Question and answer

A question has come from within. Corresponding holistic answer will come in its entirety through appropriate contextual understanding, awareness and lived experience. No external dependency can fully help in achieving this holistic answer. Any external dependency can to the best offer a temporary respite. For example, a traveller seeking shade from a tree. One has to directly experience peak summer heat and associated impact on body, mind and spirit. Only then will one be able to fully appreciate the value of shade provided by a tree on the path. Similarly, a child fascinated by a burning flame and unaware of the associated hazard. Any amount of preventive explanation by an adult will not have the desired effect. The child has to directly experience fire to know fire. There is no shortcut to know fire, hence direct experience is the only sure way. Self-reliance is the only means. Every road starts and ends at self-experience.

People who subscribe to partial information from external sources like books, rituals, websites, or by joining groups with the hope of uncovering spiritual truth are doing themselves and each other  tremendous injustice. They believe that banding together, forming a group or a tribe will assist them to achieve the elusive truth. Unfortunately, they are repeatedly proven wrong because that is not the path. They are knocking at the wrong door. They have a fear lurking deep within which is stopping them to explore and seek the truth on their own. This type of self-limiting mindset and collective group thinking results in beliefs, habits, patterns and blind spots which ultimately leads to their downfall. 

Just as a lion walks alone, the soul walks alone on its journey to fully realize itself. Once it reaches there, one can say that one has reached home. The truth is already within us. It manifests only when one is ready after direct experience.