Mind-Based Spirituality

in this world of ours—consciousness and matter. Development in the realm of matter may be called ‘material development’ or ‘worldly development’, while the development of consciousness is called ‘intellectual development’ or ‘spiritual development’. The Creator has created two worlds. One inanimate world, the material or physical world, and the conscious world of man. The Creator created both worlds in raw form. It is man’s task to develop both these ‘raw worlds’. He should actualize the potential for progress hidden inside the ‘raw worlds’ of both the material world and the conscious world of man’s inner existence. Man engaged in this process on a vast scale in the physical or material world, leading to the creation of a ‘modern’ civilization or the ‘developed’ world. However, as far as the world of consciousness (or man’s inner being) is concerned, it is not progressing. What can be called the progress of man’s consciousness or inner being? The Creator of man created him as