The Himalayan Master and the Sixth Sense (I Dared to Travel the Spiritual Path)

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What is that, declares Mundako Upanishads, by knowing which everything else is known. The quest to know is human but the mode of knowing is individual. When this quest takes a turn towards the inner self- through self- motivation or triggered by some external force- it becomes spirituality. The spiritual urge to know our true self is natural but the journey on the path of spirituality is incidental, which is to say that there has to be a reason to begin that journey. A mere eye contact with someone we meet by chance may change the direction of our lives or an event in our life may lead us to seek wisdom and understand deeper meaning of life, far beyond the and, we set on a voyage of seeking not fully understanding what is being sought. We just start walking towards a misty destination. That's how it happened to me. I had set out to seek something not quite clear but the journey had begun.

Why would my story matter to you or your story matter to me unless it has something meaningful to contribute to our own quests towards the Unknown? I am not a monk; I am at best an enigmatic married family man, father to a son, a reluctant hedonist, and had many crushes in life- the greatest being for the civil exam that lasted for a decade. I was also not born as a great soul with an innate longing for God to be embraced by an enlightened Master to be guided into realization. I was, and am, a person of contradictions who accidentally came to the world of seeking. This elusive search, which later on became a spiritual quest, began out of the logic of circumstances - let me avoid the word fate rather than out of any natural craving. Thus beginning as an accidental seeker, my footsteps gradually got firmly ensconced as a traveller of the spiritual path as I kept walking. The blurred road, however, kept opening with every stride through an exciting excursion of interesting landmarks making my journey not less worthy a pursuit to have been trudged in life than having been met with some other priority.