The Futility of All Effort on the Spiritual Path - Sri Bhagavan

"Man cannot make it on his own; it has to be given to him." ~ Sri Bhagavan

On another occasion, Sri Bhagavan gave the following answer:

"If you would realize that there is nothing you could do about it, that is the beginning of love. In spirituality, the moment you realize there is nothing you could do about it, that is the beginning of all spiritual growth. As long as you keep trying you will never ever get there because that trying is the problem.

That trying is the thing which takes you away from where you want to be. You have to realize the futility of all effort in the inner world. All effort on the spiritual path is futile. If you could realize that, it could hit you like a ton of bricks and then all effort ceases. The moment effort is gone, there is love, and there is peace. But as long as you keep struggling you keep putting in some effort you will move further away.

If you want to discover love and you put in some effort, you will move further away from love. If you want peace and you put in some effort, you would move further away from peace because that very effort is the disturbance, the noise. You have to realize that futility of effort."

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[nazestan]

Desperation and total hopelssness is seems to be the key not effort. Am I right

[worldofoneness]

Actually there is no key here. When helplessness occurs and you surrender, perfect. If not, you might go on craving until you get to some point where all this drops.

It 's all about SEEING that there is nothing you could or should do about your "inner world" at all (!), but to merely see and experience what is going on inside. See how the mind is running after an imaginary future. To invoke the Divine Presence and just ask for help definitely helps to stay with what is there.

[catlinmorgan]

The present moment is the beginning ...effort implies something happening in a future time when all your effort culminates in an event ...in this you miss the present moment awareness and so love cannot arise. This is my understanding.