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The aim of rational spirituality is the attainment of free consciousness or enlightenment
Spirituality without religion is available to all in their daily lives.
Is religious spirituality real?
Rational spirituality is the path of non-dualistic Theravada Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta. According to these two spiritual practices, human consciousness is one and indivisible.
Rational spirituality does not depend upon religious faith or belief in God. This may look strange to some. Both the rational spiritual life and the practice of meditation supporting it are natural. There is nothing supernatural in rational spirituality.
Rational spirituality supported by meditation has the aim of liberating human beings from suffering in their daily life.
Human suffering results from negative emotions like anger, hate, jealousy, despair, inferiority complex and tragedy, disease, and death.
Believers’ spiritual goal is to meet and live with God in heaven in peace and ecstasy or to merge their souls with the universal soul called God.
Rationalists’ spiritual goal is to free consciousness from the illusory self or the ego or ‘I’- thoughts, emotions, and desires-the contents of consciousness and…
