Life Should Have Challenges

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 Life Should Have Challenges

If our life is routine, dull and boring then we ourselves get disillusioned and dull. Our senses get numbed and we become like the walking dead! We need challenges in life to stay alert, refreshed and on the ball all the time – both physically and mentally – if we do that we will always be ‘alive’.

As we pass through life, some of us get the urge to know more about our self – this urge comes suddenly to some, and others like me are pulled on to the path by others. Everyone who is a seeker – at whatever level – always finds a Master fit for each individual level. I have been fortunate enough to find a Himalayan Master, a Satguru, who pulled me on to the path even when I wasn’t looking for the path – and this path is the greatest challenge of my life. The challenge is to know the ‘self’ – it is a journey to know the soul, become one with the source. Without a Master to show the way, it is almost impossible to find the path in one birth!

The Master who knows your time has come, sends someone to bring you onto the path absolutely unknown to you. Once you listen to the Master’s voice, something deep within you is awakened and slowly a transformation starts taking place. You are now facing the greatest challenge of your life – your inner awakening. Every day there is a new experience as you get drawn into the fold, and with each experience your thirst increases till a point is reached where the journey itself becomes the destination!

Some people cannot face the challenges which crop up on taking up the spiritual path, they try to escape and many do escape. But such people later repent and feel sorry because the opportunity to learn ways to let-go, an opportunity to meet the inner self, the opportunity to bloom has been missed. You have boarded the train and got off it before the final destination was reached just because of your fear of the unknown. You were not up to the challenge!

Life grows by choosing challenges. Life grows by going into the storms. Life grows by taking risks – calculated ones! Becoming spiritual, seeking to know yourself is the greatest challenge – you need to be brave to face your fears, overcome them, get rid of your desires and ultimately to control your ego till you lose it altogether. It is only then that you find the peace and silence that you have always longed for!