what is Gratitude? How to express gratitude in four different situations based on the levels of formallity and the importantance of the favor that wase done for you?
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God is our creator and has given us all the various things in our life including our life itself. Everyday we wake up in the morning to live another day due to His grace. This life on Earth is precious as it is the only region where spiritual practice can be done to attain the ultimate purpose of life. When any person does something for us we feel gratitude. However most of us are not used to expressing gratitude to God for all the things He has given us. Expressing gratefulness to God for all the various things He does for us is called gratitude in spiritual practice. The ability to live in this feeling of gratitude is an important and intrinsic part of a seeker’s spiritual journey.
The reality is that while most people accept God as their Creator, they do not feel the need to express gratitude to God. This is mainly because they think that all the things that happen in their lives, or at least most of the mundane things in their lives – good or bad, happen of their own volition. It is only in extraordinary turnarounds after intense prayer like a miraculous cure of a very sick child suffering from an incurable illness that one would think of paying gratitude to God. However even here memories of being helped by God in such a dramatic way are short-lived and as time goes by a person goes back to his same old ways until the next big issue strikes him where he begins to pray for divine intervention.
At a lower stage in our spiritual evolvement, in current times, on an average 65% of events happen as per destiny and 35% happen as per our willful action. As we evolve spiritually, we begin to feel God’s presence in our lives. As we experience His presence in our lives, we experience His grace and that everything happening in our lives is happening as per His wish. It is only after the 60% spiritual level that one begins to really appreciate and experience this fact. Along with the experience comes the gratitude in the true spiritual sense of the word.
A seeker and a true student of the Science of Spirituality develops a learning attitude in all situations, good or bad. From the various situations and issues of life he begins to learn about how he can understand his defects and qualities. This way he learns where he must work to shed his base self of personality defects and has a greater understanding and awareness of his qualities. From all situations in life, he gets a clue to improve upon himself, by not only enhancing his current set of qualities but by replacing personality defects with new qualities. He perceives that God is helping him through all situations good and bad to enhance his seekership. Accordingly he feels gratitude to God in all situations good or bad as he feels God’s subtle-hand in his life presenting him with situations and also providing him with the capability to grasp the spiritual lessons and learning.
In most cases this gratitude is directed to one’s spiritual guide or Guru. Please refer to the article on who is a Guru and how He guides a seeker.
To grow spiritually a seeker needs to rise above the emotions (both positive and negative) that a non-seeker is steeped in, to develop spiritual emotion (bhāv), which is experiencing God’s presence everywhere. Gratitude helps to increase spiritual emotion.
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