Even after having all comforts in life a person feels empty inside. He says he does not like anything. Why? Why does he ever feel perturbed? The reason is that till there is not a spurt of joy from within, till one is not filled with a spiritual feeling all comforts shall be useless.

The more a person tries to be comfortable, the more he tries to indulge into pleasures and the more shall he be a prey to ailments. And pleasures mean rich food, clothes, luxuries etc. If one is very beautiful, one might be worried that the old age would mar it. If one has wealth, one might have the fear of thieves. Where there are pleasures, there is bound to be a fear of losing it all.

But if one is not too attached to pleasures, one shall have no worries. Being unattached does not mean wearing ochre robes. It means not being infatuated by anything, for once you are infatuated you shall be in deep trouble.

If we assume that life is like a cinema where we have come after having bought a ticket, we shall find that everything around is going on like a movie. But one has to keep in mind that one is here only for one show and one has to go back. This is the feeling of unattachment.

Unattachment also does not mean that becomes feelingless to the sorrows and pains of others. This is not spiritualism. Spiritualism means experiencing the omnipresence of the soul. Then no one can be a stranger, and if someone is in pain, one too feels the pain. This is actual spiritualism.

Religion is forced upon you when you are born and that is why you are a Hindu, muslim or a christian. But spiritualism cannot be forced upon anyone. Spiritualism is the complete flowering of life. It happens when one becomes free of anger and egotism.

And anger and egotism can go only through total devotion. But devotion cannot be instilled from outside. From the outside only hypocrisy can come.

It is useless to go to the temple if I have no feeling of devotion. But if devotion is there, then I could sit at home and have a glimpse of the Divine.

You too can attain spiritual greatness like the great souls who had the glimpse of the Supreme within, who found the true source of joy within. But before that one has to understand what spiritualism truly means. And this can happen only when we have a proper guide in life. Without a spiritual guide or Guru we shall keep wondering aimlessly through life and one day we shall die without having achieved anything.

And only that guide is called a Sadguru or a true master, who can tell us how to accomplish Sadhanas, how to chant Mantras that could lead us to the divine joy that forms the basis of human life. Books cannot teach you Sadhanas. For that we need a living person to whom we could relate our problems and who could provide solutions to them.

And to find a Guru you do not have to leave this world or your social circle. If Lord Buddha left his home, his wife, he started to associate with other people, his disciples. It is not a matter of leaving the world or immersing oneself completely into it, for it is not a rule that one shall enter into meditation sitting alone or one shall attain to totality in life after leaving home.