For two years, I have been in spiritual awakening and truth-seeking path. For the past few months, nothing interests me anymore. I am neglecting my worldly affairs and sitting still doing nothing. Why is this happening?

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Occupational hazard. It’ll pass, eventually. It’s not permanent, and it’s not enlightenment.

Everyone who gets a taste of the eternal starts to identify with it. This identification is the same sort of identification that one engages spiritually to reduce. It’s just in the other direction. As more time is spent communing with it, identification reduces and it’s easier to move in and out of states.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with any of this, it’s just a phase we all go through as one adapts to a more spiritual way of life. The worldly is just that, worldly. It can be safely ignored for as long as one needs to. One can be identified with lack of identification. The journey towards enlightenment has you moving through all kinds of weird identifications that you’d never considered.

If this starts getting annoying, just ask yourself what you’re identifying with, then when you come up with an answer, move towards that which you’re unconsciously identifying with. This makes the identification conscious, whereas before it was unconscious. This grants control, and you’ll be able to act in ways that are not identified.

Remember, identification is when your actions are governed by some aspect you can’t see because you’re so stuck in it like a fish in water. Recognizing the dynamic lets you come up for air.