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This week's Ecotrain question is related to the coexistence of spirituality and technology. I am going to share my view on this complex topic.
Sincerely speaking I am not a lover of technology, and at the first instance I thought that spirituality and technology can not exist together. But then, I gave it a deep thought, and I came to realize that I was wrong in saying that spirituality and technology can not support each other.
I want to give some examples in favour of technology
Today we are living in the age of technology. In every aspect of our life we are using technology. Technology is making our life better in many ways. There are mobiles, connecting people together from thousands of miles away. Just make a video call and you are sitting face to face to the person who is far away physically馃槂 it must be like a miracle for the last to last generation.
If I talk about spirituality, if you want to learn Yoga, try learning from a video from good teacher of Yoga., if you want to learn meditation the same way it is possible now. There are guided meditations. There are so many videos available regarding everything you want to learn. This is all because of technology. Although I know there is still a difference in learning online and learning face to face. But still it is helps you a lot when due to some circumstances you can not visit a far away location. Ok now, earlier when there was no technology, people go to far places just on foot, and it took so many days to go anywhere. But now due to the modern means of transportation, you may go anywhere, it is so time saving, energy saving so again it helps you. There are so many ways, technology is helping us to be more spiritual. Let us take the example of music, the songs, any song Or music that takes you in the depth of your heart, you may listen anytime anywhere without disturbing anyone else all around. So this is all possible because of technology.
Day be day, there are new gadgets being launched in the market. The only thing that makes me feel uncomfortable with the presence of technology is our over involvement with the technology. For example that's good that we are using mobile for so many things. Obviously it is helping us a lot. But if we keep busy on mobile for hours continuously, without observing the things and person all around us. I mean if technology make us robots without any feelings. That's something very bad. Despite of all it's benefits, technology is making us slaves of it. And we can be the masters only if we stay conscious, actually very very conscious.
Technology is just like a knife, the way of using it depends on you., that you are going to cut an Apple with it to feed you, to make you better or you are going to cut the blood veins of your wrist to kill you.
I am very sure, seeing a few of ancient structures built in ancient time, that our ancestors too were using technology a lot. So I feel there is nothing bad in using the technology. Just we have to stay aware while using it.
So in the last, my answer is yes. Yes, Spirituality and technology both can live together. But it depends upon us to make it happen. If we stay conscious, technology indeed may help us to progress on the path of spirituality.
So this is my entry for ecotrain's question of the week session 9.4 I invite all my friends to participate and share your views on this topic. Please refer to this link for further details.
Thank you everyone
Light and peace
