[Jyotir]

Originally Posted by ThatMan

How many of you are here because of your own suffering and the suffering you see in the world? When I say "here", I am talking about going beyond the physical, you know, searching the spiritual things.

To be honest, I have always been called to the spiritual world but what made me to go deeper and deeper, is my own suffering and the suffering I see all around, this pushed me harder and harder to seek more.For this very reason I found myself searching the Creator, crying for an answer, again and again, all of this happening while having out of body experiences.

Ramakrishna said that 9 out of 10 spiritual aspirants subscribe to the motives described in the OP as a reaction to, or to escape from suffering.

Relatively very few - the other 10% - are engaged spontaneously in a search for truth, devotion, service - realization - simply for the delight of it, and recognize from the outset, that this is available and attainable without the need for suffering.

Suffering is the consequence of a conditional ignorance that may be transcended.
Delight is the unconditional and inseparable essence of existence itself.



~ J