New Age Spirituality, true spirituality? enlightenment?

http://www.siddhayatan.org
http://www.yogeeshashram.org
http://www.siddhalishree.com (blog)
The New Age Spiritual Person does not represent the true spiritual person. Running away to caves or a mountain to meditate is the wrong thinking. Or finding a helpful mala is not enough. The true spiritual seeker is different from new age spiritualists. For the true seeker it is a slow and steady path building a solid foundation. Tune in.

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New Age spirituality is not true spirituality.

Followers of New Age thought get trapped into a religion and culture. They are not spiritual at all. They think they found spirituality when they recite, "Aum nama shivah." They also think that by going to the Himalayas to meditate, they will become yogis. But they have not begun to really learn. You cannot become spiritual in one day. It takes years to clean up the body. If a person was a meat eater toxins accumulated in his body. Their minds and thoughts take a long time to clear. Their brand of spirituality closes them off.

A spiritual person is a flourishing person. He is very compassionate towards society. Their flourishing comes from spiritual practice. They will not put down another person and they don't consider themselves the only spiritual people on earth. The more spiritual a person becomes the more he will expand in all directions. Spiritual people are alive. To sit in a cave meditating does not help society. Only a flourishing person can help society, he can affect others around him.

If New Age people could become real spiritual people they could flourish, otherwise they are trapped in little things. A real spiritual seeker digs deep into his being and there he finds everlasting bliss. He does not have to close off from society. His knowledge, the knowing, can be shared if he is integrated into society. He can bring change to people around him. When Mahavira and Buddha were full of knowing they rushed to share their knowledge with people. Sometimes they would retreat to solitude until they became full again. Their knowledge made them alive and blissful. They spread the meditative light to everyone.

A spiritual person is like a flower in its perfect state of blossoming. He can be anywhere in the world and be comfortable among all people. Knowledge makes a person full. It makes him alive, loving, and sharing. He chooses to live in society and does not run from it. Everyone loves a perfect and loving person.


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[atma4ever]

Namaste! Dr. Acharya, I have one question. Can one be totally spiritual when he or she doesn't recognize the supreme personality of Godhead(The Creator, The Sustainer and The Destroyer)??

[yogeeshashram]

God has no personality. Being spiritual means to put efforts into improving yourself, and knowing your soul.

[Hammersley1967]

@sclai

Yes, but we must never forget that the entire ascension into the Third Crystal of Light must be celestially bound to the Chi by the Ninth Root Chakra...

Otherwise, the Ethereal Crystal of the White Flame of Purity will lose its entire Yin Yang balance...

[sclai]

Spiritual person has no need to undermine new age seekers. To walk to the top of the mountain has more than one path.

[Shkarya]

Well it's very hard to recognize the true spirituality vs. new age spirituality, becouse when someone says something about karma or reincarnation etc. that person is at the same time marked as "new ager" by the society.

Personally i don't see sucha negativity with the new age movement, there is a big plus that this movement may drastically help in shutting down 3 main authoritarian dogmatic religions. Catholic church is already fighting big ideological battle against new age heretics :)

[SanguineBullet667]

Buddhism > New Age hippie movement.

[Tigerpaws9097826]

Robertdegiro - I'm in agreement with you here, almost. I think an enlightened soul could participate in society if s/he chooses to, though it'd be important to maintain an awareness that the nature of the public environment is as you describe. I also think such a person wouldn't self-identify as a guru, establishing relationships on a master-disciple basis; rather, that person would just strive to appear as an ordinary person providing help to others in his or her own unique way.

[dtewis]

Amen.

[robertdegiro]

i think you are right about new agers,but i dont think that if you are enlightened should participate in society,unfortunately societies are sick and dont want to listen they just want to spend money,so, i understand those yogis who wants to retire to the himalayas to perform their sadhanas in peace.ive known few real yogis but they are in hiding ,they dont need to feed their ego waisting time showing themselves as gurus.the people who is ready for spirituality will find it one way or another.

[Jahrass7]

Not to oversimplify...the spiritual person vs the new age has to do with commitment level. It's one thing to read books and go to retreats VS. cultivating in your home no matter what book is popular. It's like someone with a weight bench at home vs going to a health club for show.

[Omthiest]

In summary, the new ager is someone who follows a trend and the spiritual seeker is someone who truly embraces spirituality.

yes?

[andyastro1]

i agree with you 101%.