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Jaswant Singh, has served seven terms in Parliament and held charge of six ministries in BJP-led governments, including finance, external affairs and defence

What does spirituality mean to you?
Is it a yearning, a direction, a search? A distillation of who and what we are, of what and why this is all about, knowing it is not only about you or me?
It certainly is apart from physicality. And it is very different from organized rituals or religion.

It refers to the spirit. There is no shape or form to it. You cannot capture it. It is like a fragrance, a perfume. If you try to photograph it, you won’t be able to capture it. The moment you try, it will escape you.
So I cannot answer what is spirituality. If I could define it in words, I would not have to do all this. All this would be a waste of time.

So all this is a search?
Of course it is. This question has inspired the search of human beings ever since they started thinking. I cite Saint Augustine, who in his “Confessions” remarked: “I do not even know what I do not know”. And I am still searching.

This search has not led to answers yet?
Search is like the horizon. And there is an Arabic saying, “once the house is built, the decline starts” --- once the search is complete, life ends.

Is the search destined or rather about chance, “coincidences”?
What is a coincidence? Co-incidence. Why should two incidents come together? We attempt to explain here what is beyond human intellect through the inadequate mechanism of human intellect. So you have to submit, you have to accept.
How does one react to beauty for instance? You have to submit to beauty. You cannot conquer it. And if you have to experience it, you do not experience it through dictating. There is a very fine Sanskrit shlok, “in accordance to the inherent laws of Nature, things happen”. Those who are arrogant work on the assumption that they control it.

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