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Let's be practical

Often spirituality is confused with philosophy and because of this fundamental error one thinks that spirituality too is only talking big beautiful philosophy's with little practical utility, if any at all. But in reality, spirituality is not talking big or sounding nice or something which has no practical utility, rather it is something which makes us understand what we actually are and there by tells us what are the principles governing us and our lives. We all come alone and go back alone .  Such statements are often categorized as  philosophy, metaphysics, etc etc. But if we examine such statements we will find that although they do sound philosophical but at the same time they are facts of our lives which we do not want to look at out of ignorance or our own set of notions. For instance, take any relationship however beautiful it may be, how-so-ever close you may be to a person but the fact is at some point in time that person will go away, either the relationship loses it

Desires are not supressed...

Knock Knock !

Knock Knock ! Who's there? Culture. Culture??….culture who?! Just ask your own self- “What does culture mean to me?!“  Majority would dismiss it as a waste of time (after all how does it matter whatever it might mean!) and those who will reflect on it will either get a a religion in mind or a recollection of some politician or teacher giving a lecture on it… basically telling us that either we dont know or we have forgotten what our culture really is. Lord Macaulay’s in the house of commons stated in 1835 "I have travelled across the length and breadth of   India   and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless   we break the very   backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage,   and, therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system,