What is the best way to understand spirituality?

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understand ourselves better thank you what is the best way to understand spirituality we are all at different levels in our spiritual evolution and rather than saying that there is one that is the best we have to see what works best for us so all of us may be prompted in spiritual direction by different things some of us may ourselves experience something some people go to some very peaceful natural place some people go to a holy place and they feel some vibrations over there they get some experience and those experiences are what prompt them I want to know what is this I want to experience this again I want to understand this that is what may prompt some people for some people it may be that they’ll read some books and they get some ideas and they can be I want to make a better understand what is there over there some of us may just have questions about life’s meaning and purpose that may prompt us so the starting point can vary or some of us may just meet some friends and we find those friends are materialistic and they become spiritual so what made them change so we all can it can be our own experience it can be our reading it can be our own thinking it can be our interaction with some people whatever it is that prompts us but more important is that once the prompt happens we take that prompt and move onwards so in a sense if we consider spirituality to be like a majestic palace but there are many doors to enter into it which door we may be inspired to that can vary but at the same time to go further and to experience more we could say spirituality is also like a science in science there is theory and there is experiment so the theory postulates so Newton observed a fruit falling and I had gone to Cambridge University to speak so we passed by the same tree or a descendant of that tree where Newton is said to have seen the fruit falling so that place is treated like a pilgrimage place for scientists so people go there for getting scientific inspiration now the important thing is that as when when Newton saw that fruit falling millions of people have seen fruits falling but most of them would have picked up the fruit eaten it and gone their way Newton asked what made this fruit fall and then he postulated a theory based on that so there is a theory which is supposed to explain why fruits fall and then after the experiment okay it’s a fruits fall do other objects fall do they fall here or they fall in various parts of the world that by that we come to a conclusion so similarly spirituality we could say like a higher dimensional science which has two wings philosophy and religion so philosophy refers to the theoretical postulations about the world beyond the visible world so okay who am I really what is the purpose of my life what is the source of everything so these questions are answered through philosophy now at the level of philosophical postulates we can’t know whether they are right or just as without an experimental theory can be right or wrong we don’t know now religion is often practiced simply as some rituals that we we do because that’s our culture or that’s our tradition now this practice or kind of practice of religion may have some value of piety there’s some some good work people are doing but actually if we are to raise our consciousness religion is a means it involves certain practices which can spiritualize our consciousness so for example when people go to sacred places or people go to temples or people go to other places where something divine something spiritual is manifest then they can experience some peace some calm and religion is meant to actually involve practices which raise our consciousness from the material to the spiritual level so philosophy tells us that reality is a two-story building it’s not just a one-story building material and spiritual then religion is meant to be actually processes that help us to rise to the spiritual level so basically if we what once we have entered into the building of spirituality the product may be anything but if you have this combination of philosophy and religion that means we use our intelligence to understand things and then rather than by religion i don’t talk necessarily about any particular religion in the world i’m talking about practices when we practice those practices that raise our consciousness to a spiritual level then by this combination of philosophy and religion we will find that spirituality will become a higher dimensional science of inner transformation and by studying philosophy and adopting appropriate practices we all can rise to gaining to gain better understanding of spirituality okay what is