What is the difference between Motivation & Spirituality ?

 

At first glance, both motivation and spirituality seem to be the same, but there is a difference between these two words. Yes, both the words are similar in some senses but still, both have their own importance. 

First of all, this is the motivation that comes to achieve something or to do something, where spiritual ideology talks about getting nothing but connecting with that which cannot be abandoned. We must have heard the name of yoga right? but do you know what is the meaning of yoga? The correct translation of yoga is to connect but to whom? Which cannot be abandoned. spiritual ideology believes that we are not separate from God or from ourselves, but the race to get something separates us from them, then both of them For the same reason they separated. so here the purpose of both words is different.

Motivation cannot last forever, even if you become motivated by listening or watching something, or by reading, then it cannot last long. Yes, Motivation comes quickly, having read or heard something somewhere, the mind becomes eager to show something. But in spirituality it is quite the opposite situation, here it may take a while to get knowledge or true devotion, but once the knowledge and devotion has come, it remains for life, and if you see the statement of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, in chapters 6 and 40 to 46. Shri Krishna says in the verse that those who walk on the path of attainment of God never lose devotion or knowledge even after death.

The motivation and the happiness of that achievement can never last forever, which means even if you get something from motivation, it is not eternal. You will have your own experience that the happiness after getting something can last for a week or more but it's for a limited time, but how can one feel the grief of separation after joining the one who has and will never separated in spirituality? It is to be noted here that in our Puranas and Vedas, the soul has always been described as the form of bliss( or extreme joy). Raman Maharishi in his book Who am I? has said that whatever happiness we feel is not due to the attainment of something, but from the eradication of the yearning to achieve something, that is, the state of unrelenting is happiness. And if such a state is attained by attaining something, then the mind will make another resolution, but by the disappearance of the will, the same happiness becomes eternal. This is the reason that spiritual bliss lasts forever. 

Both these ideologies have their own importance in life, but both are equally important. So that is for today.

see you next time.

Hari Om.