surrender only to your wife when you get married but as soon as familiarity settles it...surrender goes out of the window!
Then its about single pointed Devotion and now again its difficult to have that. Everyday we want to change our Internet Service provider or our cellphone company. Or change brands, or want another husband. Even the heroes change.
Lastly its all about Unconditional Love and you actually nod. Seems like a cakewalk?
Even Bhakti marg has its own pitfalls.
But lets give Bhakti a chance since it does not cost money or time or some bullshitter teaching us what to do or not. Not even Dollars!
You can practice it and it really does not matter if you succeed or fail.
Just log in to Bhakti and keep it going. There is no one to check on you here. You can bend the rules and still you can play on.
Its you and God alone.
And if you are lucky you may actually meet Him!

Why Do We Celebrate Festivals?

There are so many festivals in the Hindu pantheon that we feel every single day is a feast.
We celebrate our own birthday and expect everyone to remember it and bring some presents.
We hope that they will cut a cake and take us out for a treat.
If no one remembers it we feel terrible and want to shut up the world.
Festivals are the way of celebration and activity which brings us closer to the truth.
Celebrations of these festivals are ways of appeasing the Gods and thanking those involved with the act which leads us to that celebration.
But we get lost in rituals and forget the real meanings of it.
Just the way everyone celebrates Navratri, Thanksgiving, Holi and every other festival whose main purpose is lost and its only about fun, laughter, drinking, eating choicest foods, dirty dancing, taking the girls out and every possible misuse that we can do of such a grand celebration.
Just as Dusshera is the triumph of good over evil, similarly is Divali, Holi and so on.
But what do we actually get into?
Unnecessary spending, pomp, glory, buying pricey objects, showing off and all that we are actually supposed to avoid, we end up doing exactly that!
Dusshera is celebrated for reasons which have a mythological story attached to it.
The victory of Durga over Mahishasura and other demons and there are rituals attached to it also.
We distribute leaves of a tree called aapta to everyone touching their feet and asking for blessings.
Once upon a time a disciple called Kautsa after finishing his lessons wanted to thank his Guru by giving Guru Dakshina. Muni Varanthu did not want him to give anything since true Guru's believe that just the fact their disciples have reached the state of liberation is the highest dakshina. But since the disciple insisted, Varantu asked him to give 14 crore coins of gold. He goes to the benevolent king of Ayodhya who promises him that. He in turn approaches Indra and Kuber who shower gold coins which are then collected and handed over to the sage. There are so many coins that the sage gives it back asking them to be distributed to all. Since the coins fell from skies and the trees like aapta, hence we give leaves of aapta in lieu of real gold to one and all.
It is just a mock method of completing the ritual.
Celebrations are supposed to tell us the real meanings and the whys and the wherefores of the lores.
But hardly anyone knows the stories anymore.
They twist the rituals to their own benefits and make complete mincemeat of it.
Dandiya in the Raas leela is supposed to be a very divine but the color it has taken today shames the festivals altogether.
You should find the true meaning of such great days of celebration and then give them the due respect and teach the future generations about it and never degrade them.
The future generation carries lots of impressions about these and hence we should not commercialise it and convert it into some game for our self gratification.

Myths-Stories For Simple Minds!

When we look at our mythological stories we wonder sometimes whether we are telling our kids the truth or are we telling them lies.
They sound so unreal and full of unbelievable stuff.
Take the case of Ramayana where we get to meet a Demon King from Lanka with ten heads. No archaeological fact can support that kind of creature.
If that were the case then we should have found some sort of mummified bodies, remains of some bones, some sort of evidence which would firm up our belief in these tales from the past.
If there were demons with bodies as tall as the skyscrapers then these should be available to us in the form of remains like bones or body tissues or some evidence somewhere which can lead us to them.
If there were other species like demons then we should find them in other than the homo sapiens species. But does any data account for them?
We still find remains of dinosaurs and other creatures but not a single shard of evidence of any kind for the demons mentioned in our myths.
Take the case of the demon killed by Krishna called Keshi or horse demon, Shankhachuda or conch shelled demon, Dhenukasura or ass demon and so on. Doesn't it make you wonder why we have such demons and yet no evidence of theirs anywhere!
Let me tell you here that these stories have been written for simple souls who are ignorant.
Ignorance does not mean not educated here but those who are educated are the highly ignorant kind in such lore's or myths. They do not understand the true purport of such stories so they demean them.
How would you explain to your 4 year child the theory of relativity? Or for that matter to a 10 year old? You gotta make up some sort of story to explain that difficult stuff to him, right?
So how do you explain to an ignorant one pride, prejudice, anger, greed, lust, brutality, treachery, spiritual ignorance, God and so on?
So stories got written for such simple minded ones to understand the truth.
But these ignorant ones got so much lost in these stories that they took them to be real.
Imagine a Harry Potter becoming real for a youngster.
Hagrid appears very real, so does Batman or Dracula.
To support that there are castles like the those in Transylvania and other places.
Creatures those drink blood became real so did Hannibal Lecter.
Now if we were to start believing in them, is it the fault of the writer?
Let us understand the truth in all these beautiful stories and take only that which makes sense to us.
Let us not make these 10 headed monsters come to life.
Let us be with the Gods and understand the truth here. That is called discrimination between the real and the unreal.

