SMY- Spirituality For the Modern Youth
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Spirituality is a process of personal transformation, either in accordance with traditional religious ideals or, increasingly, oriented on subjective experience and psychological growth independently of any specific religious context. It may refer to almost any kind of meaningful activity or blissful experience In a more general sense. There is no single, widely agreed definition for the concept. Spirituality can never be taught by anyone…..The only teacher is your soul. You have to grow from the inside to become spiritual.
Today’s youth lives a hectic and pressure filled life. People see a chair and think of it as a piece of furniture….They never appreciate the hard work that has gone behind making it what it is….nor do they sympathize with the tree from which life was torn out with a single stroke of the axe Spirituality helps us find mental peace and contentment. We learn to be mindful of what we are doing and what we see. While eating a fruit spirituality not only makes us mindful of its taste but also makes us think of the way it became what it is, it makes us see the blossoming tree, the rain, the wind and the sunshine….as well as the farmer’s hard work and the patience and care with which he nurtured the little sapling into a fully grown tree…..
Today’s youth struggles to find the purpose of their existence….the struggle to find peace and support in this harsh and fast paced world. They have started to lose faith in religion because it never gives them what it promises. They fail to relate to what is preached to them…... Depression is rife among the younger generation. People frequently commit suicide under peer pressure, lack of success, lack of fiends, love or satisfaction in what they do. People have lost their will power….they can no longer cling to hope, hope that tomorrow might spell the arrival of brighter times. They no longer find the reason for their existence and collapse under the burden they have to cope with everyday. It is here that spirituality again comes in. “ I am spiritual but not religious” is the ongoing trend….They no longer want to abide by written rules to approach God, they want to explore…find unconventional paths to inner peace and material success. Young people follow spirituality because they want to take their life into their own hands….be free to do what they want and whenever they want without any constraints…they want to feel responsible for their own life and what they do….they no longer want to blame their failures on God nor do they want to give the credit for their successes to Him. They no longer want to box themselves in as A Hindu or a Christian or a Muslim. They believe that when they die, all their accounting will be done to God and then they don’t want to walk through a door with a label on it…because there is only one God and for Him…it doesn’t matter which religion you belong to….what matters is what you have done in your life. And this is what spirituality actually does, it doesn’t teach you about God, it teaches you the fundamental principles of life, gives you advice on how to live and helps you understand the true value of friendship, honesty, love and other qualities…..It makes you see the brighter side of life, see the good in others and keep your faith in humanity…….