Message #47795

[Jitendra Hydonus]

When Paramahansa Yoganada said that nothing should stand in the way of our search for God and meditation: which is the manifestation of that search... he meant it. This includes children, friends, family and wife as well.

The expansion of awareness resulting from meditation is stifled by an indifference to spiritual evolution and spiritual practice. We must come to  the recognition that people around us are stifled in their spiritual awareness because of their own karma, inertia, mistaken awareness of circumstances and false reasoning. It is for us to continue progressing despite their setbacks and misunderstandings. They may react to us with indifference, erratic behaviors, hostility and irrational reasoning. It is for us to awaken our awareness to new levels of understanding in dealing with such delays on the efforts of ourselves and all too many times those around us.

In our attempts to understand our own mistaken perspective, we must also recognize that the mistaken views of others in our proximity to them is also a factor we must attend to in our introspection. Most people remain relatively content, if not comfortably numb to those gaining insights and spiritual perceptions beyond their current perception.  Quite often we may be in the company of younger souls then ourselves in our attempts to satisfy certain desires yet to manifest in our lives.

There are also karmic factors that bring us in contact with souls who have no motivation beyond that of making money, sex and physical desires. It is important to also recognize that we have those who come as part of our search in life for specific purposes and then just as easily vanish, while other friends are of a more enduring nature and may be a part of the script of our lives for a full life time or even many life times if we serve a purpose in their evolutionary process and they also serve a purpose in ours.