If this stage has come one should be extremely grateful and faithfully follow it even if the whole world misunderstands. Yes people may not understand but by not being true to yourself and succumbing to the interest and expectations of others are we not simply feeding their ego? It is not going to help them. In fact it will only push them more and more towards the darkness that is encircling their life and of course worsen one’s own. It is like feeding the Asura in man and society. Instead we should pursue our own highest truth while leaving each one free to follow theirs. It is the best way even of helping others.
In any case the relations of one life are so temporary. It is only the Divine who is Permanent. Should one lose the Permanent who walks with us from life to life for the sake of the temporary? Should one prefer the coal of average human relations and its petty life of small joys and griefs over the much greater diamond that the Divine wants to give us? The answer is obvious. What is needed is the sincerity to pursue what our deeper self has seen and knows. Better to be misunderstood by the world and left alone than to miss the Divine possibility once awakened and not heed the inner call.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
