take a total view of things
consider even spiritual life as a partial aspect or side of human life. one field of activity or a particular science,
This is also why spiritual life is mostly relegated to the later part of ones life, old age particularly, when we have had enough of the enjoyments of the world to surfeit. When we cannot see properly, cannot walk, and nobody wants us, then we search after the spirit.
Whatever is of worth in it, whatever is meaningful or significant, or whatever is true or real, that is the spirit of a thing
When a thing is not related to anything, visible as well as conceivable, what would remain in a thing is its spirit, and to live in consonance with the law of that spirit would be spiritual life.
what is left When you free a person, a thing, an object, a situation or an agent from all temporal associations of every type and kind . That something is the spirit of that person, of that object, of that thing, event or situation. That minimal residue has a determining law guiding and defining its existence. To live in conformity with that law is the life spiritual.
You may possess nothing one day. You may have no relations, no wealth, hold no position, and you may be almost worth nothing in the eyes of people when you are dissociated of all these relationships, and yet you remain a something.
If you are an independent unit by yourself, not under the necessity of coming in contact with other things in the world, you would be approximating yourself to your spirit
spirituality would be that sort of life which is connected with the independent existence of things
regard things from their own point of view rather than from the point of view of the factors on which they are tentatively made dependent for the purpose of temporal existence and activity.
must take you for what you are, and not for what you appear to be. This would be to assess your spiritual worth.
merely conceive and judge the values of things
the whole world is regulated by certain principles or laws, and these principles or laws are invisible, and do not exist physically
To have a spiritual attitude to life is not to look at the objects of the world but to look at that out of which the objects are made, which is their prana, which is their sum and substance, which is coextensive with the substance of your own body and personality.
When we develop attachment to certain persons and things, This is the crass, earthly attitude of the senses, the tamasic attitude to life, the lowest form of truth, which is totally distorted and taken far away from its centre. This is the lowest category of truth perception.
a higher form of it is to realise and to recognise an organic relationship among things.
to be spiritual is not to put on a robe or to enter into an order of life such as Vanaprastha, Sannyasa, and so on. It is not embracing a particular order. It is not changing your dress or avocation or function in life. It is nothing of the sort. It is to look at the meaning of things.
the spirit is not outside us, and it is not a future to us. It is now and it is here. It is to be put into practice and brought into action in our small, insignificant activities of life. Spirituality can be tested in the smallest things that you do in life, not in the big things that you do, not in the orations that you give or the public administration that you are invested with or the powers that you wield, etc. The spirituality of a person can be seen in the small details of life. In the little words that you utter, in the casual words that you speak, in the passing remarks that you make, you can see your spirituality. You cannot see your spirituality in your puja room, in the temples of worship, when you read a Bhagavadgita or a scripture, or when you are on the pulpit. You will know the depths of your spirituality when you are walking on the street or when you are in the bathroom, when you are at your lunch table, when you are talking to your subordinate or your servant. In the bazaar when you go to purchase vegetables, there you can see your spirituality. When you talk to a tongawallain the street or a taxiwalla, when you ask him for two annas less or more, you can see the depths of your spirituality, not in the temple, not in thepuja room. Do not make mistakes.