| Spirituality - a word that many people connect with | | | | I don't believe that you would do anything else! |
| Hinduism, Buddhism and often enough also with | | | | If you really try to find out more about today's |
| different sects and their gurus. Maybe you are now | | | | gurus, you might say that is doesn't seem to have |
| protesting, as you are thinking of yourself as spiritual | | | | changed much with the development of science. |
| and have faced these clichés, prejudices and | | | | Okay, now that guru has a website, but he still |
| unjustified assumptions in your life already. But to be | | | | wants his followers and disciples believe that he is |
| honest, the average person does have these or | | | | God, that he can materialize things just like God, that |
| similar associations if they hear the words spirituality | | | | he can predict your future which only God can know |
| or esoteric. | | | | or that he saw your past life which again is |
| Yoga has already left this field of obscure and | | | | something that only God would know. And this is |
| somehow mystic subjects and practices. People have | | | | how people like to follow. In his personal online diary |
| realized the healthy benefit of the physical exercise | | | | Swami Balendu states that these disciples seem to |
| and mental relaxation and even top companies | | | | him like sheep. Why? Because they don't need to |
| nowadays accept it as part of a healthy lifestyle and | | | | think, don't need to see where they are going and |
| recommend to their employees. The world's top | | | | what they are doing, they only need to follow the |
| managers enjoy doing a yoga retreat in India even | | | | advice of their guru. |
| though they don't have any other connection with | | | | It is nice because they don't have any responsibility |
| the culture or religion of this country. | | | | any more. No decisions, nothing that they can do |
| With the philosophy however we reach into the | | | | wrong. Is this modern? Is this what you would think |
| same area: gurus, spiritual leaders, disciples and sects. | | | | an educated, adult person would do? |
| You cannot blame anybody who thinks in this way, | | | | No! Everyone, every single person around the globe is |
| they have read enough horrifying stories in | | | | encouraged to take his own responsibility, his own |
| newspapers about brainwashed communities and | | | | decisions and to act with full consciousness! Just be |
| they saw on TV how millions of people carry gold to | | | | yourself, if something goes wrong, it is okay, you are |
| their guru whom they believe to be an incarnation of | | | | just human and mistakes happen! Have confidence in |
| the Almighty. Maybe they even have a former friend | | | | yourself! You don't need a guru and nobody to |
| who left behind his life with them to join this kind of | | | | follow, your spirituality lies within you and you are |
| group. One question: is it really unfair of these people | | | | God within yourself. You are spirituality! |
| to have an uneasy feeling about spirituality if that | | | | And this is how spirituality comes into your everyday |
| friend's guru didn't like them and their friend thus | | | | life. It is in everybody's life, if you think about it or |
| broke all bonds to them and finished their friendship? | | | | not! |