Life direction
Question
Dear Dhananjay sir,
I am feeling disappointed, I am a 27 year old male and this system has still not allowed me to move out on from my parents house. I have been working hard and focusing on brahmacharya for the last 5 years and working persistently hard. Does it not say in the bible somewhere that saints/prophets are despised in their home towns which could be family house also. I feel that my family does not care for me they like to see me low even though I am in a good place on the inside.
I have just completed a bricklaying course, I went to a building site as I was reassured that they would accept me after this long course, I know I am a good bricklayer, the foreman said no you need more practice even though I look at their bricks laid below looked crooked. I left the site feeling just disappointed in man. I know I'm a good worker with all the benefits of brahmacharya.
Well I may have a opportunity lined up but it's not certain which is leaving me in a state of limbo, regarding work at this moment.
I am getting feelings of why am I here, when I do try and try it just seems pointless, people are in this system they don't care it's just making a living and pointless Pharisee like states.
as materialism is pointless and I've basically renounced the world as i am practicing brahmacharya, whould moving to India and finding a ashram and working to stay there be possible? I just feel like getting on a plane to India and cutting of my family and living a life of service to God. At least I would be around mostly sincere people.
Please give me some advice.
Kind regards,
Joseph
Answer
The events that unfold in one's life are already fixed, based on one's past karma and the will of the higher power. It is not necessary for one to worry the least as regards the direction to be taken. All that the honest Sadhaka needs to do is persevere in the direction available at the given moment and watch silently. The path will unfold. One needs to accept it as the will of the Almighty and be happy, focusing on his Sadhana to realize the self. This is all is required.
It is not that moving to India or anywhere else will make the path easier, nor that staying will making it tougher. The ease or difficulty one faces is the result of his own karma, and he carries this karma, wherever he goes. If relocating is in destiny, it will happen. Else, it won't. Do not worry about these things which are inconsequential in terms of the truth. Persevere with the opportunity available at the given moment and watch silently, without desire and without frustration. The path will be known. It is normal for Sadhaka-s to go through these trying times during the initial years, when karmic blocks are dense. With time, involving persistent Sadhana backed by surrender to the Lord, everything will fall in place eventually.
ॐ तत् सत्
(That Supreme being is the absolute truth)