When Lava and Kusha captured the horse, Lakshmana approached them and asked them to release it saying, “You don’t know how great the power of Sri Rama is!! When the dust of his feet touched Ahalya, she was transformed from a rock back to a woman”. They replied, “Oh Prince we know all that and more. It was the great sage Gautamas words that in Treta Yuga, Sri Rama would step on her. So is it the purity of Rama or the power of the words of the great sage that caused the transformation?” Lakshmana did not have an answer to this.
Similarly in spirituality your direct personal experience is the only thing that matters. You may have learnt all about the Chakras, the different types of Samadhis but unless you have experienced them your self they are all theory and of no avail. When some thing happens when you have your eyes closed, you have no idea if it was trance or sleep. You are confused if you had a vision or just a dream. Some people have a high self esteem and go about bragging that they have reached higher states of meditation. Some people with a low self esteem drag them selves down and conclude that they still do not know how to meditate. Only a realized person who has the direct experience of the truth will be able to judge on where everybody stands and all other perceptions on what individuals think will have no base in reality. Here we have to refer to a Sadguru to discriminate and help us progress from where we have reached. Each person has a different path and intermediary experiences can not be compared.
Similarly in spirituality your direct personal experience is the only thing that matters. You may have learnt all about the Chakras, the different types of Samadhis but unless you have experienced them your self they are all theory and of no avail. When some thing happens when you have your eyes closed, you have no idea if it was trance or sleep. You are confused if you had a vision or just a dream. Some people have a high self esteem and go about bragging that they have reached higher states of meditation. Some people with a low self esteem drag them selves down and conclude that they still do not know how to meditate. Only a realized person who has the direct experience of the truth will be able to judge on where everybody stands and all other perceptions on what individuals think will have no base in reality. Here we have to refer to a Sadguru to discriminate and help us progress from where we have reached. Each person has a different path and intermediary experiences can not be compared.
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