Ghandi, because he had renounced the outer trappings, couldn’t be grabbed anywhere in the usual places. Those in power couldn’t threaten him with losing his job, house, family, or even with imprisonment and death… detachment renders the use of power impotent… At this stage of inner growth, the power of going inward is veiled; there is darkness and a cloud of unknowing. Yet somehow the pull toward spirit is real. For all the outer sacrifices, something seems to have been gained. What that something is becomes clear later; at this moment there is a period of adjustment as the person accommodates to a new world so different from that of every day.

Deepak Chopra, How To Know God