Obstacles in spiritual path

The obstacles that the spiritual aspirant should learn to cross is not that of facing guns, not of learning to fly (literally), and like that. It should the struggles of the self towards the self. Its of learning how to stay calm. Its of learning how to keep the thoughts pure all the time restraining for evil senses. Its about overpowering the evil and cowardice qualities like anger, fear, foolishness, tmidness, and like that with the help of the other side of these qualities like peaceful, coureageous etc.

You as a man will never be able to fight the evil factors encounter in the society as long as you can't dominantly fight the evils within the your self and get it replaced with those of the opposites (the positive qualities). Only those who tries it knows the best how hard it is.

Its harder than learning to swim against the turbulant flow of river of the mighty flood. If you go along the flow of the river u don't know where it will land you to. Well if unlucky you end up getting trap on the net and eaten. But if you learn to swim against the wind, you can land safely where ever you want to land.

May the lord bless all of us.