The Journey-Part 3

Now in this chapter I will tell you all about the problems we experience on this journey.

First is the rejection of your good intentions by other people in your life.

They will come up with all possible reasons so that you should not go on this path.

The objections from family members,husbands, wife,children,parents,relatives etc.

They do have your good intentions at heart and are telling you that because they have past experiences of watching their other near and dear ones go on this path before and how they suffered.

They have limited knowledge and tell you from what they aver by seeing the world through their colored glasses. They have no real knowledge but just false knowledge.

Ask a true yogi or a true ascetic and he will tell you the truth. So please get to know the truth before making judgments.They are as usual poking their noses in everything around you, which they have otherwise also done in life. It's called control!

Next is the ones who have run away from this journey tend to tell you all wrong facts about it.They will tell you all about the pitfalls and mishaps which they have undergone and caution you on proceeding on this path.

Never listen to such half baked ideas since they are the ones who run away from life and are losers too. Ask a winner and he will tell you the truth.

Hard climb is the deterrent on the path also.

This journey is very difficult and tedious and know that only the tough survive on it.

The journey extends from life to life and can continue ad infinitum.

We pick up the threads which we have left behind in the last one and then continue in the next. The script continues at any age after we have completed the requisite karmic requirements of that life. You need terrific patience to get on with it.

Faith is the one weapon in your armor which can take you further but if you do not have any trust or faith in the path that you are about to embark on then it is better you pull back. Just do not attempt this without any trust,faith or belief in it.

It requires blind belief in that. Just like you are about to go on an unchartered mission,you need to have full faith in that unknown. If there is even an iota of disbelief you will never go anywhere. So get on with it only with absolutely full faith in the One and the One who is guiding you in that journey.

I shall not discus the common misconceptions here today but will write about them in my next tranche.

I have just covered three such impediments on the journey. There are much more but I will get back to you if you wish to write to me.