Spiritual Healing

We often hear the term “spiritual healing” as one being used incessantly these days. Many people tend to make a quick buck out of offering such services to those in dire need. However many times, we fail to cognize the true meaning of the term itself. Indeed the true meaning of spiritual healing is even lost upon those who claim to offer it. So in reality what does spirtual healing comprise of? What is the true essence of the process and what does it truly accomplish? The aforementioned questions often plague the heart of the sincere seeker as he walks the road to self-realization. The human life is ultimately a journey of evolution. Human Beings evolved from primates, imbimbing in themselves superior characteristics that distinguished them from their counterparts in the animal kingdom. Simply put, as man evolved through time, he started becoming more and more virtuous. He was endowed with a superior brain, shrewd intellect and the ability to cognize and effectively discern as to what is in his best interests.

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The spiritual journey is ultimately a journey of evolution. It is the journey that takes the human being to the plinth of the evolutionary cycle as the spiritual path creates a divine entity out of the shell of a man that walks it. As any seeker walks the spiritual path with great devotion, desire and dedication in his heart, he subconciously starts to experience a spiritual change occuring in him. I refer to the change as being spiritual for it indeed is so. The spirit undergoes significant change. Through the countless incarnations that the spirit goes through in its journey on this wretched lands, the spirit accumulates many traits. Some of them are good, while most of them are bad. I refer to these traits explicitely as being good or bad, for indeed the good traits are those that are conducive to the seeker’s quest for emancipation; while the bad ones are those that create an undesirable shunting in his spiritual journey.

Thus when a seeker finds his true master; or rather when the master finally seeks out the seeker, it is for the sole purpose of spiritual healing. What spiritual healing accomplishes in the end is that it completely ablates the bad traits from the seeker’s spirit while enricing the good ones. In a way the process of spiritual healing acts as a great catalyst in the seeker’s evolution. The master is ultimately the one that initiates and implements this process in the seeker. As the seeker spends more time with his master, through the sheer power of the presence of the illumined being, his spirit gets healed. The master on his own part always seeks to enrich and embellish the spirit with all that is good. At times through gentle cajoling and at times through sterner words, he carefully leads the seeker on the path of realization.

One simply cannot decribe the importacne that the master ultimately plays in the seeker’s spiritual journey. The many processes that he initiates and implements within the seeker are intricate beyond the scope of human intellect. While many in the world claim to heal others spiritually, only a realized master can truly accomplish it. While this article gives a brief overview of the process of spiritual healing, it can hardly relate to you the true scope of this divine venture. However, one thing is for certain; thousands squander in darkness and death, searching in vain for life’s true wealth, as the lone seeker humbly kneels, the hands of the master, with love they heal…

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Desires & Purpose

Desire is a queer thing. The more you get it; the more you crave it. In many ways, desire and not the absence of it, is the root cause of all the misery in this world. Any unfulfilled desire brings with itself a sense of incompleteness that renders a man weak. Any unrequited desire inflames the heart as the man mongers around in discontent and agony; only owing to the fact that he has a desire in his heart. This happens owing to the fact that every person hopes to gain happiness from the fulfillment of his desires. Thus when he is denied that pleasure owing to prevailing circumstances, the individual loses all sense of hope and his life subsequently becomes miserable. A person who does not let the fulfillment of his desires be a factor in the pursuit of happiness is indeed a person that could be termed as a spiritualist.

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I use the word only out of necessity, owing to the large amount of prejudice that is targeted towards ‘spiritualists’ in general. Deemed as perpetual losers, the world thinks that a person turns to spirituality only owing to the fact that he cannot succeed at anything else in life. That definitely is not the case, and while there may be spiritualists who prefer to spend their life in solitude, conversing with God, there remain many who are pro-actively involved in all walks of life. Now the thing to cognize is this; spirituality is essentially a school of life that teaches you to go beyond your self-centered desires; to go beyond your conviction that life is to be lived only for yourself. Spirituality essentially teaches you to go beyond the ‘self’ and to be benevolent and selfless to others; to work for a cause; to work for a purpose. But the point of the matter still remains, that once the human being loses the allure of desire in his life, life no longer holds for him the same allure. Simply put, he develops a curious disdain for life, owing to the fact that he can no longer derive happiness from his desires; a realization that inherently makes his life empty. Thus when such a man turns towards the spiritual path, he often finds within it a calling that makes his life worthwhile. In the end, it is all about making sure that the juice is worth the squeeze; that the output you gain is worth the efforts that you put in. Thus when a man lives his life for the sake of others, and works benevolently and pro-actively to fulfill a purpose, he truly finds that his life is worth the effort that he puts into it.

