Escapism
Escapism — a phenomenon all too common in today’s world. People imagine that by abandoning their responsibilities and donning the robes of spirituality, they can bypass the weight of their lives. But true spirituality is not an escape; it is a confrontation.
The karmas you’ve accumulated over countless lifetimes — whether as the lion hunting the deer or the deer being hunted — are etched deep within your soul. These karmas cannot be avoided. They must be rectified.
You cannot simply walk away from your family or your dharma and pretend to be in a meditative state. Face your karma. Suffer through it. Work through it. This is Karmayog.
Suffering is the key. Embrace it. Never ask, “Why me?” You don’t know what unresolved karmas or runanubandhas still bind you. My Guruji says, “Karmayog: Shut up and show up.” That means: burn your karma by standing face-to-face with it — not avoiding it. Burn in your sadhana. Ignite the inner homa within yourself.
Through that inner fire, you will begin to see the threads of your karmas — and only then will the gateway beyond karmic loops begin to appear.
Escapism is just a delusion. How can you renounce something you haven’t even attained?
Your desires — no matter how worldly — arise from generations before you. Seven and a half generations worth of unfulfilled longings might be speaking through you. Either achieve them fully or reach the realm within where they’re already fulfilled — and then burn the desire.
When your karmas are in alignment with Prakriti, only then does renunciation become real.
Never run from your karma, your duties, or your responsibilities. Why return in another birth just to complete what you could’ve finished now?
Be the millionaire. Own the gym. Build the garage. Launch the startup. It’s all within you — either live it or burn it out.
The peace within you, the Bhairava within you, is the adhaara — the sacred foundation — upon which Maa will come and stand.
Make that adhaara vast and unshakable.
Become Bhairava.
Become the stone that withstands everything.
But never fall into escapism.
Prakriti is the ultimate account-holder.
Settle your accounts. Finish everything — now.
~ sharan
- By sharan Shisya of Gurudev Shri Praveen Radhakrishnan