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Leading A Spiritual Life

the space stretching throughout the cosmos. The mind
travels by thinking, and there are no boundaries to the
thinking process. Traversing all kinds of frontiers, it
continues unhindered on its journey.
Let us consider the activities of a businessman.
These are confined to the material world. Due to the
narrowness of his field of action, he is very likely to
become a prey to boredom. The American business
magnate Bill Gates once rightly said: “Once you get
beyond a million dollars, I have to tell you, it’s the same
hamburger.”

Scientific pursuit is an example of travelling in the
intellectual domain. This is why scientists seldom suffer
from the businessman’s ennui. For example, Newton
said about himself toward the end of his life: “I was
like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself
now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier
shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay
all undiscovered before me.” Such was the feeling of the
great scientific thinker, Albert Einstein, when he said:
“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t
know.”
Greater even than scientific pursuit is the spiritual
quest. The reason for this is very clear. According to
Galileo Galilee, the domain of scientific pursuit is the
study of the quantitative aspect of nature, while spiritual
pursuit is concerned with its qualitative side. And, it is a
fact that the qualitative aspect of nature is immeasurably
more vast than its quantitative dimension.

One who adopts the spiritual pursuit as a matter of

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