"The Cosmic Ascent: Spirituality as the Ultimate Human Odyssey"
Spirituality is often defined as a personal experience of the
sacred, but it can also be understood as a way of life that is guided by one's
values and beliefs. For some people, spirituality is a central part of their
identity, while for others it is more peripheral. There is no right or wrong
way to be spiritual.
Spirituality is a broad concept that encompasses
the search for meaning and purpose in life, as well as a sense of connection to
something greater than oneself. It can involve religious beliefs and practices,
but it is not limited to them.
Spiritual life quite simply is the life lived in
and with God. Just as physical life begins when our physical heart starts
beating, our spiritual life begins when our spiritual heart starts beating.
More specifically, spiritual life begins when we are “born again.”
The spiritual life is something that is natural
and normal. It is always natural and it is always normal, unlike other things
that we come across in our day-to-day multifarious activities. The spiritual
life is normal and natural precisely because it knows its Source. Its Source is
God the infinite Light and God the eternal Truth.
When we follow the spiritual life, we come to feel
that a life of peace need not always remain a far cry. We come to feel that a
life of love, the love that expands, need not always remain a far cry.
Everything that fulfills us divinely and supremely, we can achieve and claim as
our very own if we follow the spiritual life. Right now Peace, Light and Bliss
in abundant measure we do not have at our disposal. But when we practice
spirituality, when our inner cry, which we call aspiration, climbs up high,
higher, highest, at that time Peace, Light and Bliss we get not only in
abundant measure but in infinite measure. And we can achieve and treasure these
divine qualities in the inmost recesses of our hearts. When we practice the
spiritual life soulfully, devotedly and unconditionally, we try to bring to the
fore the divinity that we all have. And this divinity is nothing short of our
perfection.
Spirituality can be expressed in many different
ways, including:
- Connection
to a higher power: Many people find spirituality in their
relationship with a higher power, such as God, Allah, or
the universe.
- Connection
to nature: Others find spirituality in nature, experiencing a
sense of awe and wonder at the beauty and complexity of the natural world.
- Connection
to others: Spirituality can also be found in relationships with other
people, experiencing a sense of compassion, empathy, and
interconnectedness.
- Connection
to oneself: Spirituality can also involve a journey of
self-discovery, learning more about one's own
values, beliefs, and purpose in life.
There is no one right way to be spiritual. What
matters most is that you find a personal practice that helps you to connect
with something greater than yourself and to find meaning and purpose in your
life.
Here are some examples of spiritual practices:
- Prayer
or meditation
- Spending
time in nature
- Reading
spiritual texts
- Engaging
in acts of service or compassion
- Practicing
mindfulness or yoga
- Spending
time in community with other people who share your spiritual values
Ultimately, spirituality is a personal journey. It
is about finding what works for you and helps you to live a meaningful and
fulfilling life.
Significance of Spirituality
Spiritual knowledge
prevents a human being from progressing towards downfall. The darkness that has
arisen inside a human being due to materialism can be dispelled only by the
light of spirituality. Only spiritual knowledge can help him or her to
understand the dimension of God and creation of human who is just a creation of
Universe. Spirituality makes a person internally empowered. In all situations
of profit-loss, honor-disgrace, happiness-sorrow, rise-fall, the traveller of
the spiritual path keeps on moving unwaveringly. God is not omnipresent. To
understand and imbibe the know ability of his deep secrets is not only
difficult but also rare. Since time immemorial, many sects have been trying to
know this deep secret. The regulator of all our tendencies is some invisible
force. Our instincts propel us to act only when indicated by the Power in our
heart.
Good conduct , virtue,
self-discipline, respect, dignity etc. are such qualities that can communicate
happiness in our life. Disorganization, addiction, laziness etc. are the forts
of such screenshots which hinder our self-progress. We can move towards
spirituality only if we don’t have power to hurt others, don’t use knowledge
for charity, don’t spend money for fun and addiction. First of all we have to
improve our material life or outer life only then we can move towards
spirituality.
