🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - The Journey Inside - 97 🌹
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✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya
📚 . Prasad Bharadwaj
🌻 Pilgrimages and Fellow Travellers 🌻
The journey from the base of the spine to the head centre is symbolically represented as a pilgrimage and described as a path over 7 hills.
In South India this is still done today as a pilgrimage to the temple of Tirupati, which lies behind seven hills representing the seven chakras. Many people go on pilgrimages to holy places, to sources or mountains, in order to align the mind and to experience the Divine.
If however we don’t make the right preparation for the “journey to Jerusalem” through the inner orientation, the mind draws us away from our actual intention to focus on the Divine, even with an outer journey.
On the journey we meet many fellow travellers. Even if some relations are difficult, we shouldn’t be bothered by them or let ourselves be thrown out of balance.
People are what they are; they cannot but behave according to their nature.
The spiritual journey demands that we deeply see to our own behaviour and don’t bother about the behaviour of the others. As souls we are brothers, as personalities however we are different.
The sages never look upon people as being bad, but that some have only just begun their journey and that they were just like them, as they didn’t yet know the whole route.
Some are further ahead on the way, some further back. Those who travel ahead of us are an inspiration for us.
Those behind us challenge us. And those who are around us during the journey are there in order to give us the required training.
Particularly people with whom we live closely together force us to accept viewpoints, even if we don’t share them.
The family therefore is the best training ground for spiritual practice.
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Sources used: Master K. P. Kumar: The Path to Immortality. Venus / seminar notes / Master E. Krishnamacharya: The Book of Rituals.
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