Is the spiritual journey a difficult long one?

Answer 1

In the beginning we think it's very very diificult.Then after gainning a lot of experience which comes as sufferings we know how to face life & accept it.Then the journey goes smoothly.

The longing to experience Him always is rather difficult as the outward circumstances will make us slip away from him.Then again we steady ourselves & this keeps repeating & this is the time we feel that the spiritual journey is not easy & a long one.

On the whole it is an interesting one.

Answer 2

Spiritual Journey is a difficult and long one that takes millions of life times but at the end of the journey the destination is worth all this trouble.

Answer 3

For a human being, it depends upon your Sanskar i.e. latent hidden impressions of past, which will vary from person to person.

But we can always bring relevant good Sanskar up by having Satsang i.e. company of people who are walking on this path and great souls (Mahaatma).

For a beginner it is long and tough journey, but for a person who has got a glimpse ONCE, it is THE ONLY WAY. Then spiritualism acts as a Black-Hole - effort or no-effort, you are getting sucked in by Black-Hole of Reality! Tab Nirnaya Nai Tumhai Lai Liya means No options left, no escape to THAT!!

Answer 4

I want to tell of Jesus with every breath I have until he calls me home. I can't encourage others or say the name of Jesus to others on earth if I leave.
One of the disciples said he would like to go home with the Lord but it was more important that he is here on earth to work for the Lord.
It can seem like a long journey but actually it is a short one. The time goes by so fast.

Answer 5

For some, yes and for others not too difficult. It very much depends on how much you have to learn and how long it takes to learn the lessons as they come along. To understand and to act upon that understanding usually takes many years. The easy answer is not to worry about the years and to be willing to learn as each day comes along. As Jesus said it is the fruits of the spirit that are important and by the outcomes in your life which are visible.

Answer 6

. It is a journey within oneself. Simply a journey to the realisation that there is no real journey at all, just an awakening. It can take a micro second or it can take a million life times to recognise this. Namaste

Answer 7

The journey from the illusion in which we have been accumulating lifetimes of Karmic debt, which means bits of our own Apapsyche [Operational Energy of the Soul] has been held within our MINDs as those debts... is both difficult and painful.

Is it difficult to "think" that one is becoming spiritual? No, one only has to generate a bit of imagination and ones MIND will feed the Left-Hemisphere of ones brain thoughts which convince one that one feels great, has increased patience, love for all mankind, and has obtained a sweet and loving personality.... much of which is imaginary.

Since God is an Absolute, His journey back Home is also an Absolute. That is, nothing within or about one that is not Pure Spiritual Energy can go beyond the limit of the MIND, which is the Causal region of Creation.

The most difficult task an initiate faces is learning how to live a complete schizophrenic life. That is, as one rises within oneself via meditation, ones Attn Aspect of Apapsyche in concert with the Esotransmutation Process [that automatic process wherein ones MIND and other subtle Esoteric processes working within oneself convert repressed Karmic debts into both Knowledge and Empathy] work through ones Karma converting it from MIND-level traumata into experiential Knowledge that then automatically returns to ones Apapsyche, adding to ones Knowledge of Reality.

This Esotransmutation Process is working within every person, but when one is initiated by a Master, the administration of ones Karma is taken over by ones Master, and the Esotransmutation Process begins to speed up. Ones life begins to become a bit more painful in Absolute relationship to ones increasing Knowledge, or ability to view the nature and workings of the illusion.... particularly how dishonest one has been and the pride one has had in such dishonesty. The pain is caused by the destruction of ones false ego, or sense of separation from God.

Every Karmic attachment one has, and there are mountains of them, required a lessening of ones Apapsyche... and each such transfer of a bit of ones Apapsyche as a Karmic debt held within ones MIND was like turning down ones Spiritual light. How diminished is this light within people cannot be seen by most people. But the individual who is being pulled up through such illusory beliefs and attachments begins to "see" how dark ones Spirituality has become, and how great is ones attachment to the illusion. This in-sight is the pain of the "journey of Spirituality". A journey of awakening to ones attachment to the illusion, and ones absence from God.

It is generally said that once initiated, it will take no longer than four lifetimes.... but most initiates are expected to spend one entire lifetime on this Spiritual journey. Not so long given the lifetimes we have been going in the opposite direction.

Peace

Answer 8

Become spiritual, then you will know whether journey, long or short, difficult or pleasant.

Answer 9

At times I think it is. But it can be a wonderful journey also. There's always going to be difficulty from time to time. Life is like a rose garden. It's beautiful, but you have to watch out for the thorns.

Answer 10

Difficult is a relative term. More is the eagerness for you to reach the Goal, shorter you find the trip. Its like waiting for your loved ones, years pass through as seconds..