There are many mirages in spiritual path, which can not be attained never, regardless of our Herculean efforts and practices. Because those mirages are non-existing.
99.99 percentage of all spiritual seekers will fail because of chasing these mirages in their spiritual journey.
First, be aware, what not to expect from a spiritual practice, second be aware of what to expect from a spiritual practice. Third be aware of your physical, mental, genetic limitations to undergo an experience.
Whatever practice(kriya, yoga, meditation, watching breath, etc) you do, you experience upto what is provisioned in your gene by birth. You can not experience beyond that.
Some people under serious Transcendence state of conscious and some people can not. Experience is subjective from person to person by their respective genetic pattern by birth.
Not everyone undergo same experience by doing same practice, due to what is gifted in gene by birth.
Somebody’s destination is mirage to others.
You can overcome this limitation, if you know how to rewrite you genes.
You can overcome your biological limitations by altering your genes by continuous practice and perseverance. You can not get wings by altering your genes, you can play within human scope by general and “your” scope by specific, that’s it.
There are other mirages due to cognitive errors.
For example, expecting a yogic practice will give you super powers or convert you into an extraordinary being, or cure your diseases, or change your mind, or resolve your problems, or make something happening, or give you super conscious, or transform you into something else, or give you unconditional ecstasy, or make you intelligent, or give you tranquility, or give you peace, or remove your anger, or make you a calm peaceful person, or increase your empathy, or increase your kindness, or remove your negativity or improve your positivity, or make you always take right decision, or make you a pleasant person, or make others admire you, or give you attention from others, or get you importance from others, or make others recognize you or transform you into a courageous person, or make you a fearless person, or remove your anxieties, or remove your tensions, or remove your hesitation, or remove your shyness, or prevent you from getting sick, or stop thoughts, or stop thinking, or stop having day dreams, or make you a complete man/woman, or gives you wisdom, or make you intelligent, or make you better being, or will make you smarter than how you are now and many more and what not… These are cognitive errors or mirages of spiritual practices.
Assuming or delusioning the output Or experience of yogic practice into a super state or super natural or something else rather how it is supposed to be understood. This can be corrected by getting into the right understanding properly.
You remain to be as you were. You continue to be as you were.
Expecting a spiritual practice will change you into something else or something unexplainable will happen or your mind will change, or tweak/improve your conscious or etc is a serious obstacle in spiritual path.
You will expect something from spiritual practice, but you do not know what you are expecting. You “expect” something out of spiritual practice. Somebody will “expect” the unknown from the day one of starting their spiritual practice. Soon they will give up their practice. Earlier the expectation, earlier the absconding(from spiritual practice). Later the expectation, later the absconding. You will give up soon from the moment you start “expecting”.
You will give up your practice out of disappointment, stress, frustration because you are not able to reach mirages or attain mirages.
You will have smooth sail in your spiritual path if you understand and avoid chasing or expecting mirages both genetic and cognitive.
Mostly, people give up their spiritual practice due to mirages of cognitive errors and impractical expectations.
