Skepticism and Ego

Aum Sairam

Can knowledge be an obstacle to anything? It is not too rare to hear
the experiences of the educated that admit their discomfort at topics
related to spiritual matters that defy their logic and thus elude any
conclusions. How could one train the mind so used to completing a book
or a thesis and take home the message in minutes, to accept the reality
of an unfinished treatise? Skepticism is destructive. God's wisdom is
as finite as space. In the mad rush to defy nature, human logic so
bound to advance itself, conveniently neglects to contemplate on its
very purpose. Sad would be the situation when the spirituality remains
eternally parallel and its fruits forbidden.

Skepticism, the initial bar to spiritual progress ends as soon as the
necessity for the Unknown and the Unseen felt. Necessities may arise
due to causes as simple as a material shortcoming. Once in the path,
the difficult bar called ego takes over the reins, at times almost in
complete control of the pursuit! This attribute is the one that makes
the seeker, accept and reject, rejoice and condole, elate and deject,
and in the process making believe that he or she is responsible. This
is the attribute that makes one think how Right her or his pursuit is,
and how pitiful is the others' plight. This attribute establishes the
superiority of one Religion over the other, and denounces everything dissimilar.

Myth troubles even me, said Sri Sainath. But, He also assured that
those seek Him will be saved from its perils and those who turns away,
lashed. What could be easier than resorting to the Merciful Fakir that
never stopped anyone from asking? How difficult would that be to listen
to the most benevolent Sri Sai who does not expect His children of
rigorous rituals, but just faith and patience? How inconvenient could
that be do simply submit to that Guru whose demands are love and
devotion? Stay with Him and the ego will vanish.

Allah Malik