One Pilgrimage is Worth Millions Of Vacations
American modernity made us forget this
One of the greatest yogis of the last few centuries, Sri Yukteswar, once remarked that undigested knowledge is more like poison than medicine. It gives you a dangerous sense of security, utterly false once the candle of reality gets held up to it.
Reading books can produce new ideas, but it can’t change the world outside of you. Neither can it cause any permanent transformation in you.
Your habits persist, and if the right circumstances manifest, they reactivate your inner demons. No matter how much time you’ve spent reading about mindfulness.
You need a journey of transformation undertaken on multiple levels.
Once you read the map (book learning) you know where to step forward (experimenting, experientially). Simply reading your map won’t get you to the destination, while walking without guideposts may get you lost.
This is where one of the most crucial aspects of the journey comes into play.
Pilgrimage is to see the energetic signature of spirituality’s final stages, so you know exactly how to walk.
Without it, I wouldn’t be the empowered, clear-headed and confident person I am today, and the same could be said of history’s…
