Keeping it Real
Through our brief stint here on the last pilgrimage weblog, we have always tried and find ways to live life in a wholesome manner. We have always exhorted seekers to try new and innovative ways to ensure that they stay creative and productive in their way of life. Ultimately spirituality is nothing but an ideology that promotes and propagates an ideal lifestyle; at least that is what it accomplishes at the basic level. Going beyond, the realms of advanced spirituality know no boundaries. A fully evolved spiritual master indeed possesses more power and knowledge than what we can even imagine with our puny intellects.
Thus looking at the entire scope of spirituality, at times it indeed becomes hard to segregate it into packages that can be sustainably delivered to an engaging audience. Simply put, one indeed finds it to be an arduous task trying to decide what to show and indeed what to hide. Owing to this the realm of spiritual teaching has always been somewhat of a misguided tour into the journey of life. Point of the matter is that spiritual teachings of any sort are not essentially something that can be dispensed over the counter as a proprietary medication. No; it’s a more complex method that involves meticulous teaching and ceaseless dedication. In the absence of both, spirituality ends up becoming naught but the target for social ridicule at the hands of ignorant imbeciles.
Now given the absence of a good delivery method, any ideology runs the risk of being deprecated at the hands of the world. That is essentially what has happened to modern day spirituality. Upon looking at the way that spiritual teachings have evolved over time, it indeed seems to be of little surprise that in the current day they hold little appeal to general public. The reason for the same being that human beings have almost reached the zenith of their worldly evolution; the fact that man has indeed accomplished much is indeed an understatement. Hence in the frenzy of that accomplishment, man essentially forgets his true identity and his true nature, let alone the true purpose of his very existence. Man’s psychological identity is molded into existence by the illusions that he lives with; and hence wrapped in this pseudo-existence of his own illusory dream, man indeed forgets all that is ‘real’ in his life.
Through the years, when such events have occurred in the world; when humanity has indeed been endangered by the darkness of ignorance, saints have walked these lands to ignite in the hearts of men the passion and yearning for knowledge and realization. However those times have since passed us by and we are left with naught but worthless imitations of a species that has long since become obsolete. Why did such a thing happen? How did it come to this? Where are the saviors of the current generation? Where are the saints of today?
Point of the matter is that spirituality is all about evolution; it is about adapting to the changing times and rolling with the punches as they fall in line. It is no surprise indeed that in the bid to evolve the estranged seeker, even the ideology has to evolve; and with it the way in which it is propagated indeed needs to evolve. Many times people ask me; why did the west not see a single messiah after the passing of Jesus? However the point of the matter is that there was always a messiah on the face of this earth, who was keeping in check the delicate balance within the cosmos. However the fact that the messiah never appeared as one is indeed corroboratory to the observation that yes; even spirituality has evolved and with it so have its messengers. A new era is indeed upon us; wherein the son of God would not be the one wearing a bloody loincloth but would indeed be someone porting a suave Armani jacket. However the fact that he would be bleeding the same is indeed of little relevance to us; for we would still be content in calling ourselves the most evolved species on the face of this earth; content in our illusions and warped in our pseudo-reality as we condemn our fellow spiritualists asking them to keep it REAL…
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September 7, 2010 8:20 am
