The path of the Nadas is not easy.
It feels as barren as the desert.
It is in our human nature to want something,
to crave something.
Even if it is as simple as food.
For a Chinese, a simple craving could be for,
plain white rice eaten with luncheon meat.
One could die for it.
Eating it especially with bare fingers,
the feel, the taste of the sticky white jasmine,
eaten with the saltiness of luncheon meat.
That is a treat.
A treat because due to it not being healthy,
it belongs with the forbidden food.
And nothing tastes better than forbidden food.
Harder and more subtle are spiritual cravings.
On the path of spirituality, especially this new age path,
and added to it, path of a youtuber or influencer.
There is always that craving for more.
For better ability to see spirits, vision, foretell the future.
What comes with that is the caviar of success.
It would draw more subscribers.
Enable one to get on big podcasts.
One sees them, those big channelers on all those big podcasts,
making their rounds.
All that can be very alluring.
And then I turn my eyes to Ramana Maharshi.
It brought me back to St. John of the Cross.
The nadas, nadas, nadas.
The denudation of the soul, the detachment.
The not wanting, not seeking, the accepting, the surrender.
However, it is not without its allure.
It is the one that is so hard to come by.
Entering into that desert, where there is only the Alone.
Being alone with the Alone.
But oh, just to experience that Alone,
is enough to make saints, sages through the ages,
give up everything to retire into that silence and solitude.
What is that silence and solitude for me?
Residing with my real self, applying,
the self enquiry of Ramana Maharshi.
Less becomes more.
Silence becomes the best teacher.
The wilderness becomes an ascetic field of the Divine.
There, the soul experiences the pureness of the Divine.
Experience the pureness of the Divinity.
It is subtle.
It is beyond words.
It is so delicate.
It is simply otherworldly.
It is infinity.
It is the euphoric experience of the Divine.