Life and Spirituality

The great monk Swami Vivekananda told that ‘an Atheist is a person who does not believe in himself’…The quote has meaning in many dimensions… We know that we call a person to be an atheist when he is a nonbeliever of the God, the supreme power. Again if we go through the words of the monk there will be a clear inference that if an atheist does not believe his own self means he doesn’t believe his inner soul; in other words God is nothing but the hidden power within us, our mind, our soul, our conscience.


This is often a topic of debate that “Does God exit”? The light, darkness, happiness, sorrow, anger cannot be seen, we can only feel those in our senses; likewise, we can feel His presence in our soul. He is abstract but present everywhere in every form within every molecule and atoms which constitutes this Universe. He is the combined power of five elements of the Universe- The Earth, The Wind, The Water, The Fire and The Space. It is being said that when a person dies his body and soul are not destroyed but according to the scientific theory of Conservation of Energy, they get transformed to these five elements of the Universe. In a sense the soul is never destroyed but only goes through a transition. It also means that a man is a combination of all these five elements which are altogether nothing but God. This fact is analogous to a beam of white light which when enters a prism gets diffracted and splits into its seven components, VIBGYOR and by using a second prism these components can be recomposed back to the same beam of white light.


Once I attended a spiritual seminar where the speaker who is also a professor in the department of Physics asked the audience “Who is bigger, you or the Sea”. Most of us answered that of course the Sea is bigger. But he explained us that we are bigger since we can see the vastness of the sea with our eyes, we can smell and touch its water; we can feel its strength, its magnificence, and its enormity. The speech greatly influenced me. It’s very true that we are bigger, we have our own thought process, we can do anything and everything, we have the abilities to feel the unbound nature of the Universe; we are infinite. It’s only if we can see ourselves in that way, if we can come out of our ignorance, if we can build all that is good, that is truthful within us, if we can believe in ourselves, then surely one day we will sense that enormous power of Infinity, the Supreme, the Almighty within us.


I don’t believe in any of the religious rituals. People are fool to me who believes that by fasting in name of God or doing various religious rituals (constituting all sorts of odd things) they can get some ‘Punya’. This is absolutely bull-shit. I am profane in the sense that I am not bound to any religion. The one and only religion, race, caste and creed to me is Humanity. If we forget this we can never attain our ‘Moksh’-the Salvation. How many of us even bother to look at the street children who are living on a penny, survive on the food we throw in the dust-bin, roam around with no or very little clothes? Hardly we bother to care also. Every one of us wants change in the Society but nobody brings the change. We can suggest a change very easily but we cannot pioneer it.. The irony lies in the fact that most of us are spending a huge amount of money and resources every year to visit Baishna Devi, Mecca-Medina, to attain the same ‘punya’ but when it comes of giving a penny to any relief fund, to children welfare, we hesitate. We can spend large amount of money for ‘Prasad’, ‘Yagnya’ and all other things but we cannot spent to buy food to at least one street child. We even treat the street animals very badly because they cannot speak, they are of no use to us..We forget that they also suffer from terrible pain when we beat them or torture them…All of you, please believe me you cannot get God by going to Mandir, Masjid or churches.. God is in ourselves, in the goodness of our souls..We can realize him if we can show truthfulness, kindness to those who need us in our surroundings.. The couples who don’t have child can everyday pray to God for having child spending much on the rituals but they cannot go to an orphanage and adopt a poor orphan. We are in total darkness, in complete ignorance…Nobody can help us; we have to help ourselves. We have to change our way of looking into things, we have to broaden our horizon, we have to open all the doors which enter our heart and soul, we have to educate ourselves not to follow the age-old superstitions and rituals but to enhance our logical thinking..The spiritual upliftment comes with the upliftment of our mind, heart and soul.. The buoyancy should be in our motivation of serving poor and destitute, proving ourselves as truly humane.
This is my spiritualism; All I know about spirituality is this.