Spirituality: The Second line of Defence of Religion
The world has become a super market of spiritualism. The restless elites are buying the spiritual fast food. The so called Gurujis are the new franchises in this IPL show. According to the budget of consumers, they have designed various products, 'Instant Nirvana', Achieve Moksa in 10 days, cosmic truth in 4 easy lessons etc.
I often wonder what this spirituality is. Is it only about going into your own world and seeking, assessing, knowing about your own life, then why is it not called self introspection? Is it about the love for mankind that excels religion, caste, race, culture language. I don't have any problem with this spirituality. I will call it humanity. If spirituality creates awareness about the mountains, seas, rivers, oceans, trees, lands, animals, why do we not call it environmental consciousness? Does it mean heart full regards to marriage, relationship. parenthood, art, judiciary, freedom of expression? How I disagree with these, but I would call it civil responsibility.
If this is the spiritually I do not have any discussion. What is that in spirituality which is not covered by all these words? But there is something in spirituality which embarrasses me a lot.
Many hundred years ago when humans were not civilized properly, they thought humans are made by two things : body and spirit. Body is something temporary which dies, but the spirit is something non biodegradable in our body. If your body dies your spirit will not die because you are a spirit and the spirit has supreme consciousness. The primary advise of spirituality is to stop listening to your mind, listen to your supreme consciousness, your spirit that knows the cosmic truth. What is that cosmic truth relating to cosmos, I have not been able to understand. The moment you step out from the solar system the nearest star is Alpha Centauri A, which is just 4.5 light years away from us. How will my spirit relate with that? What do I do with this cosmic truth?
Modern science has published many evidence that our mind lies within the brain and the brain dies with your body.The mind is not some supernatural God object. Rather, it is the result of the action of nerve cells in the human brain. The function of the eyes is to see, the function of the ears is to hear, the function of the stomach is to digest food, and the function of the brain cells is to think. So the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Francis Crick, in his book, The Astonishing Hypothesis: clearly said " The 'wonderful hypothesis is: my' intimacy ', my excitement, my pain, my memory, my aspirations, my sensitivity, my identity and my free will are all nothing more than the various uses of brain neurons and their ancillary molecules." The body disappears after death. The body parts, the brain neurons are destroyed. In fact, the death of the brain neurons means the death of the ‘mind’, as well as the death of the so-called soul or spirit. It is often seen that other organs of the body are functioning properly, but the function of the brain is lost. This condition is called coma. The consciousness of man then vanishes. The living body then behaves like a lot of inanimate objects as a result of the loss of brain function.
Nowadays I noticed spirituality becomes a second line of defence of religion. Maybe religion is a downmarket today.
Inspired by: Javed Akhtar, Prof. Francis Crick, Abhijit Roy
Written by rourab
12th January Tuesday 2021
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