In the end, it is the benevolent purpose that makes his life seem worthwhile. It is the knowledge that he is indeed instrumental in changing someone’s life for the better that gives him joy and satisfaction. Thus the happiness that he derives from such an achievement is far greater than any desire could lend him. For in the end, desires are infinite and the discontent that they bring into one’s life diminishes the joy that is derived from their fulfillment. As opposed to that, the purpose that is ordained upon a man is finite in nature, for it is derived from the karmic liaisons that the man has to his name. Thus fulfilling that purpose not only brings with itself a great sense of satisfaction, but it also results in the absolution of man’s recurrent bouts of misery. In the end, the fulfillment of the purpose leads to the complete ablation of desires; something that many people dread. However there is nothing that is more joyful than a state of no-desire; for in it there is a sense of completeness and peace.

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“Spiritualism; The Real Deal”

Many times, we see people contemplating as to how they choose to walk the spiritual path. Many say that they prefer not to follow any realized master, but choose to indulge themselves incessantly in spiritual reading. Some also feel that listening to discourses and good thoughts can be a pre-requisite to having a realized master. Is such spiritual wealth truly potent? Can reading spiritual books or listening to spiritual dissertations truly liberate you? The master answers these questions in the following discourse.

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“Satsang (The Divine Energy)”

In today’s world, the term satsang has been reduced to represent an event which showcases anything but true spirituality. In the present kaliyuga we are somewhat moving away from true satsang which indeed is the most powerful spiritual method. Why is satsang indeed so effective? Why is it paramount to a seeker’s spiritual progress to always indulge in satsang? How can a human being truly find satsang? In the following video discourse, Mr. Milindji Moghe elucidates on all that and more…

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Reality, Rationalism & Faith

It might be surprising for some to see this topic being discussed here on the tlp weblog probably because people don’t generally associate ‘reality’ and ‘rationalism’ with spirituality. However in life, there are no clearly drawn lines and all subjects are indeed interwoven to make up the matrix of human existence. It is the inability of people to cognize this fact that often leads them to face abject failure in some walks of life. At times, people forfeit some opportunities just because they don’t appeal to their minds; at times they ridicule greatness just because it falls outside the scope of what they consider to be ‘rational’; and at times people even refuse to accept the truth that stares them in the face…all owing to the fact, that they just can’t sum it up.

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Rationality is an important factor of life. Rationality is the mind’s scale of whether things measure up to be real or not. At times, the human mind vehemently denies some possibilities, for it simply does not feel them to be rational enough. Indeed our sense of rationality is developed owing to the influence that our surroundings have on us. For instance, a boy who has been brought up in America won’t feel the possibility of people fighting over the basic necessities of life to be rational. Similarly a child raised in the deserts of Africa would find the concept of frivolous indulgence as irrational. Thus both would simply deny the fact that does not appeal to their mindset. Fact of the matter is that reality persists beyond the bonds of rationalism. Reality does not care if you think that it is rational or not; it does not care if people think it to be possible or impossible. Reality simply exists; and its existence is the proof of its rationality.

That ultimately brings us to the topic at hand. Many pseudo-intellectuals perceive spiritualists all over the world to be nothing but superstitious fools. The fact that a person believes in a higher power and aspires to that divine entity is something that these people utterly desist. They fear to acknowledge the fact that there might be things beyond the scope of their puny intellect; that indeed there are aspects of life that they simply cannot control. The modern day rationalist is afraid to acknowledge the aforementioned fact for he lives in a constant fear; he lives in an induced sense of falsified security that vanishes in an instant, if he were but to acknowledge the unknown. Thus with denial, people satisfy themselves that there indeed is nothing more to life than what meets the eye. Owing to this, they indeed lose out upon the many treasures that life has to offer them; treasures that could be adorned upon them, if they would simply take a leap of faith.

