Does spirituality hold background biases against seekers?
In today’s hangout, we will try to clear the smoke around self-labeled disqualifications towards taking to the path of spirituality.
The Scene: The initial excuse- Why not to take to spirituality?
People oft overlook their potential to practice spirituality based on their past hang-ups or hurts. Someone would say, “I am addicted to substances.” Someone might say, “I broke certain moral codes that disqualify my possibility to be practicing something that requires high compliance to moral standards.” And, someone might chime in stating, “Oh! spirituality makes me shudder; when I want to act in ways that are at loggerheads against the principles.”
Given, a good amount of critical objective analysis to each of such thoughtful justifications, it sounds good! Implicit in such statements; is our current situation which might be a far cry from the pre-requisite high spiritual standards.
This justification pre-supposes one’s identity bubble to be greater than the potency, embedded within the coffers of spiritual practices. Additionally, such narratives downplay the possibility to get out of the rut of self-pity. Gita aptly presents a fair perspective- illumining the significance and the pragmatism of taking to such practices.
As one takes to the path of devotion; even who is broke, disputed with relationship, driven by sub-moral compulsions has uncapped potential to accelerate spiritually (BG 9.30). This is not about how glorious or grotesque a person’s past “was”, this “is” about the intensity of spiritual practices. Think about this, the ignorance of a child in the Pre-KG level is enormous, but once they are put in the educational process, the ignorance precipitously comes down.
It is not about; how sullied our past was, preferably how serious we are to act in the present. Scriptural knowledge lits the intelligence, while meditative chanting lifts the consciousness, thus propelling the seeker towards realizations, transcending the visceral habits of our past. The path of serious practitioners becomes swift- crossing over the vast silos of karmic impression that bounds people to act compulsively; tugged into the cycle of samsara, ad-infinitum (BG 9.31).
Ergo, the path of spirituality is all-encompassing and greatly potent to purify the seeker, now you know regardless of their background.
Let’s reflect:
- Enlist the reasons you think- has retired you upstairs, before taking to spirituality?
- What has kept you at the fringes of meditative practices?
- How it would be like; wallowing in the past, compared to the accelerated rate of spiritual progress through devotional practices?
Until next time…
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