Wednesday, March 21, 2007

A few thougts about Spirituality.....

Spirituality is not the effect and result of faith, belief and perseverance rather it is something that every human being is born with. Each human being is born into this world with a clean slate. He does not know any thing good or bad. And it is the environment in which the child grows that determines what kind of personality he begets. No child is born evil, neither is it born good.

It is man’s misconception that a baby is born good just because it is not evil. The child assimilates its surroundings and that translates into the child’s conceptions of good and bad. Here begins the child’s journey of morality and hence spirituality. But it is next to impossible that the child will not come across what every human being comes across in his life. And that may include good and bad experiences.

It is the values that have been instilled in him and the strength and conviction with which he holds and practices those values which will decide the road he will travel. If those values are strong enough he will learn from his mistakes and also learn not to make those mistakes again, also he will learn from his experiences and take them positively and use his experience to his benefit. If otherwise then he will turn into a man who has lost all morality and ability to see light in life.

Spirituality is the lamp that lights our way back to our father in heaven. Spirituality is the light at the end of the tunnel, the long tunnel that we all must walk through in order for us to get to our real destination. And those who tire of keeping to the straight narrow path that will lead us to it will stray away and end up in places that they didn’t necessarily want to end up in, places that aren’t our real destination.

Spirituality is like a locker, an electronic safe if you will. Just as a locker holds inside it something precious, which will be revealed only if you open it, so too spirituality holds inside it a very great treasure. And just like the locker is very tough to open so too spirituality does not open easily. It will take a lot of hard work to obtain the treasure that spirituality has to offer. And the treasure is nothing but the deliverance of our souls from this monotonous cycle of birth and death.

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