Thus in the end, we find that it is not rationality or intellectualism that wins through in life. It is faith; it is faith that is unshakable in its very essence that is responsible for the greatest of achievements known to mankind. It is faith that in the end accomplishes greatness and a man who has faith and perseverance is a man with endless possibilities. Why? Because, faith gives us the hope that we can indeed change reality; it gives us the motivation to walk with a backload of qualms on a road of thorns underneath a burning sky; all for the sake of achieving something; for the sake of completing a purpose. Thus in the end it is faith that even considers possibilities that appear fantastic to the rational mind; and it is faith that in the end transforms those possibilities into reality.

And when faith in the end produces the results, the pseudo-intellectual mulls in after-thought…How? How could someone achieve something that was so beyond the scope of his capabilities? How something that was so irrational could be indeed true? How could I not foresee this? The reason is that faith can truly work miracles…miracles that transgress all bonds of rationality, possibility and probability; miracles that in the make you believe in the existence of a greater power. It imbibes in you a sense of greater purpose. Thus at the end, I would say naught else but leave you with only a few chosen words to bear in mind… KEEP THE FAITH…:)

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Intuition Unveiled

Since the beginning of man’s evolution, he has always sought an answer to life’s multitude questions. Man first makes assumptions, then experiments and finally realizes the truth. Through the course of time, the source through which man obtains all his knowledge has always been veiled. Even a single thought, which spurs from the mind, is the trigger for a discovery that forever changes the world. Through the years, man has always sought knowledge from the world outside. Through the annals of time, man has consistently chosen to overlook the abundant spring of knowledge that rests within him. Throughout history man has always chosen to overlook his Intuition. Intuition thus stands to be one of the most widely under-rated phenomena in the world. To completely appreciate and understand the aforementioned fact, one would first have to understand what intuition truly means.

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Intuition (in-tuition) is simply nothing but the knowledge that comes from within. It is the tutelage that spurs from within a person. It is the direct expression of knowledge that does not require human perception to translate into cognizance. Simply put, you just know…there is no process to knowing it, but you just know. It is like remembering all of a sudden that you have some money stowed away in the last drawer of your dresser; the only thing is that you don’t remember putting it there. Intuition is that simple. The reason why scientists do not accept intuition to be fact is that they don’t realize that one can simply arrive at a result without going through the process of deduction. They cannot accept the possibility that man could, in one moment, simply ‘realize’ the truth without going through the process of assumption and experimentation. Yet the fact that ‘scientists’ don’t consider intuition to be ‘rational’ should in no way undermine the potency of the knowledge that it yields to the seeker; for even though, you may not remember putting the money in the dresser, you sure are delighted when you find it there. Simply put, if the results are there, the practical thing to do is to employ them to your needs.

Intuition is indeed the most potent source of knowledge for it can yield the seeker knowledge worth thousands of years of study in a single moment. This becomes possible owing to the fact that man himself is an estranged part of God; that man himself is a part of the entire cosmic dream; the fact that man himself is imbibed with the same energy that constitutes the universe. In a way, the universe exists within a man as the man exists within the universe. Hence all knowledge can indeed be derived from the self and therefore self-realization remains the most direct way to cognize, realize and indeed know all that there is to the world. Know thy-self and you know the world; intuition only serves as the vehicle that brings to the seeker this energy in the form of knowledge.

Once a seeker walks extensively on the spiritual path under the able guidance of a realized master, he starts to get intuitive glimpses of cognizance that open to him a trove of knowledge and a wealth of experience. It yields the seeker knowledge about every single thing in the world; all sciences, arts, techniques and processes are laid bare in front of the seeker’s eyes. At one point, even the seeker starts to wonder as to how such a potent source of knowledge can rest within him. The answer to that question is the fact that in the end, all that he is doing is recollecting the information that he already has in his memory; the experience that is brought forth with thousands of incarnations that the soul goes through before it can be realized enough to intuitively cognize its own self. Thus the realized soul, simply remembers, and in a single moment is he endowed with cognition that bears him knowledge far beyond the scope of human intellect. That is enlightenment, for the intuitive cognizance itself sheds light on the entire universe as the darkest places are laid bare for the eyes to see.