Sakshatkar-Direct Perception?

Someone asked me if we can have direct perception of the Lord Himself and I answered that it cannot happen in the way you think about it.
First let us understand what kind of God you are thinking about first and foremost.
Is He the One you see in the temple or places of worship or is He the One you do not know anything about?
So let us start from the beginning as to what you believe in.
There are people who perform miracles and magic tricks and then our belief sticks to them.
Producing ash or gold chains, walking over water, giving you magic amulets or gems, getting special favors, etc., are a few tricks performed by charlatans and our belief sticks to them.
If that were the case then even Chris Angel would be God! He walks on water, produces objects out of nowhere, floats in the air, disappears in thin air and walks through walls.
If someone has to give proof of them being God, then that one is not God at all but some person impersonating Him.
Magic tricks can be performed by means of modern technology also.
Ask yourself why would a King want to prove he is a King to anyone?
Similarly why do you think God wants you to see cheap tricks for confirming His identity?
Remember we have learnt that God has no shape, size, form and every other attribute so why were you interested in seeing a form of His?
Now let us see how it happens that some of us have experienced that in our life.
When we have absolute faith in God and there is no scope of doubt in a billionth of fraction, He does what is necessary.
He appears to you in a form of your taste and liking.
Say you may believe in Jesus or a Krishna or Saibaba or whatever, then He will manifest that form only for your satisfaction.
He/She truly has no form but so that you can experience Him, He arranges to manifest in the form of your choice.
So in conclusion, I can only say that stay away from all those crooks who want you to believe in them and only believe in that which you truly have faith in.
Remember a Jesus or a Krishna or any sage does not want to draw attention to Himself at all.
They are always wanting to be incognito and do not ever want publicity or stunts.
They have a mandate to fulfil so they have appeared here on this Earth.
Its only absolute faith in Them can you get to see and have a sakshatkar of theirs.
If you have a Guru who sells you weekend programs, magic potions, lockets, classes for your well being, charms, amulets, tours, etc etc... then kindly note that you are becoming a sucker.
No God wants to do such cheap tricks. So I do hope you got the gist of what I am trying to convey.
Have Faith, God will show up! Just the way you want Him to!

Gurukul And Guruadesh!

