- Excerpts from dialogues with Sri Kalki and the discourse of Sri Krishnaji on Marth 7th, 2002 at Hyderabad
We humans live on unique and precious planet, in a solar system within a galaxy, within an universe consisting of beautiful galaxies strewn across the vastness of space. We live on the earth and we live on the edge of luminous eternity. Where exactly do we stand in the vastness of the cosmos ? Where between the quark and the quasar is our place in space and time? What is the spirituality that humanity needs to address the complex challenges that confront us all? What is the spiritual path that lead humanity in the 21st century ?
The world today dosn’t need a new religion or a new faith or cult. It needs a true spirituality. Spirituality is an art that teaches one to move and flow with life. It is an art that teaches one to convert suffering into joy.
People have spent years learning how to sing, paint, succeed in one’s own career, but never learnt this art of conferting suffering into joy. It is this that Sri Kalki teraches people, because a happy person creates a happy society, whereas un anhappy person gives pain to others. Injustice and violence is born out of unhappiness. Happiness or joy doesn’t lie outside the purview of relationships. Any disturbance in relationships is passed on to every other field of activitiy. Therefore “Life is relationships”.
Man’s endeavor in life has been to discover a state of Happiness; a Happiness that lasts. When you find this happiness without having made a compromise or a sacrifice to an ideology, you can call yourself a happy person. A person wheo experiences life completely is a truly developed individual. Now what is preventing us from experiencing this happiness? Essentially conflicting ideologies. Spirituality against materialism. Religion may have dampened the spirit for meterial life; or people have wrongly understand religion. Spirituality is an essential tool that could aid you in living a more complete life. A life not remote from the world but in the thick of the world with its enterprising activities.
Sprirituality transforms a perception, gives the knowledge of discrimination and dissolves a conflict. All one needs is a conflict free experience and this is possible if you realize your helplessness and be aware of what you are. You suffer not because of what you are but because you are constantly trying to be somebody else and there is a perpetual conflict between ‘what you are’ and ‘what you want to be’. With the absence of conflict an ordinary experience becomes an extraordinary experience.
As we move from one civilization to anothern our attitudes change, our work get changed asnd our life style changes. Trying to fit our present lifestyle into a religious framework of a bygone time would only invite more conflict. A changing lifestyle is an emergent property of changing times. It is an evolutionary process. To judge it as progression or degeneration would be an unwise attitude. It is a process. And it is so depending on multiple factors. The world we see today is a manifestation of the inner conflict. End of conflict within, is end off all conflict. Man has is own definition of spirituality. Prayer, meditation, contemplation, service and charity are deemed spiritual while the others like sleeping, eating, talking, working are supposed to be secular. But any activity done with completable attention is enjoyable. Sri Kalki always say that “Content is not important; it is the attention and awarness that matters.”
All activity is spiritual, when it is an end in itself and not a means to an end. To be spiritual, is to be happy and spirituality is the science of happyness. The problem with man today is, he seeks to understand every moment and tries to find a meaning in every experience. We have defined a purpose for our life and we would like our activities, our experiences, and our attitudes to match with that purpose. You are trying to make life sacred by giving it a direction. But what you don’t realize is experiencing is sacred, living is sacred and awarness is sacred. To completely live through our day-to-day activities is the very essence of life. To live is purpose of life.
