A CONTINUOUS NEED FOR SPIRITUALITY

A CONTINUOUS NEED FOR SPIRITUALITY Personality Development S PIRITUALITY is a subject which we need to keep pondering upon continuously. The reason being that the materialistic culture keeps beckoning the human being constantly from all quarters. If one fails in the task of keeping the spiritual nature polished, the materialistic attitude and negativity will make room in one’s thinking resulting in an underdeveloped personality. First we need to expound the reasons why we need spirituality? Can we not be satisfied with the materialistic things and feel a sense of fulfilment in them? Let us answer this question taking into consideration human nature and the scheme of things devised by the Creator. According to the creation plan, the scope for material fulfilment in this world is limited, while the scope for spiritual fulfilment or intellectual development is so vast that only the word ‘unbounded’ can describe it. If your aim is to achieve a state of fulfilment in the material world, you will soon discover that here the scope for this is very limited. Food, clothes, fame, married life, entertainment— all these things are all too often eventually marred by boredom. Even going on a holiday does not necessarily give you any sense of fulfilment. A person may go on holiday with high hopes of enjoyment, yet return with a feeling of “holiday stress”. This sense of a lack of fulfilment pertains to your physical being, whereas your spiritual being is untrammelled by all such constraints. Man has a dual personality—physical and spiritual. In physical terms, a person’s body most often has its limitations in terms of height, girth, health, muscularity, athleticism, etc. Due to these limitations, a person frequently becomes dissatisfied as far as his physical prowess is concerned. On the contrary, his spiritual or intellectual being has no limits to it. The realm in which the mind travels is vast and eternal, like the space stretching throughout the cosmos. The mind travels by thinking, and there are no boundaries to the thinking process. Traversing all kinds of frontiers, it continues unhindered on its journey. It is only spiritual achievement that can give you a sense of fulfilment. Material fulfilment is seldom achievable, but spiritual fulfilment is achievable to the ultimate extent.