Indian Spiritual Science

Engagement is an outward activity. It has nothing to do with oneself. Our spirit has no engagement with the external world. It can only be engaged with spiritual activities. But, as man finds it haunting to be alone, he engages with people to overcome this fear. He compromises with the happiness of the soul, thereby making the soul feel alone. In sometime in life, man realizes that his engagement with people has not borne good fruits. It has even made him disengage with his soul. He becomes alone even when alone as he has abandoned his spirit long time back. This is the sad story of the man who dedicates his life to the world, just to ruin it. Engagement of this sort brings immense sorrow. Momentary happiness is not what we seek. We are seeking everlasting happiness. But, genuinely before we even go out to inquire the whereabouts of happiness, we tend to go astray. We engage with momentary happiness as soon as we find it! We have no patience. Precisely, outward engagement de...

Inferiority is perhaps the most common, but uniquely painful emotion within an individual. In some stage, a person is susceptible to this emotion,very strongly. But, have we noticed why? Why do our emotions of inferiority compel us to believe that we are inferior? We feel so because of our involvement with matter and world. Only when we engaged with the third entity did we feel that haunting feeling of inferiority. We felt inferior after meeting others & then carried it till our homes & then while asleep it took shape as a dream. We have allowed the feeling, that negative feeling to subjugate us even when asleep. This is our fault. We deserve this pain caused to us, even after somewhere deep down we knew that we are apart from that emotion. You are here only because you are apart from that emotion. If you are that emotion, you could not have come so far. Inferiority is the result of very hard core notions, we form unconsciously. Some time ago, it was favorable, but now whe...

When do we practice something? There can be two answers relevant to this question. When you do not know and find it important/ or are forced to learn the subject When you deal with people, you find it important to suppress your feelings, perhaps they were inappropriate! The first reason is when you are undergoing tutoring. But, today's world we aren't taught to develop qualities through practices. We aren't expected to really feel what we say. So developing qualities, to such an extent that it transforms your character is not promoted in this material world. You are most likely expected to bear a temporary mask. The second standard of practice is highly crucial for social engagement. This quote, elaborates more on this point: "We do not feel, but we do and say, just because it seems appropriate." This is the mentality of people in the social world. This is the world of duplicity where all intentions are hidden. Naturally, if the good ones are shown...

This is very much true. Joy is like the sunrise, which is our destination but finding the cliff is an arduous task! That is the reason we take up different routes, by asking many people with different suggestions and knowledge about joy. Many people misinterpret joy as pleasure. This was discussed in detail in PART 1 of this series. Taking the route suggested by the second category of people, we try finding the cliff, in ENGAGEMENT. We then participate in engaging activities to keep our senses occupied. This leads to productivity opening the doorways of creativity. It is quite a dense spectrum of life and thus quite difficult for many of us to realize THAT: Engagement too, is short lived. Yes!!! It is harsh to hear, that engagement does not equate to joy, it is not the cliff from where the sunrise can be seen to its fullest! However, we can draw the following conclusions: Engagement unlike pleasure is more impactful.  It is more engaging and its effect is not mere happine...

Joy is our nature. However, we do not experience it. But there are times we do! Have you observed deep enough when and why! Happiness as defined by modern Psychology can be equated to Pleasure, Engagement and Meaning. They can be elaborated as follows: Pleasure: It is the result of the tendency that drives us to seek momentary pleasures of life. For example: Attending parties, Having delicious food, Watching a movie, Wearing a new dress, etc. Engagement: It is the result of the decisions taken by an orderly mind. For Example: The happiness we experience after physical exercise, Mental work, like solving a mathematics problem, Joy we experience after publishing the article we worked on for a long period of time, etc. Meaning: It is the joy of serving others. It is synonymous to selflessness. For example: Serving food for impoverished children, Educating the underprivileged children, etc. On delving deeper into each form of happiness given above, we can conclude as follows...