Spiritual Realization

It was only last year, after my selection in university; I came to know about true meaning of Spiritual Realization. There have been questions in my mind since my childhood. Why people used to pray? To whom we are praying, of course GOD, I knew? But who is that God? For what we are here in this world then? And what is our relationship with Him (God)?

My family is quite religious but not strict religious. I, like every kid in any typical well-reputed Hindu family, was said this is temple and that’s where we pray. But my above questions were always in my mind. I have seen people raising and spending their whole life in temples and all. They think, they are quite close to God and they know everything. But when I asked these questions that were in my mind none was able to satisfy me. I have seen my mother, sister and cousins fasting. And I remember I have done that as well. But they really don’t know why they are doing apart from this which they say “to satisfy God and blah blah blah”. Ohhh come on….!!! Well, this isn’t just the story of my family but it is happening in almost every Hindu family. Not even in Pakistan but also in India.

Well coming back to my story. To find out the answers of my questions I referred to Srimad Bhagvat Gita. Truly speaking there was another reason for referring it as well which I can’t reveal here. It was the inception of the Best journey which I didn’t know on that time. It was simply awesome experience. With time and advancement of mental development, I tried my best to understand it up to my level. Actually, it was THE beginning of journey which will never end nor I want to end. I got answers of all my questions in it. I was asking the God why you have kept my unaware of this. But still thanks. Now, I have strong faith in my religion, in my GOD and in myself.

Being a minority you face lots of dilemmas and religion is one of them. So being a minority in Pakistan we face different problems and religion speculation is the prominent one, in fact it isn’t a problem but a positive thing in one sense, Muslims usually ask whole lotta questions regarding your religion and all. Till you don’t have concrete knowledge and faith in your religion, you can’t face them. Well I remember one more thing which really encouraged me to read Bhagvat Gita is the question asked by a well known religious leader of India which was in Pakistan for “Geeta Samelan”. He asked “how many books you people read in an year? I answered to myself “Woopi, let me count”. He further added, “Can’t you read one more book in your whole life time to discover yourself and your god?” I was stunned at that moment because he got a very logical point. You know what…? I got the Bhagvat Gita on the next day.

Now coming to the point, what changes I have after that. I believe explaining these changes will be waste of time because one has to be feel it in order to understand it. So, why don’t you try it…!!!. Well, it would be wrong to say that I am following the path of spiritual realization. Indeed, I am preparing myself to do follow that. But there are lots of changes that I have felt in myself even before the real game has begun i.e. I am far less materialistic now. My lifestyle has become quite simple and straight forward and there are other enormous changes that I have felt in myself and most importantly I have become vegetarian ( I’ll soon write another blog on it) for which I have faced and I am facing enormous problems, happily.

Most of the people in today’s world have no actual knowledge of religion. We just follow what our parents have made us to follow. We are so much involve in sense gratification that we have forgotten the actual purpose for being in this world. I am not saying what we are doing is wrong but the problem is nobody thinks what are we doing? Where we are heading for? What will we give to our next generation to conserve? The skepticism ? Hinduism isn’t at all about what people think,feel and know but it is totally different concept from the teachings that we had from our childhood.

My basic aim behind writing this blog was to answer some people’s question and to encourage them to try it (Bhagvat Gita) once. Really, you’ll start feeling more relax and feeling better about yourself. This is a hidden gem whose value can’t be explained in words. And I am sure hardly anyone will read this blog because they wouldn’t find it important. THAT’S WHERE THE PROBLEM LIES because our priorities have been changed with the time.

Well you try it or not. I want to thank my God and to a person who is behind one of the unrevealed reason for adopting this path. Because once one discovered it, can’t afford to loose it.

Thanks God. I must have done something really good in the past.