There is a question among spiritual seekers
about knowing about their spiritual growth. The question is am I growing
spiritually or not.
One has to follow the spiritual discipline
outlined here. This will help them in their spiritual growth. Reduce your attachment to external things and people. Claim that I am not the
owner of anything and I am not the controller of anything. This is reduction of
Raga or attachment. Directly
proportional to attachment are two powerful emotions. One is Fear. Fear is directly the product of
attachment. Surrender to God for whatever happens in your life. Surrender helps
in reducing our attachment. For some others, their emotion called krothaga or anger will make them spiritually come down. Greater the attachment
the spiritual growth is reduced. There will be a gradual reduction of all the 3
things which every human being is seeking throughout his life (Viz. Peace,
happiness and security) if one does not follow the spiritual path.
We can follow the FIR principle.
Frequency of emotional
disturbance should come down.
Intensity should come
down.
Recovery period after
attack of fear or anger should be fast (how much time I take to come back to
normalcy). Self restraint indicates
spiritual maturity. Spirituality requires this mental refinement. Develop the
mind. Develop spiritually and surrender to god. Only when the mind is refined
you are ready for serious enquiry.
Increase your CCC.
Calmness: I am
generally calm.
Cheerfulness: Do not
put a gloomy face. I should spread cheer around me in spite of ups and downs.
Ex. Lord Krishna as a child undergoes many troubles but put a cheerful face at
all times.
Confidence: I should
be confident. Whatever be the pursuit, I will succeed by the grace of the lord.
We cannot measure our spiritual growth by a
scale like Richter scale (a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 used to express the
energy released by an earthquake) used for measuring the intensity of an
earthquake. We can only perceive the same by seeing the changes happening
around us.
Find out for yourself whether you are growing
spiritually or not. You have to control
your mind for which a lot of
practice is required. When you start seeing a perceptible change around you
then you can sense that you are treading towards the path to spirituality.
Be blissful.
S.SEKAR
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