On the Spiritual Path
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Inner Experiences
Happiness, fulfilment, and peacefulness is an internal matter. For that, one does not look primarily outwards; rather, one looks primarily inwards. Look inwards to discover your own self; to find the meanings of your own happiness, to discover what you find fulfilling, and to know when you are at peace. This journey of “self-discovery” is a life-long journey that never disappoints; rather, it pleasantly surprises the traveler with ever new eurekas. It also passes through trials, challenges, and disappointments, but always concludes in happy and fulfilling peacefulness.
The spiritual way is so simple and straightforward that I now wonder why it took me so long and so much effort to find it. One reason is that one overlooks it, almost dismisses it, because it is so obvious. This tendency is rather firmly based on experience. All the intricacies of the religion, all the complexities of the science, all the winding paths of being street smart, and all the impossible trials of ascetism – these teach us that the “way” cannot be so obvious, so simple, and so happily pleasant. The truth that this traveler discovered is that the “way” is indeed obvious, simple, and happily pleasant.
These elements came to me slowly, gradually, and sometimes after painfully long seeking. As each element came to me, I took personal notes to describe the incidence. The notes were intended for my own consumption as a personal diary. I have collected many such notes and presented them in this book. It includes all the foundational ingredients of the theory for the “way”, such that someone could patiently put these ingredients together, like the pieces in a large Lego construction, and formulate a theory of the “way”.
This book is not just the result of research work; it is also the outcome of years of seeking, sessions of meditative contemplation, early morning observations, and thoughts during nature walks. They represent actual happenings and witnessing.