Spiritual

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.... ..... A spiritual person is one who seeks to value and connect himself to higher power or simply his higher self. The word 'spiritual' has been defined to mean in Black's Law Dictionary as of or relating to ecclesiastical rather than secular matters. Spiritualism is alien to temporalism. One whose desire is for temporal gains, cannot be said to be on the spiritual path. Same are aliens to each other. One who is really spiritual is far away from the temporal desires. Mere spiritual knowledge (gyan) is not enough. Spiritual wisdom is necessary to be really a spiritual person as said by Lord Krishna in the Gita. Shri Ram Krishna Paramhans, the Indian mystic, has given a simple comparison to distinguish between the two, i.e.....

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....tianity reserves the term to describe the warmer religious emotions; and it has its proper and peculiar application as the distinguishing quality of NT believers. The substantive 'spirituality' does not occur in Scripture, but the adjective 'spiritual' is frequently employed to describe the character of the man who has entered the Kingdom of God. Such a man has the Holy Spirit as the vital, determining principle of his life. Such usage does not permit us to apply the epithet to any one who has been moved in some vague way by holy impulses, for a definite and well-marked character as indicated by this description. of spiritual persons Newman writes: He [the holy Spirit] pervades us (if it may be so said) as light pervades a ....

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....y was meant to imply the mental aspect of life, as opposed to the material and sensual aspects. Vedantic philosophy lies at the core of Hindu spirituality from the hoary past down to present. According to the tradition, is the process of realisation of this axiomatic truth. The obvious corollary is that one who has realised this truth does not make any distinction between man and any sub-human species and also does not discriminate one man from another, given the fact that God is at core of every evolved form including human. In Words and Phrases, Permanent Edition, 39A. 'Spiritualism' and 'spiritualist' have been defined on the strength of the decisions referred therein thus: SPIRITUALISM The word "spiritualism" immedia....