The Globalization of Spirituality

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the so called ``new age spirituality`` is nothing but another ploy of Satan to misguide human beings from One True God Who has created us all. The proof of this contention is that Satan only misguides humans who know very well Who their Creator is. Logically, Satan shouldn`t be wasting his efforts on those Who have no idea Who their Creator is. I found these few lines in the article quite an eye opener. Read and ponder:

``B. Mankind was so happy when they lived a natural life with a central place for God. The rituals and ideas of those ancient times are in synch with our emotional needs. Go back to those and problems will be solved.

C. Hopelessness characterizes the modern life as much as the ancient life. Belief in God brings faith, faith brings hope. Hope brings courage. Courage brings decision. Decision brings perseverance.

Eureka. But didn’t we know this all along? Open any ancient religious book (e.g., Quran, Bible etc), Lesson 1. Believe in goodness. Lesson 2, You are known and loved by God. Lesson 3. You have power, pray. Lesson 4: Have Faith

See, the question is that if we know about our destination and we know exactly what makes is happy and hopeful. Then why doubts. Why tread on paths unknown, when we already know which path takes us where we want to go?

Allama Iqbal has summarized Man`s whole quest for non-sense very eloquently in this couplet:

Woh aik sajdah jise too giran samajhta hai
Hazar sajde se deta hai admi ko najat

Tanslation:
That one prostration, that you feel so difficult to make;
Gives you freedom from thousands of other prostrations

Excellent, Saima. Insightful as usual. Very new age of me. :)

OOntsyed

Hey do you know and understand the significance of these two 6OO6s before your name?

Re: # 29 Ironmask

[they leave behind their loyal retainers...]

They even leave behind their Royal Containers (read Lotas) like our OOntsyed here.

Re: # 28 Arjun2

Or, if a Paki named OOntsyed is doing the latrines in Gitmo, is he a Paki-Caliph-in-Waiting-Till-2529 or is he a pOOr-bu99er-fOOked-up-for-life?

Re: # 28 now now arjun2, this will never do.....(finger wagging icon here...)

remember saudi roayls visit pakistan for hunting rare species....and ofcourse they leave behind their loyal retainers like OBL et al to keep them in line to receive the next set of royalties

#27 by ntsyed on December 12, 2006 5:43am PT

if a paki has delusions of being an arab, does he get any oil royalties...?

Re: # 9 by arjun2

``You get flattered and you get to wear pants...

So you gave the west deepak chopra and the west gave you pants...all in all, an awesome bargain for you...``

LOL

Spoken like a ``trailer park lower middle class hindi amrikan``

Some years ago a black man was heard in Hyde Park, ranting about whites opressing the blacks and other non-white.

During his speech he inquired if there were any Americans in the crowd. Two ``African`` Americans responded by raising their hands. The speaker refused to acknowledge them as ``Americans``.

The irritated Brothas insisted that they were ``born`` Americans. So the speaker put a simple test before the crowd and rendered the Brothas silent:

``If a cat gives birth to a litter of few kittens in an oven, what would you call them: kittens or cookies``?

...LoL

:-)~~

Re: # 17

the comment was on SRAI`s interact and a passing remark on Kullu

Re: # 17

isnt this like URSTRULY`s aphorism ``a human being has absolutely no reason to be `good`, unless he believes in God``

only more uptodate.....gobbledeegook.....
but Kullu sahib, you weild that axe very well......

interesting...

....sorry .... wrong board ...

But you can listen to the song anyway ...

Never liked the squeaky voice of Lata ... Geeta Dutt was much better ... (T)(T)

An interesting article! The first one on this site that I liked!

Couple of things:
1. Why do you confine the globalization to Muslim spirituality alone? What about the Christianity, Hinduism or even the Jewish faith? Since the early 90s, we are witnessing a rapid rise or globalization as you put it, in faith based ideologies.

2. Why don’t you picture the bill gates, or the Soros or the other philanthropist as people who understand the schism and mitigate it by using their wealth in secular ways?

I thought you had it right when you got to this part,
”What is more tragic? Our Fear? Or, Their Exploitation of Our Fear?”

Then you drifted off track. You needed to explore this a bit more. Fear is competition or hatred or better still a straw man that motivates individuals and nations to accelerate their personal or national progress.

Don`t have much time now to go in details.

My concept of spiritualism is as simple as ABCs.

Spiritualism is a way to focus your mind upon one point, and get intensely attached to it with out getting separated even when you`re among millions of humans.

And that point is one supreme energy, called GOD in my terminology to get all your answers and peace of mind.

conscience& morality is Good.....

this article is interesting perspective rambling without giving any thing to make discision one way or other.