SPIRITUALITY

Spiritual Awareness Brings Joy To The Lives Of People

A spiritually aware person understands the value of life with happiness

How often do we think about our life?

What is our life’s purpose?

Are we aware of ourselves?

We normally do not stop by and reflect on life. We move ahead with the flow. If so it is time to stop by. If we are aware of our ‘SELF’ we will be able to easily achieve spiritual awareness. So step 1 is to become aware of yourself and find out what are you doing.

Self Awareness

I will narrate a story. This story was often told by my mother who had a bagful of them to keep me aware and lead a good life later. She would often ask me to think about the story and we would discuss it later and try to find out the meaning. I found this a very special story.

The story of a rich man who lost his self-awareness

A rich man who had many factories wanted to keep control of his staff in the numerous offices that he had. He had a friend with whom he had grown up.

The rich man was fond of alcohol and often went to join his friend for a drink. He was very cautious that his factory and office people did not know his weakness. So he got some secret doors made in his house from where he would just go out quietly and go to his friend’s house.

In the beginning, he used to visit his friend just to chat and have an easy time with him but later he became obsessed with his factories and he used to extract information about the people working in his office and what they thought of him.

His friend was a little awkward at first because he started feeling that the love and warmth had vanished between them. However, he continued to please his rich friend and did not want to annoy him. He however never spoke against people and gave a correct and positive report to his friend.

One fine evening the rich man was very perturbed. He began to drink a lot and his friend told him that if he drinks so much he will lose his self-awareness and his spiritual sense too.

The rich man did not like to be admonished. he kept on drinking more and more and started talking aloud “See my self-awareness is intact, I am spiritually aware. Drinks do not matter to me or my state and my behavior are intact.” He even called his friend names which were not decent.

The rich man’s friend was very decent. He told him that he would go and drop his friend to his palatial house. The rich man insisted that he would go himself otherwise his friend will be able to access his secret path to his house.

The rich man left and went back to the secret path. He reached the door at the end of it. He started looking for the key but could not find it.

A little voice kept repeating to him. Look inside your pocket it is there. He kept moving his hand here and there but tumbled because he was in an inebriated condition and was not aware of himself.

The voice kept saying look inside your pocket but he failed to hear. Loss of self-awareness is the result of loss of spiritual awareness. He stumbled and fell with injuries and in the morning found himself in a hospital bed with his friend looking after him.

Reflect on your life

Step 1 is to become self-aware. Step 2 is to stop and reflect on your life. The rich man realized lying in the hospital bed that he had forgotten to trust people. His friend who cared for him was no longer part of him.

The friend did try to tell him but the rich man refused to listen. Now was the time to take a call and change his attitude towards people.

You do not always meet people to get their help but to extend joy, happiness, and love to them as well and to take care of them.

The focus of his life had gone wrong. He should have thought of his staff and taken care of them rather than look for their faults.

Act on the reflection

It is best to take a call and be spiritually joyful like the image above. When you do good to others you become spiritually aware and your whole being is relaxed happy and dancing within you. The beauty on a spiritually satisfied face is so beautiful that you would love to look at it.

A spiritually aware person is calm, cool, and has the power to discuss rationally. To give others their due and be happy. Reflection leads to self improvement when you act on your failings and begin to improve things in your life.

The learnings are

That when you are not spiritually aware then you begin to focus on negative things in your life.
The rich man wanted to keep an eye on people and what they were talking about him rather than focussing on development and looking forward to his projects.
You begin to distrust and disrespect people who have deep and good feelings towards you. The rich man did not want to take his friend to drop him because he distrusted his good intentions to drop him safely to his house.
You begin to listen to your own voice. The rich man was continuously told by his friend to stop drinking but he did not listen. He thought he was in control of himself.
The rich man reflected in his life and found that he was not aware of himself and his bearings then how could he be spiritually aware. Reflect in your life and when you go beyond maturity. It helps you to think of life as a passing phase. The need to do good to others and contribute to society to bring joy in your life.

To conclude

Spiritual awareness brings joy to our lives.

Reflect and be self-aware of both yourself and your surroundings.

Act and improve yourself after reflecting on your life and its failings.

Life is full of joy and peace when you enjoy life by being positive and by giving others happiness.

Be humble and soak your self in spiritual awareness for happiness in your life.

This post is in response to Darshak Rana about thoughts and practical applications of Spiritual awareness for Spiritual Saturday in Spiritual Secrets.