Daily Meditation: Wednesday, July 15, 1998

So many people complain that practising spirituality has …

07/15/1998

So many people complain that practising spirituality has brought them nothing. But in what state would they be if they had never tried to discipline their inner lives? At least the few rules they have attempted to apply, the exercises they have done, have paved the way to a healthier, more peaceful, more hopeful life. Let them abandon their spiritual lives and see if things are better then. Let me give you an example: you breathe, you eat, you sleep and you say this has not brought you greater wealth nor power. But stop breathing, eating, sleeping and then you will see where you end up; very soon you will be six foot under. We eat, we drink, and we see no change. But had we stopped eating, there would have been major changes. And it is exactly the same when you say spiritual life brings you nothing. It supports you, it allows you to maintain your equilibrium, and at least you are still alive, at least you still have hope, you still have light. And even if you possess this light, but are not enlightened, how would you have coped without it?