That moment is the moment of enlightenment, and intuition on its own accord brings to the forth the cognizance of the supreme being within the self, and the realization of the self, within the supreme being. To get to the point of intuitive cognizance, a seeker needs to meditate on the silence within him; he needs to empty his mind of unnecessary thought; he needs to go into a repose where the mind simply stops generating thoughts on its own accord, for then consciousness would be aware of its intuitive capabilities. Paramount to all that, a seeker needs great devotion and unparalleled dedication towards his master, for only the master can endow him with the gift of intuition; the gift of knowledge and the gift of enlightenment…

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The Spiritualist- An insight into the real mystic.

The spiritual world is indeed a world that is interspersed with many elusive and delusive entities, both at the same time. Through the ages, mystics have associated strange supernatural powers with the spiritual world. The spiritual path is one which literally leads the man through all the experiences of life; it’s a way on which man experiences and acquires all that there is to acquire only to renounce it all in the end and walk into the sunset, with his head held high. There is a lot of spiritual wealth to be found interspersed on the path. The man, who walks this path for long under the able guidance of a realized master, knows this wealth in its truest nature; he knows it in its truest form.

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So to answer the burning question that crops incessantly to the mind of both the cynic and the seeker alike, it would only suffice to say, that YES; there indeed is a lot of power to be gained on the spiritual path. Power in its varied forms is manifested to the seeker as he unfolds each chapter of the saga that represents the spiritual journey of his life. Power has a lot of meanings to it, but simply put, it would suffice to say that

“The man on whose heart, no power bears dominion; is a man of endless power.”

The spiritual path is only instrumental in creating such a person out of any individual that chooses to walk on it. The spiritual journey is an intricate one and the roads that each and every person takes vary according to his own constitution. Thus it’s a path that is constantly changing and reinventing itself with every passing moment. There are a lot of veiled truths pertaining to true spirituality. The world is unaware of these facts, but it would be enough to state that these are things to be experienced and not to be expressed.

So we finally come to the point of the matter. Experience; it is the most important attribute for any seeker that treads the spiritual path. The world is full of pseudo-intellectuals who indeed claim to be true spiritualists. They engage in what can only be termed as intellectual brain-farting; indulging in debates and discussions that are utterly and completely useless. Philosophy is such a potent weapon that it can be used to either cause; to inspire or to conspire. Thus do many people philosophize on the intricacies of the spiritual path by reading through literature produced by great saints and philosophers. They incessantly quote them at each step of the way, only to bring the listener to the final step of the utterly pointless journey that is their dissertation. In that step, they try to unequivocally prove that they themselves indeed are masters of the universe. The world is interspersed with such souls…

On the other hand there are those who simply work in silence. Their realization and the depth of their enlightenment are shrouded by their austerity and their acute sense of purpose that is vested in selfless benevolence. Vanity is not an issue for such individuals. These realized souls operate in silence, as they change the course of history through their acts that inspire and motivate people to lead their lives in much the same way. These are true spiritualists; who are indeed bereft of even a shred of vain self-indulgence; they are born and bred for a divine purpose; they are called mystics, for the ways in which they fulfill their purpose are truly mystical. They are wise beyond the reckoning of mere men and possess knowledge far beyond the scope of human intellect. They are intuitively endowed with illumining light of self-realization; through which they enlighten the world. They have experienced all that there is to this world, and thus they know and realize every shred of existence, for it is illumined through the power of their enlightened souls.

These are the masters that tread this earth; the emissaries of God that salvage man’s losing cause in the bid for existence; the spiritual masters, who are truly in complete equilibrium with nature; who are one with God.

These are the true spiritualists…they are men of endless power that have within themselves not a shred of self-centered desire; great men of wisdom, that have but one motive for existence; that of selfless benevolence…a rare breed of men indeed!

The saint in the image is Shree Shankar Maharaj.

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Master and Apprentice

The subtle relationship that exists between a spiritual master and his apprentice is something that goes beyond time immemorial and transcends both life and death. It is the most powerful relationship in the whole world, and its constancy and virtue can only be experienced and not related in words. A master is someone who is free from the recursive and redundant way of existence that the human life is. Simply put, he is a causal being who is not bound to his physical existence owing to his karmas.

