5 Surprising Ways Success Can Corrupt the Soul

  Introduction: The Dream and Its Dangerous Aftermath I remember a man I knew in the days of his deepest scarcity. Back then, his eyes were like clear wells, reflecting the sky. He was transparent, vulnerable, and painfully real. His poverty held a strange, almost sacred discipline; it pressed him to the earth, but that pressure forced him to seek support in the invisible, in shared bread and sincere prayer. Then, success arrived. An invisible curtain seemed to fall between him and the world, and the clarity in his eyes grew opaque. His story brings to mind a question that haunts the journey from hardship to comfort: When exactly do we get lost? At what point does the sound of coins in our pocket begin to drown out the voice of our better nature, the one that guided us through leaner times? The achievement of material success can, paradoxically, trigger a profound spiritual loss. It's a transformation that happens so subtly we don't notice it until it's too late. The very ...

The Self is the only reality

 

"The Self is the only reality that always exists, and in its light, all things are seen. We forget this and direct our attention to the external world. The hall is illuminated whether there are people in it or not, whether they are performing a play or nothing is happening. It is the light that allows us to see the hall, the people, and their performance. We are so absorbed by the objects or phenomena revealed by the light that we fail to pay attention to the light itself. Like the torches in the hall that always burn, the light of Consciousness or the Self is always present—whether in the waking state or the dream state, where things appear, or in deep sleep, where nothing is seen. What we must do is focus on the seer, not the seen, not on the objects, but on the light that reveals them."
— Ramana Maharshi.

 

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