Why

I walk in the park and see many people. The faces tell me a story and I like to read these stories. 

The stories are regular features of hate, love, depression, sadness, remorse and the other parts of life. In one of my walks, I sat by a bench and was in my own thoughts when an elderly gentleman came to sit next to me. He was in pain and I could read the story on his face. Duty bound and looking to better the world, I ventured to speak with him.

"Good evening, sir! Isnt this a beautiful place to be"

I dont think he wanted to speak and shared a mute reaction to my statement. I also did not venture further as it was his choice to be on his own and I should respect it.

I sat there on my own realising we are the cause of the why!

Why did this happen to me? Why am I suffering? Why can't good things happen to me? Why am I always the loser?

The "why" in our lives is a place that we are not able to remove./We chose to make ourselves the victim rather than the winner. By questioning our situation at that moment, we forget to understand the universe and it's creation. And since we fail to understand the universe, we fail to understand ourselves.

The question we could be asking ourselves is, why was I born? why did I get to breathe life? why did the sun rise from the east and set in the west? why do plants have veins on their leaves? why do I have veins inside my skin?

Let your mind wander to the nature of truth and realisation. There is a lot, you and I can learn from nature and we can have ourselves associated with such beauty that we would realise how nature forms the part of our universe. In finding the answers to these questions, we will be better equipped to find the answers of life.

No, we do not have to become a sage or a sanyasi or wander off into the jungle to find the answers. All we need to do it take the time in the course of lives to notice people around us, notice the environment around us. See how life builds itself around us. We are part of the universe, there is a reason for our birth and our lives. Find the purpose of your life, and keep asking the why till you have a suitable answer to it.

The pursuit of the Why will bring you to the feet of your problems which you can dust and walk along with a smile.

Remember, all you need to do is ask, "Why?"

Why should I be a spiritual being?

A normal question that is asked by the multitudes is, “why should I be spiritual?” or “what is spirituality?”

It is explained with simplicity in a single statement, how would I want to be treated if I were to expect others to treat me in the same way?

Some of us without being aware are already following spirituality and are spiritual in our own nature. We do not have to visit temples, churches, mosques or any other religious place to be related to divine and follow divinity. We are beings blessed with the abundance of knowledge and power to make the best of ourselves. See the world around you that you live in and you will see the blessings that you are cherished with.

There is a lot of abundance in the fact of we as beings and spirituality have a connect. While we cannot see or feel the divine in the flesh, many of us have experienced the works of the divine in our daily lives. We have seen the bliss of nature and the acts of god without even realizing it.

Spirituality is very much different to religion, some have an understanding that spirituality is religion. Fortunately, none of the founders of the said religions ever mention or aim to create the religion that is being propagated and followed today. We are lambs of society. For we live in what we are told to believe and not what is being understood to be the truth. Those who chose to reason and understand the ways of god are the ones who are shunned and pushed away till it is a little too late to appreciate them when they were alive.

In simple, spirituality is the search of the divine within one’s self. The truth of the yin and yang within each of us. We do not have to compare or relate to anyone but our very own self. The true spiritual being is independent of all thoughts, words, actions and deeds. He/She lives in the bliss of making themselves happy without selfishness, greedy, bias, hate or treachery. There is nothing to want more than satisfaction in what they have or what they get.

If you find yourself in the description above, you can believe that you are spiritual and are part of the process where the awakening is happening for you and the people you associate with. Be happy and glorious in your existence and provide the space for the others around you to grow in their bliss and happiness. For then, we all would be spiritual, with or without knowing.

God lives in us....

The creator named in different formats of God, Bhagwan, Allah, Yahweh, Elohim, Jehovah, Waheguru, Nirankar, etc. are good for the whole world to worship their deity and be one in spirit. No faith has ever entrusted a human to steal, hurt or take the life of his/her neighbours. There is only love and peace professed by each faith.

I take my strength from the word of god and profess it into my daily life, why then should I bow down to the hate mongers or the liars who are now doing well but eventually suffer for their misdeeds. There are many ways for me to be in the path of the light and see the way forward. The books of god, the Bible, the Quran, the Vedas, the Hebrew Bible, the Buddhist texts, the Jain Agamas, etc. have words that create a path for each of us to walk on. Having read a combination of the scriptures from different faiths, one would come to realise the coincidence in the words used to describe the same parable of humility and brotherhood. The language maybe different but there is definitely a common point where all of them meet.

The beauty of religion is that it was never meant to be religion but a way of life. A style, a code, an ethic of living. It was taught to over come the evils that society of the time had cuddled against its chest. There was no love in the hearts of the humans that existed. Strength and power were the only way to show case the dominance of the weak. Sharing, caring, love, were words of the weak. The wealthy and the rich would feed on the ignorance and stupidity of the poor.

Not that much has changed in todays times, but diplomacy has painted a new face on the wicked and made them look good as well. There are still the evil lords of earth who tread without the fear of hurting others and ensuring that their will be done.

But in all of this, there is always the remembrance of the good deeds and the change that the world is slowly moving towards a world with no boundaries. A world with no religion, a world with no caste, no creed, no colour of the skin to differentiate the beings from each other.

God in his own abundance, is clearing the path of life in different languages and bringing about a change in a way that we would not be imagining. The end of days for evil to exist is dawning soon, and who knows you may be the angel of change who may just be the last to nail it to its grave. For god lives in us!!!