Spirituality is an all-pervasive affair. It permeates into every facet of life. Religion provides the basis for it, but it transcends all religions, customs, practices, rituals and traditions. Basically spirituality extends beyond the limits of ordinary experience. It surpasses all that we perceive; it goes beyond the limit of all possible ordinary experience and knowledge. It goes beyond all our ordinary comprehension. To tell it in simple words, it begins at a place where perception of material existence ends. To reach that point seems to be our goal. Spirituality is to perceive and understand the easily unfathomable character of fundamental reality.
Our human experience always tries to digress us from the essence of spirituality, as we are humans. We are encircled by desires of all kinds. We tend to relate ourselves more and more to the material aspects of life. At every step we fail to keep us away from the corrupting influence of the material world. Material desires keep on growing. We fail to control it. We fail to perceive that desires are endless and materials are subject to decay. Sooner or later we will lose it. It is an inherent property of the material world. Our own joy and merriment engulfs us. We agree to do things which are acceptable in the human world but which are not approved in so far as purification of our souls is concerned. This list of humanly, but not spiritually, acceptable things are increasing by leaps and bounds. Many of these are spiritually unacceptable.
We tend to think that death can always bring us relief. We fail to comprehend that there is life after death. Our souls continue to live even after our death.
Even if we realize our mistakes, we feel afraid to rectify ourselves. Our ego prevents us.
In everyday life we hear things, we speak out words and we act in various fashions. We are mostly led by human thoughts, which are considered in isolation, without taking into account the distant effects of these thoughts. We do what we can do without ever considering the fact that it may not be honourable enough to do it. It may fill up my heart with joy and satisfaction, but it may rob someone else of his basic means of existence. We tend to consider love as a commodity.
We fail to comprehend that we all are connected, and in no way isolated. Whenever we think of us in isolation, we tend to go in the wrong way. We suffer. We fail to understand that we have not come to this world to enjoy all that is perfect and best. We have really come to this world to relate ourselves to the imperfections in a loving and caring manner so that these imperfections can be eliminated. We have to set things right in whatever small way we can. That is our job. From times immemorial, God is waiting for us to turn the imperfections into perfections. We have to improve upon the basic facilities that have been provided to us by nature and create a heaven on earth itself.
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