Does chanting make us internally happy and then we won’t do anything externally?
So, is it that by chanting the mantra, the soul will blossom with happiness? And we will say that nothing else I need? Not necessarily like that. See, there will be inner happiness.
There is inner happiness, which comes from the chanting of the mantra. But, as I said, this is a three-story building. The lower stories are also real.
The physical is also real. The mental is also real. And they are not to be rejected.
They are also to be used. So now, when we rise to the spiritual level, we do experience inner happiness through the chanting of the mantra, through absorption in higher spiritual reality. But at the same time, we also recognize the physical and the mental.
And then at the physical and the mental, we are able to make wiser choices. Okay, at the physical level, at the mental level, what I should do, what I should not do. That we will be able to choose better.
Will the soul blossom with happiness? That will also happen gradually. But that blossoming of happiness doesn't mean that we don't do anything at the other levels of reality. It's all cumulative.
It's integrated. It's not that going to the spiritual means rejecting the physical or mental. Going to the spiritual means incorporating these levels also.
So we do experience great inner happiness of the kind that we may not even be able to imagine right now. But along with that, we also make practical contributions. There are two Sanskrit words.
There is abhyudaya and nishreyas. Nishreyas means inner fulfillment. Abhyudaya means external achievement.
So the achievement that comes in parallel with fulfillment. That is what spirituality offers us. So for many people, they just want to achieve something in life.
That is external. They get it, that is great. They don't get it, they feel my life is worthless.
But spirituality offers us fulfillment from within. And that fulfillment from within inspires us towards achievement externally. Not because we need that achievement for our self-worth, but rather because we want to lovingly make a contribution.
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