What is spirituality?

What is spirituality and spiritual path? How can I
continuously progress on this path?

A simple question from a disciple :)

Reply from Guru:

The question about “Spirituality” might have arisen
because you might have heard about it from someone or
read about it in a book.

If you look at everything - from the tiny ant to Lord
Brahma seek bliss. The lower creatures try to find
this bliss in the fulfillment of the primitive desires
like appetite, lust etc. As human beings who possess
the sixth sense, we try to find ways to make
everything more comfortable and pleasurable.

When we extend this thought to death, the question
arises as to what died - the body or the soul? What is
this entity ‘I’? Is it the body? When we point to our
shirt and say ‘this is my shirt’, we automatically
admit that the shirt is different from us. Likewise
when we say "this is my hand" the automatic inference
is that 'I' is not the hand. So what is this ‘I’? It
is something beyond the body or the mind. It is the
soul or the ‘Atman’. That is our natural Self.

When a swelling appears on our hand, though that does
not bother us in any way, we still want that swelling
to be removed just because we want things to look the
way they originally were. Resetting things back to the
original state itself is a great bliss. We have
altered our state from our original blissful self to
such a great extent due to our ignorance. To reset
things back to normalcy by realizing our true blissful
nature is spirituality. Spirituality is not something
alien to us. It is not going to fall from the sky one
fine day. It is merely to realize our true nature
which is the state of supreme bliss.

To attain that supreme state of realization, the
simplest way is to chant the Divine names of the lord.
By chanting his mantra, you please the lord and he
blesses you with that supreme state of bliss.

SOURCE - internet

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