Every person has two aspects of life - material and spiritual. When you are engrossed in materialistic life, you get entangled in the needs of life and constantly strive to fulfill them. Your mental peace, physical well-being, and material comforts are all temporary and require constant effort to maintain. Despite achieving a lot in life, you still feel a sense of dissatisfaction as much slips through your grasp. Discontentment, mental stress, sorrow, failure, disappointment, desire, and ambition become integral parts of your life. They form a cycle that keeps recurring in your life, and you keep struggling against life circumstances to attain those fleeting pleasures, trying to gain control over them. Amidst all this, you neither give time to yourself nor truly enjoy the essence of life.
The reason for the growth towards spirituality
On the other hand, many people transcend these burdensome emotions and turn towards spirituality. It's not that they are aware that spiritual growth implies holistic development, but rather they take this direction out of curiosity or to find answers to their questions. As they gradually find answers to their questions, they begin to experience the inner peace that every soul should strive for, the very purpose they were running after in their hectic lives.
Many people think that being spiritual means becoming a renunciant or detaching oneself from the world, but that's not true. Spirituality introduces you to some eternal truths that you may not realize while entangled in worldly illusions. The journey of spirituality does not begin with detachment, but with the restlessness of the mind. And as you progress in your journey, you start reaping the benefits of spirituality.
When your soul starts progressing towards spirituality, your perspective and goals towards the world undergo a transformation. You begin seeking inner peace instead of being captivated by worldly illusions. The satisfaction of the mind and the yearning to discover yourself become significant to you. You realize how much effort it takes to attain these and how a life guided by them can be truly lived, so you start exploring ways to achieve them. In search of self-discovery, you embrace practices like yoga, meditation, and spiritual disciplines, and in that process, you witness improvements in the discipline of your life. All these processes are part of spirituality, and when you become familiar with them, you not only experience mental well-being but also reap physical health benefits.
Through meditation, your mind experiences peace, focus, and joy, while your body becomes energized. Discipline in meals, the discipline of yoga, and regulated sleep patterns contribute to the improvement of various illnesses in the body. As you progress in the direction of self-discovery through 'meditation', along with mental and physical benefits, you also begin to experience contentment.
Now you have reached a stage where you are giving yourself time and assessing your mental states. You are looking at the causes and consequences of your every emotion from a new perspective. As soon as you taste the flavor of mental contentment, the illusions of the world—its allure, happiness, success, failure, despair, and hope—no longer hold the same significance for you because you understand that they are the very emotions causing you harm. You begin to understand the essence of your existence. You realize that there is an ultimate power above you, controlling everything. You let go of trying to control circumstances because you know that what is meant to happen will happen. Trying to change it and suffering from its consequences is futile.
Spirituality leads to holistic development.
As you become a part of spirituality, the feeling of forgiveness starts to develop within you because after understanding every aspect, you no longer wish to hurt yourself or others. Now, you are not disturbed by circumstances; instead, you view them from a new perspective due to your knowledge. Your emotional stability makes you capable of making the right decisions. Being spiritual not only improves your personality but also makes you responsible towards society. You develop a sense of ethics and become more involved in the welfare of society. You learn to see every event from a broader perspective. Intellectual development takes place within you, which makes your life simpler and more successful.
Most people think that such changes in personality make them detached from the world, but the reality is that these are signs of your soul's upliftment, not detachment from the world.
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