Let me
clarify at the outset that to my understanding spirituality is not
religiosity-- often both poles apart concepts are considered to be synonymous.
Many learned people have expressed their profound ideas on this subject and, I
am afraid, my this short view will be diminutive in comparison to their
knowledge.
To my
understanding, spirituality is a very evolved and integrative state of mind which
is far beyond the commonplace understanding of life and realities. This
statement needs a little more elaboration. It is an evolved and integrative
state of mind—any spiritual journey is an internal quest where “eye has not
seen and ear has not heard” (Les Brown)—meaning-- unbiased, unprejudiced
evaluation of all experiences come to us from without not being a part of it
but objectively out of it. This state of mind is capable of integrating itself
to the infinite repository of cosmic mind where all our minds—past, present and
future meets. unconsciously. There is no scientific proof to this mystical
understanding; though a number of books, philosophical discourses, motivational
writers and speakers unequivocally stress upon this idea of “Universal Mind”,
“Cosmic Consciousness” etc. To put it precisely, this is an “altered state of
consciousness”. However, a significant development in this context in the
scientific world, in recent times, is the acknowledgement of the Universe as an
information system.
Any leader
with spiritual wisdom integrates his thinking to the “Cosmic Mind” visa vi the
mind of his followers. He is endowed with the insight to evaluate the events
and situations of the present with their historical perspectives, present repercussions
and future effects. It is purely a state of mental enlightenment and visionary
ability.
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