SPIRITUAL LIVING

SPIRITUAL LIVING W HAT is spirituality? Being spiritual means to live a Godoriented life. The spiritually inclined elevate themselves in their thinking, and begin to live on a higher divine plane— they remain undisturbed in the face of provocation, their mental balance is not upset by unpleasant experiences, and the trying behaviour of someone else does not arouse any feelings of anger in them. Living strictly by their principles, the mental level of spiritual people becomes so high that stones cast by others cannot reach them. In spirituality, they find such sublimity that all else pales into insignificance. Spirituality is in itself such a great virtue that the seeker after divine bliss need not quest any further. How does one attain spirituality? There are two major schools of spirituality—one based on meditation and the other on contemplation. The former relates to feelings ascribed to the ‘heart’ and the latter relates to the mind. According to meditation or the spirituality of the heart, people usually assume that the further away they move from material things, the more spiritual they become. This is the feeling that drives people to leave behind their material lives entirely. The Monk, in the well-known book ‘The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari’, discovers what he believes to be the key to spirituality only after abandoning his material life entirely. Meditation is one way to put aside thoughts of their material lives, and people all over the world rely on it to try to achieve spirituality. There are many methods of meditation for spiritual discipline, which have been prevalent in one form or the other for centuries. It is generally believed that while intellectual development is grounded in formal True spirituality is based on contemplation and reflection, which have to do with intellectual activity.