The Joy of Spiritual Experience

 

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The Joy of Spiritual Experience

In our day to day stressed out lives we all look for joy and happiness – some of us try to find it in temples, churches, mosques, synagogues, some go to the beach, forest, mountains, sailing, others look for it through addictions like drinks, drugs, and other intoxicants. Basically, everyone is trying to find joy and happiness outside. There comes a time in life, when your seeking happiness becomes so intense, and the happiness which you get in the material world starts feeling inadequate – that is when you start looking for guidance from someone who can show you the path. When the intensity is such that you cannot bear it, the universe directs you to your spiritual guide, the one who will show you the path to real joy and bliss.

Once you meet your enlightened Master, he lights the lamp within you and you embark on the journey to inner peace and joy. He teaches you how to meditate, how to ruminate on questions about life and how to find your own solutions. He actually makes you self-reliant without your knowing it. After you start meditating you start getting spiritual experiences. You feel God-like and then start thinking about God – but in reality, God has no shape or form – it is nothing but universal consciousness which has existed since time immemorial. Everyone takes birth and dies and this cycle continues – in between birth and death – life happens. Everyone is taking birth with the sole objective to work out one’s karmas and progress spiritually with the ultimate aim of liberation, of merging with universal consciousness! It takes several birth-death cycles to get completed before one reaches that final life from where you can achieve the state of moksha or liberation, the state where you merge with universal consciousness when you take your final breath.

Through meditation you learn to stay in the moment all the time, you live your life selflessly with love and compassion, that is when you start experiencing that state of inner joy and happiness which is of a permanent nature. Your radiance and joy begin attracting people towards you like a magnet. Observe the spiritual Gurus of modern times who have millions of followers all over the world – His Holiness Shivkrupanand Swami, His Holiness Sadhguru, His Holiness Sri M, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and several others who do not come forward in the limelight but nevertheless are working towards global spiritual upliftment.

To live in joy and harmony, peace, love and compassion you do not need intoxicants once you reach the source of perennial joy which lies inside the core of every one of us. It is up to us to dive deep within and find that core which gives the state of perennial joy, bliss and happiness. Praying for each one of us to find our own core deep within.