Do you understand spirituality?

I think Spirituality is the essence of ones being, ie we are all spiritual beings, who may or may not believe in God, or a god or many gods. I happen to believe in a divine all-one, or total consciousness in the universe, and that we are all just parts of that conscious. Religion to me, is all the stories (or histories of Mankind on Earth), beliefs and faiths we describe and study, and worship to as a means for being closer to our believed or perceived gods. All religions of the world, seem to have the same basic stories or history of our lives on Earth, so all have their validities.

Religion, god, prophets, saints - all these needs to be understood and we can understand them with someone else's help. Spirituality is what we are. there is no need to make an effort understand it. it is our own nature. we have forgotten it, conveniently buried it for the sake of a god, religion and its prophets. i never tried to understand what spirituality. a spiritually awaken man easily stand out different from a religious man. there are no ways to describe him.

Wow I've never heard it as sense gratifiation. Spirituality is developed through life. I believe you can grow spiritually through time. Meditation is what I do to get closer go God. Also I pray when I get up in the morning and when I go to sleep at night. I usually will ask God what he wants from me..each day or what I can do for him. But how everyone developes their own spirituality is unique. No two person is the same. I believe we develope our own abilities to gratification when it comes to spirituality.

Spirituality and sense gratification are poles apart.I do not somehow appreciate people who are not truly interested in spirituality to be talking about it. Like celebrities for instance. I hate the way media makes up or asks celebrity opinion on Spiritual Topics. I rarely read what they have to say if I find that they are some sort of celebrity who are trying to write a column on their view of God. I doubt they have anything to do about God other than writing in that Newspaper. Very rarely someone from say, the film industry will have a very well thought of idea of spirituality or religion. Like whatever may be the other opinions on say Rajanikanth(the Tamil actor), I find that this man has some real devotion to say Raghavendra Swamy or Ramana Maharishi. But it takes me long time to believe that these people mean it. I somehow feel it is all a publicity stunt like other cinema masala.