The time between 1800 -late 1900 was flooded with the guru and spiritual leaders spreading their message all over world. Perhaps that was the time when i western world people after becoming rich due to industrial revolution started thinking “what lies beyond?”. i have listed some popular leaders of those times mostly who hailed from indian subcontinent.

• Bhagwan sri Ramana Maharshi – [1879 - 1950]
• Sri Aurobindo’- [1872 - 1950]
• J Krishnamurthy – [1895 - 1986]
• U. G. Krishnamurthy – [1918 - 2007]
• Osho – [1931 -1990
• George Gurdjieff - [1866-1949]

Here is small list of some best movies made in the past mostly in philosophical tone.

• Dost [1974]
• Guide [1965]
• Satyam shivam sundaram [1978]

Search for what we call spirituality is rooted from ancient times in the human civilization. Even today most primitive tribal groups has awareness about some form of supernatural power like God and their worship God in the form of stone statue. Spirituality has come into human conscience in different forms like religion, God or seekers and theist who are actually searching for God in some other forms. Moralist, religions and gurus have separated human beings as the evolved and top most creation of nature, this is self proclaimed statement without any proof. As humans are aware about their suffering and sometimes scholars of human psyche conclude that animal forms are better than human. Because they do what they are supposed to do meanwhile life has no meaning and human tends to waste their energy in unanswerable questions.

This discussion I will try to explore why a human tends to become miserable and starts constant searching for something which has no guarantee of existence. We are not sure that if this happens to everyone. To make our life better we turn around and see other peoples who seems happy (At least from what we can see) then try to mimic them same it true for followers of spiritual leaders. Those leaders seems to have attained their state in the age of dying and seems like they stake their social life at stake and we are still not sure that their posses something that we are looking for. We always look at them with suspicion.

One of my observation was that as the people become more experienced and educated as well as they read more books they become more miserable, it is that not that before they were perfectly happy..! So when try to reverse this process of evolution and look at animals they seems happy, at least what we think from their ability to perform livelihood so perfectly that it doesnt seems like something like mind is interfering their life. Again when we look back to humans who are living in conditions like stone age and not affected by evolution of human intelligence also believe in God and they use liquor, why is that urge for God or liquor is it something that comes from nature sown basic instinct called spirituality that human is bound to prone.

Some peoples claimed that they attained enlightenment and others can achieve the same through some sort of Sadhana etc. There have been tremendous incarnations of spiritual super human on the planet some used to keep quite and some other tried to influence the masses to make their life better. The difficulties with the approach to impart someone who has attained higher level of knowledge is that experience cannot be transferred to other living being. So many gurus falsified the business of spiritual leaders seeking pleasure. One thing is sure that when a person is in absolute harmony with surrounding he doesn’t bother about so called spirituality – U. G. Krishnamurthy has added important dimension to this.

Some peoples are asking questions about life, death, what happens after death and does God exists etc now it has been widely accepted that person who is asking such question is in some kind of mental illness. But one other question which remained unanswered that why a human being that is perfect form of natural living organism since birth and has natural  ability to enjoys all perks around here becomes so miserable. Many have said about Ego and Conditioning generated from accumulated from past and thus freeing from all past and ego would be a transformation into a perfect human being. But some level of Ego as well as memory is required for preservation of human life. thus their essense cannot be discarded entirely.

Ego and their different manifestations

Ego has been repeatedly condemned for all human sufferings.  It comes in subtle to most colossal forms in the ocean of human conscience and create ripples. The basic work of ego is to self protestation and gain but in case human due to knowledge and social conditioning it takes complex forms identifying all of them can be exhaustive task. The ego starts interfering when it says you are different from the rest of existence. So some examples like jealousy arises when you feel someone better than you, considering oneself superior than others on the basis of physical attractiveness, a man of great achievement, or self proclaimed moralist can easily fall into prey of ego. Some have added that fear is another form of ego where it creates some anxiety in you for not being perfect in situations.  Identifying those forms of ego and observing them in the time when they become intensive can be a start point to overcome it.

What is remedy

This has been the topic of debate over the years and no single conclusion can be arrived because every person is unique and what works for one there is no guarantee that it will work for other. ?If you observe that all those who we perceive as enlightened peoples took different paths. Some  like U. G. Krishnamurthy and Ekart Tolle says they passed through psychological transformation by accident and there can be any resort or method for any one to reach that state. One of question to understand is can there be any help with learning all those moral lesson and research done on mind and some thought based practices and our very first attempt to control mind or come to a new conclusion is generated from mind itself and mind has nature of constant change.