The Real Meaning of Spirituality

This is going to be a comprehensive Spirituality Guide that covers the nuts and bolts one needs to know to fathom the real meaning of spirituality.

There are two types of people who indulge in spirituality. The first kind of people believe in spirituality, and the other kind knows the real meaning of spirituality.

The former kind, if you ask them how they believe in it, they will generally say by reading all the scriptures and Vedas. Some literally mug it all up and can recite a whole paragraph from the books as it is, and people go bananas. Like some people believe in God, some don't. But neither of them KNOW the actual truth.

Believing VS Knowing

The other category of people KNOW the real meaning of spirituality. Believing and knowing are two different things that are a world apart from each other. Fire can burn us. Do we believe in it or do we know it as a fact? That's the difference between knowing something and believing something.

As soon as we know the truth, then there is no 'belief' left in the room. We believe something, only for as long as we don't know it for sure. Now comes the question of how can we make that jump from believing something to knowing the real thing?

The first step is to forget everything you 'believe' in. That's the most important thing. Unless you free yourself from all the preconceived thoughts and notions you already so obsessively believe in, you can never find the thing that is actually true, as you have no space left in you to entertain new knowledge and information.

Some people are afraid to walk on this path because they think they would not be able to achieve any materialistic achievement once they embark on their spiritual journey. They first need to understand what the definition of spirituality actually is. Is it a fact that those who get on the spiritual path, seclude themselves from the materialistic world?

Well, maybe, maybe not.

It's totally possible for a man living and believing in the materialistic world, to be a whole lot more spiritual than a so-called "spiritual person" who is sitting at the top of the mountain and just pretending to be spiritual. The opposite is also possible; a guy who claims to be a hardcore spiritual person, maybe actually is a materialistic person in disguise.

There is no actual line, dividing spiritualism and materialism. All these are our own figments of imagination and believes which were fed to us from society and other places. We are creating our own imaginary world to boost our ego by saying that we are spiritualistic or materialistic.

Just like a lotus blooms in the swamp. Now if we compare the swamp with this world, then is staying in the swamp and merely talking about things like 'spirituality', 'god', 'materialism' the real spirituality? Or is it rising from the swamp and blossoming, the real meaning of spirituality? Spirituality is nothing but understanding the truth and seeing reality as it is.

Good Karma VS Bad Karma

The concepts of good karma and bad karma are also a tad flawed.

Whenever your mind is calm while doing something, then that is GOOD KARMA; and if your mind is not at peace, or it's making someone else lose their mental peace, then all those actions come under the radar of BAD KARMA.

The best thing you can do is self-inquiry. There is no better Karma than discovering your true self because this type of action is helping you uncover your real selves. As long as you have this question "Who Am I?", then you are at the peak of the Good Karmas and try to hold on to it for as long as you can.

The second-best essence of good karma is self-control. Actions that are increasing your self-control over your sensory organs and your mind are all good karmas. When your senses try to overpower you, then that will be the actual test of your self-control and your willpower.

And as you keep on solidifying your controlling powers, then there will come a time, where you won't have to control your senses, but it will automatically be under your control effortlessly. At the last remains the mind, which is the most powerful of all, because all your powers are inside your mind only. The fight with your mind, the practice of controlling your mind is the real meaning of spirituality.

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