Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The question is: What yardstick exists to measure the progress of a seeker? A very weak man was not able to walk. Gradually, he started getting stronger and began to walk. So then he knows that he has regained his strength, does he not? The indication of one's progress is shown by your disinclination to associate with so-called 'normal' people. Your desires and expectations get less and less.
Please ask some questions, but don't ask anything about family life; ask only about spiritual knowledge.
You must have an intense hunger or need for it, to get self-knowledge or spirituality. The complete world picture you get through the five sense organs, and the combination of that multiplied by a certain factor represents your worldly needs. Just like a fish out of water gasps for water, so you must covet self-knowledge. When out of intense hunger for spirituality or self-knowledge the floodgates are opened, you start rejecting everything, from the broomsticks to Ishvara, up to your own consciousness; you shed everything.
In the worldly life, with the power of money, you can purchase anything. Similarly, by donating the self, you get the Brahman state; and when you donate the Brahman state, you get the Parabrahman state. In the first state, you become the manifest consciousness; in the second or the last state, you surrender the consciousness also. At the end of the process you are the Parabrahman.
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