When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality? Spirituality begins from the moment one gets the slight impression ‘I am somewhat different from this [the body?]’ And when dehadhyas, the belief of ‘I am the body, the relative self’, goes away; that is when spirituality is complete. Dada Bhagwan
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"When can it be said that one has entered into spirituality?" The question is asked when the moment of realization arrives. The answer, simply, is 'when one doesn't have faith in the body anymore.' One who has achieved spirituality is one who no longer has faith in the body, which is composed of so many forms, so many activities, so many desires, so many desires to satisfy, which are all due to the constant interaction between objects and actions. The body is a cause that produces effects. The effect is the body itself.

The cause is something called 'I'. It is said that when one gets rid of this 'I' there will be no more effect. This state of mind can be termed as 'spirituality'.

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