SPIRITUALITY is  being in BLISS

Dr T P SasiKumar

             Spirituality is never understood properly. Spiritual means Atmeeyam. Being in Atma level is what is known as Athmeeyam. Generally all the activities which we do are controlled by manas (mind).  But for being Spiritual we need to reach a level where all the activities need to be controlled my Atma instead of Manas.  A good cook casually puts the salt and it could be exactly correct, for which he/she doesn’t require to use Manas, whereas a new cook needs to check and use his/her Buddhi to instruct the manas. Athmeeya personality will do most of the activities which we do with Atma, so that  Buddhi or Manas is not taxed. He does it casual / natural / accidental / unattached. Thus I mean to say that being spiritual means being in action in that mood. Not crossing legs and sitting in prayers. Spiritual person will be a mediator in action.

               Becoming spiritual means all that activity he does is meditative. For some activities we may be meditative and for some we may not be. Becoming spiritual is a level wherein we may not even know that we have reached there or not. So measuring spirituality itself is not practical. At times the so called spiritual man loses his meditative level and become attached / desire-filled individual. So it is not becoming spiritual is important; Being Spiritual is important. By being in spiritual one is in bliss.

SPIRITUAL BUSINESS !

There are lot of people who are on TV now-a-days; they are all called spiritual masters. There will be one spiritual Master who is rich and they will keep lot of marketing persons who will speak about them and praise them a lot, they will also think that by doing so they will also become spiritual. This is a sort of chain marketing in spirituality. They also get commission. If you see my view on Spirituality; a spiritual master will not be after popularity and spend time and effort for making sponsors for his TV show.

A person who understood and accepted or may be really loved the message which the Spiritual Master is speaking. There is a Spiritual Master and there may be hundreds of people who have associated with him, they all loved him so much and they think that this is a great message which has to take it into people, they could do it. Instead of that if you are keeping hundred people and making them to do it; that is not in line with spirituality. Today people keep hoardings at every corner on their visit and count the number of people gather. There are many well known spiritual leaders around who even contract out people to gather mob for their sessions on payment.  Number of followers can’t be the measure of their spiritual strength.

SPIRITUAL PACKAGES / RETREATS !!

Spirituality is an attainment. Spirituality you will attain only through meditation. Meditation is the eight step in asthenia yoga, fourth one being Pranayama.  One has to control Indriyas and manas before reaching into meditation. I saw retreats in which large people are asked to sit-down crossed legs (these days on chairs) and asked to close their eyes to control Indriyas and manas. Is it that easy to control?  Pranayama do help people to dilute the manas. But that is like the nested bird – says Ramana maharshi. “praana bhandanaath leeyathe mana”. Pranayama is the best method to maintain better health. But wrong practice can be the cause for disease. “pranayamena yukthena sarva roga samaraha; ayukathabhyasa yogena sarva roga samuthbhavaha”. The practice need to be with the direct supervision of a guru and reaching to meditation is a long step and not a pick-and-go road-side packet solution for all the problems as being advertised by the retail solution sellers.