By Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar | Posted: July 22, 2020

One of the most misconstrued subjects is spirituality. Many people think spirituality is for people who are depressed, or who have nothing to do, or who are practicing a post-retirement hobby. 

Also, there’s a misconception that spirituality is against worldly experiences or worldly enjoyments. These are the conflicting ideas that people have on spirituality, so they try to run away from it. But it’s time for you to explore spirituality. 

What is spirituality? 

Scientifically speaking, we’re made up of both matter and consciousness. Our bodies are made up of amino acids, carbohydrates, proteins, and we need to have a proper, balanced diet to take care of our body. Similarly, our consciousness is made up of all those fine qualities of happiness, peace, joy, confidence, caring, clarity of mind, intuitive ability, and intelligence. All these are part of our consciousness and our spirit. 

Anything that uplifts your consciousness is spirituality. Anything that brings you more peace of mind, that’s spirituality. Anything that gives you confidence, self-confidence, is spirituality. Anything that helps you to communicate better with people and anything that promotes better understanding of yourself, of others, and of the universe, that’s spirituality.

Everyone is a spiritual seeker

So you can’t avoid spirituality in your life, because it’s just a part of you. Nobody says, “I don’t want to be happy.” Nobody says, “I don’t want peace.” And true peace and happiness is what spirituality brings to you. Basically, it’s the understanding of your consciousness which gives you such unconditional happiness and unshakeable peace. So these are part of spirituality.

Everyone on this planet is a spiritual seeker because everyone wants happiness, peace, and love. Your consciousness is made up of love, and experiencing it at will is all that spirituality is about. How do you do that? First, you do it by getting rid of tension and stress, getting rid of the cloud of misery that your mind has created for yourself, and then peeping into your personality and finding that there’s so much more to your personality than what you think about yourself. That’s spirituality. 

Exploring consciousness within you

Spirituality isn’t only believing in some God up there, no! Spirituality is exploring the godliness inside of you. Got it? God isn’t somewhere up there. God is in every particle. The godliness is in you. Spirituality is that which connects you to your own godliness, to your own potential, to your own higher values, qualities, and abilities of your consciousness. 

But how do we get to this? This all sounds very good. But how do you get there? It’s very simple. In Hindi there’s a saying, “It may take a little time to pluck a flower, but not even that much time is needed to connect to oneself and to the divinity within you.” So, that means you simply have to know how to relax and rest deep in your heart. 

This is what meditation’s all about. To do this, to get out of the stressed and tense mind, and to get into the bottom of our own existence, we need little things to do. We need to do a few things. What are they? Little breathing exercises, pranayama, help us get free of stress, and meditation takes us deep into our true nature, which is beauty, love, pure consciousness. It isn’t rocket science. It’s simple, and anyone and everyone can do it. This is the time! 

Just take that tiny step to explore the source of happiness that’s lying deep within you. Get the access code to the wisdom that you already have. In your computer you have all these things but you don’t have the access code to your own computer! That’s how we’re living life. This is the time, here’s the access code, log on, and then you’ll find something which is beyond words.

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Enjoy your exploration of breathing and meditation, and start to understand your own spirituality!