The path of life is in the clarity of your awareness

Shankara. It would be difficult to describe in western terms his importance to India and Hinduism. One of Shankara’s disciples was Trotakacharya. He wasn’t known for his sophistication, in fact the other three favourite disciples considered him a little simple. But no one denied his devotion to Shankara. His one-pointedness on his Master whom he considered God’s current supreme incarnation was of legend. While other disciples listened to their Master’s treatises and learnt to recite sublime passages from the Vedas by rote, Trotakarya swept the courtyard in utter devotion; while they were motionless in meditation, he was performing menial tasks in utter devotion. One day after many years the Master and his disciples were at the river bathing while Trotaka was still at the ashram cleaning. Eventually he wandered down to the river to join them and Sankara turned to hear his disciple singing a song only sung by the enlightened.

He had attained the goal of permanently experiencing the transcendent light of God while the other disciples were still held aloft by the intellect. They reasoned God’s existence but through total surrender, he experienced it.

So never think you are ahead of the game. Or behind. Just act according to you. The numbers will tell you the path that you are ideally suited to take for your own sake, best suited for your evolution.

We see the same things and yet we view them completely differently. Some of us are born anxious, happy, rich, healthy, some live long lives, some minutes, some blind, with limbs, without, loving households, brutal fathers, in a mud hut in Malawi, a Manhattan skyscraper, an Italian palazzo, a bungalow in Brisbane. And there could be no reasoning for this. Absolutely none. As random as being born a single cell amoeba or a Nobel prize winning physicist. Or is there some reasoning to it all. At a certain point in life many people begin to wonder if all that is seen is all there ever could be. Some people don’t think about it at all.
I would suggest that having found yourself reading this blog you may be in the camp that wonders.