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Kabir Bedi is an actor who has worked in Bollywood, Hollywood and European television.

What does spirituality mean to you?
It’s your relationship with the higher self, the cosmos, in a non-material way; also it’s about getting in touch with your inner sense of things.

What do you mean by higher self?
We exist at various levels: the physical level, the mental level --- which categorizes things like “I am a Punjabi, I am an Indian, I am a father” etc., creating definitions for everything. But the higher self is something different and very subtle. It is our sense of what lies beyond the five senses. Whether we call it intuition or a sense of what the universe is, or what God is, that’s our higher self. When we talk of God of course, there are many ways people imagine what it is.

What is it for you?
It definitely is not an old man sitting on a throne. I don’t see God as a personal God. But obviously there is an extraordinary intelligence underlying Creation. You see it in the fabric of ever leaf held against the sun, in the beauty of every flower, in the harmony of nature. There is an underlying order and intelligence that has guided this creation in some way. Whatever this intelligence is, you can call it God if you wish. It preceded matter itself. It is the infinity of the cosmos outside and inside us.

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