{"id":140,"date":"2012-10-24T13:02:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saravanan.org\/?p=140"},"modified":"2018-07-29T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T10:21:51","slug":"spirituality-for-an-agnostic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saravanan.org\/spirituality-for-an-agnostic\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirituality for an agnostic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For an agnostic like me, spirituality is the “anything related to my super-set<\/em>“. \u00a0Simple. \u00a0It works regardless of whichever context I see that word coming up in.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spirituality is one of the most misused words out there. \u00a0The word ‘spirituality’ is like a closet in a teenager’s room: Anything goes in there, but nothing ever comes out. \u00a0For example, according to Wikipedia, the term\u00a0spirituality<\/a>\u00a0can be used when dealing with any of the following:<\/p>\n You can stretch spirituality to fit it on everything or nothing. \u00a0You and me can be talking about spirituality, but we may be talking two very different things. \u00a0I think the confusions is caused by the limitation of the English language. \u00a0Sanskrit, on the other hand, has much more specific terms for each of the above. \u00a0It is unfortunate that we are letting this knowledge die. \u00a0But we are digressing.<\/p>\n Regardless of what anyone means about spirituality, whenever they use this word, I think they are talking about something bigger than themselves of which they are a sub-set. \u00a0The super-set may be a group of people, a set of social rules, some guiding principal, nature, cosmos, divine, etc.<\/p>\n\n