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The journey is both inward and outward.

We start our life with exploring the outside world accessible to the senses. It’s a dialogue with the world. It is also necessary to discover one’s social calling, uniqueness, mission, and destiny and embracing the passion of this discovery. At its height people go on pilgrimage to find answers that can’t be found in the world of form. It is risky, but the greater risk is never discovering this.

Simultaneously we start an inward journey, a spiritual pilgrimage that is in dialogue with ourselves, our higher-selves and others. The findings in the outbound journey are reflected in and stimulate the inner one. It means living into a life of contemplation and meditation, and developing an awareness of one’s relationship with existence and non-existence. And at the end, it culminates into a quest to know oneself, which is the most difficult, as it encompasses going through an experience of being nonexistent, variously called the “dark night of the soul” or “death before death” or simply “the void.”

The purpose of the society is to expedite and help the young ones make these two, parallel journeys in rhythm. The society is not supposed to preach but to help one walk one’s own miles.

Namaste

Azfar