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Human life is considered a unique blessing, which lies in the achievement of awareness about self. He who is not aware about self can neither have peace nor can he foster peaceful co-existence. As per natural phenomenon, man must link his soul with God and body with the physical world for sustenance. Formless God being invisible to the naked eye, the human mind wanders where ever the eye goes in the grandeur of mundane world. Lost in the will o’-the wisp, man does not develop love for God. Religion, like the white light of heavens breaks into many-coloured fragments by the prisms of men and loses its gravity. Instead of uniting, it becomes a major dividing force - interweaving a grotesque picture.

Buddhist philosophy of “Dependent Origination” — that all things arise in dependence of other things tell us that life is a mix of so many different ingredients and sources. We are all part of an intricate web of life mixed up in secular ways. Human body and soul within are an apt combination of complementing and supplementing each other. The exit of soul from body, causing death is painful. But more painful than that is the situation when body lives, with soul lying deadly neglected within. Soul cannot go to the True Master all alone or through any other living being for seeking divine knowledge. While soul (consciousness) keeps human body alive the human body takes the soul to its destination — the True Master for spiritual enlightenment and eventual salvation. The significance of spirituality strengthening human propriety can well be imagined.

God is eternal and the True Master. Combination of spoken words and practical hint by the True Master introduces the seekers to the all-pervading God. To accept and respect the contemporary, “True Master is to accept all the past and future True Masters.”

Talihard de Chardin, a French philosopher and Jesuit priest thinking deeply on the meaning of our existence and relationship with the divine, expounds, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

Today, we live in the exponential world where everything is growing rapidly. Religion, science-technology, medical research, robots, academia, space exploration and the material world. “How do we reckon the role of spirituality in the exponential world?” This is what H.H. Princess Maria Amor D.D., Founder President, “We Care for Humanity, USA” asked giving a unique example of a robot named Sophia reportedly introduced as a new citizen in Saudi Arabia. Can the robot be given citizenship or capable of being spiritual?

What if, someday, the world is dominated by artificial intelligence and we lack the understanding that it is spiritual intelligence that enables human intelligence and human intelligence enables artificial intelligence. We must never forget that. If we all agree that all of us living on this earth are spiritual beings and that we were born in this temporary body which makes us human and that what we are doing today is unfolding the spirituality in us.

Physical poverty is a curse, but spiritual deprivation is worse. The human mind therefore requires a spiritual universe, anything less will never satisfy a thinking person. Great philosopher Saint Augustin of Hippo writes, “Restless are our souls until they rest in Thee my God”. This statement shows implicit relationship of soul with God, like roots and fruits, explicitly summing up in the axiom:—

NO GOD, NO PEACE; KNOW GOD, KNOW PEACE.

Spirituality is needed to release our spiritual intelligence which is the foundation of the exponential world. For all this we need spiritual guidance and this is what the Sant Nirankari Mission is doing. The concept of One God for all foresees the idea of one religion for all that suits the whole human race. The Sant Nirankari Mission has succeeded in achieving this objective through a living revelation of Fatherhood of God, the central seed of all religions, ruling out any question of conversions.

Spirituality is the essence of life and encompasses humanity. It develops body, mind and ignites the soul with strength and joy. The power and ability come from higher intelligence and man by propriety is enabled by spiritual intelligence.

Her Holiness Satguru Mata Sudiksha Ji Maharaj, the Spiritual Head of the Sant Nirankari Mission says that oblivious of his spiritual identity, man falls victim to all maladies because of his ignorance about God and the singular remedy for all the maladies is to be consciously one with God. If God is all you have, you have all you need. Spirituality essentially means to “Know One, Believe in One and Become One”. Sant Nirankari Mission is creating an ever expanding joyous world born out of Spiritual Intelligence.

The sky may be unlimited, but everyone needs a ground to fall back to. In reality, that ground is spirituality. Swami Vivekananda said, “Manifest spirituality within you. Mark, if your give up spirituality, the result will be that in three generations, you will be extinct.” Spirituality can guide us through the process of developing consciousness, spiritual development within the mind, body and soul can help us weep off failures and drive into the ocean of success.

The Sant Nirankari Mission recently celebrated its 75th Platinum Jubilee International Nirankari Sant Samagam at Sant Nirankari Adhyatmik Sthal, G.T. Road, Samalkha, Distt. Panipat (Haryana) from 16 to 22 November 2022. Lakhs of devotees and learned speakers participated in 

the event.