Gurupurnima - A festival to pay gratitude to the teaching principle of God
Issue No. 301 · November 27, 2005
Editor: Mr. Pruthviraj Purushottam Hajare

Clarification of Doubts

In Spirituality, no matter how much theoretical information one has access to, one's spiritual practice will not be smooth unless needling doubts are clarified. If you should have any questions related to spirituality, please email us at Weekly.

Question: How can spiritual practice help me in my day-to-day life?

Answer: Spiritual practice benefits the seeker at the physical, psychological, and spiritual level as follows.

Physical

  • Increase in tolerance to bear pain

  • Increase in vital energy

Psychological

  • By performing daily spiritual practice a person gradually attains a balanced state of mind

  • Increase in tolerance to bear pain and stress

  • Improvement in personality

  • Has therapeutic effects in cases of psychiatric illnesses

  • Development of liking for chanting* and purification the subconscious mind

  • Reduction of undesirable impressions in the intellect centre as well as the subconscious mind

  • Increase in concentration

Spiritual

  • The only way to eliminate, reduce or tolerate unhappiness caused by mild or moderate destiny

  • The only way to overcome unhappiness caused by other spiritual reasons such as ancestors' soul problems, black magic, possession, etc.

  • Helps overcome small worldly obstacles caused by destiny

  • Fulfilment of worldly desires

  • Ensures spiritual progress or attainment of the purpose of human life, which is Final Liberation or being in permanent Bliss

  • Purification of speech

  • Internal purification

  • Development of faith and devotion

  • Acquisition of supernatural powers (siddhis)

*If one is not currently doing any spiritual practice, or to complement one's current spiritual practice, one can begin with the simple, but powerful spiritual practice of chanting or constantly remembering God's Name according to one's religion. Chanting also acts as a useful complement to any spiritual path one may be already following. It is a practice recommended for the current times by Holy texts and Saints of all religions.

  • To begin with, one can repeat God's Name according to their religion (refer to Issue 3 Clarification of Doubts section for a list of God's Names as per various religions), or the Name that they feel most comfortable chanting.

  • Interested readers can determine the exact chant for them from the experiment given inIssue 124, Message to Seekers section.
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