Sant Dnyaneshwar

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The master is a liberated individual who only returns to the physical existence with a purpose in mind; a purpose of selfless benevolence that is instituted in the progress of his apprentice. The master may accomplish this feat through many means. He may either incarnate or manifest in this world as a human being. Both incarnation and manifestation have different meanings to them. We will elaborate on this in the near future, but for now it will suffice to say, that the master always remains near his apprentice to guide him and shape him accordingly, so that one day, he may become a master himself. The worth of a true living master is beyond all quantitative measure. It takes lifetimes of good karma on part of the seeker, to be in the end blessed with a living master. Many seekers, through the course of time, take to themselves many masters, but in the end they fail to realize the fact that it is not the apprentice who seeks out the master; it is the master who finds the apprentice. A seeker can only get to the point where he can get a living embodied master, through sheer perseverance and unshaken faith in the lord. The lord tests the resolve and the constancy of the seeker’s desire all the time and in the end when he feels that the seeker can truly transcend the illusion of choice and come to a point where his perceptions would remain the same through time. The master is an invaluable and imperative asset in the spiritual journey of the seeker, and the seeker on his part has to prove his worth to be granted that boon.

The master’s scope of work is hardly something that can be described in words He is an individual in whom the divine cosmic energy instantiates itself and manifests itself to the seeker’s perception. Being a liberated individual himself, the master possesses all knowledge pertaining to the seeker’s past, his present and his future. To put it crudely, the master knows each and every significant karmic liaison that is enlisted in the seeker’s name. He is aware of all the latent desires that the seeker bears in his heart. The master knows and cognizes the fact that the seeker can hardly progress on the spiritual path with a heart that is burdened with the regret that stems from unfulfilled desires and a boatload of unrequited karma to his name. Thus the master on his part chooses to liberate the disciple through this recursive and redundant form of existence. In the end, the master achieves this when he instantiates the same form of cosmic energy in the seeker; i.e. when he instantiates the image of God in the apprentice; when the apprentice in the end transforms to being more than just a man; when the apprentice in the end himself becomes the master.

The journey referenced in this article is a journey that transcends thousands of years. It is a journey that takes great perseverance and dedication to complete; but most of all it takes great devotion and unparalleled spiritual desire to be selfless and to be benevolent. That is the only way into God’s kingdom. Many a times, some spiritualists claim that a person is his own master. That stage is a very advanced stage of spiritual evolution and does not necessarily apply to everyone. Those who get to that stage can only do so with the guidance of a realized master and hence they on their own accord never ever proclaim themselves to be great realized souls. An astute example of this is Sant Dnyaneshwar, who all through the “Dnyaneshwari” (a commentary on The Gita written in the 13th century by the great saint) never even refers to himself as a saint or a great master. He always refers to himself as the apprentice of NivruttiNath (“nivrutti daasa mhaNatee”)

Thus the point of the matter is that the master is of paramount importance in the life of any seeker. We should always be aware of this and with gratefulness and humble austerity continue our journey on the spiritual path…:)

The featured image is that of Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj.

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Science & God

The spiritual world has often been the target of claims of disillusionment and superstition. Many in the “scientific” community accuse the spiritualists to be too dogmatic and unreasonable. The reason behind this is that science is essentially too short-sighted to realize that there are possibilities and realities that lie outside the scope of human intellect; that there are things in this world that cannot possible be mapped through the analytical and questioning methods that scientists use to prove their theories.

Albert Einstein

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Through the years, a mathematical equation has been considered as an irrefutable proof to any assumption, corollary or idea suggested by scientists. The reason for this being that a correct mathematical proof is truly beyond the scope of doubt. Scientists often argue the existence of God as they are unable to map Him and prove Him mathematically. Thus the scientific community in one voice strikes down any and everything that they perceive to be in the realm of religion, spirituality or mysticism.

