The Sacred Withdrawal: When Spiritual Sadhana Becomes Your Raison d’être


Someone advised me not to “talupulu moosipokify” (shut my door) just because “someone hurt you”.


While it is true that I “felt hurt” by _____’s sharing of that video, I did acknowledge the fact that maybe he was innocent and he was not wanting to make fun of me, and even if he was trying to make fun of me I cannot be sure of that fact if it indeed were a fact because of my past history of mental illness, wherein I did suffer from some delusions, earlier though not almost at all for the past decade, so-called “delusions of reference”.


That said, you have to realize that my spiritual quest has been on for almost 50 years now.
So, my withdrawal is not at all sudden or merely out of hurt.


It is something I have been wanting to do since almost December 2021, when I remember writing to Vidyasagar of Sagar Asia that I thought I had enough money to retire and that I wanted to spend the rest of my life in spiritual sadhana.


It is a different matter that I could not do so at that time.


But, now that I have taken that decision firmly, I will stick to it.


Most people take this world to be the ONLY reality.


But, as even Plato pointed out, we are merely chained in a cave and taking the shadows on the walls of the cave for reality. Only when we break free from our chains and step out of the cave will things become clear in the sunlight, as Plato put it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave)


And that sunlight is the wisdom one gains through spiritual sadhana.


And spiritual sadhana breaks the chains that bind us to unreality, even the chains that Rousseau was talking about (“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains” — https://youtube.com/shorts/papV5ATWdYc?si=rW7HEHSWMlPgO2c4).

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