what is spirituality?

Many people struggle understanding spirituality as its a hard topic to understand for normal people like us who are entangled in materialistic way of life. I will try to explain the spirituality in layman's terms so that every one should understand in this post.

In basic terms spirituality means to self realize that we are not ordinary like our bodies which just a lump of dead matter. For understanding what I mean by this check out image below:



To understand spirituality we need to make ourselves clear that we are not this body. As seen from above image our body, this universe is changing continuously. Everything changes continuously around us like we grow from a infant to teen and then from teen to adult and from adult to old age person.

By considering the above image we are not we after some period of time! I know by reading this line you would be feeling like this:

Confused aren't you? 😀
You would say that I am - I am after any time period, yes you are. But your body changes and not you. So this is the first step to understand spirituality that body changes but I am unchangeable.

Secondly we say my hand, my eyes, my brain, etc. but who is this to say my? This also proves that we are not this body we never say that I am hand, I am eyes, I am brain.
So what we are?
We are souls entrapped in this body. I will again prove that we are not this body...

We were infant and slowly as years passed our body grown in different size, change in hormones, etc. but we are the same as we were from baby age. This is hard to digest but its true and any person can understand that we are unchangeable we are what we were as a baby just our body changed and our emotions changed. For explanation of this check out below image:


As seen from above image the soul is the same and just the body changes its shape and its properties. This is not limited to any religion but a fact which can be understood by any human by thinking. To understand spirituality you don't need to perform hard penances done by ascetics just normal thinking and understanding difference between us and the body.

So spirituality means to understand that all living beings including us are not body. Yes even animals, trees, insects are all souls trapped in that type of body. Spiritually there is no difference between us and other living beings. Self realization is only possible in human beings and not in any other living beings.

Some say that soul is something different and we need to understand it with very hard ways but its not so. We are soul trapped in the body and not any superficial thing that needs to be pursued.

Why should you care to understand spirituality?

1. Your focus will increase and you will become more productive.
2. You will become more audacious than before.
3. You will get rid of psychological disorders like depression.
4. You will lose the ego which disturbs your relationships.
5. You will be more calm and cool than before.
6. You will become more optimistic. 

In today's fast paced and competitive life psychological problems are increasing more than before and we need spirituality to repair this. Without spirituality we are seeing negative impacts in society like suicide rates have increased more than before. Such suicides are increasing because we are identifying ourselves with body and entangled in illusion.

Some so called rational people say that all this is false and there is no soul but lets consider a case. When anybody dies we say that he expired or he is no more but why we say this? despite he can be seen there lying before us. So who is no more? this gives the answer that the soul which was in the body whom we called by some name and identity is not in the body anymore.

When we die people even don't call us by our name and call dead body instead! why this? because they know that their beloved one is not in that body anymore. So this proves that we are soul and not the body. The body is just a dead matter without soul and once the person dies (or soul leaves the body) the body starts to decompose.

Any sane man can understand that we are not weak like body which has many weak points like its bones can break, heart can fail, etc. but we soul are ever energetic and eternal.  We might have heard old people say "My body don't support now as it was before" so it can be understood that body is weak and not we (soul).

So I guess I have explained what spirituality is in easy language. If you have any doubts/suggestions let me know in comments.