Who are We - Spiritual Beings or
Human Beings?
-Dr. Lalit Kumar Setia
In today's world, most people are
working as machines to earn money. Saving money and making investments in
materialistic things. A very few are making efforts to know themselves. We use things economically and efficiently, for that purpose, researchers are telling us how to perform a task in a better way. Every day, new
innovations and new methods.
It is well known that in September 2019; suddenly a virus
came into China and be transmitted around the world and declared a pandemic by
the World Health Organization WHO.
The guidelines are issued from time to time from the year 2019 to 2022, all advisories are implemented by the whole world including wearing masks and keeping physical distance between two persons. It is realized that life is more valuable than routine job work and businesses, the lockdowns are declared in the areas where more cases of Covid-19 virus variants are found in the whole world.
Why do people start praying to God in difficult times?
To control over the various variants of Covid-19, research is done and precautions are issued based on scientific facts. The people of different religions prayed to God for safeguarding the world from this pandemic. Saints guided to meditate regularly and start humanitarian deeds with more passion than earlier.
During lockdowns, most people spend more time with their beloved, relatives,
and children. The relatives and children got ultimate happiness with love and affection from the mother-father due to lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 times. Nature, as a hand of God, made everyone realize the value of love, affection, happiness above the value of money and resources for which everybody was running in life. Due to lockdowns, the water of rivers was not polluted from the waste of factories, and the air also improved its quality.
What will happen to the work, if a person dies?
During the Covid-19
times, people working in jobs realized the value of health. It is realized that if a person dies, another person joins easily on his/her job and vacancy filled in a very short period. Those who spent more time with their families realized the value of love and affection, it became clear that life should be spent giving more time to the beloved, families, and friends. In my words - "A person is replaceable to an Employer, But irreplaceable to the beloved, families, and friends."
Therefore, it is required to change the behavior for living life as a spiritual being than a human being. Do you agree? Changing behavior is very difficult, requires courage to live differently, think differently, manage emotions and live with a new style.
Courage for being more Spiritual in life:
The
schools, colleges, society makes a person learn what is right and what is wrong. People be aware to live with making balance in the physical things, taking bold decisions which are right even if difficult and uncomfortable. Time and age give emotional and intellectual courage for learning and feeling things with more flexibility in life. How spirituality is different from routine life? Giving more weightage to heart than mind, made us realize spirituality. The God Almighty is inside our hearts and makes us alert whenever anything wrong is going to happen due to our actions in our life. Living life as per the society, with looking others, is not difficult. Even the majority of people live life by looking upon others what others are doing, they start doing the same, no matter it is moral or immoral, whatever seems like the right to them, they do with living in a society.
Without realizing spirituality in actions, life is aimless and there is
no meaning to live only for self-pleasure. The realization of this fact depends
upon the intelligent quotient and emotional quotient of the person. In the Hindu
religion, Geeta states that the
body is perishable and the soul changes the body like clothes. I observed too
many people fearing death and a lot of examples where persons at the time
of death become too much feared. However, a lot of people died without a single
moment of fear. It depends upon the awareness of the relationship between the soul
and the body.
A French Philosopher -
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin rightly said, “We are not human beings having a
spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience[i].”
When we adopt this ideology in our life, everything seems to be in control and
our power becomes infinite i.e. the power of our soul. The divine consciousness
is an experience of God’s grace, bliss, divine power, and ultimate peace. The
Human consciousness means a thought which convinces us that God is very far
from us and He is not on this earth. Due to deep ignorance, in human
consciousness, we don't realize the things God is making in our life even we
think that we don’t require God’s support. With no need to pray and meditate,
the limited consciousness is felt as complete. In spiritual consciousness, a
thought changed the whole scenario which makes us realize that God is inside
us. With God’s infinite power, the spiritual consciousness makes us able to
determine a goal and be inspired every moment to achieve it. Progress,
prosperity, a positive attitude, and real peace come in life once the thought is
contained in each function.
Shah Satnam Ji Incarnation disclosed by Shah Mastana Ji:
The most respectable Saint Shah Mastana
Ji once made a circular mark on the footprint of a person with his stick and
said, "Look, this is the foot of the Lord”. One of his followers said that
the footprint belongs to Sardar Harbans Singh Ji who is the son of Zaildar Waryam
Singh Ji living in ‘Jalal Aana Sahib’, a village of Dabwali, Sirsa. Then Shah
Mastana Ji said that neither He knows any Zaildar nor any Sardar and the
footprint belongs to the Lord or God. On 14th March 1954, in a spiritual
congregation, Shah Mastana Ji told Sardar Harbans Singh that he has been
ordered to take the ‘Word of Name of God’ and be the leader of ‘Jindaram’, the
living God inside. By making him the successor of Dera Sacha Sauda Sirsa, Shah
Mastana Ji changed ‘Sardar Harbans Singh’ to ‘Shah Satnam Ji’. The words of
Shah Mastana Ji be true and Shah Satnam Ji led the world by making people
realize God inside by giving supreme ‘Name of God’ and blessings.
