ASPIRATION

Aspiration is a call to the Divine. — The Mother


In the West Spirituality is perceived as a fad. We are talking about a fashion that generates a lot of money. And we also talk about a fashion that generates hundreds of thousands of disillusioned people, hundreds of thousands of people who, after a journey full of fireworks, perceive spirituality as a big lie which people should move closer when life becomes difficult or when the powerlessness of their intellect leaves them into an atrocious desert full of doubts...or when their life ends.
We could say that West have lived and lives in the illusion of spiritual progress but not in the same progress.
Because progress requires the destruction of the Ego and its products, requires a deep look inside the human being, and unfortunately, West is still very far from such a feat.

Unfortunately, West has put all its effort in external conquests, may have discovered the atom's secrets and may have travelled through the solar system. Yes, perhaps we have seen infinitely distant celestial objects...But Western man remains a stranger to himself.
And perhaps that is why the West has always seen in India a lighthouse in the dark, its own dark.
But this is what I think: Western man has never come to understand the commitment with himself that this golden light requires.


But...What have not come to understand East?


Humanity is like the two cerebral hemispheres, one analytical and intuitive another (Excuse me by the simplification of the issue I have done)
Only the balance between the two humanity's hemispheres will allow overcome its schizophrenia.

Balance, that’s to say, Synthesis.

Synthesis, that’s to say, Sri Aurobindo.

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Lalit Kumar Comment by Lalit Kumar on July 17, 2009 at 12:51pm
Yes, i also think that people in the west have some difficulties to....when we speak about mind, spirit etc. where they fear because there is nothing phisical to hold on. and also fear comes...from the food we eat....so the spirituality is not the suject to discuss mentally, but also to be lived practically.....where very few people are to go out of the general trend. and this pull, to go out of the general trend comes only from inside, and nobody can give it to anybody, if one is not born with it.

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