Moving from the Outer Journey to the Inner Journey🔗

To turn your steps from outwards to inwards is the first step in your spiritual journey. That moment of taking the U-turn is the most significant moment. And mind you, your awareness will tell you that you have taken the U-turn. Until then, your mind will have been giving excuses and more excuses, citing people and situations and outer world circumstances as reasons for not being able to integrate yourself.

Once you take the U-turn, all these thoughts will fade into insignificance. They will slowly lose their prominence. They will be there no doubt, but you will be steadily progressing, taking them in your stride. They will help you become a more effective watcher as they play their parts meticulously. Taking the first step or the U-turn is what is the most difficult thing. When you take the U-turn, half the job is done.

When you take the first step, you are ready to win over yourself. To win over others is very easy. Just take a few weapons or use your tongue, that's all. But to win yourself takes real courage. This vishuddhi chakra is all about winning over yourself.

When you look inwards, you are ready to win over yourself. Of course, when you are on the path inwards, there might not be anything visible to the people around you in what you are doing. Only you will know that everything is happening inside and not outside. Only you will be aware of the revolution that is happening inside you. Only you will be able to tell the growing intelligence inside you.