Spirituality

There are phases of life when for a prolonged period of time, we face challenging circumstances that cannot be acceptable to our common sense. Those are the phases that provoke inquiry into life's uncertainties and diversities. Some of the big questions keep arising occasionally e.g. :

• How's that an honest person keep on suffering whereas another, apparently, indulging in all sorts of corruptions has every comfort to his command?
• Hows that we feel very friendly with some whereas with some, we feel uncomfortable without any apparent reason?
• Why miseries keep following us even when we do nothing wrong?

On very tragic events such as untimely demise of a loved one, we plunge into inquisitive about life after death.

When faced with such circumstances, we explore spirituality in a very shallow manner and ultimately end up confused with too many lose ends to our questions. It is observed that, rather than finding constructive solutions; we derive weaker conclusions, such as:

• Life is a chain of miseries.
• Ultimately, fate rules
• Life is not real, its an illusion
• Once we are here in the world, we have to pull on..

Under such circumstances, we are most likely to knock the wrong doors and add up to our disillusionment. Some fall prey to mysterious occult practices while some get involved with orthodox religious practices worshiping demigods and spirits of very low strata. We can very well see that they don't lead a better life as compared to an otherwise ordinary innocent person.

Following similar questions, I entered the field of spirituality. I studied books and scriptures, religions and philosophies and met a number of God-men and knocked utterly wrong doors. However, during all these, i could make out certain features of this domain, e.g.,

• Many ambiguities including junk of confusing terms and notions have been allowed in this field leading to creation of different school of thoughts, bodies, sects, bands of misled ignorant people and batteries of cheaters and exploiters.
• The whole gamut of spirituality in its existing form, promotes a kind of disinterestedness and kills the perseverance and joy of living

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