Part Two Primary Stage of Learning
When someone goes to become a doctor, first they are taught what each part of the human body is called, how it is formed, and what its function is. When someone enters engineering, they are given knowledge about the construction of every component of a machine, its function, and its necessity.
If a doctor wishes to become a specialist in a particular organ or disease, they must pass through the initial process required to become a doctor, such as gaining primary knowledge of biology and anatomy. In engineering too, to become an engineer in any specialized field, every engineer must first be given foundational knowledge of physics, mathematics, and chemistry, only after which they can choose their elective field. To attain any knowledge completely, one cannot move to the next stage without completing the primary stage. Without learning the alphabet, no one can learn to read or write. This means that the foundational stages for becoming a doctor or an engineer are predetermined.
In the same way, to enter spirituality, there are also primary stages of meditation, yoga, tantra, mantra, worship, and spiritual practice. Without completing them, no matter how many gurus you make, how many mantras you chant, how many hymns you recite, how many hours you meditate, or how much you squeeze your body through yoga, you will never reach anywhere. Because before acquiring any knowledge, its foundation must be strong. So when just anyone comes and says that they will teach you tantra, mantra, yoga, or meditation, how can you believe them? If it were so easy to learn or teach everything, then why is there so much dissatisfaction in this world? Why is everyone not a doctor? Why is everyone not an engineer? Why is everyone not a meditator, yogi, mantrik, yantrik, or tantrik?
Just as not everyone can become a doctor, not everyone can become an engineer, not everyone can become an artist or a writer, in the same way, transcendental sciences like tantra, mantra, and yantra are not for everyone. Only certain souls receive the intellect, call it merit or IQ, to learn them. Just as not everyone can pass UPSC, MPSC, or IIT, yet people stubbornly insist that they must get a government job and stake everything in their life on it. They look for someone who can give them an opportunity to fulfill their desire. They join coaching classes so they can score good marks and become IIT graduates, doctors, or engineers. The same is happening in the field of spirituality. Some people have become stubborn that they will attain some spiritual power, or have a vision of their chosen deity, or receive divine grace. Seeing such stubbornness, the business of hypocrites who spread blind faith has started flourishing.
You must have seen how many people desire to attain high positions like doctor, engineer, UPSC, MPSC, or IIT, but not everyone succeeds. And those who do not succeed either open their own coaching classes, or become IIT graduate, MBA tea sellers, and pretend to be what they never actually became.
I am not writing this to discourage anyone. I am only alerting those who think that by joining spiritual classes, taking initiation from a guru, chanting mantras, reading books on tantra and mantra day and night, or watching YouTube videos, they will absorb spirituality, tantra, mantra, and transcendental science. If you think so, then you are exactly like those who memorize books for competitive exams and dream of passing them.
And this is the truth. Whether you accept it or not. My duty is only to speak the truth. If any gentleman feels hurt by my words, then at an auspicious moment take a brass bowl, fill it with water, and drown in it.
To be continued.
Shivansh (Haryaksh) Jamdagni
