Real Spiritual Experience

 

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Real Spiritual Experience

During our spiritual journey all of us at some point or the other have felt the cold vibrations in our body, sensed our chakras, got wonderful fragrances – all this has happened during our journey. These are just indicators of our progress from ‘thing’ to ‘no-thing’. And as I have mentioned in my earlier posts, this journey is never ending but totally joyous and uplifting.

We all feel happy, feel good when something ‘good’ happens – our tennis star wins, our soccer team wins, our Olympic participants return with medals, we read feel good stories, we experience and observe humans behaving humanely and lending support in trying times, the list could be endless. What I am trying to say is we all feel good when something perceived by society to be good, happens. We all feel like human beings as opposed the negative vibes created while watching/reading the hate and negative news which we get on TV or in the newspapers.

One thing I have observed over the last thirteen years while watching Guru-karya take place through this physical body, is that the joy and feeling of camaraderie which one experiences while participating in His activities is amazing. There is joy, laughter, teamwork, precision work, intellectual work – everything takes place in collectivity in an atmosphere which is far more captivating and enchanting than that of one’s own family (specially if they are not into meditation, if they are, then they become part of the larger family)! During such activities, time flies, hunger and sleep become secondary as the energy one receives while doing this work is unbelievable, keeping you alert and active. Sometimes the work goes on through the night, non-stop, with no let up in tempo or in the feeling of joy that one gets – this is remarkable and for me now, it has kind of become second nature.

Living and working together as one beautiful family with total love is God. Many people say that they have not had any spiritual experience – I have described some above, but these are individual experiences and not the real thing. I don’t know what spiritual experience one is expecting, to walk without the feet touching the ground, no hallucinations, no visions, no lights, no sounds? Real experience means moving around with a smile on your face and love in your heart. That is spiritual.

To see the spirit in others and to love everyone; to rise above these little differences of the lower nature and bring harmony wherever you are. If you can’t live harmoniously with others, what is the use of other spiritual experiences? Ultimately, everyone should love you. Keep that in mind: “I will live the kind of life that will make everybody love me, and I will love them.” If that happens in your life, you will know that you are growing spiritually.