STEPPING UP SPIRITUALLY.

 

Other than oxygen blessings of God  that come to us through other people that are like us all. All modern living and its facilities provided to us by our brains of past and present. We are planing to go to Mars. WE have nuclear weapons, our genetic code has been broken from stem cells to cloning to all the modern ways of living and the ways of transportation and communication has been changed. Nothing has stayed, or will  ever will stay  the same as we evolve.

Everything that people use to pray to God for or to achieve and receive has been provided to us by us. Since we are continuously evolving we still want more and more so we still pray to God and God is still relevant in our lives. This is clearly a logical explanation of our evolutionary nature. No matter what we achieve, we will still want more and explore further.

Sure we are doing it all but it is all done by living and breathing bodies. What does it really mean?  If you honestly look at it you will find spirituality which has been always there and still keeps knocking at your door of understanding, but you reject it because of your lack of understanding. How simple it can be?  Whatever you are doing with a living and breathing body and brain is not done exclusively by you. Is it hard to understand?  No, not at all, but just look around and see how shamelessly we all claim our achievements are ours and ours exclusively. Where does this attitude come from? It belongs to ego related half knowledge. Our half knowledge is related with our evolutionary nature. When we start to claim that whatever is happening we are making it happen. There is some truth to it because we are doing it but with the oxygen and a living body and just to remind you that they are not in our control period so whatever we do as an individual or collectively is all dependent on the whole universe going in favour, otherwise what kind of an ability a dead body can have.

Where did we learn all this from?  It’s our society and parents if they keep preaching to us that whatever you want to do you can do it if you put your efforts into it. When we achieve whatever we want to it sends a signal to our psyche that we are the one who did it. If no one explains how things are done in reality our own knowledge and belief systems would become impotent of spirituality.

Sure our present knowledge is important and a must. For instance, if a mother is breast feeding the baby to keep it alive, or someone teaches us how to survive in all kinds of circumstances like hunting and fishing in the past as well as modern day jobs of today are the skills we have learned from our belonging humanity. They all come from the people we are born from or belong to but there is always more to life to learn as an evolving entity. No matter how much we achieve it would never be enough until we hit our potential so we personally and individually should always keep our mortal nature in front to live a mortal life.

When you do something for the people you belong to, which I believe we belong to humanity as a whole, not to just a group of people. You are not doing a favour to humanity, you are reciprocating to God for a living breathing machine which survives with the fuel of oxygen and food so you are returning the favour through you actions during your living years.

Learning to at least respect the people who have been helpful to you like your parents and humanity you live in is not only a duty it is a common sense of decency. Your reciprocation is spirituality related game we all need to play. If everyone plays fairly with the sense of responsibility than humanity as a whole wins.

If you do the good things in the greed of heaven this works actually against your sense of personal responsibility then you can say that you am not going to work and live on the expense of others. You may be able to do that but deep inside of you, you are not respecting the requirements of being alive. You, Humanity and God ,who lives through the humanity. Understanding this is important that you understand that if you do not respect God or people around you, you actually are disrespecting yourself.

Disrespecting oneself stems from the knowledge based on a disease. I say that this disease is  created by the people who give all the glory to a spiritual God but disrespect the physical component of God. They glorify God and curse the Devil and take the human individual out of the equation just to make you insignificant so politically they can control you. If you feel that you are not worthy, you may fall victim to that education and lose self respect. You may let the others pull your share which puts you down even further to the point that you can think self disrespecting behaviour is normal. This behaviour may show up in your life just because you have learned that you are not responsible of anything. If everything is done by God and Devil, that makes you just a puppet ripped to be controlled. If the whole community or nation becomes victims of this politics. It’s a path to destruction and the end of the evolutionary process of human individual and community so I do not believe a religion should be a political system. Religions are spiritual systems and they should stick with the spirituality and spirituality exclusively. 

A parent would not be able to take care of their off springs and would not be able to teach them to fend for themselves  if the social fabrics is designed in such a way that no one is taking responsibility for their actions or themselves. It can lead to the point that even as communities we can’t take care of ourselves but thank God luckily we as human individuals that come equipped with a personal sense of justice and emotions of compassion so not everyone turns out the same way. Not only can we take care of ourselves we automatically grow responsibility to take care of others as well.

If parents or society helps too much to be relevant or politically strong it can hinder in the process of our kids growing their metaphorical wings to fly solo.

If you talk openly that you want them to fly without others help they may want to put more efforts into flying solo. We are like other creatures in the nature. We can get used to receiving help and learn and like to live as dependents. Whether it’s a policy for the controlling authorities to keep you weak or its your desire not to put efforts to fly higher and if these desires do not match with human nature because we are designed to evolve and evolution requires constant struggle to push and pursue to the next level.

