Whatever You Do, Don't Leave the Spiritual Path

Sometimes someone will take up the spiritual path with great enthusiasm but after some time give it up. He or she will lose faith in the self-realization process and decide to go back to world of material enjoyment.

Why is this?

This is generally due to a lack of patience. We are so much accustomed to getting instant results in fulfilling our sense gratificatory desires that do not have sufficient patience to endure the beginning stages of the Krishna Consciousness path. In the beginning it is quite natural that from time to time one will experience difficulties and confusion. One simply has to have faith in one's teacher and in the words of Lord Sri Krishna and stick tightly to the pathway. If one does so, it is guaranteed that he will come out of the fog and will realize all the imports of the Vedic wisdom. This is promised in the Svetasvatara Upanisad:

yasya deve para bhaktir
yatha deve tatha gurau
tasyaite kathita hy arthah
prakasante mahatmanah

"Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed."
---Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.23

So if you are on the path and are sometimes tempted to leave it, don't. Stick with the path through thick and thin. The rewards are unlimited and inconceivable.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: How to Have Ever Exciting Spiritual Life?...

How to make spiritual life ever interesting, exciting, so that I could understand that actually there is nothing like that.

Thank you with love.

Kaspars

Answer: Be a Spiritual Revolutionary...

To have an ever exciting spiritual life you must fully embrace the mood of a spiritual revolutionary. This means that you must be determined to become a spotlessly pure devotee as soon as possible, as well as dedicating your every thought, word, and deed to the respiritualization of the entire human society by injecting everyone you meet with the most sublime Krishna consciousness message.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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