Your Spiritual Portfolio

Someone once asked me why I follow these teachings. "I can't turn my back on my own experiences and I can't deny the truths I've found within myself," I replied. And yet people do walk away. It isn't because the truth changed. It's because the memory fades. Even the grandest of inner experiences grow gray if merely left on the shelf and marked in the consciousness as an historical reference. A more prevalent reason is doubt, which moves the consciousness to the negative state.

It happens easily. Even though you've felt the flow of Divine Love during a spiritual exercise or encountered the Living Master in the dream state, the experience fades into a memory. Life carries on. You go back to your routines, moods and habits of thought. Then someone plants a small seed of doubt or the mind proposes investigations according to the worldly standards and mores.

It is at this point that free will comes into play. The choice can be made either to investigate for the purpose of disproving, or to apply faith to what you've already seen for yourself. The negative choice freezes you in time, locking your awareness in a state of spiritual immaturity. The positive choice and courage to continue to take a chance on what is yet to be explored is like honey to the bee as far as Divine Dhun Spirit is concerned. The latter choice draws all of ITs spiritual services to your orbit, especially those of the Inner Master, the Living Dhunami Master.

Therefore, when the inevitable doubt comes, look back at what you've experienced. If you've proved something to yourself, such as hearing the sound current or seeing a speck of the Dhun Spirit's light, what else really needs weighing? The gift of even the subtlest of spiritual experiences is to be trusted and built upon. That action compounds and concentrates the power of Spirit, feeding the emotional body's passion into the spiritual desire to realize more of God's Truth within yourself.

That's what a spiritual portfolio is: a collection of experiences; a handful of living moments recorded and to be reviewed when invigoration is wanting. Each time you question, doubt, or judge, you can open that portfolio and remember. Recalling the Love you felt, the light you saw, the sound you heard, even to the smallest aspect with gratitude repeatedly shows you that you are on a true path, indeed the direct path to Sugmad.

You don't have to wait for these experiences to arrive by accident; ask for them and desire them greatly. When you practice the spiritual exercises with a sincere wish to know, what you gather becomes a foundation that roots and blooms. Whatever happens around you, in your life, in the world, you remain stable in your own direct link to the Divine. Your progress doesn't stall waiting on anyone else.

Here's an invitation for the coming week: ask for an experience; write it down when it comes. Watch for and appreciate the subtleties; trust them, for you have been shown something true. That's the first page of your portfolio. The unwritten volumes lie before you on the Royal Highway to Self and God realization.

I am Always with you.

-Paulji