Inner Engineering

What you refer to as a rock and what you refer to as ultimate divinity are the same thing, one is just crude and the other is more subtle.

As a human you have broken away from the more crude levels of existence, but you have yet to reach the more subtle levels. 

Out of fear and your longing to survive, you tend to make yourself more like a rock, but as soon as you do, you feel a certain existential discomfort within, and a pull towards the subtle, so you drink, smoke, party and fuck until you’re laying in a puddle. 

Puddles are shallow. 

The subtle is deep like the ocean. 

The spiritual process is when you consciously take yourself to the subtle.

The long, hard struggle will take you to the subtle. 

The soft, cushy, pleasure seeking life will turn you into a rock.

Funny how that works. 

Most people who have a spiritual experience are unable to sustain it. 

They go up briefly, and then they come crashing back down. 

They’d rather jump than build a staircase. 

Most of what you see on here are people talking about their jumps. 

Very few are building a staircase. 

Everyday you do your Kriya, your practice, you build your staircase. 

A house isn’t built overnight. When you hammer one nail into a piece of wood, it seems like nothing is happening, but if you do it day after day, piece by piece, nail after nail, eventually you’ll have a house. 

Or everyday you can smoke, jump and come down. Pop some pills, have some s*x, jump and come down. If that’s not enough, mushrooms, ayahuasca, bigger jump, then come down. 

Or you can humbly do your Kriya day after day, and build your staircase one step at a time. 

That’s why my tweets are long - even though attention spans are short - because the staircase is long.

This applies to every area of life too. Did you go to the gym everyday or did you get liposuction? 

Did you do a crypto rug pull or did you build a business? Did you take molly at a rave one night or did you do your Kriya everyday until tears of joy streamed down your face?

Get your followers, get your engagement, get your money. You don’t have to do the work to build the stairs, but don’t delude yourself or others into thinking jumping will let you stay there. 

That’s what turns people away from spirituality. They can sense that you’re talking about somewhere that you’re not. 

I know I’ll make the jumpers defensive and uncomfortable, because when I first learned about the stairs I was defensive and uncomfortable, and there’s days I still want to jump, and sometimes I do, but you always have to come back to the stairs, because in the end what’s really a safer and more sustainable way to get up there?

It might not be as glamorous, it might not be as exciting, there might not be any fireworks, but you will slowly build up to a certain level, and when you get there you won’t fall because you went up on the stairs, you didn’t just jump from somewhere.

Written by @SadhguruJV