SPIRITUALITY and MENTALITY

    Let's make things straight at first. The term 'spirituality' has been so much skewed over the times. It now stands to represent the state of a person who is dejected in life, considered to be a failure with so many unfulfilled desires, who is unfit to be in the milieu of social compulsions and believes and, most of all, a person who cannot "adjust" to the norms of the Society.  

    This type of general understanding of spirituality is fundamentally due to the inability of sentients, which we ARE of course, to distinguish between 'Mentality' and 'Spirituality'.

    Mentality is a concept that a person holds about him/herself with respect to the environment that he/she is surviving. I am using 'surviving' instead of 'living' because living is done by every creature but surviving is done by only sentients, those who have the ability to perceive and act or react. 

Let's see the meaning of the word: Mind, Mental, and Mentality. What we conceive about ourselves in our minds, and give it a form and then project the same about ourselves to the outside. This is mentality. Please take a few minutes and see for yourself. Mentality arises out of our reliance to our senses to perceive, but we saw earlier that our senses only relay a false and not the Truth that is out there!!!

    So long as I am insentient, I can have ONLY a MENTALITY only. A concept mostly identifying myself with respect to the position I hold and enjoy in the society, qualification, belief system, gender, race, and infinite other things. I exercise my power of rule over others, possess the things that makes me distinct from others, and so on. All of these serve to quell my desire to be "DISTINCT from others".

    Spirituality???? Let's see the meaning of the word. Spirit, meaning ESSENCE, spiritual, meaning ESSENTIAL, and spirituality, meaning, that which I am  after discarding all that I imposed on myself as my MENTALITY allowed.

    Spirituality, thus is the ESSENCE of myself. Generally known as Self. Being a sentient, because of which I am endowed with the faculty of "Sixth Sense", about which I boast off, I must make effort to know my Essence, else I shall continue to be insentient, that is less than human with only five senses. 

Spirituality is not an effort. It's my true nature. But I am trying to disguise myself as insentient and make all efforts to be spiritual. What sort of comedy is this?? 

Let me be a sentient and sensible!!!