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Yashwant Sinha is a senior BJP leader and a former finance minister and external affairs minister

What does spirituality mean to you?
It means far more than religion. It means the universe, it means questions such as why we are, who we are, the purpose of my life, the purpose of this Creation. These are some of the aspects of religion plus spirituality.

How do you go about finding out the answers to those questions?
It is difficult to find answers, mankind has tried since the beginning of the thinking age and has not arrived yet at any satisfactory answer.
When do I think about it? When I am all by myself, with absolutely no one else around, immersed in my own thoughts.

Among all those questions, one has baffled me throughout my life and I have yet to answer it: is the universe limited or unlimited? Can I imagine with all the intellect I have something unlimited? I can’t, it is humanly impossible. My brain is simply incapable of it. This is what compels me to believe there is some other power, responsible for all this. And if that other power is responsible for creating something limitless, then it must also be guiding at least some part of my life.

How do you concretely feel this guidance?
It comes suddenly. You are looking for answers and suddenly it is there. You are looking for strength, you are feeling weak and inadequate, and suddenly from somewhere you feel very confident and strong, and go about your purpose much more vigorously than you would have done otherwise. This injection, inspiration, intuition, call it what you like --- but there is some ‘shakti’ helping me. Otherwise I would not have been able to do many things I have done in my life.

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