What is spirituality and spiritual path? How can I continuously progress on this path?

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Thanks in accepting my membership. Hope I will be of

utmost usefull to our group and will try to post

articles which can inspire our members to march on the

the path of Nama Kirtan, which is time tested, in

accordance to our Sastras and the apt path in

Kaliyuga.

 

As I had earlier mentioned to the moderators, I am

from Namadwaar and I would like to explain about our

Intent.

 

" Nama Dwaar " is an initiative undertaken by the

devotees of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Nama Bhiksha

Kendra,with the blessings of His Holiness Sri Sri

Muralidhara Swamiji, aimed at propagation of Nama

Sankirtan of the Maha Mantra as the universal means of

bringing about peace, prosperity and the feeling of

universal brotherhood and providing material and

spiritual upliftment to humanity at large.

 

Based on the rock-solid foundation of the Vedas, the

goal of this movement is to reach the people in every

corner of the world and make them realize the value in

chanting the divine Name of God for happiness, peace

and prosperity.

 

Pl post the below article.

 

What is spirituality and spiritual path? How can I

continuously progress on this path?

 

Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji:

 

The question about “Spirituality” might have arisen

because you might have heard about it from someone or

read about it in a book.

 

If you look at everything - from the tiny ant to Lord

Brahma seek bliss. The lower creatures try to find

this bliss in the fulfillment of the primitive desires

like appetite, lust etc. As human beings who possess

the sixth sense, we try to find ways to make

everything more comfortable and pleasurable.

 

When we extend this thought to death, the question

arises as to what died - the body or the soul? What is

this entity ‘I’? Is it the body? When we point to our

shirt and say ‘this is my shirt’, we automatically

admit that the shirt is different from us. Likewise

when we say " this is my hand " the automatic inference

is that 'I' is not the hand. So what is this ‘I’? It

is something beyond the body or the mind. It is the

soul or the ‘Atman’. That is our natural Self.

 

When a swelling appears on our hand, though that does

not bother us in any way, we still want that swelling

to be removed just because we want things to look the

way they originally were. Resetting things back to the

original state itself is a great bliss. We have

altered our state from our original blissful self to

such a great extent due to our ignorance. To reset

things back to normalcy by realizing our true blissful

nature is spirituality. Spirituality is not something

alien to us. It is not going to fall from the sky one

fine day. It is merely to realize our true nature

which is the state of supreme bliss.

 

To attain that supreme state of realization, the

simplest way is to chant the Hare Rama Maha Mantra. By

chanting this mantra, you please Sri Krishna and he

blesses you with that supreme state of bliss.

 

 

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

 

Radhe Krishna

 

Visit www.namadwaar.org

 

 

 

 

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