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Krishna Bhaavin
I am a curious learner, an intense feeler and a self-absorbed thinker, in that order. My role in the world is that of a modern-day yogi; also a spiritual trainer and a thought-provoking author; a personal coach and a healer.
Divinely guided by Mahavatar Babaji, I have intimately learnt with enlightened masters like Guruji Rishi Prabhakar, Leonard Orr and now Dattatreya Shiv Baba (Dr. Pillai). Currently at 41, I enjoy getting to the bottom of things and actively sharing my learnings. I have a voracious appetite for reading.
I speak and write about a whole gamut of topics from spirituality and emotional healing to productivity and enlightened prosperity. My deepest interest lies in the science of easy living.
Is a Pada-yatra Valid?
This is a healthy dialogue with a reader who raised objection against the concept of a Pada-yatra. This contains the original article, the objection & response.
1) As published in Life Positive
Letting go is not easy. Each of us holds on to certainty, to security, to convenience, to the sphere of the ‘known’. I had a similar issue. All my life. Until I did an experiment that my master had exhorted many of us to do. My master, the late Guruji Rishi Prabhakar (founder of SSY), regularly undertook a padyatra, a lone voyage, by and large on foot, as a mendicant. This is actually an ancient practice favoured by Adi Shankara, Buddha, Mahavira and Swami Vivekanand among others.
He gave a definite purpose to it: The purpose was to see God in whoever you meet, make yourself useful wherever you go, and to find security in the middle of the manifest insecurity.
Our Discomfort with Discomfort
All our problems seem to be born from our inability to voluntarily experience our difficult feelings and sensations. We are in a frenzy to prevent or run away from discomfort in our body and psyche. This seems to be the root cause of all our problems in life.
Whenever I am uncomfortable feeling the unpleasant sensation that comes by speaking the harsh truth and stand the risk of being unloved, I lie or withhold the truth. Whenever I am uncomfortable feeling the unpleasant sensations that are born of failure, I refuse to run a risk in my professional life.