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Garden of Spirituality

garden of spirituality. Indeed, everything in nature gives
you a taste of spirituality. For example, when you see a
honeybee hovering over a flower, you suddenly realize
that it has a lesson to impart, for every part of nature is
like a flower for you. In each part resides the nectar of
spirituality. Take out this spiritual nectar and you will be
motivated to turn yourself into a spiritual personality.
It should be borne in mind that spirituality is not a
state of ecstasy. Ecstasy is a trance-like state, a state of
bliss or a semi-conscious condition. That is, it is like
a kind of drowsiness which causes blurriness in the
conscious mind. But spirituality is very different from
this, being marked by a high level of acute intellectual
development. It is a form of intellectual awakening,
rather than a semi-somnolent state of mind.

During the pre-scientific age, the notion had become
current that the heart was the source of spirituality. This
was taken for granted and lead to spirituality becoming
a subject for meditation, that is, heart-based spirituality.
Since the heart was devoid of any thinking capacity,
spirituality could not, therefore, become an advanced
discipline. It was reduced rather to being an array of ill-
defined assumptions.
Now that we live in the age of science, it is possible
to place spirituality within the framework of a mind-
based discipline. Being a science just like other sciences,
spirituality should be associated not with meditation
but rather with contemplation. Since the domain of
the physical sciences encompasses the exploration of
the quantitative aspects of nature, what is discovered
therein is necessarily of a material nature. The domain

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