September 16, 2012
Escape or Enlightenment?
Check out the fourth installment from Andrew’s recent interview with India’s Speaking Tree:
Question: What do you think is the reason for the resurgence of interest in all things spiritual? Is it just a fad or more than that?
Answer: I’m not so sure there is a ‘resurgence’ in ‘all things spiritual.’ I do know that in modern India, most of the benefactors of the Motherland’s great economic leap forward are bearing levels of stress and tension that are truly overwhelming. That’s why so many seem to be turning to spirituality. But more often than not, they are seeking for relief — not for realization. They are seeking for escape, not Enlightenment. There’s nothing wrong with seeking for relief from stress as long as we don’t confuse it with the spiritual heroism of India’s greatest luminaries— those extraordinary exemplars of higher development who sacrificed everything to find the answers to life’s deepest existential questions.
You can follow Andrew’s journey to India, September 14th-23rd, by clicking here to see his full schedule.
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Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, founder of EnlightenNext, and the author of 
It’s true most of the people everywhere,including India, are seeking some sort of relief from the stress born of modern rat race of our times. People in India often talk of spirituality but mostly it is on superficial basis.They don’t show the requisite thirst for Enlightenment, but seek more of settled relief and keeping up with the nasty demands of unsure economic scenario..
Although the so called infrastructure for spiritual growth is available in abundance in the Indian setting yet demands of economics takes precedence……Even otherwise, only fortunate few are bound for Enlightenment which is the rarest of rare commodity on our planet Earth… But at the same time it is seen that for the first time in the history of this planet maximum number of people are increasingly eagre to know something of the Beyond, or say the Divine and all this agrees with your observation that there is a definite shift in the consciousness of mankind towards spirituality and religions in the truer sense.