Dear Flip,
All this is perhaps similar to a child learning to walk. How many thousand times did we crawl, and fall and cry before we could sit and walk by ourselves? Of course, we grew up struggling through these obvious concerns.
One person, - the mother/guardian- had been a constant part in each accomplishment we made; including the moment we took our first step. The mother was there to ensure our safety, when there were challenges ahead.
She aided us on walk, when we went unfamiliar ways and when we fell she comforted saying everything was going to be alright.
How gifted you feel when you are bestowed with a Guru, when you progress continuously on the path to divinity. The Guru becomes your mother on your first steps on a spiritual journey.
It is not easy to access someone capable and responsible for helping us walk. It isnt easy to find a Guru.
But, cant we regard the Lord as our Param Guru? Why not humbly love and rely on him?
Some enshrine the guru as Lord Krishna, some as Guru Nanak Dev, some as Jesus Christ, some as Mohammed or as Lord Buddha and so on...
Surrender unto to these gurus in unquestioning obedience born out of unconditional love is Bhakti.
The true relationship with the guru born out of unconditional love awakens the dormant spiritual knowledge in us, and the attributes slowly starts radiating to us. This implies that we need to understand the spirit of the sacred scriptures as well. On There, we encounter images or icons of attributes; incarnations of God, helpful to depend upon to sustain our Sadhana.
At HDF, we meet as friends or brothers only. We all need Mothers and Gurus for all their attributes to enrich us.
However, learning to walk may not win us a marathon the self realization.
Lets get training! Lets practise. It might take months, years, or decades perhaps.
Or should we see any reason to lament on the hardships we have experienced during our practice?
Yoga kundalini Upanishad 56- 61 says they are all sufficient impediments to distract you. They are all inevitable ingredients of Yog, one is likely to be moved, frustrated, or to lose attention by sloth, boredom, sleep or various thoughts etc... Lots of love
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