SIMPLE LIVING, HIGH THINKING

The greatest achievement in this world is intellectual development. other sciences. When one adopts simple living, high thinking, the result will be a transformed personality- and this is spirituality. Spirituality ought to have the highest place in life. It is very simple because spirituality is interwoven in nature. It isn’t something that is imported from outside. So, when simplicity is adopted the innate spiritual potential begins to unfold. It makes the inherent spiritual potential begin to express or actualize itself. This is the gist of spirituality. Spirituality is not some mysterious discipline. It is a scientific discipline. It can be defined in scientific, logical and rational terms. The above statements are based on experience from personal realisation and not based on bookish knowledge. Adopting simple living, high thinking will make one a spiritual person. It is very important that one knows what true spirituality is. There are some false kinds of ‘spirituality’—and one needs to be careful to avoid them. Scientific spirituality is what one should believe in. It is based on intellectual development, on the unfolding of one’s own potential. But this requires simple living, high thinking, which enables to bring out the spirituality that is hidden inside. The Prophet was a spiritual person—not in a mysterious sense, but in a scientific sense, in the Islamic sense. One will discover this if one studies the life of the Prophet of Islam. Once this discovery is made it will give conviction. The inner content of Islam is spirituality. According to the study of Islam spirituality is the gist of Islam, not in a mysterious sense, but in a scientific sense. Some people take Islam as a political system. But this is wrong. Islam is not a political system. It is a spiritual system. Islam begins from spirituality, from spiritual experience. This is the crux of the religion of Islam. All those who take it as a religion of violence in the name of jihad and political revolution do not know anything about Islam. Islam is a way of the spiritual life, based on simple living, high thinking. Simple living, high thinking is an integral part of Islam. The Prophet said that simplicity is part of faith. Thus, simplicity is part of Islam and the source of success both in this world and in the Hereafter. o