What are “Spirituality and Meditation” - Is There Any Difference?
Let’s find this out.
Let’s talk about something different and try to make a difference.
Spirituality and meditation are two common words that people are trying to implement in their lives.
Writing this article is quite difficult for me, as many people out there spreading knowledge about spirituality and meditation.
That’s why — I was thinking to present ideas differently in front of you people so that you can implement these ideas in your life to have maximum benefits.
By looking at the current situation of the world, anyone can grasp that there is a critical need for spirituality and meditation.
As people are getting dispersed, suicides are increasing, and people are getting apart from each other.
These problems occur due to the “lack of awareness” of the self, including not having enough tolerance powers to deal with the situation of life.
Why are people failing to situations of their lives?
One of the reason is their minds are filled with lies, and another reason is they’re not aware of their inner soul powers.
As many of you’re knowledgeable that the human body has two dimensions.
- Physical (made of flesh and bones).
- Soul (Energy which runs the entire body).
Many of us are not even conscious of the second dimension of human being, and that’s the reason we live in illusions for our entire life plus we continuously try to polish our outer body and later end of ruining it in many ways.
For real spiritual awakening, you require to know yourself accurately, and which is only possible when you realise your true self, that, “you’re a soul” with infinite powers.
What is the difference between spirituality and meditation?
Spirituality means; to know yourself and connect yourself to God in different ways, prayers, thoughts, mantras, other rituals and trough meditation.
All spiritual practices are a form of meditation.
Meditation; is the doorway to spirituality.
I know a lot of people are confused about both; some just practise Yoga ( breathing exercises) in their lives and call it meditation.
I want to inform you that mediation is different from Yoga.
Then what is meditation?
For understanding the meditation, you must understand the “concept of meditation”.
Why do people meditate?
Maximum people meditate — only to resolve their mind related issues, like, depression, anxiety, stress, too many desires, and other mental problems.
Joke;
People are only meditating and praying because they’ve problems if all problems get solved no one is going to appeal to God.
Meditation help with healing?
Yes, meditation does help in healing but the entire concept of meditation, is kind of mystery, furthermore, sometimes people get confused about it.
Why do people are confused about meditation?
The reason is simple because they don’t know? What they’re doing? And what they’re experiencing? Also, how they’re experiencing?
Many people burst into tear when they meditate, and they assume that they got enlightened and after that, they leave meditation and back to normal lives; therefore, they repeatedly get stuck into identical problems as before.
Why?
Simply because they thought the first step of meditation to be the last step of meditation, for this reason, they are now getting the same problems.
Meditation is a long marathon for permanent healing of all mental illness that is not physical. Hence you need to be patient while practising meditation if you wish to accomplish the desired results.
The science behind the meditation?
You know that science is the only thing that comes with facts and figures, and that’s the reason scientific people do not believe in spirituality.
Also, spiritual people don’t believe in science. As spiritual practices are more profound, hence, can’t be explained by science. But this not the case with meditation.
Meditation is pure science — you only need to comprehend it properly.
Why meditation pure science?
Do you know the process of osmosis?
Osmosis is the process — which explains the flow of energy and liquids; therefore, it explains; energy flows from higher concentration to lower concentration.
In the same way, while meditating, you undergo this flow of energy. That flow of energy improves your soul power, because of that you feel enlightened or liberated from worldly problems.
From where this energy comes?
You must know this; energy is the only thing that travels without a medium — rest other things need a medium to travel.
When a person meditates — he connects himself with a divine source of energy, GOd (some call it cosmic energy). That’s why he encounters rise in his energy and feels enlightened because God is the ultimate source of energy.
For understanding the above details, One must have an understanding of self? Because without self-understanding, it’s not possible to comprehend mediation, including its process.
And if you lack the process of meditation, then, you’ll only taste its unripe fruit.
Why meditation is necessary nowadays
As you know that we are advancing with a very high rate in terms of infrastructure, technology, good and services, but this progress is turning into a curse for our generations.
Why?
The reason is simple — now we have more young suicide cases than before? According to WHO official reports in every 40seconds one person suicides in the world.
Data above clearly shows the condition of the world; Furthermore, because of COVID-19 things are becoming more critical.
I hardly watch the news as there is nothing good to hear about, but whenever I do — there is 60+ news of rapes, divorce cases, physical abuse on women, suicides, murders and other forms of violence, out of 100.
By this, you can easily determine the situation of the world and the mental health of humans today.
What is the reason behind all this?
There is only one reason behind all this, i.e. “mental conjugation” because of that, people are failing to differentiate between — right and wrong. Furthermore, they’re only destroying each other.
If you look at all the facts carefully, you’ll find that there is a massive downfall in the moral values of humans. Plus things got so worse that even kids below 18 years of age commit crimes like rape, murders and sexual abuse.
Who’s responsible for this?
We are because only humans manage this planet.
What is the solution to these problems?
There is only one solution that is adding moral values in our lives — which is only possible by getting more conscious about self, including knowledge of right and wrong.
As this article is about the difference between spirituality and meditation, so I am not adding too many social issues to it. Still, the truth is — all these felonious acts have only one solution, i.e. self-realisation.
Conclusion
Ture spirituality can be achieved by meditation because meditation is the gateway to spirituality — and all method that we count as a spiritual process is a form of meditation.
While meditating, you connect yourself with God — and for that, you don’t need the help from anyone because God listens to your heart’s voice.
And this was proved by Gautama Budha, Swami Vivekananda and many others. However, people made a religion out of them because people have this bad habit of creating differences in different ways.
That’s why we have so many ways of praying even though we believe in one God, lol.
“God is one and we are all one” by me.
It’s up to you how you see things and learn from them.
In my next article, I am going to discuss ways to add mediation to your life.
Till then, stay safe and stay blessed.
