How does anybody get encouraged to enter the spiritual path if it involves worry?

[Dr. KV Rao, Hyderabad asked (on phone):- You say that leaving worldly bonds and having bond with God shall not be for peace, but for more worry only. In such case how anybody gets encouraged to enter the spiritual path?]

Swāmi replied: The journey is from worldly bonds, which are minus sign to the bond with God, which is a plus sign. Zero is the state of peace in between minus and plus signs. Plus sign is two negative signs crossing each other. Hence, if you are entering from pravṛtti to nivṛtti, it is a double worry since the single minus sign of worldly bonds indicates the worry. This journey shall be understood that you are entering double attachment with God leaving the single attachment to the world. You are leaving the worldly bonds does not mean that you are leaving the attachment and its corresponding sacrifice and activity. It only means that you are doubling your attachment, activity and sacrifice based on double attraction or love to God. You may doubt that how two negatives become positive since two negatives support each other. Negative of negative is positive (since two negatives oppose each other by crossing each other), which means the rejection of the negative only.

Śaṇkara left His mother not to escape from doing service to His old mother. He left her for the sake of God to do double service in propagating the true spiritual knowledge. Hanumān left His parents not to escape from doing service to parents. He entered the service of God, which is double service. In the service of God, when He could not find Sītā during His search in Laṇkā, He was so much worried that He wanted to commit suicide! Finally, we must realise that single minus (worldly bonds) is worry, the intermediate zero is peace and the plus sign (bond with God) is the bliss. The ultimate goal shall be bliss and not peace, which exists even in inert items like stones even without any effort. The double worry or plus sign becomes bliss due to the double attraction or love to the God. In fact, even the single worry or minus sign is giving us happiness due to our love or attraction to the worldly bonds. The happiness of single minus sign is selfish and not permanent, but the bliss represented by plus sign is selfless and permanent.

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