The Deal With SPIRITUALITY

The deal with spirituality is to connect with one’s spiritual self - the soul.

The spiritual self is the soul in all living entities. Only in the human life-form is the consciousness of the soul sufficiently developed to realize itself. In all other life forms, the soul is barred from self-realization. The soul is so absorbed in its bodily identity that it cannot think beyond eating, sleeping, mating, and defending.

So only in the human life-form can the soul rise beyond material designations like body, nation, gender end so on, and become re-situated in its spiritual identity as an eternal soul.

And that is also called self-realization. The science of self-realization is to practice bhakti or engaging one’s senses in devotional service to God.

Narada Muni says:

"Bhakti, or devotional service, means engaging all our senses in the service of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all the senses. When the spirit soul renders service unto the Supreme, there are two side effects. One is freed from all material designations, and one's senses are purified simply by being employed in the service of the Lord.” —Narada-pancaratra