Friday, April 24, 2015

Brag for everything,but not for spirituality



We have a habit to brag our personal credentials in terms of experience, resume,  presentation and performance. Supposed, you are due to appear for an interview and you prepare your resume so polished that by going through, one will be simply thinking you as a brilliant candidate and suitable for their requirement.  But you are not selected. Why?  Because, you have not only indicated your good things in the resume, but you have also mentioned various personal details exaggeratedly, of course, leaving the basic parameters.  In the same way, we exaggerate our expertise to a sky rocket level, when we do some business presentation to grab a precious and prestigious order. We don’t leave anything to impress upon would-be customers. When employers or any probable customers peruse either the resume or the presentation, they feel that the particular person or the company is the best available one, whom they must employ or give the order. No doubt, it happens, but in most of the cases, the opposite happens.  In all our mundane and worldly affairs, we can present our  details or achievements in a silver paper wrapped boxes or in a costly and aesthetic files to woo the other persons or group of people, but when it comes to the matter of spirituality, you cannot hide anything from the spiritual power existing in all of us. Only thing, we fail to recognize the same. In the case of the divinity, one can neither take the shelter of bragging nor can change an atheist to a God lover. Because, you can increase anything of any value, but you cannot increase the grace of God.  Even you try to do so; you will be utterly failed, because the spiritual progress is always proportional to your sincere efforts and devotion. You can delude and create an illusion to human beings and their mind, but you cannot play hide and seek with God and spirituality.  It is extremely impossible to exaggerate any spiritual growth, because  it is not visible, it is felt and realized. It is not of any kind of tangible gain. You cannot resemble the same as your application for a loan, generally, people submit to the bank. You may highlight all your good credits and credentials and secure the loan. After sometimes, you become defaulter for reasons beyond your control, but in the case of spiritual feeling, you cannot put even scribble a single word unless your mind is consciously seeking for God’s grace.  You can improve spirituality by taking an honest look at your regular activities, ponder about the same, introspect whether those activities performed by you are right or wrong and then think the areas, where you need improvement.  The improvement is needed in three different ways. First, by doing self study, second, by following the advices of parents, guardians, teachers and third, by mixing with like minded people to observe their day to day activities and then introspecting deeply what you have learned. Instead of doing this, if you only search the shortcuts for your successes, manage to achieve the same, become complacent and start bragging, then you cannot ever change. Your this outlook will not yield any meaningful result. As against, if you put efforts to change by following the above three procedures, you will reach a stage, where you will find that your shortcomings are almost negligible. Once reaching the above stage; you find that you still need improvement, then read the various autobiographies of great luminaries, you read the writings and preachings of various saints, you hear the devotional songs, religious messages and hymns.  In this method, you can learn a lot, which can filter your mind, which will make you more attached to the spiritual atmosphere. You can apply this philosophy to overcome your shortcomings. You then assess your improvement. You will find there is a significant change.


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If you regularly go through the writings  of various saints, you will be able to identify the various reasons of your failures. These readings will guide you to take the correct path to lead your life.  When your shortcomings will derail you, this preaching will provide you a power to examine the said reasons of your failures. By taking the advices of these books and preachings, you can make your subsequent periods of your life more  meaningful and successful.

If you have any disliking for a particular food because of health hazard and if you continue to eat the same food, you will invite your health problem. In that case, is it advisable to consume the said food?  You must avoid this food.  Similarly, if your any action or behavior or particular responsibility creates your mind distracted from your spiritual growth, would it be feasible for you to engage in the said acts or actions? You must avoid such type of behavior.

You have to analyze various facts which are responsible for your less growth spiritually. You must take the corrective actions, so that you can increase your hunch for your spiritual growth. The beauty of spirituality is that it emanates from the divinity and it glows your consciousness and provides you purity.  Divinity is the law of compassion and grace of God. When you really put your honest efforts to eliminate your wrong doings, shortcomings, old imperfect habits and behaviors to embrace upon the spiritual growth, your sincerity is noticed. The divine blessings will be showered on you with enough compassion and grace. By your efforts and divine grace, you will achieve spiritual growth and you will be able to connect with the Creator.  You will notice a rapid spiritual progress in your life.

Finally, you can brag and manage any situation in your favor, but if you are not a spiritual at all and you claim to be so, you are not going to be showered with His blessings when you need the same desperately.

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