 Being possessed by the spiritual path
Once you are on a spiritual path, if you are genuinely on the path, you’re not just obsessed; you are possessed. If you want to hit the peak of your consciousness, all the energy that you have has to be focused in one direction. If you’re throwing it in ten different directions, it is obvious you are not going to get anywhere, isn’t it? Even if you throw all the energy that you have in one direction, still it may not be sufficient.
That is why the Master fills in that space of lifting you up when it is needed; but if you want to distribute your energy in ten different directions, then definitely it will be futile. So don’t be obsessed; be possessed by the path. There is nothing else for you; everything else is just to get you there. Only when it becomes like this, your spiritual path means something.
If it is not so, if it is a side interest in your life, that you like spiritual entertainment – different people seek different types of entertainment and some people dabble with spirituality – that is up to you. I have nothing to say for such people, but if you’re really seeking to know, then your whole being should be focused in one direction. You are completely possessed by it. This doesn’t mean you will become unreasonable. This doesn’t mean you can’t run a family. This doesn’t mean you can’t fulfil your social responsibilities. Just use them as a spiritual process for yourself.
Every breath, every step, every act that you perform in your life becomes a spiritual process. Only then there is no conflict. When you say, “This is my spiritual path, this is my family, this is my profession, this is my club, these are my drinking friends,” then you have a conflict. If you eat, you eat only because you want to know. If you drink, you drink only because you want to know. If you work, you work only because you want to know. Then there is no conflict.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Isha Yoga Centre
New No.55, Moosa Street
T Nagar
Chennai - 600 017
Ph: 91-44- 24333185, 24348732
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 Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is a realised master, Yogi and a profound mystic of our times. Sadhguru developed Isha Yoga - Yoga of the Divine, a scientifically structured programme, as the vehicle to transmit a deep experience of the
Self that changed his life completely about two decades ago.
Belonging to no particular tradition, Sadhguru incorporates what is most valid for the modern seeker. Isha Yoga flourishes today as a spiritual science for hundreds of thousands of initiates around the world.
An accomplished poet and an author of several books, his latest book -
Mystic's
Musings - is one of the most candid unveiling of the mystical dimensions of life.
Isha Foundation, founded by the Sadhguru, also administers the Dhyanalinga multi-religious temple and meditation shrine, an ashram, and a yogic hospital at the Isha Yoga Centre, located on 50 acres at the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains, 30 km from
Coimbatore.
For More details, contact:
Isha Yoga Center,
Velliangiri Foothills, Semmedu (PO)
Coimbatore - 641 114, India
Phone: 91-422-2615345
Email: yogacentre@ishafoundation.org
Website: www.ishafoundation.org
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