1)what is the whole purpose of spirituality?
To become first better human beings, strengthened with moral values, and then to realize our true divine nature...once knowing who or what we are...only then the next steps can be taken, leading towards the goal.
2)why meditate?
Because meditation is the only vehicle, which can enable and transport us, to that subtle spiritual realm, where the truth lies...
3)what is to be sought?
Sach-Chit-Anand = Supreme Lord
4)what 'truth' is to be found?
The one that is eternal, self sufficient, beyond births and deaths, changeless,fearless,merciful, without enmity, and omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, matchless... these are some of the infinite virtues of that truth,which is none other, than the Lord Himself.
5)Who can give us the knowledge of that eternal and everlasting truth?
As the Bani says: "Prabh Ka Simran, sadh ka sang" or "sant kee seva, Nam dhiyave". Which means in the company of the Saints or mystics, one learns to love and search the Lord and getting under the shelter of such Saints, one learns to meditate on the trascendental form of the Lord and thus realize Him, by His grace alone.
* saints are not those people who splash ashes on their foreheads or bodies, neither wear colored(saffaron) robes, nor prayer beads, nor any outer marks...their only distinction is that they lead us from outer forms of worship, towards the inner search of that truth, through their blessings of initiation.
In reference to these words, Guru Nanak says in the begining of the Granth Sahib: Ik Onkar, satgur prasad; which means there is only one True Lord, who is realized by the gift or blessings of a true Guru or Satguru. Jesus was also a Master of that spiritual level, He also said I am the way, nobody can go to the father except through me, or he who has seen Me, has seen the Father, which means the Spiritual Master or Satguru has to be contemporary to us, so that we may receive that blessing. No past Master can give us that gift, because once He leaves this earthly plane, He goes and merges in that Infinte Ocean called Lord. Then His work of taking across the souls is carried by His appointed succesor, with all His powers of grace and mercy intact like He had.
Supposing we are sick now, no matter howsoever 200 hundred years back, there was a very good and famous doctor, but he can not come and cure us today. Today we need a living good doctor, who is surely avalaible, and can cure us by giving us the correct medicine.
In the same way, we are spiritually ill, we need a present Satguru, who can give us that Gurprasad or blessing, which works as a medicine in us , and cures our malady of spiritual ignorance, and makes us healthy once again, with that Audible Sound Current which emantes from His house and is flowing 24 hours of the day non stop inside each one of us, irrespective of class, caste, gender or creed. This Nectar of inmortality the Lord has kept inside each one of us. And once tasting it, all other tastes(sensual pleasures) fade away. Then only one desire reamins in us, and that is of becoming one with Him.
Having accomplished this, nothing more is left, nor requiered.
To become first better human beings, strengthened with moral values, and then to realize our true divine nature...once knowing who or what we are...only then the next steps can be taken, leading towards the goal.
2)why meditate?
Because meditation is the only vehicle, which can enable and transport us, to that subtle spiritual realm, where the truth lies...
3)what is to be sought?
Sach-Chit-Anand = Supreme Lord
4)what 'truth' is to be found?
The one that is eternal, self sufficient, beyond births and deaths, changeless,fearless,merciful, without enmity, and omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, matchless... these are some of the infinite virtues of that truth,which is none other, than the Lord Himself.
5)Who can give us the knowledge of that eternal and everlasting truth?
As the Bani says: "Prabh Ka Simran, sadh ka sang" or "sant kee seva, Nam dhiyave". Which means in the company of the Saints or mystics, one learns to love and search the Lord and getting under the shelter of such Saints, one learns to meditate on the trascendental form of the Lord and thus realize Him, by His grace alone.
* saints are not those people who splash ashes on their foreheads or bodies, neither wear colored(saffaron) robes, nor prayer beads, nor any outer marks...their only distinction is that they lead us from outer forms of worship, towards the inner search of that truth, through their blessings of initiation.
In reference to these words, Guru Nanak says in the begining of the Granth Sahib: Ik Onkar, satgur prasad; which means there is only one True Lord, who is realized by the gift or blessings of a true Guru or Satguru. Jesus was also a Master of that spiritual level, He also said I am the way, nobody can go to the father except through me, or he who has seen Me, has seen the Father, which means the Spiritual Master or Satguru has to be contemporary to us, so that we may receive that blessing. No past Master can give us that gift, because once He leaves this earthly plane, He goes and merges in that Infinte Ocean called Lord. Then His work of taking across the souls is carried by His appointed succesor, with all His powers of grace and mercy intact like He had.
Supposing we are sick now, no matter howsoever 200 hundred years back, there was a very good and famous doctor, but he can not come and cure us today. Today we need a living good doctor, who is surely avalaible, and can cure us by giving us the correct medicine.
In the same way, we are spiritually ill, we need a present Satguru, who can give us that Gurprasad or blessing, which works as a medicine in us , and cures our malady of spiritual ignorance, and makes us healthy once again, with that Audible Sound Current which emantes from His house and is flowing 24 hours of the day non stop inside each one of us, irrespective of class, caste, gender or creed. This Nectar of inmortality the Lord has kept inside each one of us. And once tasting it, all other tastes(sensual pleasures) fade away. Then only one desire reamins in us, and that is of becoming one with Him.
Having accomplished this, nothing more is left, nor requiered.
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