Point of the matter is that owing to this trend, the scientific community in a way distances itself considerably from the knowledge that it could gain through embracing these different schools of thought. Albert Einstein once said that all religions, arts and sciences are different branches of the same tree; that all in the end point to one single common truth that is irrefutable and beyond the scope of doubt. Essentially, this is the truth that spiritualists refer to as God. God in true spirituality is manifested as nothing but the integral of all the energy in the universe. The entire cosmic energy flux which constitutes within itself infinite parallel universes with countless organisms is what constitutes the phenomenon of God. The living and the dead; the animate and the inanimate; all matter which in the end is resolved into pure energy; that energy itself is God. Hence when the spiritualists say that God is there in every one of us, they mean it in every single way; for we of our own accord are also parts of the cosmic energy flux. The only difference being that some of us are polarized compared to others and hence are more receptive of God’s cognition.

Thus to represent God in the language of mathematics would be to represent the “ever-variable, non-static phenomenon of the cosmic energy flux” in terms of numbers. Mathematics is a branch of science that essentially deals with the finiteness of things. Mathematical equations constitute some variables and some constants. Therefore to simply express God in mathematical equations would mean that scientists would have to localize and limit the infinite cosmic energy flux in order to get an overview of what God would truly looks like. They would have to fit the limitless phenomenon in the scope of their mind’s windows so that they could understand it and peruse it; finally taking a few steps towards proving it.

But then how different would they be from the religious leaders that preach a singular way of life to lead towards God. The answer is that they are no different. Scientists in themselves are following a religion; the religion of science through which they ultimately hope to decipher and demystify all the questions in the universe. They refuse to call it God for they on their part are dedicated to their religion as any other religious clergy. No religion accepts the deity of a fellow religion to be real. That is just not the way.

Hence we come back to the words of the great physicist Albert Einstein, wherein he states that all religions, arts and sciences are but branches of the same tree. We have to realize that in the end, they all are ways to understand God; some of them take you tantalizingly close to Him; and some of them prefer to engulf your intellect in illusions of grandeur. Whatever they may be, a spiritualist is a person who in the end cognizes that these branches are only a means to get to the final end; that they are only the ways to imbibe in himself the final expression of undefined divinity; the sum integral of all the cosmic forces; the phenomenal enigma of God.

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also see: Realization and Enlightenment

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Art, Inspiration & God

Artists through the decades have always been perceived as being closer to God. They have always had to love and adulation of all those around them, simply owing to the fact that they have inspired countless more with their artistic creations. While this fact can never be denied, one is always forced to ask the subsequent question…

Ludvig Van Beethoven

Ludvig Van Beethoven

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Are artists really that close to God?

The answer to that question cannot be given in one single word. To say the least, it can be stated that most artists live in a starkly bipolar existence that meanders aimlessly between ecstasy and anguish. They are closest to God in the moment of creation, and yet when that moment passes away, they fall back into the abyss that is created in the wake of their flight. The reason for this is inherently the fact, that artists are in the end, but humans. They are humans, who in parts are extremely enriched and wel-endowed in terms of the gifts that they receive from the creator. Yet they bear all the weaknesses and the frailties that accompany human existence.

An artist is a vehicle of expression. He is necessarily someone, who remains untouched by the many deceptive illusions that society puts on an individual. Society on its part, tries to train and breed individuals equally, irrespective of their qualities and their capabilities. The mould, in which human beings are cast in, is something that completely destroys the spontaneity and creativity in any human being. These same virtues of creativity and spontaneity are preserved intact in any artist. Thus it would not be wrong to state that any artist is someone who the society has failed to institutionalize according to its mandate.

Thus the artist is nothing but a vehicle of expression. He is someone, who can carry the intuitive cognizance of divinity and express it directly through his art. Owing to the fact that he is but a vessel of inspiration, it is often seen that these artists are some of the most personally devastated and troubled individuals. This is owing to the fact that they simply remain the vessels of inspiration; and they on their own accord fail to ingest and utilize the divine intuitive grace that flows through them.

So are artists really that close to God?

I would say simply for a few moments they are; but there are some who are resolute in carrying out a divine purpose through their work of art; the divine purpose of enlightenment. For it is this purpose that brings them all the more closer to God, and then they remain there for good; for in the end, they truly become that which they preach. Art serves its purpose only in enlightenment… and that is a purpose that rescues every ailing artist of his varied heartaches…

P.S. The man featured in the image is Ludvig Van Beethoven, an eighteenth-century composer.
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