Yesterday when I was asked by my disciple why does a person have to be in front of his Guru to get knowledge and not behind a phone or a video?
The Ashrams in India and worldwide teach us to stay in the vicinity of the Guru so that we can get correct knowledge.
The Ashram life is not the same as the life we spend in our own house.
We do not have strict disciplines at home. We get up when we want, take an off when we want, laze around, procrastinate, take too many things for granted, know that someone is there around us who will bail us out and take our load on his/her head. And so on!
You can shut a video chat down or pause a YouTube download or cut the phone line also.
You do not have a decorum or discipline of standing or talking to this persona. You maybe just lying and talking or be in the loo for all you care.
Ashram life is full of discipline and tough one to live.
There is always someone to keep a tab on you.
You can never address your Guru lying down or sleeping. You need to have respect and humility whenever you are in presence of your Guru.
There are lots of chores and seva activities to perform in the Ashram.
You may have to tend to the cattle, wash the toilets, cut vegetables in the kitchen, cook, take care of the personal toilet of the Guru and so on.
These activities cannot be overlooked at all.
Then there is sadhana and time for meditations.
There is early morning calls and your stomach may growl for lack of food.
You may have to go and shop for stuff for the kitchen or the Ashram.
You may work outside and yet hand over your entire earnings to the Guru.
Its the same as asking for bhiksha and then putting it all down in front of everyone.
You do not have privacy or personal comfort zone.
You do not have the liberty to put on the television or go for a movie.
Since you have accepted Ashram life there is no relatives or friends of yours.
The day the diksha is given by the Guru, your previous life comes to an end.
You do not have any parents, relatives, husband, wife, children or any other person whom you can call your own.
Your Guru becomes all that and more.
You follow all His instructions as if they are the only thing in the world that you got to follow.
Your complete life is dedicated to what He instructs you into.
The faith in Guru has to be so perfect that you may be called to jump over a cliff and yet you do not revolt or ask any questions. There is a story of a great saint whose Guru asked everyone to jump over a cliff and no one did. Then this great saint came along and listening to the Guru's instructions he just followed it without questions asked. The remaining disciples went to search for his body in the river below and found him afloat. When he was asked what happened, he recounted that a powerful invisible hand caught him and slowly let him down when he fell off the cliff. He knew his Guru's grace saved him that day.
I remember someone whom I met told me how he had left his active family life to serve his Guru.
His daughter one day asked if he could ask his Guru for some money to buy a house and he balked at that. Few days later he found the amount in his bank account even when he had never told anyone at all. His Guru had transferred that amount so that he could buy that house. Strangely when he asked why that amount was given, his Guru told him that he wanted him to have a house.
When we think about such things it brings us to the topic when God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Issac and when he is about to behead him, the angel of God tells him to stop and instead sacrifice a lamb which is nearby.
Such is Guru's grace, benevolence and compassion.
When you submit to the will of the Guru, you gain everything in this world.
The ultimate goal that you have of liberation becomes yours for the asking.
The most important thing that is to be noted is Guru seva and  Guru adesh palan.
When the Guru instructs you in anything it is important to just follow those instructs to the tee!
Even when Jackie Chan was staying with his Guru, he had to follow all his instructions and now we know who Jackie is. All because of his Guru's grace.
So I can conclude that no one can get any better if they stay at home and follow some blog or watch You Tube or read or listen to some recording of some sage.
A disciplined Gurukul life with direct instructs of your Guru will lead you to liberation or realization.
What you need to bring to the table is complete faith in Guru's words, surrender to Him, single pointed devotion and unconditional love.
Then doing His seva and listening to His adesh or instructions you will attain your goals for sure.

I Don't Like What You Do!

I was very surprised to see this comment in my inbox yesterday and it was written by one of my dearest friends. He said that he did not like what I do! In spiritual!
So why did I join the spiritual bandwagon and what is it that makes me write such stuff on this topic?
He truly seemed flabbergasted and wanted to know the whys and the wherefores of it!
Spiritual does not happen to a person the way you may get married or pass your school or college.
It is mentioned in the holy texts that urge and desire to know God or Self comes about very rarely.
Every individual knows about God from his own parents or relatives or friends.
His knowledge is as trivial as theirs. None of these are qualified to talk about God.
Since no one has seen or experienced Him, how can anyone talk about Him?
The knowledge that they profess to have is as trivial as their forefathers since neither of them have experienced Him ever.
The knowledge of Self or the longing for liberation happens to someone by the grace of God alone.
Otherwise the only thing that they know is going to place of worship, praying to some vague statue, giving oblations, performing some household rituals and reading some mythology.
Our grandmothers, etc are great at dishing out such colorful stories and since we are gullible we believe in such bull.
Just as the mythical character asked for the moon we never seem to ask anyone questions on the validity of these beautiful myths.
The first step in spiritual is to question everything and try to find out the truth about statements that we have believed in from childhood.
Only the divine can lead us to divine and not otherwise so if you are caught up in that bug of divine knowledge you have crossed the first step.
The next is to find someone who can guide us through the pathway.
The person needs to be the right kind of person and not some fake one.
The friends reaction seemed fair since he had no knowledge about the said bird called spiritual.
Being worldly our knowledge is limited to work, family, worldly education, politics and friends.
Besides that we know God from stories, places of worship and the absolute mundane stuff.
Religion that we know about is like a rule book for roping in the wild, hungry bull.
Religion teaches us the do's and the don'ts of the society living and some rituals which bind us with the so called religious leaders and clergy.
The so called religion is no way pointing to spiritual.
You can be spiritual even if you are atheist or agnostic.
Spiritual is all about knowing the truth about the one we call as God!
It does not make you miraculous or magical.
You do not produce holy ash or some such bullshit from air.
You just get busy with your insides and dwell on the knowledge within.
Now if you have the misconception that this gives you inner peace, happiness and some such stuff you have come to the wrong place.
I am sure you will agree with me that Jesus, Buddha, Krishna and their kin never had peace, happiness and great death!
No way is spiritual talking about some spirit stuff, hocus pocus or outer worldly.
It just makes you silent knowing fully well that there is nothing to cringe or crib about.
It is not about lies or dislikes or no way is it about running away to some far away place also.
You find one who can tell you the truth and you will be surprised to know that you are already spiritual!

