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Me, My Guru – on intent and travelling!
But if driving gives you or takes you to your ‘silent zone’, then you are
doing it for your spiritual need even though you may not know it or realize it.
If you love seeing places, travelling as you learn while you do so, you get to
meet people and you love to meet and people and interact and connect with
people, you feel that helps you to connect with yourself in a more better way,
then ‘driving’ becomes an excuse to fulfill that need of yours and hence becomes
spiritual.
But most of us travel as we are comfortable here – the place where we are
in and the people we live with. Then travelling becomes an excuse to ‘run away’
from home or place/person that you dislike, then it fulfills your basic need or
material need and hence it is of lowest kind. I have even seen people
travelling as a form of ‘rebellion’ against their family or to run away from
their familial responsibilities. Here inspite
of travelling the world the person only becomes tired when he comes home and
feels he was happier outside and so plans next trip in
search of that elusive happiness
– which is elusive all through his life. He is confused. Inspite of such hard
work, how come he is still not happy whereas some people hardly move out of
their homes and yet seem contended! Since this type of travelling is done in
search of happiness, it is physical in nature. These are the ones who travel to
post their pictures on FB and other social sites.
Next are the ones who travel to get some ‘spiritual benefit’ in the form
of punya (blessing) by travelling to religious sites. But since they desire to
receive or meet God or His grace in such places only, they too come with heavy baggages
but with empty hearts and hands.
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