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Keki Daruwala, poet and a former cop

What does spirituality mean to you?

As an agnostic I am not sure how to answer that question, and for a rational man like me, talking about spirituality is a bit like putting me in a corner. So I certainly have neither credentials nor pretensions in the matter. But I would say that spirituality is a way through the maze, a way through the fog of life. It can give peace, though many so-called spiritual people actually try to fog our minds with a lot of mumbo-jumbo.

Do you believe you are guided and protected by a superior force?

Those who believe in such guidance and protection are lucky. I respect people on the edge of altered states of consciousness for instance, who can have dreams or revelations regarding such a higher force or higher being. Yet, it is not something I have ever experienced and therefore not something I would be able to believe in wholeheartedly.
In fact, I feel restricted by my beliefs: if they were to spill into faith, divinity and all the rest, my inner life would have been much richer. But I would have been fake in doing so, and I would have betrayed who I really am and what I fundamentally think. And I’d rather not be hypocritical.
So at times of difficulty, and I did go through some very tragic moments, energy has to be found within. Literature or nature are then tremendous sources of strength and upliftment.

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