Swadhrama

Though I have written many times on this topic, there always seems to be no percolation and seepage happening so I write again about this topic called swadharma. Swadharma can be loosely defined as that which comes to you naturally as your duty in this creation.
Now we tend to think that there are things that we need to do by which we can save million lives or save humanity from the evils of this world. Having an indomitable spirit and braving all calamities we need to do some unimaginable task. There are people who have the never say die attitude and then they go out of their way in achieving things in this world. None of the above comprises the swadharma.
So you think that you went out of the way in getting the rarest blood for some poor guy, scoring the ton in a test cricket, collecting food and clothes for flood victims, etc does not comprise that set also.
Now let us see what we can do normally in our daily lives.
Getting up early, doing the morning ablutions, maybe cooking food, going to work in clock work precision in time, attending to your job meticulously and with full gusto, eating normal food that comes to you without any effort, working with your kids and getting their homework done, getting food and veggies from the market, etc may sound very normal stuff for humans to do.
But this is the bane of human beings. We do not want to get up in time, never want to go to work with full enthusiasm or attend to our regular duties with precision and perfection.
We want to do the extraordinary stuff, get fame and fortune, put in efforts which does not comprise our normal duties.
Now see how the elements do their stuff naturally. The sun gets up precisely and shines all day, the rain brings down sleets during rainy season, the river flows along, the birds get up and start their singing, the trees grow about, the flowers bloom naturally and the whole universe goes about with its work. the Earth spins around, the starts twinkle, the moon shines and the seas roll.
Now think what is natural to you.
Is it about doing the extraordinary or is it doing the ordinary with full efforts and precision?
Paying full attention to all our mundane tasks and going about following the life's path without any murmur. If you are a beggar then begging is your swadharma, if painting comes to you naturally then you can be a painter. Remember all that comes to you by nature and without much ado is your true swadharma.
 A mixer grinder does the job of mixing and grinding, a washing machine does its job of washing clothes, a truck hauls cargo or a crane lifts load.
Now what do you do? You want to excel in something which is no way a part of your life. You want to save the world. Climb mount impossible.
Does that come to you naturally or do you have to change tracks and move in a world by forcing yourself to do that?
Corruption comes naturally to most of the people but we want them to change and become saints and responsible citizens. Do you think that is their true swadharma? Think!!!

The Predictions!

In Brahma Vaivarta Purana there are the following verses.

