You Don’t Have To Go To India To Find Yourself
But usually people learn it the hard way
India is rightly reputed to be the most spiritual place on Earth.
Not only did it birth Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh philosophies — it was the suspected homeland of Jesus during his ‘lost years,’ the origin of a yogi said to have taught Mohammed, and the origin of Lao Tzu’s previous incarnation.
It also produced Sanskrit, which is the oldest language we have.
So naturally, it’s easy to be drawn to India, in order to rediscover a sense of meaning to everything.
But what does one get when they actually visit this “blessed” land? A whole lot of pollution, poverty, and cows eating things they should not be.
Nearly every traveler has remarked that experiencing India is like seeing life in full color for the first time. And it really is mind-expanding, at least to the ego.
Upon embarking for the fabled spiritual wealth of India, however, I mostly found piles of rubble. Much of its ancient heritage being in ruins from 800 years of Turkic-Mughal occupation, India was then bled dry from 200 years of British colonial parasitism.
Apart from the glamour of Bollywood and industrial-scale modernization, the “old India” was in a sorry…
