Confusion in Spirituality
Often, it is our physical and mental well-being that we talk about. We are oblivious to the importance of our spiritual health and forget its importance. Our mind, body, and soul have to be in great condition for us to achieve overall wellness. However, when our spiritual health is disturbed by spiritual confusion, the equilibrium among the three components of our existence is lost.
Spiritual confusion happens mostly to people who are on the path of self-realisation. When they break their old constraints and understandings, they feel lost. Since our beliefs, cultures, and ways of life have taught us to live a certain way, we feel confused when we must break those shackles. When we start expanding our awareness, our inner darkness diminishes. Our inner darkness refers to our biased side, full of prejudice and unable to accept different versions of truth aside from those of ourselves. Since we perceive life through our thoughts, cultural conditioning, and belief systems, making ourselves free from these barriers is the toughest test in our lives. When we progress towards light and embrace the truth, we must cross a dark night of the soul. We all get an opportunity to break all the barriers of our life’s conditioning and experience rebirth. This time, it is the birth of our consciousness, not of our body.
Moreover, spiritual confusion can occur when a person loses a loved one or faces mundane problems beyond their current emotional and mental capacity. They may refuse to accept reality and blame God for their situation.
No season is eternal. It may take time, but overcoming spiritual confusion is attainable. We just have to allow time to clear the muck gathered over several births that has covered our soul. When starting our journey toward spiritual clarity, it’s important to note that there’s no single way to overcome this adversity.
It is extremely important not to set ourself any goal in spirituality — when we take the guidance of a realised Spiritual Master, we just have to follow the teachings the best way we can. The moment we set a goal, we try to achieve that goal and that defeats the whole purpose of spirituality. The journey is inwards and not about achieving something in the material world — the inner world is totally different, with a different set of rules.
The spiritual process is not about giving up one level of hallucination and moving to another level. It is all about giving up hallucination completely, learning to live with reality the way it is, because the effort is all about truth.
It is all about living in the moment, in the here and now — that is the only reality, rest as the saying goes — is history or mystery.
