Leading A Spiritual Life
English book, p. 15
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Applied Spirituality believed in heart-based spirituality, so that there could be no furtherance of the imparting of spiritual discipline. The post-scientific age being an age of mind-based spirituality, endless scope for spiritual advancement has opened up. Our world is like a garden of all good things, and spirituality enables the individual to live in and benefit from this garden. Applied Spirituality Spirituality, moreover, being an inner quality, has to be applied if its external actualization is to take place. T here was once a man who left his home and all his possessions – he even sold off his precious Ferrari – and went off into the jungle to live all alone in close proximity to the trees, the flowers and the animals. His purpose was to attain to spirituality in communion with nature. He may have reached his goal, but his spirituality was only a matter of personal solace and, as such, was limited in its reach. It was not ‘applied’ spirituality, that is, spirituality through which others gained from one’s personal spiritual experience. Practically, there is a vast difference between the spiritual person who lives within society and shares his spiritual experience with

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