The entire culture was designed to be spiritually oriented. Being spiritually oriented need not necessarily mean retreating to the jungle – it simply means living a full-fledged life. Your physicality remains, but its compulsions are gone, and you explore the other dimensions of who you are.
We are here, and I will bless you with a long life, but eventually, we will all die. Before you fall dead, is it not important to know this piece of life – yourself – in its entirety? You must experience its full breadth and scope.
If you leave this planet without experiencing the full depth and dimension of this life, you have wasted it.
Your job, family, entertainment, and holidays are not life. Life is what is throbbing within you. Everything else is just activities and arrangements that we have made for the wellbeing of this life. If you leave this planet without experiencing the full depth and dimension of this life, you have wasted it. The spiritual process means just this: you want the full cake; you are not willing to just have a slice.