The human
consciousness converted into spiritual consciousness after practicing
meditation and realization of God’s grace in life. Before meditation, it seems
that we are human and being spiritual is somewhat difficult but after doing
meditation, it seems that we are spiritual and being human is somewhat
difficult and even more difficult because a person after doing meditation gets
the taste of God’s realization which is not faded even after a long time of
involvement in people not believe in God. Even incurable diseases are being cured by
using meditation. On this earth, everyone should
"Do all the good he/she can, to as many people as he/she can, as often as
he/she can."
Spiritual people take life as Examination and realize Moksha
There are four doors as per spiritual
books, the first is Dharma, the second is Artha, the third is Kaam, and the fourth is Moksha.
Awareness of these four doors is a must to live a life that leads to Moksha. The
soul which belongs to Almighty and is a part of the energy of the Almighty; is
facing an examination to neutralize itself in all situations. At the last
moment of life, the soul is departed from all the materialistic things of the
world. Whatever is accumulated from the world, is sacrificed automatically. The
soul went to Almighty with its deeds or Karma only. The deeds or Karma of the
soul after departing the materialistic world; are checked and verified by the
Almighty. In this checking of deeds, some deeds are appreciated by
the Almighty and for such deeds, the soul is rewarded with Heaven. Secondly, for
the deeds, which are not as per Dharma, the soul is punished and sent to Hell. The
souls are bound to enjoy the reward and face punishment as per their deeds in
Heaven and Hell. After getting the reward and facing punishment the soul again
takes birth in the materialistic world as a creature. The soul gets body and
mind to perform the deeds and now again it sits for another examination.
Happiness is a realization; the
sorrows are also realization. Both are the state of mind. There are a lot of
people who realize happiness without accumulating wealth in life and there are
also a lot of people who failed to realize happiness even after earning and
accumulating crores of money. The Moksha is the
stage when the soul is connected with its ultimate source i.e. Almighty from where it
constantly getting energy. As per spiritual books, for Moksha, such connection
is a must. A person can realize God Almighty through his mind, heart, and body.
The realization of God Almighty through the body is known as Karma Yoga. The deeds are done with the desire of God Almighty for the welfare of others without
self-interest. The Ramayana was written by Mahrishi Balmiki, The Sharvana
realize Mokha by devoting his life to the service of his parents, The Mother Teresa
devoted her whole life to serving others with love and affection. Some people devote their whole life to the welfare of others, and they realize God
Almighty.
A soul can realize Moksha by devoting the mind to the making of Yoga or meditation; it is known as Raj Yoga. The mind is the
king of all senses and connecting the king with God Almighty through
meditation, is Raj Yoga. A person with his devotion, his respiratory system,
his practice of meditation, can realize the God Almighty easily. It is possible
by understanding the concentrating of mind with chanting of Gurumantra (as
provided by Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan in Dera Sacha Sauda Sirsa,
Haryana, India). In his words, a soul can realize God Almighty by
concentrating upon a point between the eyes along with chanting a few words,
known as the method of meditation. All Saints, Shri
Shankaracharya, Swami Paramhans, Swami Vivekanand, and other saints or yogi
people; show the same path of connecting soul to God Almighty by using mind.
If a soul is not able to understand
Dharma i.e. what is wrong and what is right in the eyes of God Almighty. Even
if it is not capable to connect itself using the mind, such soul if comes to me
with full surrender, then also God Almighty waive off all sins of the soul. For
this purpose, one should remind God Almighty at the last moment of life. It is
possible by crying inside, at the time of last moment to make Him realize
within. Such capability comes with ‘Bhakti’ and it is known as ‘Bhakti Yoga’.
The Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Mira Bai, Hanuman Ji, are examples of this Bhakti
Yoga. If a soul forgets the main cause of its origin in this world, and it
violates Dharma, makes sins instead of good deeds, then it takes rounds of the
world by taking birth again and again. The God Almighty is so kind that He takes birth to take such souls with Him. If we study the spiritual
books or have the company of a true saint, then we will realize how can we connect
with God Almighty easily.
Dera Sacha Sauda - A path to realize Spirituality
*Copyright © 2018
Dr. Lalit Kumar. All rights reserved.
This article is written by Dr. Lalit Kumar Setia; a renowned author and trainer. He completed his Doctorate in Commerce from Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra and MBA in Information Technology from GJU, Hisar. He also wrote two books, 15 research papers, and organized more than 200 Training Courses during his working period since 2006 in Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Gurugram. The article was published on 10th May 2018 and last updated on 1st October 2021. The writer can be contacted on lalitkumarsetia@gmail.com
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[i] Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes. (n.d.). BrainyQuote.com.
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