SPIRITUALITY – AS IT IS  

 ‘Spirituality is the basis of all happiness, for it satisfies the inner core of man thereby providing him with eternal peace, ultimate bliss and the boon of immortality.’

Man has since time immemorial experimented with spirituality - devising different philosophies, constructing various religions and giving strength to powerful ideologies, schools of thoughts and differing modes of thinking.

 It has captured man’s most sublime and loftiest of imaginations. It has fired him with ideas and activities, suffused in him an awe for the unseen & unknown and explained to him the most subtle of all the truths through direct perception and experience. Spirituality is the mother of all curiosities – and it is also the solution key to all the complexities.

Spirituality is for the transformation of individual. It empowers him like none else. It is the end of all education. Religion is a small part of spirituality -  religion is enveloped into spirituality like sky is included in the universe. Religions have emerged out of man’s needs for achieving spiritual heights. Spirituality begins at the point where the dry and inert sermons of ‘religion’ begin to take deep, exciting dives into the oceanic treasures of ecstasy.

The implications of spirituality are oneness, selflessness, love, truth, non-violence, honesty and so on. However at the core of spirituality lies an understanding of oneself vis a vis the others and also a deep, clear insight into the functioning of fundamental laws that govern life, nature and the universe. One of the essential requirements of spirituality is sense of humility or not feeling unduly important as only overemphasis on certain things perceived to be important leads to problems of unjustified violence, arrogance, avarice and the inherent tendency to destroy or subjugate the other just because he is not like me or he does not agree with me.

THE CONCEPT OF GOD

The concept of GOD connotes reverence for the Universal Principle. A believer is one who respects creation in it’s various manifestations. He is not unduly or strongly anti or opposed to anything. Strong emotions connote disrespect to the sanctity of nature and they lead to extremist behaviours and sufferings.

The sense of GOD is best realized in the principle of ‘Live and Let Live’. GOD is in real sense being universal, balanced and proportionate. It is implied in love of nature, arts, music and other creative arts. It is however free of elements of obsessive possessiveness, exclusivist belongingness and a feeling of pseudo-ownership.

The GOD principle is beyond time and space. These two latter factors impose restrictions while GOD simply releases.

THE CONCEPT OF SOUL

Soul is unrealized GOD – it is GOD to become. Soul is GOD’s child – the crown prince in exile. It can become GOD, it has to become GOD. Only some efforts and time is required.

Soul is ordinary, it has to realize itself – only then it can become special. Soul is common man, GOD is the king. Like any man can become the King if he gets the desired conditions, so any soul can become GOD – he should get the right qualities.

Soul is immortal, but only if he realizes so, otherwise he keeps on dying.

A PLURAL WORLD

There are many categories – the common man and woman, the intellectual, the atheist, the believer, the knower, the ascetic, the ignorant, the renunciant, the materialist, the fatalist, the scientist and so on.

In the end, life can not have a common formula. Truths vary according to different experiences and ‘ways of life’. However one who respects plurality, revers the sanctity of creation and tries to imbibe the universal GOD principle is The Good Man.

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