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God, is often worshipped in stone, he thought. Indeed some highly attained souls become stone-like; tranquil in their discovery of the Self. The suffering of others and their own suffering seems not to affect them anymore. They become accustomed to suffering as a result of past deeds: Karma, about which nothing can be done. Nothing can be done about karma by man, he understood, but what about God? Could He ease things? Many of them held that suffering can be ignored, since life itself is an illusion. But to him, the sufferings were more real than before, demanding more penetration by the seeker. Self-realisation, no doubt is a peak of attainment, but people camped on that peak, they made it a dwelling point, a personal affair, hardly any caring to come down and take a few others to their transcendence. He observed, that there were some groups that closeted themselves in isolated places, fortressing their knowledge. This too, is a limitation, he thought, we create fortresses even though we clamour for freedom. At the larger level, he observed that even organized religions had at least one dilemma: the tendency of being in conflict with the others. There must be a higher purpose, a higher attainment to reach, Perfectly enlightened beings, that still want to help the others, in fact with a new zeal. Having reached the stage of stone-like tranquility, those who begin to melt back into humanity. A good spiritualist is but a boy scout, he thought, a pathfinder, a transpersonal doer.

~ From the book ' The Yogi and the snake' by Shail Gulhati: Shiva and Mysticism.