How To Live with Spirituality in Modern day Life

First of all I would like to thank to all my friends who do lot of arguing on spirituality which activate my thought process to cook something really nice. Recently I was discussing about our modern day life and how in this material world we can practice the "Dharma" or spiritual principles and is there any limit for a common man?

I have realized that there is a big misconception on this subject, mostly people feel that it is very tough to follow the spiritual path in this material world and if we follow the spiritual path then it is wrong to have material desires, even though I am not the master in this subject but I feel that I should try my best to explain

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First and foremost what is spiritualism we have to understand that, mostly we have a misconception that if you follow the spiritualism it means you will be involved in prayers for full day or give-up your materials desires or live like a saint or something like that. But in my view spiritualism is nothing but a way to connect yourself with the God, to follow the path of truth and not do the acts which are wrong, for example we all do prayers in the morning and sometime morning & evening for getting the blessing from the God but later in the day do we follow the path of truth or taking the right decisions? Or Sacrificing our self interest, as most of the time people do prayers and when they will go for their jobs or business they do all kind of wrong things just for their personal benefits for either money or professional reasons, it means you are not following the right path you are just faking or lying yourself of doing so and that is the reason in long run people face problems in their life and then they will question why this is happening to us even we believe in GOD and still God is punishing us. The problem is very simple, we all believe in GOD but we don't believe in his teachings. It is like we want to eat half cooked pan cake and complaining about the taste. Life has a very simple principles what you give to this world will come back to you either Good or Bad, it's on you and nature is neutral for all of us it never take sides just return your deed to you with interest.

The problem is most of the time we lie to ourselves that we believe in God but we are not, most of the time we do prayers for example when we believe in Goddess Luxmi and pray her for success and prosperity then how we can disbelief the Origin of her (उत्पत्ति) (In Hinduism Luxmi origin is from the sea as described in Samudra manthan, Ksheera Sagara Mathanam ('క్షీర సాగర మధనం' in Telugu) or Ksheera Sagara Manthanam. Churning of the Ocean of Milk is one of the most famous periods in the Puranas. The story appears in the Bhagavata Purana, the Mahabharata and the Vishnu Purana. But most of the people they believe this is a fiction or mythology, I will write on this also in coming days) , this is the problem with us, we don't believe the full facts we believe what we want to believe and the result is in front of us, we have to think in totality if not than we may have success but not satisfaction, we may have money but no time to enjoy or utilize that, if you would like to die as a ATM machine it's your choice.

One of the most important aspect of this I would like to discus i.e. learn to listen your heart than your mind, there are times when your mind may misguide you for selfishness but your heart will never misguide you and always tell you what is the right path, I am telling you this as I am doing that and I have seen the difference. This is one of the ways to advance you on the path of truth. I don't think these are very difficult things and we can't follow.

The next question arise that what should be the limit for common man, very simple, if you are practicing the path of truth than nothing else is required that is the limit, you need not to go to Himalaya and do the meditation for years that is for Great Souls not for the common man if God has written this in your destiny than definitely you will do that so better leave this on God and just follow the path of Truth. To explain the power of truth I will give you very simple example if you all remember in our old stories about Saint, there were incidents when due to some reason these Saint got angry and they cursed the people and it happened why? the theory is very simple when a person always utter a truth nothing but the truth in his life for years automatically whatever is coming out from his mouth becomes the truth, it may sound little bit crazy but this is the real truth.

Most important thing is once you start practicing the truth and the prayer, automatically you can feel the difference in your life more happiness, more satisfaction and realization of the real meaning of your life, in that case your heart will guide you, and you feel like from inside to have the ultimate ecstasy of your life and for that you will have inside desire to follow the right way and ready to sacrifice your wrong desires or habits or even wrong food habits, but this you will not do in any compulsion or out of fanatic act, you would like to do these things as you already tested the nectar of PARAM-ANAND or ecstasy, which will give you the ultimate satisfaction and happiness.  Therefore there is no limit is spirituality as the more you advance the more you want to go further. For example if someone fall in true love they can go up-to any limit, same way if you start the true relation with God you yourself feel like to do best to achieve the internal satisfaction. Remember to find the best quality pearls you have to go deep in the ocean.

Now to summarize I would like to say it’s on personal choice of an individual how he want to follow the spiritual path or path of Dharma, it’s like more the sugar more the sweetness. Further as far as modern day life is considered there is no harm to have materials desires and in enjoying them until unless you become a slave of your desires and start following the wrong paths to acquire them. As a common man I also have a big list of materials desires but I try to follow the right path.

Choice is your choose wisely.