The illusion of the easy path
“Welcome to the hardest thing you’ll ever do on this planet, raise your consciousness levels.”
Many seekers approach the path believing that awakening is a doorway into perpetual calm, a blissful escape from suffering, a final reward for spiritual effort. Yet awakening is not the soft light of fantasy; it is the fierce fire of truth that burns away illusion, the journey does not begin with comfort but with confrontation, for to raise consciousness is to meet every hidden wound and shadow the mind has refused to face.
When Vishrant says it is the hardest thing you will ever do, he speaks to the surrender it demands, raising consciousness means healing the pain body, and healing asks that you enter what hurts. The mind resists because it fears the death of its own identity, the ego will cling to its stories even when those stories cause suffering, for it cannot imagine life without them. The real work is to keep walking even as the false self unravels, allowing the dark night of the soul to cleanse what cannot come with you into freedom.
The lie everyone believes about the path to enlightenment is that it feels good. Enlightenment requires the courage to meet truth without preference. It does not promise comfort; it offers liberation, and liberation is found only through honesty. When you stop chasing what pleases the mind and begin serving truth or love, the real journey begins.
To raise consciousness is to die to what you are not, it is the peeling of an endless onion, each layer revealing more tenderness beneath the defences. Those who persist discover that they are peace, that they always have been that, while those who seek pleasure turn back, mistaking pain for failure when it is in fact the sign that transformation has started.
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Why many seekers give up
“It looks like you’re not getting anywhere, it looks like you’re going backwards.”
The light of awareness does not only reveal beauty; it also exposes what has been hidden in the mind. When the pain body begins to surface, seekers often believe they are regressing, yet what they are meeting is not new pain but old wounds finally ready to be healed. The ego calls this failure, whispering that the practices are not working, that you are unworthy or broken, but the process is working perfectly; it is simply bringing the unconscious into view.
Awakening is not a path of addition but of subtraction, the layers of conditioning must fall away, and as they do, discomfort arises. The dark night is not punishment; it is purification, to stay the course, you must love truth more than comfort, you must trust a process that cannot yet be seen.
Every seeker must pass through the valley where surrender replaces the seeking of knowledge or understanding, progress will feel invisible, yet something deep within continues to unfold. The mind cannot truly measure transformation because the transformation is the undoing of the mind itself. When silence replaces thought, the way begins to open.
Acceptance and let go are the hidden virtues of awakening, you cannot rush the breaking of an old self, each moment of surrender deepens the soil in which stillness grows.
Facing discomfort and fear
“It’s uncomfortable to go into the pain body.”
Fear is the gatekeeper of freedom, it appears as hesitation, as tension, as the quiet pull to avoid what hurts. The mind wants comfort, not liberation, yet liberation begins when you stop running, every contraction, every flinch, every refusal to feel is an invitation to turn inward and do the work.
When you face fear directly, it loses its power, fear cannot survive without support; it feeds on avoidance. Vishrant teaches that courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to walk through it, each time you stay open instead of shutting down, the structure of your old defences weakens.
To feel deeply is to come alive, the path does not ask that you feel good, only that you feel completely, when you stop protecting yourself from your own emotions, they lose their hold, and beneath them lies peace. The body relaxes, the breath deepens, and the heart begins to trust again.
The truth is that pain does not destroy you; resistance does. When you meet what arises with a warm welcoming instead of control, pain can lead to wisdom, and this level of openness is the doorway to love.
The trap of chasing bliss
“People get into spiritual awakening because they’re looking for something nice, like bliss or ecstasy.”
The spiritual marketplace is filled with promises of instant joy, of effortless awakening, of states that never fade, the seeker believes that enlightenment must feel like continuous pleasure, yet all states, even bliss, are impermanent. When you chase experiences, you strengthen the very identity that must dissolve; the ego hides behind the mask of the seeker, collecting highs and calling it progress.
Bliss cannot be sustained because it belongs to the realm of change. Awareness, on the other hand, does not change. The goal is not to reach a permanent state of ecstasy but to rest in the silence beneath all states, when the desire for bliss ends, peace can begin, because peace was never lost, it was only overlooked.
The work is to empty, not to acquire. Each time you release the need for a particular feeling, you become lighter. Meditation is not escape; it is intimacy with what is, to be present with what is without wanting it to change.
Vishrant reminds his students that chasing the high only leads to exhaustion, true maturity on the path begins when you can sit in the lows without resistance. In that surrender, awakening can flower naturally.
The only thing worth doing
“Raising your consciousness levels is the only thing worth doing here.”
Everything the ego chases, wealth, reputation, pleasure, control, all fades with time. What remains when everything falls away is awareness, that is why Vishrant calls raising your consciousness the only thing worth doing, for it is the discovery of what cannot die. It is the treasure hidden within every life, the quiet knowing that outlives every success and every failure.
Awakening is not retreating from the world but intimacy with it. When awareness flowers, you see through the illusions of gain and loss and a new simplicity takes root. Gratitude replaces grasping, contentment replaces craving, and love begins to express itself through every action.
To live unconsciously is to repeat the same stories again and again, both in this life and the next. To awaken is to step out of this cycle of samsara, to see that you are not the character in the story but the awareness that holds it all, in that seeing, the fear of death fades because what you truly are cannot die.
The work is demanding, yet every effort offered to awareness is rewarded with freedom, in the quiet after surrender, life reveals itself as love in motion.
Awakening and love for all
“With awakening, I found so much love for every human being, the good, the bad, and the ugly.”
When awakening dawned, the walls that divided self from others fell away, where once there was judgment, there is now compassion and love. The mind opened so wide that it could no longer reject anything, and love became the natural state, this love did not depend on behaviour or worthiness; it flowed to everyone equally.
The awakened one does not see enemies; he sees himself in every being. There is an understanding that replaces condemnation because it is clear that all suffering arises from ignorance, and that every being is doing the best they can with the level of consciousness they possess.
This love is not sentimental; it is fierce in its clarity and tender in its presence. It accepts everything without needing to fix it. From that love, service is born. Vishrant’s life became a dedication to helping others taste the same freedom, so far offering over ten thousand Satsangs so that others might awaken to the heart of truth.
Awakening strips away everything until only love and truth remain, vast, simple, and still.
The freedom of truth
Do not believe the lie that enlightenment is easy.
You’re welcome to sit in Satsang with Vishrant. In this space, seekers are invited to stop avoiding what hurts and allow the fire of presence to reveal what is real. Here, you learn that truth does not promise bliss; it promises freedom, and that freedom is worth everything.
The path is demanding, yet it is the only one that ends suffering. When you finally stop running, life opens like a flower in sunlight, and in that openness, you discover the love that has always been waiting. Come and see what remains when everything false falls away.
