You are in grief even when somebody disrespects you.
In fact, you are in grief the moment somebody is not loving towards you.
So, Veganism is, in its true sense, Love.
Questioner (Q): What is spirituality? How would you explain it to someone who knows nothing about it? How is self-awareness related to it?
Acharya Prashant (AP): Spirituality is very simple and straightforward, obvious and direct. We all live. We all are going through life as we say! Spirituality is to know what is going on, to be fearlessly in touch with the facts of one’s life. And because one’s life is always in context of the world, so to know the relationship between oneself and the world, the people one relates to, the things that one is after, the thoughts that one remains occupied in, one’s relationship with the mountains, rivers, animals, trees, insects, technology, everything.
Spirituality is simply about not being dumb. To know is to be Spiritual. The more one knows, the more connected one feels, because only in illusion about the other is there alienation. Then one feels like an alien. If I do not know you, then it is very difficult to be comfortable. And one wants to live comfortably. Hence, one must know.
