It is important that you recognize what are your motivations for entering the spiritual Path. If your motivations are pure and uncontaminated with egoic agendas, you are setting up the best conditions for authentic and lasting spiritual progress.
Our evolutionary goal is to become Soul-aware in the here and now, in our bodies. In order to reach this goal, it is not just enough to evolve and expand our consciousness, we also need to evolve our bodies, the medium through which our consciousness expresses itself. What exactly do we require?
We require: 1) a strong, healthy physical body bursting with energy and vitality, 2) a purified and refined emotional nature full of love and joy, 3) a highly developed mind full of light
The Spiritual path sometimes feels very slow and methodical in terms of sensing the Spiritual growth made. Spiritual growth is a very subtle thing. There are actually three levels of Spiritual growth. There is the Spiritual level, consciousness or psychological level, and physical/Earthly level. The Spiritual level of growth deals with building Light Quotient, Light Bodies, initiations, anchoring Chakras and this is a very slow intricate process. Most people are not even aware when they take major initiations let alone the path to get there.
Our current evolutionary goal is to step out of our humanity and into our Divinity. Now, in order to reach this lofty goal, part of what we have to do is build higher bodies and develop higher senses. The idea of building higher bodies and developing higher finer senses may sound like wild fantasy on first hearing, however, evolution being a fact in nature, does it not make sense that as we expand our consciousness and reach up into higher frequencies, as per the law of magnetic attraction and resonance, higher matter becomes accessible to us and out of that higher finer matter we then build higher finer bodies serving as suitable mediums of contact on these higher, finer planes?
When we examine the meaning of scriptures, we discover there are two major approaches to understanding them: exoteric and esoteric methods. Exoteric methods include literal, analogical, and symbolic strategies for understanding the scripture.
Life is like an echo. The call we send out returns to us. We carelessly say, „I am sick, I am broke, I am lonely“ without realizing that our alleged powerless words are anything but weak and powerless. The moment we send out a call, the moment we say „I am sick, I am weak, I am broke,“ we are setting into motion a current of magnetic force that goes out into the world to magnetically attract and return to us thoughts, people and conditions in harmony with the dominant note of our word and thought.
Are there mantras that can help get through mental blockages?
Meditators report seven major types of blockages that impede them from going deeper in meditation:
1) They are locked into physical pain or the symptoms of disease, and they cannot detach their attention from these deep body sensations.
2) They encounter an etheric blockage in their inner vehicles of consciousness that stops them from further deepening in meditation.
What is the nature of a Spiritual Teacher and how can you spot one? Some people think that a Spiritual Teacher has no ego and that he is devoid of self-interest. I tell you, if someone had no ego and were devoid of self-interest, they would not be a Spiritual Teacher, they would be dead!
