I happened to to share with one of my friends about an accident that I had yesterday. I had inadvertently smashed my nose on to the wall and it chipped out of a pretty deep layer of skin and flesh and I was bleeding profusely. I poured cold water for sometime, but the bleeding refused to stop. I prayed to the universal energy to heal me and stop the blood flow. Slowly after sometime, the pain reduce, so as the bleeding.
The impact send shock waves throughout my entire face, and my eyes turned bloodshot and I simply couldn’t make a sense of a lot of things. When I shared this with my friends ( although not the minute details, so as not to scare my friend), my friend had a good laugh. The thought that me going and smashing myself to the wall, seemed funny in my friend’s imagination.
Even while I am tying these words, I am experiencing strain in my nostrils, eye brows and forehead. The second plaster which I had put before sleeping is almost full because it seems that the bleeding is still continuing.
The reason why I shared this story with you today, is to highlight one point : Your pain is very personal for you and others are oblivious to it most of the time. Of all the countless people I met today, nobody I mean no one ( there is an exception, which I will talk about in last paragraph ) had any idea what I was going through
As a spiritual seeker, how can you use this to your advantage ?
Just like how people are totally oblivious to the pain that you undergo and the discomfort that it causes to you, they are totally unaware of the inner bliss and happiness that you experience, through spirituality.
Your spiritual seeking can be a completely personal experience. If you are very vociferous about all your experiences, there is a high chance that, society may ostracize you and worse yet, even may label you as a mad man or mad woman. As you become an advanced spiritual seeker, a lot of experiences that you have, cannot be simply shared with every tom, dick and harry. That’s where the gift of discernment will come into play, which we will talk about in another article. For now, remember that, it is said, Seek and Ye shall find (Bible : Matthew 7:7–8) . It is also said, not to throw the pearls to the swine ( Bible : Matthew 7:6 ) So whatever spiritual pearls you collect, pass it on to people, who are worthy of receiving.
Please remember that you don’t have any obligation to share every single thing about you, to every single person that you meet. And never have an iota of doubt that people can find out what you are up to and what’s really in your heart. Just like how they are insensible to your pain, they are totally ignorant of your dreams, desires and the happiness you seek in spirituality, unless you choose to tell them the same. Even your dear spouse sleeping right next to you, has no idea about the depths of spirituality you have uncovered. I am not asking you to lie or hide truth. Reveal information to the right people, as and when necessary
Footnotes
In a previous paragraph, I had talked to you about an exception in this behavior exhibited by people who saw my wound and the plaster and that was the 3 and 1/2 year old, neighbor kid. As soon as he saw the wound, he almost felt the pain and asked me what happened. It was almost like, he actually knew what I was going through and I was shocked to see that.
While I am typing this, it has also come to my memory this instance, where I was showing some photographs that I had taken, to my cousin and his kids. My cousin didn’t seem much interested in the photographs, often telling me that since he hasn’t learned photography professionally he may not be able to appreciate it much. But then his 3 and 7 years old kids walked in and they admired my photographs. Funnily though, the photographs which I had received the most number of likes were exactly the same one these kids ( who hadn’t learned photography professionally ) admired and loved
This makes me wonder what happens to people when they grow up ? Do they automatically loose the ability to connect with people and things around them or do they choose ignore and lead an unconscious life ( unconscious as in, not being aware )
