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HOW TO AVOID THINKING IN A MATERIALISTIC WAY

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  Money can’t buy you love. It can’t buy you happiness either. Today’s materialistic world often urges us to buy the coolest gadgets, the trendiest clothes, bigger and better things, but research shows that possessions and purchases don’t buy us happiness. Money buys happiness only for those who lack the basic needs. Once you pass an income of one lakh rupees, more money doesn’t buy much more happiness, [according to a happiness studies]. So while we are being pushed towards materialism, it’s for monetary gain by corporations, not for our own happiness. Unfortunately, it’s hard to escape the trap of materialism, and find happiness in other ways than buying stuff online or finding joy in the mall.   Materialistic Thinking Is Your Worst Enemy All around us, there are messages telling us to buy stuff. On the Internet (blogs included), we see continuous advertising trying to get us to purchase a product or service. It’s the main reason for television, and movies are continually made with p

MISTAKES DURING OR BEFORE DOING SPIRITUAL PRACTISE

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   Gambling The first sinful activity is gambling. By Vedic standards, gambling is taken to mean not only betting with money over games or sporting events, but also speculative, dishonest or illicit business dealings. The gambling propensity extends itself even into the sphere of religion and spiritual life when men want to understand or explain spiritual matters and revealed scriptures on the strength of their speculative abilities although they have no factual experience of spiritual reality. One should try to understand spiritual life only by hearing receptively from those who appear to be fully self-realized spiritual masters. If one instead chooses to rely on his own cleverness, even though he is fallible in every way, he is gambling away the valuable spiritual opportunity of human life Intoxication Intoxication refers to the taking into the body of various chemicals that are not necessary for bodily maintenance and have stimulating or depressive effects on the mind and body. Unde

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT SPIRITUAL GROWTH

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  Everyone seems to be on a spiritual path seeking answers, something which unites all despite their religion, beliefs and faith Spiritual growth  is about reaching out to and connecting with your inner soul and is a method of becoming more harmonious with life around us, develops our own feelings of inner power and strength and leads us to live happier lives and to take more responsibility for our own actions. When something grabs the attention of people, it soon becomes the lingo of the town. That is what has happened with spirituality too. Everyone seems to be on the spiritual path or claims to be spiritual. It is said to be something everyone shares keeping aside religion, race or nationality . It is a common factor binding humanity. But what exactly is spirituality? What does it mean to be a spiritual person? Wikipedia defines it as something bigger than oneself, a human experience that touches one and all. There are various perspectives to spirituality. For a religious person, sp