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Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker
What are your views on this?
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I agree with all that has been claimed on the thread.
I would categorize the people claiming to be connected with spirituality in 4 categories
1. Crooks / frauds - Of course these are not really spiritual but they wear the cloak of spirituality and dupe the ignorant faithful masses by concealing facts / misleading facts / misinterpreting scriptures / spreading superstitions
wilfully and take
disproportionate advantage of followers (many a gullible women also) . Every effort must be made to expose such people with facts , educate ignorant masses with facts and punish the guilty of frauds.
2.Moderate one's asking/expecting reasonable donation/charges- This set may have learned about spirituality vicariously through scriptures , through other's experiences and in their eagerness , they may wish to help others genuinely and in the process they may expect/ask some consideration. While this is not spirituality per se (its business) , but its not bad if the charges /consideration is reasonable and they really help the seekers with genuine / right information .
3.Recognition seeker- This category of people too are not best spiritual people . But they can be given respect (what they expect) if their spiritual guidance is genuine and authentic. There is still very high chance that these people too may turn to money seeker later on (2nd category above). This kind of people can get swayed with/without recognition.
4.Truly authentic spiritual ones - These rare breed is truly child/disciple of God or God/Godess himself/herself. They love without reason (consideration ) ,they experience joy without reason.They work tirelessly. They have expanded themselves and are without any boundaries (365/6 X 24). Even recognition/praise/ sanction/criticism have not much impact on them / their convictions / their enthusiasm. They even embrace death with a smile . Warriers / Myrtrs /teachers etc who die for a cause can be considered in this category.
Society must have ways to find such people , recognize them with respect and follow him/her for their own good . Many a times contemporary society is not only unable to understand / respect such people but also oppose such people fiercely before it can really understand such people.
So there is wide range of people in the spiritual arena one has to be aware of.