Spirituality is an emotion. This is something that cannot be explained in words. But we will try to make it as clear to the people as we can. You have often heard people saying be a little spiritual or I am leaning more towards spirituality day by day. After listening to this, some people just create a perception in their mind of whatever they want to do. And then there are some people who got attracted to the word “spirituality”. Anyway, this topic is for all people but it will turn out to be the best outcome for those who are in search of this on the internet. Because believe me, you are not going to search for it again anywhere.
What do you mean by Spirituality?
Spirituality is not any small topic to discuss on. It is very wide in terms of perspectives. Every person takes or sees spirituality in a different way. But deep down the outcome from all the perspectives will be the same. And this is not something that you just casually came across. If you have reached here then definitely there will be something in your life that might be changed with the addition of this spirituality term in your life. You never came across something like this just randomly. You must be searching for something that makes you land on this page searching about spirituality. When you introspect or try to find answers to some questions then you will just dig that question further and further to know more about this. Similarly, if you want to have some answers or clarity about the life or truth of life or anything like this that is more kind of practical rather than theoretical.
By following this path, you will become more sorted in your life. Sorted in a way like you will have a direction in your life, your perspective to see things will be changed. This will actually help you to live your life more happily. This will cut you from all the unnecessary feelings or things from society that keeps on engaging our lives in stress for no use or great purpose. Let’s discuss what are some common questions that you will come across while you are on this path.
- Am I having holy character, great purpose, and doing my karma right?
- How can I lead a peaceful and happy life?
- Engaging in materialistic things right or wrong?
- What should be my end goal in life?
The answer of all these questions will tend to live a peaceful and happy life. Once you start following this practice then these questions are just the top layer of the water, there is a full well inside to go as deep as you can.
How to perform spirituality?
Spirituality is not like something that has particular rituals or steps that you need to follow to reach a certain level. It is just a way to control your mind with the right thoughts and lead your life more peacefully. Everyone wants to achieve the same things but the journey to reach there could be different for different people. But yes, there are certain things for everyone who wants to follow this path should do to get comfortable or at least get a good beginning on this journey. These things are:
Peace
Peace should be your first priority while you are trying to be spiritual. By peace, it means your day should at least be in peace where you can just sit and talk to yourself and introspect that in a day what all the things you did that you could have managed to avoid. What are the things or your weaknesses you need to work on? What are some bad habits that you want to get rid of? Talking about bad habits it is like when anyone is having any bad habit then he knew that he is having this. This thing does not work and you do not know that you are having a bad habit. So, the very first thing is peace, and then introspect all the habits in yourself.
Meditation
Meditation provides calm to your mind. If you can meditate for 1 hour properly then believe me you can do anything in your life. And meditating for 1 hour is a hard thing to achieve. In the beginning, you should start with only 5 minutes of concentration. Meditation helps you to neglect all the bad thoughts in your mind and also increases your power to focus.
Knowledge
Try to get in touch more with the books. Read as many books as you can. While reading something new just make sure your mind is open and ready to grasp and understand new things. If you want to get a suggestion then start with the “Bhagwat Geeta”.
Spirituality vs Religion
Many people confuse spirituality with religion. This is absolutely wrong comparison. There is no religion associated with the spirituality. The only connection they have is, that spirituality makes you more aware of your religion. It does not matter which religion you belong to. As you move forward or start to know more then you start to gather some knowledge then you will read some books on your religion as I mentioned above. This is the only way spirituality and religion are related to each other.
End Goal of Spirituality
When you start something then there will be a stage or the last step where you will feel like yes, you have achieved it. Whether it is about an exam, your business, or anything there is a stage that comes when you think like now you can stop it. There should be an end goal. But in spirituality, there is nothing like the end goal or last stage. When you go further into this topic, you come across many things about life that will make you more inquisitive about more and more questions about life. So, once you start getting clear sight about life then you are on the right path. That means you are going right. Keep continue doing the same practice. And As time passes you will yourself feel what I am trying to convey here.
Please give it a try.