This set of articles is coming as an elaborate explanation for the video on the first page, about the three concepts...
I observed how the vast majority of people are separated into two sides regarding spirituality and Personal Development. My experience after 17 years of yoga, meditation and personal development, over 8 years of experience in astrology, is that they are actually two elements of the same system, two aspects of the same need for evolution.
There are those who consider themselves as being on a spiritual path and other who are interested in personal development.
In this article, I’ll demonstrate shortly how actually everyone in these categories are actually in both of them, and how astrology connected the two aspects for me. I’ll put the descriptions and definitions very simplistic in order to simplify things and to avoid writing a book :).
Spirituality is searching for transcendence... transcending our Human nature is a very deep desire and a spiritual “instinct” for every human being. The energy of desire, the need to do something are actually an impulse of this need, they are actually the need to transcend our actual condition.
The final and highest part is actually completely transcending our human limitations and become one with the infinite source of existence, but this state is theory for the majority of the aspirants, some being quite unrealistic about their position on the way. This spiritual search is oriented toward the complete transcendence of the limited perception about the world brought us by our dual mind.
Until the final revelation of our infinite nature, there is the mind and all the limitations that can bring us with its duality: joy, fear, happiness, sorrow, desire, freedom, judgment and all the list of what we call human emotions. We will keep coming back to experience those until the moment we manage to completely set our being free of these limiting structures.
So until this final realization some tools to manage our own human structure are really welcome.
Any spiritual exercise is actually a practice that is meant to develop some of our personal qualities that help us get closer to transcendence, one way or the other, no matter if they are meant to discipline the mind or to strengthen the body. They are after all exercises meant to develop our human skills needed to discover our divine nature. So until the actual experience of our transcendent nature we are practicing personal development even if we call it spiritual practice.
To be continued...
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