We
rarely come across people who are enlightened. In fact, we are not even sure if
we have the ability to identify enlightened people. But, perhaps, we, sometimes,
meet people who appear to be on the way to achieving enlightenment. The most
prominent thing that can be noticed in the behavior of such people is their
insistence on preferring a process that is righteous without much undue concern
for the exactitude of the final outcome.
Enlightenment, advancement on the spiritual journey or
emancipation is all about explorations of the ultimate truth or getting rid of
the illusions caused by what appears only to disappear; thereby causing much
confusion about the continuity of universal consciousness we are an integral
part of. The explorer of the truth tries to test and verify the sustainability
of each and every phenomena of life; he takes nothing for granted.
When we come across people who are in the process of learning
to raise the right questions and seeking the right answers thereto, they
deliver a part of the process they are going through, knowingly or unknowingly.
While we learn from them, all our pursuits also get, at least some benefit of
encountering the right process, thereby improving the chances of their
delivering the right outcome that is beneficial for the all.
As such, it is very difficult to find someone about whom we
can be sure of being enlightened. And, in case such a person is found and
identified, we can’t be confident of being able to establishing an effective
communication channel between the two of us, in view of the possibility of a
big gap existing between our levels of spiritual advancements. Further, for all
one knows, an enlightened person may not be interested in an elaborate
communication with us on the mundane issues that we might be interested in getting
sorted out with his help. Hence, a modest traveler undertaking a spiritual
journey may be of great practical help to us who is well acquainted with the dynamics
of human efforts for physical as well as spiritual survival.
For the most of us, sticking to the thought of the ideal is
far better than achieving the lofty state of having achieved the ideal, the state
that we may never think about dwelling into.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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