Light Is Usually Seen Before Warmth Is Felt But Spiritual Warmth Frequently Needs To Be Felt Before

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Light is usually seen before warmth is felt but spiritual warmth frequently needs to be felt before spiritual light is seen if we are lost in the cold and dark and are desperately seeking relief if we spot a fire we rush towards it and naturally we see the light before we feel the warmth in the spiritual domain however things often work differently, that’s because the spiritual domain is invisible and also because we are so much in dark that we don’t even realize that we are in the dark although we do not know while living materialistically we do not know about life’s meaning or purpose we set up our own purposes find our own meanings and move on without even considering that we don’t know the ultimate meaning and that’s why when spiritual knowledge is offered to people spirituality is offered to people, often they don’t appreciate spiritual light even when the light of wisdom that explains the ultimate nature and purpose of things is told to them they just dismiss it as one among many philosophies especially in today’s world where we can have access to any the outline of any philosophy by clicking by a few clicks to search google especially because philosophy is often used as a tool for manipulating people to make them ideologically blind people are skeptical people are not always convinced simply by strong philosophical arguments although these have their importance because we live in such a lonely and fragmented society, people are extremely lonely and when they come to spirituality it is more for warmth than for light and that’s what people need to feel, they need to feel God’s love before they can value God’s light and when we are trying to share spiritual wisdom with them we need to make sure that we manifest God’s love in terms of courtesy sensitivity and maturity by which they feel that we are their well-wishers and then they will become open to what we have to say moderating our speech in this way is the austerity of speech which the Bhagavad Gita recommends in 1715 so we need to speak non-agitatingly truthfully pleasingly beneficial so Krishna talks about benefiting people and speaking truth to them as two disciplines but equal weight he gives to speaking in a way that is non-agitating and is pleasing so thus he emphasizes and he starts with non-agitating which indicates that we need to help by our speech and by our conduct help people feel the spiritual warmth of human kindness and divine love flowing through us before they can open their heads and hearts open their heads to spiritual wisdom thank you