Hey you, apostles of spirituality, are you really serious about your spiritual progress, or are just pretending? Those of you, the great majority, who hang on every word Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Ariaa Jaeger and the likes say, you must realize that you’re attending a preschool. Granted, it is a spiritual preschool that will, in most cases, make a better person out of you. But, are you going to keep attending the classes forever?
If your ultimate goal is enlightenment, you’re wasting your time… and life there. Time to stop deluding yourself that your spiritual progress will be greatly assisted by reading more books, watching new inspirational DVDs, or attending some pricey seminars. Yes, they’ll make you feel good; like belonging to one spiritual family. If you’re fortunate enough, you’ll wake up one day and realize that you’ve been living a life of spiritual mediocrity. But for now, feeling safe and comfortable you take another sip of coffee and with closed eyes listen to Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata”. Oh, how uplifting; what’s this, tears in your eyes?

Instead of earnestly making your way towards the Self, you hang around the spiritual circuses that run by and for your money only. And the question of your spiritual progress? Can you hear them laughing?
And the Self, fogged by your ignorance, fades into distance…
Wake up! Live your life as it was the only one you’ve ever got. Forget about reincarnation, it exists only in the mind of fools. Listen to what Sri Ramana Maharshi said: “Reincarnation exists only as long as there is ignorance. There is really no reincarnation at all, either now or before. Nor will there be any hereafter. This is the truth.”
What if you were told that you’ve only one more day to live? Would your final jump be long enough to reach God, in your final hour? Very unlikely, if your base is made from the years of guru adulation, groupie culture, expansion of your library and taking great care to feel nice and loved by all.

Realize, for jumping “beyond human” – that’s where enlightenment is, is need a rock solid base. You must continue growing and stabilising it at every moment of your life. Relentlessly, uncompromisingly. Where do you start? Begin by reading all you can find written by Dr David R Hawkins. Then, move further on and read “I Am That – Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj” and “Spiritual teaching of Sri Ramana Maharshi”. That will do, for now. At every opportunity, begin to question what you are, probe deeply into your mind and try to steep out beyond. Meditate, but not in the same fuzzy woozy ways that “professional meditators” taught you. Here’s the right way, as explained by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: “Deliberate daily exercise in discrimination between the true and the false and renunciation of the false is meditation. There are many kinds of meditation to begin with, but they all merge finally into one.”
Most importantly, be honest with yourself. Not for even one minute should you compromise and allow falsity to enter and stain your thoughts and deeds. For what takes years to gain, can be obliterated in one short moment of weakness.

Keep God in the field of your awareness all the time. Yes, this is your Self looking where you look, seeing what you see, hearing what you’re saying. Think about it… God – the Self, is the perfection you’re longing for all your life. Only your earnestness will make you realize that you have it all already. Don’t strive for enlightenment! You’re enlightened already, live accordingly! Take courage from what Nisargadatta Maharaj said: “The good news is compared to a spark in a shipload of cotton; slowly but relentlessly the whole of it will turn to ashes. Similarly the good news of enlightenment will, sooner or later, bring about a transformation.”
You have heard about enlightenment. Now, open the portholes in your ship to get the fire burning faster!