Liberation from material existence

You know, despite the fact that there are others that don't agree with you on this one, I am a person that does agree with you on this one. The reason that I feel like I agree with you in that fact is that my husband and I do the best in our lives by choosing to not have nearly the same things that we decide to not have because we can't always have toys. However, we both do know that it is quite important for us to have our spirituality.

hi professor great discussion I am an American and livein Californis' but I am a Christian and I do believe in God and also In Jesus C hrist and always keep our creator in my heart so my religion goes a lot'different than yours but truly I respect your view and yourreligonand what you say rings very true so I can only go about my life here with the teachings of my own church. I am not sure if this was meant for all or just for your countrymen but I really do understand what you are saying.

hello Prof saheb,namaskar. I am very lucky to have found my Guru, the bonafide spiritual master, who has given me the means to achieve liberation and shown me the path that will give me Self Realization.God has been kind to me because he has sent me my master without me having to search fo one.This is due to the good karma of my past lives and the fruit of the spiritual practices done by me in past lives.I do not know whether i will achieve the goal in this life or the next but i definitely know that when i cast off my body in this life ,i will go to a higher spiritual planet and will be in the company of great saints.Its a very comforting thought.

dear professor, this discussion made me halt for a while. this just seem not to get through my skull. i just dont get it. spiritual masters are just people like our priests. i want to be happy with my hubby, though he is far, dont want to enter into spiritual things have a nice day. an

Yes my friend, it is really a materialistic world. I want to ask an interesting doubt, Can you compare these modern professional students college life with your old age college life? (i can tell you why i am asking this question after your response)

Living without striving after material belongings is a good way to cultivate our true nature. I like it. I hope to be able to join the society of Auroville one day,.

i totally agree with you that this society put much emphasis on materialism nowadays and we have to try to get away from it as we won't be bringing anything from this earth when we die... we come into this world with nothing and we will leave this world with nothing... we are just like pilgrims on this earth and this is not our eternal home... so why try so hard to achieve something that is only temporary??? we should concentrate on doing something that will give us eternal value while we are still given a chance by God to live in this world... and this is what i am trying to do as well... take care and have a nice day...

Why have a cast at all? we are all here to learn and to teach. I been ordained as a Rev. through 4 churches, I been recognized as a shaman from 11 traditions, and have my own religion called Heinzism, and I been recognized as an extention off the Heyoka tradition.. I have even been declared as two seperate avatars.. But none of that matters. In the end I am human just live everyone else. I am here to learn, as well as teach, and share like everyone else.. These recognitions alone have been hard, as I been ran out of one group proclaimed as fraud, while highly praised by the next group .. The labels in the end does not mean a darn thing. What is important is we always do our best, with what we can do, and know to do.. In this world, and beyond it. I work with Spirits as well as regular people who who have no beliefs at all in Spirits.. But in the end what matters is we again do our best.

An incredibly intelligent post that I was lucky enough to log on and find today. Spirituality is one of my favorite topics and in my mind it is one of the sole purposes of this existence on the material world. Lots and lots of religions teach that we are here learning life lessons to better prepare us for the afterlife yet their are so many people in this world completely void of any kind of spirituality whatsoever. Sometimes it seems mundane to me to be stressing over things such as my financial situation and my health problems. You can get so caught up in them because as of right now this is how life is. We have to keep in our hearts and our heads though that we are more then just an aching body or more then just a person struggling to get some kind of relief from stress. We have to remember that the soul will greatly outlive the temporary vessel that we all currently reside in. The biggest problem with our earthly world in my eyes though is how society is setting up the world so that we actually have no time for spirituality! Sometimes I wish that I was better secured financially so that way I could focus more on my spiritual studies as well as other research to help benefit life as we know it. It just seems that humankind has become so out of touch with what is important. For almost 20 years now (my life span) I've watched the world evolve materially, I will continue to wait for the day that the earth and it's inhabitants evolve spiritually. (: Thanks for the post friend, it definitely got some good ideas flowing.

Hello Professor, I have to agree with you when you say (regardless of religion) that the most 3 important things in this world are the 3 things that you mentioned. We all know that Go is the creator of the world (and all other things surrounding it). And we all know that he can give us what is best for us. But I also think that it is not bad for us to strive hard to be on the topmost position in this material world. As you say, we are currently leaving in this material world, and i think we should do our best to go with the flow. We should only be watchful of our heart not to put this material world first before God. We can also use this hard earned material in our worshiping of our God.