The intrigue of India

I used to work with teams of individuals in Asia, Latin America, parts of Europe and Australia and New Zealand to establish new distribution channels for our publisher's book on spirituality and healing - actually Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. This book found quite a receptivity in India, having been mentioned numerous times in the Bombay Times.

In India, I worked with an amazing woman from Bombay. I did not know India well. So I caught glimpses at the beginning, and through this woman’s eyes, I got to learn more and more about India's deep seated spirituality and its receptivity to spiritual ideas.

It is interesting when working with countries how similar the lessons learned about working with other cultures can be applied to living and loving ourselves and other individuals. Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health explains man (a generic term used for all individuals) as a compound idea. She also explains earth and the spiritual universe as a compound idea.

I believe that this is key to understanding that there is a direct relationship we have to the whole world.

When we are healed of anger, we are helping to heal war. When we are healed of an illness, we are contributing to the healing of plagues and when we are loving to ourselves and our neighbors, we are adding to the momentum of world peace. Likewise, when we hear of the power of prayer that has resulted in the freeing of hostages, the liberation of those under oppression and the victory of justice over injustice, we can claim that same law that brought about harmony for the many to be relevant to our own individual freedom.

What India revealed to me is the depth of spiritualty that is inherit in all of us. This is a spirituality that is ageless, beyond denomination and that rises up in us again and again. Like an ocean's swell, our spiritual nature is constantly renewed from a perpetual source.

On my desk at work, I kept an article from The Hindu - newspaper and online news source entitled: "The spiritual genius of India" It says in part:

The religious genius of India, rather than adjust itself to secularism, has brought about its redefinition in our multi-religious context....Indian spirituality is an inspired protest against confining God to places of worship.

The article then goes on to explain its marriage of Hinduism and Islam, the impact of Persian mysticism and the advent of Christianity which arrived in south India long before it arrived in Europe in 52 CE. It goes on:

It is a sign of the health and wholeness of India's spiritual genius that the advent of religious traditions resulted in...the revitalization of an already multifarious spiritual heritage. (click here to read entire article The spiritual genius of India.)

This is a sign to me that each one of us, as well as each nation, has a unique legacy that IS protected: Our spiritual richness and identity and our ability to see beyond the places of worship to recognize the complexities, the wonder or each one of us.

Each of our spiritual journeys is adding to and revitalizing the world's multifarious spiritual heritage.

And likewise, just as I know there is no end of learning about God's infinite grace, nor my own spiritual heritage, my lessons from working with India are only a small glimpse of an infinite richness.




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