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

 

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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. Keep Reading

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Our Discomfort with Discomfort

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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. Keep Reading

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Secondary Purpose of Life

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Emotional Insights Booklet

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Farming, not fishing

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As originally published in India’s premiere spiritual magazine ‘Life Positive’ (January 2016 Issue)

While on a recent holiday to Sri Lanka, our tour operator took my family and me to a certain spice garden, one of Sri Lanka’s prime tourist spots. Once in, we were allotted a personal guide who took us around the entire property, sharing details of each plantation in exquisite detail. Thereafter, he took us to the garden’s shop where he extolled the herbal medicines prepared from these spices. So convinced were we that we purchased many of the shop’s products, though they were exorbitantly priced.

It was only after half an hour of our departure from the location that it dawned upon us that we had had a bad deal. It then became clear that the courteous guide was actually an undercover salesman, and the whole purpose of the paid guided tour was for it to culminate in an extravagant sale. Keep Reading

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