When you use the word “Spiritual or spirituality” at times people start seeing you in a different angle. Some time they wonder, if you are going insane? many a time they feel you are out of the world. Few times forcefully people try to understand you , but with a pale look.
A saffron or a white costumed person’s idea gets into the mind. Beyond if you start talking about meditation (though it’s a trend now a days) you are mis understood as a person living without material world or left everyone due to frustration and so on…
Smile !! It’s all about how one perceives life. Then What spirituality means? Is everything mentioned above is wrong? Is it not leaving the present living condition? Is it not leaving the commitment? Is it not living all alone like a sage or a saint? If I say “No”, your eyes starts shining with a star… feel like jumping with a Oh!! . You are true, keep everything as is and enter into the world of self and start your journey now and see the changes happening within and around you.
The easiest thing in the world is to talk about others, and toughest thing is to talk about the self. Spirituality is nothing but understanding one self which is the real spirit / soul of life or the existence. Understanding what I am and focusing on few aspects of physical and mental being. Bringing everything under your purview of awareness or consciousness and living with peace & joy. It looks very simple but is it so easy to do this? Yes it is not so easy unless one spends time with self introspecting the life of self like the beliefs, the learnings, the egos which is acquired from the childhood till now. When one is ready to list out the self life and ready to transform the negatives into positives for the own benefit then it starts looking easy with a little dedication and commitment.
What is Meditation all about? It’s just an act of bringing in the focus from the outer world to inner world. Unless one brings in the attention to inside, one can never get into the inward journey, it’s nothing but trying to know the self, of course !! which many hates to do!! . Sitting with the self will help to know the emotions, the conditions, the situations and gradually turns out to be a shining self.
Here you go with spirituality or starting your spiritual journey. When you stop getting bothered of any outer world situation which includes, even situations designed to hurt you too you are into spiritual practices..you are into your own world trying to change, trying to shape, trying to fine tune to live in peace and joy… You don’t have to change any of the present condition to be with yourself. Start the first step and you will see your own transformation with lots of answers for your own unanswered questions.
You may ask, is guidance required for the walk of spiritual life? I would say for few yes and for few may not, because it depends on what environment you have lived and how much you can do on your own. Dedication comes many a time when we have a teacher or a guru or a master or you name anything for those who guides in this path. Decision is purely yours….
If you are suffering, struggling with lots of knots which are pathetic to get out, contact your own heart which is the best answering machine, which guides the best when in “peace”. To get into peace one need to take action of being with self, be it in meditation, be it being with nature, whatever but be in silence which very important.
Never mis-interpret spirituality as becoming sage or saint or any other such kind. It’s just a way of beautifying the self life to live better and better every time. When one learns to balance the spiritual world and the material world, he or she wins the life of joy !!
-Roopika ….