We, humans, are spiritual beings and it is important that we discover our true selves by becoming spiritually awake. Focus on only a part of us like physical wellness, emotional wellness, intellectual wellness, or spiritual wellness puts our life out of balance.
A life out of balance can lead to physical illness, mental stress, or confusion about the meaning of the life we are leading. Our well-being must be holistic and include spiritual well-being to give meaning to our core and the balance that is needed for a happy journey of life.
We do need skills in life to work, make money, have good relationships, achieve our goals, and lead a life that reflects our purpose.
Spiritual Awareness
Why do we need Spiritual Awareness?
Spiritual awareness helps us unfold our purpose, gives better directions to our thoughts, improves our attitude, and overall helps our happiness quotient.
We do continue to work on the work at hand or different dimensions of wellness, but our journey is more from happiness to happiness. Laziness or unhappiness are not signs of being spiritually awake.
Any person without growth in an attitude of happiness is but a false projection of growth.
Personal challenges test us. We may get external help to overcome the challenges. But the real help is our own resolve to face the situations at hand. Where does this inner strength come from?
Spiritual awareness is the only support that is with us all the time. It becomes easier to find that inner strength that we will need to help us through all the challenges we have to face in our lifetime if we are spiritually aware.
How can we become spiritually aware?
The human heart beats all the time giving the body the oxygen it needs to run. It approximately beats 2.5 billion times in our lifetime. In certain medical procedures, the patient is put on a heart-lung machine while the surgery is performed. If part of the brain does not work, certain bodily functions are hampered but life continues. All the organs of the human body maybe are physically present, but there may be no life when someone is dead. We have to look beyond the physical body to understand our true nature.
Our quest for happiness is focused on acquiring and experiencing various objects propelled by our desires.
- Earth as a whole is also not enough for us.
- We are searching for life elsewhere in the universe.
- We are also searching for the source of life.
- Our life is dependent on the SUN, but we still do not know what is the source of life for our SUN and other billions of stars in the starry sky.
Our mind tends to wander and has to be focused to get things done. Even to fulfill our goals, we have to work diligently over a period of time. For being spiritually aware a paradigm shift is needed.
We live in a world with a constant bombardment of stimuli. Our feelings and emotions take over us and our energy is dissipated and the days pass.
Ancient spiritual masters asked us to look for the source of true happiness within.
Simple self-awareness exercises can help us to improve our concentration and lead us on the path of spiritual awareness to become spiritually awake.
What does a seeker of spiritual awareness experience?
The one who is self-aware comes closer to his body’s sensations, emotions, and thoughts.
As a seeker of truth or reality, or the answer to “Who I am?”, the seeker becomes spiritually aware.
The seeker’s identification or conditioning /EGO hinders his progress towards the experience of truth within. The more and more the seeker is able to crack through this false identification, the more and more he grows in spiritual awareness.
As spiritual awareness grows, happiness grows and strife shrinks.
When all false identifications are annihilated, the truth that was experienced by ancient spiritual masters is directly experienced.
Fake Guru Alert!
Faith is needed on whatever path we choose. However blind faith can derail our efforts. Self-study, Reflection, and meditation are the key areas suggested for someone with an intellectual mindset.
- All answers or insights come from within leading to happiness and growth. There are many philosophies and ideologies based on ancient wisdom, personal conditioning, and experiences one can choose from.
- Instead of getting bogged down by religious differences created by fake proponents or gurus, we need what is a simple, practical, self-experiential way to grow from within.
- There are different practices and each one is free to choose whatever works for them.
Our path of spirituality is the one which gives us to insights, and leads us to happiness within, the ultimate fountain of imperishible bliss.
Who are our Inspirations to spread Spiritual Awareness?
We like the ancient Vedanta’s teaching of Oneness. There is vast space in our visible universe and we are looking for what is beyond this expanding expanse of space and time that we are becoming aware of.
We can learn from the wisdom of great spiritual masters like Swami Sivananda who was a doctor of medicine in his early life. He was the founder of the divine life society and there are many books written by him. You may want to check out spiritual life – a perspective on their website.
Raman Maharishi just told us to focus on the question Who am I?
Swami Chinmayananda who was a journalist spent 53 tireless years spreading the knowledge of Indian Scriptures throughout the world. Many of the books written by him can be very useful to a spiritual aspirant.
When we look within, all thoughts arise in the vastness of our inner space. The more and more the flow of thoughts subsides, the more and more of the vastness of the space one experiences in meditation.
Vedic knowledge teaches us about the nature of the one substratum that is beyond the space within and without. That which is of the nature of infinite existence, infinite awareness, and infinite bliss.
We also like other techniques of meditation. One of my favorites is Vipassana meditation based on the teachings of Buddha.
Some Articles on Spiritual Awareness
25 Happiness Tips from Bhagavad Gita, the Manual for Life
Becoming Spiritually Awake is the #1 Key to Growth in Happiness
Meditation Primer for Beginners – 3 Huge Holistic Health Benefits to Begin Your Meditation Practice
Self-Awareness – 2 Simple Exercises to Begin, Create Own Awesome Routine.
List of Articles for Spiritual Wellness
Read and learn more about understanding emotions and strategies to transition from habitual responses to more efficient and effective responses through our articles on the subject.
- 25 Happiness Tips from Bhagavad Gita, the Manual for Life
- Vipassana vs Vedanta Meditation
- Bhagavad Gita – Free Video Sessions on 18 Chapters
- Becoming Spiritually Awake is the #1 Key to Growth in Happiness
- Self-Improvement and Growth – 1st comes “A Learning Attitude” – Beast to God
- Self-Awareness – 2 Simple Exercises to Begin, Create Own Awesome Routine.
- Meditation Primer for Beginners – 3 Huge Holistic Health Benefits to Begin Your Meditation Practice
- 2 Wonderful Skills – Meditation and NLP
- 10 Days Vipassana Meditation Course – A Sensational Experience
