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Why Most Spiritual Seekers Fail
And why you needn’t fall from the narrow mountain pass.
Swami Vivekananda, the sage who introduced yoga to the West, once remarked that out of all seekers of liberation, 85% quit.
Be it the struggles of discomfort, or simply returning to old attachments once your mental health improves: only a fraction actually make it into serious pursuit.
Of those, 5% might be unprepared, and lose the stability of their minds (in other words — yes, high-tech esoteric yoga can make you go crazy if you don’t follow the right process).
That means that a tiny fraction of a fraction of sentient life has the probability of freeing itself from delusion.
Now, you might ask, why are the so-called divine protectors and guides not doing more to remove the suffering in the world that keeps us bound?
Why is awakening such an uncomfortable process, when it’s a journey toward the most positive and wholesome place that could ever be?
The answers cannot be given with the language of this relative plane of existence.
To even begin approaching such philosophical problems, you need to see them from the perspective of ultimate truth.
