Page "Nitya Chaitanya Yati" Paragraph 68

Many people muse on the glory of realization, and dream of someday reaching there while, as if from behind, they are eaten up by the canker of ego and the darkness of ignorance.

Every religion and every philosophy is trying its best to assure us that there is a bright tomorrow when we will be in the benevolent hands of the Supreme.

This is a kind of panacea where the believer is held captive by self-hypnosis.

But if we can shake ourselves out of this stupor and become more wakeful and conscious, we will see that we are in the hellfire of ignorance —- an ignorance that we ourselves have generated, if not during this very life, then in a previous one.

It is all because we glorify the highest and neglect our existential life.