Spiritual Practice For Beginners

In speaking on the subject of spiritual practice for beginners, I think I should make one or two points clear at the very outset. First of all, what do I mean by beginners? It is a fact that all beginners are not really beginners; souls are born on this earth with different qualifications, and those who start spiritual life seriously do not all begin at the same point. Therefore, spiritual practices cannot be the same, or even similar, for all beginners. So for the purpose of our discussion, I should say that by beginners I mean those who genuinely feel the call of the Spirit, who feel devotion to God a little, who feel they should think about Him and make some effort to gain more and more devotion to Him, but who, at the same time, find themselves drawn towards the world – they cannot reject the world as unreal, as uninteresting. It is this kind of beginner I wish to discuss here.

© "Ascent To Spiritual Illumination" by swami Ashokananda, published (2001) by Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, Champawat, Himalayas from its Publication Department, 5 Dehi Entally Road, Kolkata 700 014. Reprinted with permission.

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