Well, once again I have drifted into my spiritual moods and these are just some thoughts that try to sail through the choppy brain waves within me. Though asked umpteen times to myself and one of the most sought after questions since mankind’s existence, it still insists on asking the same, what is Elightenment? Enlightenment (spiritual) has always been an ever elusive enigma to me till this day.

I have never understood as to why I get kind of shuttling in and out this state of being. For some period I have a sense of this infinite, boundless consciousness that encompasses us where at least to some extent you feel like you are what you are witnessing. And then, either out of the blue this feeling totally vanishes or fades gradually. I am back to my contracted & egoic self.

Not that I haven’t tried to transform myself in order to become a living ex-pression of the emptiness and purity of motive that one discovers in the spiritual experience. Is it because I have fallen prey to the stealthy confused state of mind that any seeker can be confronted with, Spiritual Promiscuity? There is a whole lot of schools that try to home in on the seekers as “The Ultimate” way. Many seekers do not take full responsibility for their own liberation, but wait for one big, final spiritual experience which will catapult them fully into it. It is this search for the final liberating experience which gives rise to a rampant form of spiritual consumerism in which seekers go from one teacher to another, shopping for enlightenment as if shopping for sweets in a candy store. Its something like selling water on the banks of the river. This spiritual promiscuity is rapidly turning the search for enlightenment into a cult of experience seekers. And, while many people indeed have powerful experiences, in most cases these do not lead to the profound transformation of the individual, which is the ex-pression of enlightenment….(me included, I fear ).