THE VISION

  Please click on the bold darker colours to read the article and on the arrow icon  to get back to the contents. Beloved Readers, Generally, devotees or spiritual aspirants feel satisfied with outer efforts in their Sadhana such as: group chanting of the Name of God, taking part in Bhajans, attending discourses on spiritual topics, having Darshan of spiritually evolved souls, visiting places of worship with others, group meditations and the like. Experience has, however, revealed that even after pursuing the aforementioned method for a considerable period, aspirants often feel no closer to achieving the ultimate goal of becoming one with the indwelling and all-pervading Reality, even though their external and collective efforts do provide some sentimental and emotional satisfaction. This prompts us to closely examine the lives of Mahatmas, which reveals that while duly recognising the relevance of outer Sadhana in the initial stages, later on, they were completely rel...