Message #15657

[Jitendra Hydonus]

It is a bit different if you ask. Sometimes the world seems to squeeze in on us and we loose the state of consciousness we once reached. It is just something to witness and be aware of not something to obsess about. We just keep reaching, keep practicing and learn from our errors. 

It appears to me that instead of a straight path most of us take a quite a few side roads on our journey. We may get involved with people who are not helping us in our spiritual aspirations or perhaps we get discouraged at times and find ourselves slipping. We may even find that material conditions become more and more demanding and we let these conditions discourage our efforts. We also can be brought into tempting situations that we find  difficult not to get involved in. These are some of the ways that I see as setbacks in our spiritual life.