Only when we are healthy and mentally at peace can we experience spirituality.

Spirituality is the ocean, while religion is a tributary into the ocean. Spirituality is the sum and substance of human life; religion is an expression of human belief. Spirituality in its broad sense is getting in touch with our personal nature and with our higher nature.

Spirituality is being aware of how the body and mind work in unison. We have lived with this body for many years, but we have only considered the body to be the outer packaging – the skin, muscles and bones. But the body is not just skin, muscles and bones; there are also different organs which are functioning continuously.

 

Have you ever experienced or felt the suffering of your lungs? Have you ever felt the suffering of your stomach or liver or kidneys? Not until it reaches a critical point. Then you become aware and realize there is a major problem that you need to deal with somehow. But by then it is too late.

Awareness has to evolve uniformly through the body and through the mind. That is the teaching of yoga. Only then can we become spiritual, because spirituality is recognition of the right methods of living, thinking and behaving.

Think in the right way. Behave in the right way. Act in the right way.

Wales, United Kingdom, June 8 –11, 2000

 

From the book “Yoga Sadhana Panorama Vol.4”, pg. 158, Sw. Niranjanananda Saraswati

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Only when we are healthy and mentally at peace can we experience spirituality.

Spirituality is the ocean, while religion is a tributary into the ocean. Spirituality is the sum and substance of human life; religion is an expression of human belief. Spirituality in its broad sense is getting in touch with our personal nature and with our higher nature.

Spirituality is being aware of how the body and mind work in unison. We have lived with this body for many years, but we have only considered the body to be the outer packaging – the skin, muscles and bones. But the body is not just skin, muscles and bones; there are also different organs which are functioning continuously.

 

Have you ever experienced or felt the suffering of your lungs? Have you ever felt the suffering of your stomach or liver or kidneys? Not until it reaches a critical point. Then you become aware and realize there is a major problem that you need to deal with somehow. But by then it is too late.

Awareness has to evolve uniformly through the body and through the mind. That is the teaching of yoga. Only then can we become spiritual, because spirituality is recognition of the right methods of living, thinking and behaving.

Think in the right way. Behave in the right way. Act in the right way.

Wales, United Kingdom, June 8 –11, 2000

 

From the book “Yoga Sadhana Panorama Vol.4”, pg. 158, Sw. Niranjanananda Saraswati