Even those who consider themselves spiritual, feel guilty for not being spiritual enough. This is due to the lack of understanding on spirituality. Being spiritual, is not a choice, but absence of all choices. We are driven to do what we do because of these three unconscious choices;
1.) Sensual Gratification - hedonistic craving and consious effort towards gratifying the senses
2.) Identity crisis - yearningly seeking accolades, recognition and bent on proving self-worth to others
3.) Disturbed conscience - engulfed by vindictive attitude
These are the driving factors that drives the engine of society. The varying amplitude of each of these choices drive us seek different things in life. If not for these three things, we'd all be at peace and complete harmony with the existence.
When the hedonistic crave over-powers; we seek wealth. Day in day out, a vast majority is trying to get rich to fulfill their earthly cravings and in the process they also end-up establish an identity, though it wasn't their primary goal.
When one suffers from identity crisis and hedonistic crave equally; they end up seeking fame. A large part of the herd, seek to become famous and attain celebrity status. A negligible minority attain the celebrity status without trying, due to the sheer love and dedication to their art. They don't fall under this crowd, whose crave is bigger than their love for the art.
When identity crisis overpowers; they seek power - Crave to control others, ruling kingdoms (politics) is 99% due to the identity crisis, often a deep scare left by disrespect and rejection. Here identity crisis takes the upper hand and the epicurean attitude is comparatively minimal. Voluptuary is often the resulting byproduct, but not a direct driving force for seeking power. Again a very minuscule number of people genuinely want to serve and seek to rule, but the existing political structure ensure they don't get to the top with the same attitude. At least their attitude is killed before they make any progress.
Anyone who is driven to punish another life for whatsoever reason, is suffering from disturbed conscience. Conscience is a sheer accumulation from the social surrounding. Disturbed conscience is the result of a person going through either hostile circumstances or unexposed to the nurturing environment. People with disturbed conscience are commonly termed as psychologically ill. They are consciously or unconsciously seeking revenge for a reasons known or unknown. This doesn't have to be as extreme as seen in media. Every time you punish your kid, ask yourself, why did you do it? I'm sure there will be beautiful selfless decorated justifications like; for his good, to teach her a valuable lesson, to ensure they don't suffer in future, etc. Get past all these, and ask yourself genuinely, what triggered it.
Anyone suffering from one or a combination of these syndromes is a sensualist, commonly termed as a practical person in the current times. Society recognizes, cheers and encourages these sensualists to stay on this course and continue contributing to the economy. Lets say the hedonistic crave overpowers you and you seek wealth. Receding from it superficially won't work. Trying to convince yourself "this is a wild goose chase" cannot get you out. It has to ripen and fall off naturally, until then you'll have to run the race.
3.) Disturbed conscience - engulfed by vindictive attitude
These are the driving factors that drives the engine of society. The varying amplitude of each of these choices drive us seek different things in life. If not for these three things, we'd all be at peace and complete harmony with the existence.
When the hedonistic crave over-powers; we seek wealth. Day in day out, a vast majority is trying to get rich to fulfill their earthly cravings and in the process they also end-up establish an identity, though it wasn't their primary goal.
When one suffers from identity crisis and hedonistic crave equally; they end up seeking fame. A large part of the herd, seek to become famous and attain celebrity status. A negligible minority attain the celebrity status without trying, due to the sheer love and dedication to their art. They don't fall under this crowd, whose crave is bigger than their love for the art.
When identity crisis overpowers; they seek power - Crave to control others, ruling kingdoms (politics) is 99% due to the identity crisis, often a deep scare left by disrespect and rejection. Here identity crisis takes the upper hand and the epicurean attitude is comparatively minimal. Voluptuary is often the resulting byproduct, but not a direct driving force for seeking power. Again a very minuscule number of people genuinely want to serve and seek to rule, but the existing political structure ensure they don't get to the top with the same attitude. At least their attitude is killed before they make any progress.
Anyone who is driven to punish another life for whatsoever reason, is suffering from disturbed conscience. Conscience is a sheer accumulation from the social surrounding. Disturbed conscience is the result of a person going through either hostile circumstances or unexposed to the nurturing environment. People with disturbed conscience are commonly termed as psychologically ill. They are consciously or unconsciously seeking revenge for a reasons known or unknown. This doesn't have to be as extreme as seen in media. Every time you punish your kid, ask yourself, why did you do it? I'm sure there will be beautiful selfless decorated justifications like; for his good, to teach her a valuable lesson, to ensure they don't suffer in future, etc. Get past all these, and ask yourself genuinely, what triggered it.
Anyone suffering from one or a combination of these syndromes is a sensualist, commonly termed as a practical person in the current times. Society recognizes, cheers and encourages these sensualists to stay on this course and continue contributing to the economy. Lets say the hedonistic crave overpowers you and you seek wealth. Receding from it superficially won't work. Trying to convince yourself "this is a wild goose chase" cannot get you out. It has to ripen and fall off naturally, until then you'll have to run the race.
Until the impermanence of worldly pleasures are soulfully felt, the state of permanent bliss is just a fiction.
Absence of all these syndromes is the spiritual state. It is a transient state for every living being in this world, even for an enlightened master it is absolutely transient. i.e., we all keep switching between sensual and spiritual states everyday. In a dreamless sleep (susupthi), these sensualist things vanish and we are all spiritualists. In deep sleep, our ego (ahamkara) gets recharged and when we wake up, these sensualist syndromes disconnect us from the center again so that we can continue pursuing the same thing in the morning, that tired us out yesterday.
Hence, everyone trying to evolve is a spiritualist. The difference is only in duration and intensity. When one consciously attempt disconnecting from these syndromes, they evolve spiritually. Stronger the bonds with these syndromes, meeker the attempt and slower the progress.
It is wise for a person in sensual state to stay away from the those who are in a spiritual state. In that state, they cannot be of much help to a sensualist, a common man. To connect back to a sensual person, the spiritual has to step down by choosing one of these three sensual syndromes. Until they do so, they can neither entertain nor guide the other.
Only thing we can do is to carve out a small chunk of time in a day and try to experience the deep sleep, consciously. This might develop a new craving for the experience it provides, but it starts eating away the sensual syndromes, even if those are to be fulfilled to help you transcend. Once it takes you past the threshold, the new craving for spiritualism also evaporates, making one really spiritual.
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