“More than a decade ago, I understood something that irreversibly transformed my conception of existence.
Spirituality, the authentic inner calling, is not a path that can be traveled in a group.
It is not a collective project or an adherence to communities, rituals, or organized societies.
The search for the spirit is strictly intimate, silent, and individual.
It is a journey to be traveled alone. Neither the recognition of others nor constant company allow one to advance beyond one’s own state of consciousness.
For a long time, I believed that the warmth of the group could sustain me. I thought that sharing experiences would give meaning and direction to the inner journey. However, concrete experience revealed the true nature of the path.
When the spiritual night darkens and the soul is filled with questions, only one traveler remains facing the abyss: oneself. Understanding this truth did not imply resignation, but rather a form of inner liberation.
Spirituality ceased to be a shared endeavor and revealed itself as the most authentic journey one can undertake.
Every step, every discovery, every fall, and every light found along the way belong exclusively to the individual. There are no shortcuts that allow one to avoid the essential difficulty of the path.
Nor are there voices capable of guiding us beyond the threshold that each of us must cross on our own.
No one can accompany the traveler on this decisive journey. The true journey begins only when it is undertaken in solitude. This solitude should not be interpreted as punishment, but as a way of accessing truth.
It is the realm where, at last, one learns to listen to what cannot be articulated, to contemplate what cannot be shown, to become what cannot be taught. Today, after years of travel, I look back on the path I have traveled and smile. I know that I am not alone by mistake or by chance.
I am alone because I chose to respond to the most demanding and luminous call of all: the one that arises in the unyielding silence of the soul.
The spiritual path is, in essence, solitary.
And it is in that solitude that the true greatness of being is revealed.”
Prabhuji
