Spiritual Warfare!

Here’s a life tip for spiritually inclined people:

When you are deeply spiritual, or an empath, someone on a yogic path or a path towards your highest self, you may think you will attract all goodie goodie things. But in reality, you often attract the opposites - energy vultures, shitty people, manipulative dicks and cunning cunts, toxic experiences… because spiritual path is designed to be an everyday test of your growth and evolution; Many years ago, I read a verse in bible:

Matthew: 7:14 Small is the gate and narrow is the path that leads to life.

It implies that to get to your highest life, you have to walk through narrow path and small gate, because if it were a broad road or a highway - anyone and everyone would attain nirvana and crowd the heavens. Its funny there are so many people ranting about being travelers, crowding touristy places now that there are expressways, but when roads were difficult, how many travelers did the world have?

A true spiritual person is not who listens to Osho, or reads Yogananda, or is only Vegan.

A true spiritual person is one who is ready to take the difficult path towards self-realisation. It is not just about having the discipline and focus to meditate for hours, that’s just one part of it… it is about having the eye to see your life up and close and to understand it. For this understanding, you have to be focused on your self (not yourself, but your self). This focus that is dhyaana on self is where meditation begins. You could be doing anything worldly, sansaarik - making money, having sex, bearing children, experiencing life as a human - but your compass points to learning about self. When your end goal is to learn about your self, whether it is through bairaagya, sanyasa or through sansaarik or rajasik experiences, that is when you are spiritual. Otherwise you can keep telling yourself “oh we are all spiritual beings having a human experience” and not even truly undersrand the meaning of it, but say it because it sounds profound.

Adhyaatm = Aatm ka adhyayan that is study/analysis of self. In a way, using your left analytical masculine brain to understand your right creative feminine brain - uniting them both in the process. So it doesn’t matter what your human experience is, if your end goal is quantifiable in material terms, then it doesnt matter how many spiritual practices you do, your end goal is human experience, not spiritual. On the other hand, you could be enjoying any and every human experience - money, pain, relationships, pleasure - but if your end goal is not attached to material, instead it is to understand your self, your soul through it - then you are truly a spiritual being having a human experience. In that dimension of living, loss and gains feel alike, because the endgame is spiritual evolution, inching you closer to your higher self, or God if you want to call it that.

Khair, I digressed.

We were discussing that when you are a “truly” spiritual person, you will not attract only Zen. Zen comes much later. At advanced stages. And it comes in Sanyasa, not while you are living amidst the world. You cannot be truly Zen while living the life as we know it. Sometimes it can come in long or short phases, but everlasting zen, that is when you become the Zen, for that Sanyasa is an important rite of passage. And if it isn’t time for your sanyasa yet, it means you have karmic workout pending in this world. And without working through worldly karmas, you cannot take sanyasa, because that might just be an escape. However, you’ll know… you will know in your gut and bones when your work here is done and it is time to renounce… until then you can dream all about “moving to the mountains one day and living in complete isolation” but that may not happen because there is karma pending here. And just to be clear, karma does not mean responsibilities of family, children etc. Those are never ending. When you hear the calling that your karma has been largely repaid, it will not matter who you leave behind when you take up sanyasa. Buddha left. He was called selfish. Some called him Bhagoda. But he knew in his gut what he was doing. And he did it anyway.

I digressed, again. That’s the beauty and curse of words.

So as I was saying - you just know one thing as a spiritual person - you cannot call yourself spiritual if you do not know the art of war. If you are just spiritual, who is calm - ask yourself - are you just calm, or are you a scared chicken who does not have the courage to fight the demons (inner and outer)?

A spiritual person HAS TO KNOW THE ART OF WAR. Shiva - the ultimate sanyaasi - is detachment, is the highest being, but can turn savage Rudra if needed.

Parvati - the adishakti - the graceful timid gentle soft feminine, can turn savage Durga and Kali if needed.

Both living in the chilled out detached Kailash. So ideally, they should’ve been Zen, right? Would you say that because they killed demons, they are not Gods? No. So why is there an expectation from spiritual and learned and evolved people to only speak calmly, to only spread love, to only stay peaceful?

The world will stereotype you if you are a spiritual person, because it helps them make sense of you. If you are spiritual, they can feel safe to dominate you, or mistreat you or humiliate and embarrass you. And they will. And when you turn Rudra, or Durga and fight back - they will taunt you that your spirituality and zen is a sham.

When you are a spiritual person, you will attract people who attack and try to derail you. The satanic energies. But if you are truly spiritual, you will not shy away from fighting back if it comes down to it… but you will fight detached. You will fight and then go back to your zen. You will fight not out of ego, but to protect your dignity and self respect, the reason why timid Parvati had to take fierce forms… and you will know about your self more in the process - because that is the end goal anyway - to be pointed at your higher self - in zen and in war.

However, if you are spiritual, but not necessarily have a courageous fierce warrior energy yet, for whatever reasons…. then learn tacts at least - the art of playing mindgames is for those who have lesser courage to call a spade a spade… you lead with manipulation, tacts, these are dark spiritual realms … and make people think you are one of them… and they have nothing to be scared of you… and they will attack lesser because they are not threatened by your presence… you are not ruffling any feathers of existing regressive systems. Live out your spiritual life in quietness, passively. All this may sound a little controversial spiritual advise, but I will repeat - if you are truly spiritual and a kind and soft person inherently, you will attract toxic energies and hurtful experiences more, and you are going to need every weapon (astra) in your prowess to continue on your spiritual path - whether that’s tact and manipulation like Shri Krishna, or rage like Kali and Rudra.

Leaving you with another quote I read a while ago, but it has come back to me again and again this year.

Do not call yourself peaceful unless you are also capable of great violence, because otherwise you are just harmless.

So be the calm ocean, placid seas… but also North Sea when push comes to shove.

As a spiritual seeker, you will never start a war. But when push comes to shove, you will not back down from it.

As a spiritually aligned person, you will never lead as the offender, you will try to keep peace for as long as possible, but you will always keep weapons in your arsenal just in case. You will use them when necessary.

Last little note: No demon or asura could ever deter Shiva. But he felt lost and wandered when he lost Sati. Emotions is the power and weakness of highly spiritual people, but more on this later.