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How does one express spirituality? The most basic way is through one's deeds. These deeds involve being a better human being who is sensitive towards other human beings, that is, being humane. This is the guiding theme of this year's World Confluence on Humanity, Power and Spirituality. Organised by the Srei Foundation, Business Economics and the Institute of Inspiration and Self-Development, the annual World Confluence, has since the last four years, sought to bring together people from different career paths onto a common platform whose hallmark is spirituality through service. Eschewing doctrinaire and divisive interpretation of religion, the World Confluence seeks a commingling of the beliefs and practices of different faiths, which elevate and empower the mind, soul and body. The purpose is to harmonise thoughts with actions, and bring unity rather than create divisions among people of different faiths; the binding factor is the expression of spirituality through h...

Vedic rishis were masters of the physical and the spiritual, super beings who controlled prakriti and all its manifestations. The physical body comprising of five mahabhutas (elements) had been completely mastered by them. From the masters of the Vedic era to the present-day doctors of modern and alternative medicine, all are engaged in finding a solution to stop, or at least, slow down the body clock. Many, on realising that they are ageing, lose their mental balance. A lot accept it as the inevitable. Some get stressed and fearful, and it is these vulnerable people who fall prey to business-minded companies selling anti-ageing creams, tonics, rejuvenating serums, which at best camouflage symptoms, addressing just the periphery while the core goes unnoticed. With time, the core emerges revealing facts, but by then precious years have been lost and the damage is by then irreversible. It is normal to age...but for normal people. Ageing is a phenomenon of dulling of the senses...

The entire creation consists of purush and prakriti or the five elements, which in various permutations and combinations make the creation in totality. All individual beings are a part of these five elements at the physical level. The purush aspect is individualistic and manifests at will, where the combination of these elements are most suitable for it backed by its karmic balance. Most perceive the world and themselves as just the five elements and all they worry about are those five elements, nothing more than that. Sanatan Kriya details these as bandhans, those who do not have these bandhans are called bandhan mukt. Stillness is the key to untie oneself from these bandhans. In vedic sciences, there is specific practice called tatva shuddhi that leads to stillness of the five elements, or prakriti. Only when that stillness is achieved are you able to access the other part of the creation, the purush tatva. Till your elemental or physical awareness does not dissolve, yo...