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The first day of March happened to be the day of the scheduled annual physical with my primary care physician of many years. As I sat waiting for the exam, I wondered about the purpose of this annual exercise and why it is strongly encouraged by so many health practitioners. If it is true that ‘prevention is the best cure,’ then the annual physical can surely serve as a bellwether for health indicators like glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure levels, and more. Timely detection of changes in these indicators can prevent long-term effects and disease. In addition, it has been said in a lot of spiritual texts that ‘a healthy mind resides in a healthy body’ and we cannot stress the importance of good mental health, can we? For me, these annual visits to the doctor also remind me to schedule checkups for my emotional, financial, relational and lately, my spiritual health. 

On the second day of March, I woke up to overcast skies and the lightest of rain on the deck. Opening the patio door invited a plethora of bird song and spring into my awareness. As I sat for the morning meditation, a question happened to arise in my mind: what is the real purpose of spiritual practice? Moving through relaxation followed by focusing on the source, I let go of the question in the knowing that it would be answered if it was meant to be so. The answer came in several fragments, which I pieced together in the journaling activity that follows the morning meditations. Let me share some of the fragments.

“The wandering mind, in search of reason and rationale, fed by the ego, frames the questions of ‘meaning, purpose, goals, progress’ and more.” “The heart knows only one purpose, and that is to stay connected with the divine source — the source of all peace, light, lightness and stillness.” During the post-meditation journaling, I realized that these answer fragments were reminders of the purpose of spirituality and spiritual practice, as set forth by Heartfulness. We practice with the intention to Acquire the condition of  peace and lightness, to Enhance said condition, then Imbibe it deep within ourselves. The purpose of acquiring, enhancing and imbibing peace and more? It is so that we can experience Oneness, and promote the kind of Unity among all kinds of spiritual practices which evoke the heart.

As long as breath remains, the propensity of the mind to ask knowledge acquiring questions will never end. That is perhaps the mind’s purpose of existence. But what is our heart’s spiritual purpose? What makes it glow with peace and light? If we were to remember to ask heart-related question, perhaps even once a year, and then surrender said questions to the universe, we could perhaps connect with the true purpose of our spiritual practices, yes? 

Kumud

Join us for our weekly gathering and twitter chat, Sunday March 2 at 9amET / 2pmGMT as we share on ‘Spirituality and Purpose’ ~ Namaste ~ @AjmaniK

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