Seek the Eternal World

given to him by God. Because of this, the way to nurture his spirituality is to remove the artificial veils that have fallen over his true nature. After removing these artificial curtains, what is left is called the ‘spiritual personality’ or positive personality. Intellectual development aims to develop the mind’s capabilities that flow from God’s realisation. It is this awakening of God-consciousness which is called spirituality. Spirituality is not any secret or mysterious thing. It is another name for the unfolding of God-consciousness hidden in human nature. It is an issue of conscious awakening in a complete sense and not some sort of vague experience of mysterious ecstasy. Spirituality is about being a devoted servant of God. It is to lead a God-oriented life, to make God one’s central concern. Spirituality is the state when a person’s thinking, emotions, and actions all get coloured in God’s hue. The fact is that spirituality is a conscious discovery, not some vague sort of ecstatic experience. Man’s highest quality is the attribute of consciousness. Therefore, only that thing can become the most important which man discovers at the level of his mind or consciousness. The difference between consciousness and ecstasy is that the former is the name for a known intellectual condition, while the latter is the name of a vague state of the heart. To consider spirituality to be an ecstatic experience is to belittle spirituality. Higher spirituality is that which is a known experience at the level of the human mind. There