WHAT IS SPIRITUALITY?
One of the most misconstrued subject is spirituality.
We think spirituality is for people who are depressed, or who have nothing to do, or who are in the
post retirement
hobby. This is what many people think. Also, there is a misconception that
spirituality is against worldly experiences or worldly enjoyments. These are the conflicting
ideas that people have on spirituality and you try to run away from it, but see now in the lockdown
it's the time for you to explore spirituality. What is spirituality?
Scientifically speaking you we are made up of both matter and consciousness.
Our body is made up of amino acids, carbohydrates, proteins.
And we need to have proper balanced diet to take care of our body.
Similarly, our consciousness is made up of all those fine qualities
of happiness, peace, joy,
confidence,
caring and
clarity of mind,
intuitive ability, intelligence all of these are part of our consciousness.
These are all part of our spirit. Anything that uplifts your consciousness is spirituality.
Like what? Anything that brings you more peace of mind that is spirituality.
Anything that gives you confidence,
self-confidence
is spirituality. Anything that helps you to communicate better with people, anything that promotes better
understanding about yourself and about others and about the universe that is spirituality.
See, you cannot avoid spirituality in your life because that is just a part of you.
Nobody says I don't want to be happy. Nobody says I don't want peace.
Can anyone say?
No.
And the peace and happiness, the true peace and happiness
is what spirituality brings to you.
Basically, it's the understanding of your consciousness
which gives you such
unconditional happiness
and unshakable peace.
So these are part of
spirituality.
So everyone on this planet is a spiritual seeker.
Because everyone wants happiness, everyone wants peace, everyone wants love.
Your consciousness is made up of love and experiencing it at will is all
spirituality is about and.
And how do you do that?
First getting rid of tension and stress,
getting rid of the cloud of misery that our mind has created for ourselves.
Peeping into your personality and
Exploring that there is so much more to your personality than what you think about yourself
Don't you want to explore about yourself? That is spirituality.
Spirituality is not only believing in some God up there, no.
Spirituality is exploring the godliness inside of you.
Got it?
God is not somewhere up there.
God is in every particle. The godliness is in you.
Spirituality is that which gets that connection to your own godliness, to your own potential, to your own
higher values
and higher qualities and abilities that your consciousness possesses.
But how do we get access to this? This all looks very good – high and nice.
But how do you get there? It's very simple.
In Hindi there is a saying:
It may take little time to pluck a flower but not even that time is needed to connect to oneself, to the
divinity within.
So, that
means you simply have to know how to relax
and rest deep in your heart.
This is what meditation is all about.
To do this,
to get out of the stressed,
tensed mind and
to get into the bottom of our own existence.
We need little things to do. We need... we need to do a few things.
What are they? Little breathing exercises - pranayama,
some pranayama
helps us to get ourself free from stress and
meditation takes us deep into our true nature
which is "satchitananda", which is beauty, which is love, which is
pure consciousness.
And it's not rocket science, it is simple
anyone and everyone can do it and this is the time.
Usually, people complain: "I don't have time." See now
you have all the time just take that tiny step to explore
the source of happiness that is lying deep within you
Get access code to the wisdom
that you already have.
In your computer
you have all these things but you are not having access code to your own computer
and that's how we are living life. This is the time,
here is the access code, log on and then you will find
something which is beyond words.