Confusion on the Spiritual Path
It is very important on the spiritual path that you never try to get to some particular “place”, because the moment you want to get to something in particular, your mind will start creating a “place”. You will create your own private heaven. The spiritual process is not about giving up one level of hallucination and moving into another. This is about giving up hallucination altogether and being able to live with reality just the way it is, because the effort is about truth.
Truth means existential, not what you make up in your mind. I may see a god or a demon in my mind – both do not matter. It is a question of culture and what you are exposed to. It has nothing to do with reality. The reality is, you are here right now and you don’t know what you are here for, where you came from and where you will go. That is the reality of life.
Learning to live with reality is the most important thing. If you stop distorting things in your mind and just see everything the way it is, mukti is just one step away. You don’t have to do anything. Just time will mature you into another place. You just have to hold yourself such that you don’t make up anything, positive or negative. You don’t create a god or devil, heaven or hell, good or bad. There is no such thing as “I like this person, I don’t like that person”. At certain times, for the purpose of activity, we may have to recognize these things. But the rest of the time, you can just look at things as they are.
If you see things as they are, you will see life is not just in this form or that form. It is exploding across the universe. Once you are in a cosmic living mass, life is different. Is it beautiful? No. Is it ugly? No. How is it? Like life, as it should be! It is just as it should be, not this way or that way. Everything is as it should be. It is only your mind that keeps distorting everything. As you stop your distortions and simply look at everything the way it is, you will see there is an explosion of life. If you live here for ten million years, it will still keep you intensely busy just grasping it.
So there is no “this is it.” Conclusion is the nature of the mind. It wants to close one chapter and say, “I got it.” But life is a limitless possibility. That’s what is beautiful about life.