DEVELOPING GODLINESS.

Talking about spiritualism, involving in spiritual activities, attending discourses, reading spiritual books, saying prayers and slokas, visiting temples, doing poojas are acts to exhibit one's bhakti towards God. 

It may help to control the mind to perform virtuous acts. But it is difficult to attain Godliness. It comes with constant and sincere practice. It should be the ultimate objective in one's life. 

God is pure. To reach Him, one must also be pure. Both body and mind should be pure. This can be achieved only by continuous practice. We have to undergo many births to become pure. 

Man is full of desires. He takes many births to get his desires fulfilled. More the births he takes, his desires get reduced and he becomes purer. A person of 30 may be elder to a person of 70 depending on the number of births he has undergone and how pure his thoughts are. Everyone undergoes life as per his intentions and actions. For all good acts, he gets the credit, and for the bad acts debit. 

For developing Godliness, becoming desireless is important. In other words, renunciation leads to realization. Assuming a person lives an average life of 70 years, the first 50 years are spent in performing his duties ie Karma Yoga. For the next 10 years, he spends reading various spiritual books and enhances his knowledge about God and Godliness ie Bakthi Yoga. For the rest of his life, he practices renunciation and concentrates on God through meditation and yoga ie Gnana Yoga.

Renunciation is rejecting something previously enjoyed and abandoning material comforts in achieving spiritual enlightenment and leading a holy life free from lust, craving, and desire. 

The person who attains this state is speechless. He does not get anger, taste, dress sense, sex, likes and dislikes, hatred, pain, or pleasure. He becomes devoted to God and godliness. Such a stage is called spiritually enlightened. Everyone should try to attain this state which is called BLISS.