That is where the conservatives or religious people get spooked because if everyone learns to fly solo and higher they would not be able to answer the questions asked by the higher flying individuals. They would not be able to create a fear of God or blame the Devil for your actions so they would not be able to control you politically. It’s not natural for human beings to stay put and feel good about it. We have a natural duty and we are programmed to reciprocate to feel good about ourselves. We all have a need to be useful otherwise we become self destructive, depressed and lose our zest to have a happy life. By nature we find deeper happiness when we are able to help those who need help.

Whether its socialism, communism or religions, they all promote ideas which clearly leave room for the spiritual injustice to the individual. As human individual we all come in life as a mortal so the awareness of the mortality would automatically make us insecure. Our insecurities show up in our actions of daily living. If these insecurities seep into the masses which usually is the case, everybody would want to secure their personal and collective life. Either way it just does not and can not stop at life preservation, it leads to hoarding of all sort. From the beliefs to take along the material things into the spiritual world to having to fear from hell and greed of heaven all is related to the knowledge of mortality and related insecurities.

This hoarding removes wealth from circulation which in the long run can be harmful for the society full of mortals. It is not about life of a mortal it is a business of living so we start to remove the wealth away. From the terms mattress savings to property to stock market to bank savings to retirement savings and on and on, even insurance in every aspect of life yet being mortal.

Interestingly we have systems set up that we leave everything for our off springs of family members or other loved ones. If we don’t have do this then governments are eager to take over. So far that is how the things work and that is the best humanity can offer. We can help those who can’t fend for themselves like disables and the sick.

As an evolving entity humanity is doing the best it can but individually and collectively our insecurities can take us to our three major problems.

As the Said-i Nursi said and I quote.

“Mankind has three problems: Discrimination, Poverty and Ignorance. Discrimination can be solved with love and compassion,  Poverty can be solved with sharing and Ignorance can only be resolved by education”. 

My question is how do we share if we are bombarded by the education of insecurities? If everyone rich or poor are addicted to hoarding then no charity system can be evergreen. You can say survival of the fittest is a success,  I would say what kind of fitness and success?  Health happiness and success is the key. If you are not healthy or lacking oxygen you can’t be happy and success without health and happiness is useless. We are a social creature. It matters to us that we are useful to the people around us and a dog eat dog philosophy does not fit into spiritual human living. Physically you can feed your body and satisfy your brain by impressing others but if you are still unhappy or depressed, remember being unhappy is a spiritually deficiency. Being spiritually deficient, no one can live a happy or healthy and life. Without happiness and health then Life is a failed experience.

In spiritual worlds reality is a reality so I am putting ten things to remember.

1) Educate yourself about yourself.

2) Learn to live a moral life.

3) Don’t do to anyone what you don’t like done to you or your loved ones.

4) Make it a duty to reciprocate and be thankful for the functioning body and oxygen provided to you.

5) Look at the taxes you are paying as a spiritual reciprocation because you actually are helping others. Sure you should ask how that money is used.

6) Remember its not what you have accumulated in your mortal life its what you have consumed and used for yourself and the needy. In the end of the day that is what count for you.

7) There cannot be a human book which holds evolving knowledge that is Holy or otherwise. Only an evolving entity can gain more knowledge and find solutions for the present.  Evolving problems so locking, freezing or putting ceilings on the evolving knowledge and this is not only impossible to hold down,  its non-spiritual to suppress human evolution. We are heading towards our potential and its our responsibility to evolve to make God even more majestic, significant and relevant in our lives.

8) Politics of nationalism, religion or any other ism is related to our individual and collective insecurities and as a mortal we all have one destiny. Security is not part of it.

9) No gender, race, nation or religious identity is from God. There is nothing more spiritual than equal human rights because physical identity of God is humanity itself.

10) Killing each other in the name of race, nation or religion is not only a sign of lack of evolutionary but walks it down and makes it against God’s very existence. God’s meaningfulness comes to existence when human beings put their backs and shoulders together to brings physicality to spirituality to make it meaningful.

As mass or  a society we should have respect for the individual’s life because they come and go but as society or as a group we carry on.

Our traditions, customs whether they are religious or social rules are all designed to have peace and order in the society but they should not be on the expanse of the individual. For instance Sati was a custom or a tradition in India for the widows. They were burned alive with the dead body of their husband. Muslims and English both tried remove this  law that but with very little success. Practices like this should never be the rules of human societies because it disrespects the individual’s God given free will and mortal nature.