Development of creative
power is possible only through spirituality. Always try to keep our thoughts
positive. Your welfare is impossible with destructive and negative thoughts.
Things like love, compassion, service, sympathy will only make us endowed with
a high degree of development of creative acumen. Peace of mind, Inner
Happiness, Direct Contact with the Divine, Ease in distinguishing Right from
Wrong, The Power to fight Stress make at least one of these activities a habit
as per your wish and experience its benefits yourself. Doing selfless service
work is an easy action, but before that we have to go through many aspects of
life. Many people know its importance from their own and many others’
experiences. By engaging in selfless service work like serving old people,
feeding the hungry, teaching poor children etc., we get inner satisfaction,
positive life and confidence. Joy helps us to step out of our homes and see the
goodness around us. A little good that happened even in a bad situation is
laying the foundation of a happy positive life.
When the waves of our
mind take a stormy form, then only spirituality can convert it into calm
modesty. Spirituality only makes a person feel the closeness of God and the one
who is bound in the bonds of worldliness . We can easily get temporary external
gratification from materiality, but it is not permanent. Spirituality provides
permanent inner happiness to any human being . Our being too worldly is a great
hindrance to the realization of spiritual bliss. At present, science has tied
the entire human civilization in the loop of its attraction due to its glorious
form and miraculous achievements. But, still it is a difficult truth that human
life cannot be taken to perfection and totality by the ladder of science. Since
a human being is a biological being as well as a spiritual being. Science works
on the laws of inert nature, whereas spirituality explains the principles of
conscious nature. Our life and the operation of this entire creation is
possible only in the combination and complementarity of both the inert and
conscious elements. By giving importance to any one of these, one-sidedness flourishes
in life. Whose effect is visible from individual life to the entire society,
culture and civilization.
Spiritual knowledge
removes the darkness of doubt and ignorance from our mind. Happiness arises in
the soul by knowing new things. By taking interest in this man can escape from
bad company in life. Man becomes patient, and understands the true joy of life.
A person is able to make good use of every situation in life. He or she is able
to fill his or her life with happiness.
To know who is the
father of the soul, the invisible powers and its miraculous powers, all this
becomes possible only when our interest in spirituality increases and then only
we get true happiness. Overall the meaning of spirituality is understood the
day when it is understood that the body is just the outer mask or our outer
covering, the happiness of the soul is the true happiness. First of all, let us
know that spiritual knowledge is not only the subject of sages and monks, but
it is the subject of all of us in general. This confusion has spread in the
public mind that by listening to lessons of spiritual knowledge, our young
generation will become saints . This is our biggest mistake that no human being
can become a recluse or a monk just by acquiring any form of spiritual knowledge.
- Spirituality aims at striving to achieve that
which the earth cannot take back. This body of ours is a loan taken from
the universe , which mother nature will take back in full. But as long as
you have this body, you can convert excellent opportunities for yourself
to evolve and grow at an individual level for your own supreme well being
, which the cosmos cannot take back from you. Whether you do pranayama or
meditation, your efforts are a way of transforming your life into positive
energy. There are three types of happiness, physical, mental and
spiritual. After gratification of physical happiness, satisfaction of
mental happiness and then fulfillment of spiritual happiness is required.
To acquire spiritual happiness, one has to walk on the path of spirituality.
A person travels from ordinary to extraordinary through spiritual
practice. Through meditation, one practices to remove all demerits and
develop qualities. By doing spiritual practice, there is communication of
energy within the human being. Spiritual worship is the real form of
worship.
While doing
self-improvement in the course of self-creation, there is a significant change
in the beliefs and aspirations inherent in the human mind. Spirituality has
been called discipline of the mind and the intellect in ancient language books
of numerous religions. It is a refined way of life of excellent thinking and
ideal duty. Adopting this creates a sense of satisfaction within the human
being. Therefore, spirituality is the basis of the complete development of a
person , the success of his or her life.
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