"Marriage purified by sacred mantras will no longer exist.  There will be no
truthfulness and no forgiveness. Men will  associate with women only for sex."
"No woman will be chaste. In home after home the wife will be  unchaste, always
running after men. The wife will treat her husband like her  servant. She will
always rebuke him and make him tremble in fear."
"Everyone will do as they please. Devoted only to belly and  genitals, they will be
greedy, degraded, tormented by diseases,  and dressed in rags." 
When I read the above lines I knew that the yuga must have come about.
Today we write about love marriages and arranged marriages and then we insist on divorces and separations. With which yardstick can we measure good happy marriage today?
There is no truthfulness in marriages or even in relationships. Every human fakes in that institution.
When we see old married couples and ask them to be truthful about their relationships we can unearth a mound of skeletons. They are living together only because they have no options. The reasons can be genuine like insurance, legacy, old age, grand-children, society, inertia or lethargy, no libido, diseases, convenience and so on. I ask anyone to tell me if they have actually seen a great marriage today. It is libidinous and full of treachery. Deceit plays an important role. The husband covers up his wives defects and vice verse. Sometimes they say it is for their children.
I remember one case where the wife told her husband about her torrid affair and how she aborted her kid just when that dude ditched her to marry this guinea pig of a husband! I am sure his ego must have had the biggest rupture.
Today the marriages are absolutely short lived and the two abandon the relationship as soon as it takes off. The main reason for marriage today is to fulfil the fire in the genitals and belly. That brings me to another reason for marriage. The man cooks meals today. I am sure you know how difficult it is to find cooks nowadays! Anyway there are other means where the woman settles for ready to eat meals or decides more often to have meals outside.
Rebuking a person and making that person feel like shit is the way of the world. Be it a woman or a man. Both are equally competent to do that.
Talking about diseases, have you noticed there are diseases we had never heard about before?
There are diseases from AAA to ZBLS.
Every second person seems to have a back problem, RA, PCOS, and the like.
Now you tell me if these predictions in the above text are true or not.
I am sure the rest of them will also come true very soon.
God bless his own creation which seems like hurtling faster and faster into the abyss of kal yuga!

Life Worth Living?

Just a few days ago one of my friends wrote to me about the death of his mentor-Lalit Sheth.
He asked me why such type of things happen to people and if I can make any sense in it!
Shankara says to us in the beautiful treatise Vivekachudamani in the opening lines as much on the importance of this human life.
The most difficult thing for us is to get a human birth and that is the foremost thing in the goody bag.
Now that you are reading this, thank the great God for giving you this human birth.
Just imagine if you were born a stone, how many lives would it take for you to become human?
A billion or Zillion? So thank your stars for getting up here to read this stuff.
Next in hierarchy is the strength of  body and the will to run it.
If you were born with bodily or mental defects, then the progression is extremely tough.
Now have you noticed the sages have complete indifference towards anyone who has physical or mental disability? That is because they know the law of karma has done the job there. It states what you sow is what you reap so if you have maimed someone in your previous karmic life, you have got this disability as a return gift! Does that person need sympathy? You tell me do you sympathize with a person who has raped a minor? No! But the same person has gone through that in some previous life through the hands of the current victim. God's law is clear here. All the credits and debits have to be nullified here in some birth of yours!
The third most important thing and still more difficult then the previous one is purity in your life. Now our great elders always consider drinking, gambling, womanising and the like as wrong doing but is that what purity is all about? Take the case of the Pandavas or Ravana....they did all the above and yet got liberated so it is not about these things but purity is all about non tainting of the mind in any which way. Even a thought about some small misdemeanor is tainting. Got that?
The next harder is the desire to live a spiritual life. Now we all live for our families, wife, parents, children, job, money, properties, state, for others welfare and so on but do we bother even an iota to live for knowing our own Self? This Self is not the lower self but that which is called God or Brahman or Jehovah? Do we aspire for liberation?
The next hardest is knowing and understanding the true knowledge of the scriptures.
Please know that the scriptures are not stories or some strange religious rites and ceremonies but they contain true knowledge of the Self. The ignorant a person, the more it seems like a fairy tale. The more spiritually advanced the person, the more spiritual the understanding. Just know that you cannot explain where the babies come from to a small child so we make up stories of the coming of the stork and so on. Ignorance does not allow us to know the true nature of epics like Ramayana, Mahabharata or the Vedas.
You have to take a million lives to actually come to the true understanding of the above ken.
It is said only by God's grace can you get this advantage of a human birth, then the urge to know about the truth about God or quest for liberation and lastly the coming of the Guru in your life.
Now coming back to why Lalit Sheth died? He lived this human life by virtue of his own karma. It is a great thing to be born human, first and foremost. Now the next did he qualify for the rest only he will know.
Now that I have written the above blog, you decide the whys and the wherefores of your own coming here and if you still have that yearning for liberation.
The answer to why he died does not exist anywhere. But the answer to did he get liberated exists.
Karma makes the world go round and to be trapped in continuous birth and death cycle is a choice you have. Do you want liberation? Then forget all others and just focus on your own quest for liberation. Now is the time for that.