Spirituality isn't for everyone; it finds you when worldly life no longer satisfies. No compulsion exists to pursue it; ordinary life without spirituality is perfectly valid. Only those genuinely restless with existence, who sense something is fundamentally wrong, are truly ready. Four prerequisites, viveka, vairagya, shad sampatti and mumuksha, must be present before one becomes a sincere seeker.
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Originally published in The New Indian Express on 18 jan '20
Spirituality has never been for the unprepared ones, or for the general masses. It begins when you have a strong feeling that things are not the way they must be.
In this huge and complex world, especially living in the era of transition where everyone is an actor in the contemporary stage of globalisation, it is very difficult to spare time for oneself and the biggest challenge comes where you are unaware of your situation.
The lifestyle today is so harsh and fast that we have created our own world of disillusionment, and to top it all up we very contently revel in our condition of ignorance. In light of the current events it is quite natural that the bulk of mankind is not at all spiritual, and yet is living almost satisfactorily.
