Spirituality: What It Is Not, and What It is

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We frequently hear people
speaking about spirituality.

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They indicate I consider myself
to be spiritual, not religious

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beyond that distinction.
However, when one asks, what

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they mean by spirituality,
there's a wide range of

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responses.
That make it clear that

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spirituality is mostly something
vague and somewhat amorphous SRI

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aurobindo provides a very clear
brief overview.

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Of what spirituality is and what
it is.

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Not SRI aurobindo writes, quote
spirituality is not a high

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intellectuality, not idealism,
not an ethical Turn of Mind or

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moral Purity.
And austerity.

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Not religiosity or an Ardent and
exalted emotional fervor, not

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even a compound of all these
excellent things.

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A mental belief, Creed or faith
and emotional aspiration.

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A regulation of conduct
according to a religious or

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ethical, formula are not
spiritual achievement and

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experience.
These things were of

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considerable value to mind in
life.

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They are a value to the
spiritual Evolution itself as

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Preparatory movements
disciplining purifying or giving

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a suitable form to the nature.
But they still belong to the

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mental Evolution.
The beginning of a spiritual

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realization experience.
Change is not yet.

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Their spirituality is in its
Essence and Awakening to the

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inner reality of our being to a
spirit self Soul, which is other

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than our mind, life and body and
inner aspiration to know to feel

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to be that to enter into contact
with the greater reality Beyond

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and pervading the universe,
which inhabits also our own

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being to be in communion with it
and Union with it and a turning

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a conversion, a transformation
of our whole being, as a result

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of the aspiration, the contact
the union, a growth or wakening

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into a new Aiming or new being a
new self, a new nature and

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quote, reference SRI, aurobindo,
and the mother growing within

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the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 2, Awakening of
Consciousness page 16.