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Why is it that Nature designed us in such a way that with the external sensors that we have - the five sense organs facilitating vision, smell, taste, hearing and touch - we experience the world that’s the illusion, and the sensory faculty that is needed to touch the Reality of Self is kept hidden deep inside - literally & figuratively - without ease of access?

Why must we gain, and then spend, the hidden currency of Tapas to open that locked door?

I mean, it is slightly different than telling an obese person that you must exercise - run, swim, hit the gym - to get back in shape. There he can at least see the gym, see the track, see the pool… and definitively see the methods from practitioners - and can then start with baby-steps, moving ahead to either succeeding or quitting.

It is different from telling a sick person that you must take these medicines and follow this physiotherapy routine to get better. He can just take the meds, he can just rely on his physiotherapist.

Here, the path is invisible. The tools are just talks or seemingly unyielding ritualistic steps that one has to have blind faith on. Even if some are lucky to find a Guru, the commitment must be pre-agreed and compulsory. You may not know how much you have progressed in the right path… heck, even whether you are in the right path or not!

And the irony is that amongst the most dedicated, there are those who spend their whole life, achieving something - traversing some distance - not knowing how far the final destination is still - and not even knowing what that final destination will even look like, how that experience will be like! It’s an experience that no one can simply tell you or make you feel. It is reserved only for the experiencer.

Why it has been made so difficult? The dedication demands whole life, but seldom it becomes rewarding. It behaves like that stern father. Now, and always. And the children keep waiting for the day the father will smile, and say, “I am proud of you!”

The thought endures... <end>