When God blesses you with whatever it is, it is yours to consume and use. For instance you come in this life with a functioning and a living body and brain. Its your to live however and whichever way you want to but when it comes to the people you come to, its a different story they are like parents they feel that they own you and your loyalties should be with them otherwise you should be shunned. 

Since everyone knows they are mortal they try to secure or take security to extreme. That extreme create a set of problems for the individual and society simultaneously. From parents to big brother everybody lays a claim on you and you naturally want to practice your individuality. Yet regardless of everything and every efforts from you your fact of mortality never changes.

Big brother related government and religion both are in a different kind of mortality. They are like empires or communism they exist beyond the length of human individual’s life but they are mortal as well. Our history shows with human evolution we have a grave yard full of empires and dynasties.

Ironically a parent does not want to lose a child because of the pain of love loss yet they send them to rob someone of love in the name of nation and religion. Our groups don’t want to lose of the individual yet build walls to keep the others away. Why these contradictions? Security related political control.

A bigger population from all and different schools of thoughts can be intimidating for the conservative governing authority. Yet the reality is in the end of the day we are all able bodies and useful to the societies where ever we choose to live. The real problem is the politics of sense of belonging. If we choose to belong to humanity as a whole these politics based problems vanish. If a society treats everyone with equal human rights people flock to those countries.

Sure there are different motivating factors and reasons but a house with the four walls does not make a home. Home is made with love and love can’t be forced all parents know that, all lovers know that but for some of us life with a love politics is a way of life. Governments, religions and big brother related authorities always have political agendas.  I believe they should learn that a brain drain has been is and will be a fact of life regardless of what era we live in, so respecting the individual with equal human rights is not and should not be based on the politics. It should be the law.

Equal human rights and a sense of belonging to humanity as a whole is a spiritual answer we all  should be looking for to sustain as communities. Humanity has been and is full of ghost towns for different reasons. Look around or as I said and look at the grave yard of the empires. The main character of all the glorious days has been is and always will be the human individual.

You can have every facility such as the following:  houses, roads, electricity, water and sewer systems, cinema halls, theaters, play grounds, schools, churches or mosques but nothing is valuable until a human individual gives value to them.

I know of a poem in Pakistan and it goes like this:

” A lily in the forest cries for thousands of years, it is very hard to find an appreciating eye in the garden in the forest”.

Personally I believe God is like that lily and human beings are or have an appreciating eye. God is a spiritual entity and God’s actions require human physicality otherwise it’s all useless. This is one of the most motivational reasons why religions promise to their followers an important spot in  heaven if they recruit an other human being for their belonging religion.

A while back I wrote a blog titled “God’s house for sale for one dollar”. It was triggered by the news from a town in the northern Ontario. Lack of attendance was the reason given by the sellers. Anyway God is meaningful and valuable only if humanity exists one individual at a time. Killing each others belonging individuals can’t belong to God or nor it can be spiritual. I would go this far to say its a spiritual crime and don’t you dare let anyone tell you or convince you otherwise. You can not kill in the name of your belonging groups especially in the name of your religion because you actually are told if you kill for your religion you are killing for God and you would be rewarded a spot in heaven. This can’t be further than the truth because of this example.

Imagine pulling one thread out a piece of fabric at a time, it may not make any difference in the beginnings but in the long run it will weakened and eventually make it vanish the fabric itself. Now imagine that fabric is God and you are the thread now ask yourself would you kill each other or pull the thread from that fabric?

Remember I said when life is given to you its your to live the way you want to. Are you strengthening God or weakening God by following your religious orders to kill each other.

Ask this question to yourself without the political pressure of your sense of belonging to your groups. It is to make you honest to yourself. If you still come up with the same feelings of sense of belonging to your group regarding this as that you have been brain washed and have no personal sense of being.

Being an independent individual is what God had meant for you. That is the reason why your umbilical cord has been cut and you have been blessed with an independent and functioning body and brain so you can make your own independent decisions. If you are not making a use of it, you are disrespecting yourself as a spiritual physical entity with the Godly powers.

Whether you are a nuclear scientist and don’t believe in God or you are a religious scholar and believe in God with all your heart, either one of you logically just can’t be pulling one thread at a time or burn the whole fabric just because of what you believe in.

Humanity and God has been put in a vulnerable situation because of your political affiliations so snap out of it and take responsibilities of being a human being. Remember we are a creature who has evolved from the bush and cave residencies so we should evolve from our bush and cave behaviours as well. Politics and belief systems aside your personal sense of justice should be able to overrule your desires to kill to feed your political sense of belonging to a group.