Religion & Spirtuality
A man is quite restless and seeks a path for inner poise. He may choose either the path of religion or of spirituality. On a mundane plane, there may not appear much difference between religion and spirituality - people use either path for inner poise. If you look closely you will find while religion is a directed path to achieve the truth, spirituality leaves a seeker to explore his own path. A spiritual seeker after attaining the highest wisdom preaches the people certain path to follow for their benefit and this directed path based on the experiences of one or a few individuals takes shape of a religion. Thus a religion is bound by customs, traditions, culture, formalities, practices, etc. With elapse of time the real essence or message of the religion gets overshadowed by mere rituals of customary and traditional formalities and practices.
The present day generation is the generation of enquiring nature and so is its mind explorative. It wants to have first hand experience before following and accepting anything and seeks reasons for all actions. Religion is too inadequate to answer all the queries of this enquiring mind. It is only the spirituality which has the capacity and potentiality to answer all the questions of the enquiring mind and take the person to his true nature. Spirituality addresses human being directly and tries to take him to his true nature through self transformation processes and self enquiring methods. In his great work of Yogasutra, Maharshi Patanjali starts with the sentence,
Atha yógánushásanam, the word, atha generally is used as an auspicious beginning of a function or puja or any ritual. The real meaning of this word is ‘open’, ‘let us open out’. Maharashi Patanjali when starting his lessons on Yoagashastra, says ‘let us open out’ the discipline of yoga and have the first hand experience. He never restricts you to follow any strict path. He asks the seeker to realise what he is seeing in the external world is not true. He asks the seeker to look within and enquire about himself: who I am? Dear Sadhakas, this self enquiry about yourself will bring in transformation in you and will answer all questions that were bothering you and keeping you restless.
With love and best wishes,
Pattabhi and Jyothi
A man is quite restless and seeks a path for inner poise. He may choose either the path of religion or of spirituality. On a mundane plane, there may not appear much difference between religion and spirituality - people use either path for inner poise. If you look closely you will find while religion is a directed path to achieve the truth, spirituality leaves a seeker to explore his own path. A spiritual seeker after attaining the highest wisdom preaches the people certain path to follow for their benefit and this directed path based on the experiences of one or a few individuals takes shape of a religion. Thus a religion is bound by customs, traditions, culture, formalities, practices, etc. With elapse of time the real essence or message of the religion gets overshadowed by mere rituals of customary and traditional formalities and practices.
The present day generation is the generation of enquiring nature and so is its mind explorative. It wants to have first hand experience before following and accepting anything and seeks reasons for all actions. Religion is too inadequate to answer all the queries of this enquiring mind. It is only the spirituality which has the capacity and potentiality to answer all the questions of the enquiring mind and take the person to his true nature. Spirituality addresses human being directly and tries to take him to his true nature through self transformation processes and self enquiring methods. In his great work of Yogasutra, Maharshi Patanjali starts with the sentence,
Atha yógánushásanam, the word, atha generally is used as an auspicious beginning of a function or puja or any ritual. The real meaning of this word is ‘open’, ‘let us open out’. Maharashi Patanjali when starting his lessons on Yoagashastra, says ‘let us open out’ the discipline of yoga and have the first hand experience. He never restricts you to follow any strict path. He asks the seeker to realise what he is seeing in the external world is not true. He asks the seeker to look within and enquire about himself: who I am? Dear Sadhakas, this self enquiry about yourself will bring in transformation in you and will answer all questions that were bothering you and keeping you restless.
With love and best wishes,
Pattabhi and Jyothi
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