SPIRITUAL GROWTH

[dineshbachkani]

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Date: Friday, March 20, 2015
Subject: SPIRITUAL GROWTH 

 

What are the stages of spiritual growth?   1.) Intellectual/Verbal Knowledge   Generally our spiritual practice begins with someone giving us  information on what to do or we read a book telling us what to do.   For example, based on the information provided in this website  you may get an intellectual understanding on how to proceed with your spiritual practice.   2.) Belief   After we have read or been told about the various concepts of  Spirituality, we begin to develop a certain belief based on what we  have understood. This in turn gives us a sense of purpose on what needs to be done.   3.) Spiritual Practice   After we intellectually understand the reasons as to why we should do spiritual practice, the next step is to put into practice the knowledge that we have gained.   4.) Spiritual Experience   Spiritual practice gives spiritual experiences that lead to an increase in faith. Increase in faith leads to more spiritual practice.   5.) Faith   Spiritual experiences help strengthen our faith. Faith gives us courageof conviction that we are on the right path. As a result, we invest more time in spiritual practice and get higher level of spiritual experiences which in turn lead to more faith.   6.) Spiritual Emotion   As our faith becomes very strong, we then begin to experience  spiritual emotion, which is having an intense awareness of the presence of God in everything around us in each and every aspect of our day-to-day activities.   7.) Devotion   When our spiritual emotion becomes pervasive, we come to a stage of devotion. This devotion ends our feeling of being separate from God.   8.) Self-realisation   This is the ultimate in spiritual growth where we finally merge  into God. At first, since God is viewed as separate from ourself,  we are in a state of duality (dvait). Later, once the goal of Self-realisation is reached, we go beyond spiritual emotion as we attain a state of non-duality (advait).

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