What are the best books to start our spiritual study?
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What are the best books that you can start when we are studying spirituality? If we consider spiritual knowledge to be like a big circle or we consider it a big ocean, we want to dive and explore the treasures therein.
We have to know which coast we are at. From the coast we are at, we can enter. That means that if we come from a technical background, say, science and technology, then we may find that scientific, technological, technical presentations may be able to connect better.
If we come from a particular cultural background, then if we have presentations from that cultural perspective, then that is what will help us. If we have an interest in, say, self-help literature, now I want to become a better person. Then the presentation of the Bhagavad Gita from the self-help perspective, that is what is going to help us.
So, spiritual wisdom is like an ocean. And if we just dive deep into it, we find it so big, what do I do over here? So, we need to connect with it in a way which gels with our background. That’s why it’s important to have guidance.
So, if you associate with devotees, we can ask them and we can with their guidance find out which are the books we can connect with best. So, initially, it is best to have books, to read the books which we, which make sense to us. Then, of course, always being spiritual life, some things which don’t make sense to us immediately.
It’s like in physics. There are so many concepts that even now people don’t understand. Quantum physics is still a mystery.
Even for quantum physicists, what do they think about this? You can’t expect to understand everything. But generally, we try to start with that which enables us to understand. The Bhagavad Gita itself is a good book to start with.
And especially we can look at presentations of the Bhagavad Gita. Generally, in the initial stages, we learn much more by hearing than by reading. Reading is, takes time to connect with what is going on.
So, if we come for programs where we hear classes, we look for, if we are interested in a specific presentation, we look for talks on that topic from that angle. That way, we will be able to learn. Did you answer the question? Any other questions?