Mind-Based Spirituality
English book, p. 51
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
MIND-BASED SPIRITUALITY pride into humility, non-acknowledgement into acknowledgement, violence into gentleness, egoism into modesty, and so on. Spirituality is the name for this conscious process of inner purification. In other words, spirituality is a process of deconditioning. The purpose of spirituality is that man should engage in the process of selfconstruction and, in this way, decondition himself. He should make himself a person free from every conditioning. He should, once again, regain the natural state that he was born with. This aim of spirituality has always been there before people. Those who made spirituality their purpose have always stressed that their aim is purification and reform. They want to transform their inner personality into a purified personality. They seek to lift themselves from being someone who may be filled with base emotions into a being that lives in noble feelings. However, history tells us that man could never attain this spiritual goal through mystical practices, that these

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