Honour thy spiritual heritage

All messengers of God, divine incarnations, spiritual masters, saints, sufis and saviors of past, present (and of future) are worthy of highest veneration and gratitude for gifting mankind secrets of the working of creation and defining Godman relationship. They also outlined that life necessitates a balance between the physical and spiritual aspirations of man. Humanity has immensely benefited from them and will continue to do so. Despite spectacular enhancement in ‘material aspect of quality of life’ , conundrum of mental tension /depression has multiplied, thereby negating comfort of scientific attainments . Perhaps the spiritual aspect of life that can rein mischief of mind remains neglected.

Followers who perpetuate ritualism and read holy gospels like acookery book — without cooking the dish — are unable to take much advantage of spiritual inheritance . Howsoever glorious or greatest their Master may be, if these followers fail to improve their spiritual lot during present life, then they need to introspect what benefit accrued to them from greatness of their Gurus. Hope of any benefits in future lives is a self-deception .
Some seekers expect that their spiritual masters (past or present) are duty-bound to ensure their physical (swarth) and spiritual (parmarth) well being. Wrong! A student has to apply his mind for passing examinations, though teachers provide instructions, motivation, guidance and encouragement . Spiritual metaphysics , like any science is a path of serious contemplation and experimentation .

Another school of thought argues that present spiritual masters should correct all negativity and evil of this planet. The answer is simple — if the greatest saviors of past, like Lord Rama, Krishna , Jesus, Guru Nanak, Kabir and many others that are worshipped by all generations, could not make this world ‘an island of peace’ how can holy men of present day and age achieve that.

The creation has to be imperfect if it has to continue. The moment it becomes perfect, it will cease to exist. Therefore, great masters are not mandated to interfere with working of the creation. They urge seekers to research ‘within’ laboratory of human body by meditative concentration to seek answers to their questions. Spirituality cannot be taught but caught. And those who board flight of faith, they improve their parmarth —and their swarth too gets rewarded.