Know! Where to stop

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Though 'spirituality' has no particular definition, every enlightened master has defined it contextually. One of its definitions which is widely used and have a strong position is spirituality in contrast of materialism. This definition is often interpreted as, “it is impossible to lead a spiritual life while living in a materialistic world.” It sees spirituality and materialism are two irreconcilable extremes. But now days with more depth and study it has been concluded by many that, though spirituality says to abandon the material world but from a different point of view. Spirituality has no enmity with material things, and one do not need to abandon material things.

There are many examples of great saints leaving their family and worldly affairs in search of higher realities and also there are many who achieved the same reality in spite of bearing family and societal relations. Spirituality never teaches to leave the material world nor does it teach to live in it. It talks about the third dimension. It says to live in world, enjoy the material things, bear every responsibility but not on the cost of your soul. Not on the cost of morality. Not on the cost of yourself. Spirituality talks about the boundary. It says whatever you do, do but you must know where to stop.

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Spirituality and societal norms appreciate those who stand firm for the family and social responsibility. But many people think that they ask to do theses on every cost. Though, ‘Karmic Philosophy’ appreciates to work without thinking of the result, but it put the condition of crossing the threshold. A story from the great Hinduism epic says that,

"Once a notorious robber came upon a great saint in the forest and demanded his possessions.

"Why do you steal?" the saint asked with a loving smile.

The robber answered that he himself did not want to steal but he had to do so to support his wife and family.

"Why do you perform this evil for them; they will not share your bad karma," the saint said.

The robber refused to believe this and ran home and asked his father, mother, wife, and children if they would share his pain, the reactions to his evil deeds. "Of course not, it is none of our business how you get the money to feed us! We won’t share your evil!" they answered.

"Then why I am doing all this?" he thought to himself and returned to the forest to the saint.

He begged the saint for initiation. The saint gave him method of meditation and went on a journey and when he returned, years later he found the robber meditating under a tree just where he had left him. He had been chanting his mantra with such ceaseless concentration that ants had built a hill of soil over his body; but he was unaware of them. And the once robber had become a realized soul."

The world is collection of selfish peoples. The story clearly has depicted this. Every family member was sharing the part of robbed material but no one was ready to share the sin he was accumulating for them only. He crossed the line and suffered, but it was his fate that he found a master, who demonstrated the truth in front of his eyes and helped him snap out of it.

That is why one should, Know! Where to stop.

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