By ViGo
Table of Contents
Introduction
Spirituality is not about creating something new, it is about understanding what is already there. This understanding does not come through effort, achievement, or becoming something else. It comes through seeing clearly what life already is, without adding anything to it. When this understanding is there, spirituality is no longer a search, it is a natural expression of life itself.
Many approaches to spirituality begin with the idea that something is missing. From that idea arises effort, discipline, struggle, and comparison. But when we look clearly, spirituality is not about improvement or reaching a future state. It is about recognising what is already present, here and now. From this recognition, there is flowering. Not becoming, not moving towards something, but life expressing itself.
Flowering, not becoming
Flowering is not a process, a flower does not try to become a flower. It does not practice flowering, nor does it follow a method. When the right conditions are there, flowering happens. In the same way, spirituality is not something you do, it is not the result of practice, discipline, or effort. It happens through understanding.
The moment spirituality becomes a journey, a practice, or a method, effort starts, and with effort, the ego enters. Then spirituality becomes another activity of becoming: becoming better, becoming purer, becoming spiritual. This all comes from the mind, not from understanding.
Understanding does not come through doing. Doing strengthens the idea of an “I” who is trying to reach somewhere. But flowering happens when this process of becoming stops. When there is no comparison, no ideal, no future image, life expresses itself naturally.
Any attempt to carry something forward, an experience, a state, a feeling, or an understanding, will fail. The moment you bring something from here to there, freshness is lost. When memory enters, continuity enters, and spirituality turns into repetition. Flowering cannot be repeated, it can only happen now.
The role of the ego
The ego is always concerned with becoming, it wants to achieve, accumulate, and improve. Even spirituality can become a project for the ego. Practices, identities, and spiritual images can all become ways of strengthening the sense of “I.”
As long as spirituality is connected to ego, there is effort. Where there is effort, there is tension. And where there is tension, there is no flowering. Flowering requires space. That space comes when the ego is not operating, when there is no one trying to become something.
This does not mean suppressing the ego or fighting with it. It means seeing it clearly. When the ego is seen for what it is, it naturally loosens its grip. In that seeing, there is simplicity, and in simplicity, life begins to express itself without obstruction.
Effortlessness and ease
Spirituality carries the quality of effortlessness. This effortlessness is not laziness, it is the absence of inner conflict. When there is no resistance to what is, there is ease. This ease is described in Patanjali Yoga Sutra as Sthiram Sukham, steadiness and comfort.
When effort drops, life aligns itself naturally. There is no need to control or manage experience. Thoughts, emotions, and sensations arise and pass without creating a story of “me.” In this state, life flows without friction.
This is not something to be practiced or maintained. The moment it becomes a practice, effort returns. Effortlessness is the result of understanding, not the result of discipline.
Flowering as freshness and ease
Flowering means what? The moment you are comfortable. Comfortable not as an idea, not as a definition, but as a living reality. You can be comfortable at any moment, you can be at ease at any moment. Just being that, and being fresh.
Even the word comfort already carries a definition. Comfort means this or that, and easiness also has many meanings for different people. The moment we take these words, the mind starts searching. Where is comfort? I am meditating. Where is the ease? In that moment, language is brought into consciousness. Then it becomes like searching software, it will not work.
When you are in a spiritual journey, when you are trying to experience absolute truth, freshness itself is flowering. To what extent you are fresh, that is flowering. Fresh means not bothered by any thought, not bothered at all by the past, nothing, there is no carrying.
This is not about reprogramming life. Reprogramming life is birth and death. But when it comes to consciousness, it is reprogramming of beingness. Then you come entirely into a totally different, very new, fresh, unknown, innocent, always expressive way of being, purely present, just in celebration, bliss.
You cannot search for it by listening to words. If you bring something from here to there, you will fail, you have to be totally fresh.
Ishvara Pranidhana: absence of “me”
That total freshness is the meaning of Ishvara Pranidhana. Ishvara Pranidhana is a beautiful statement in Patanjali Yoga Sutra, pointing towards this happening of beingness, towards the possibility of being that.
Ishvara Pranidhana means: I don’t have anything of me. In the absence of you, what is present to you? To what extent can you create that absence of you? That absence brings the presence of the other, the presence of consciousness.
When you are moving in this direction, when this absence of “me” deepens, then it can be called flowering.
Living spiritually
Spirituality is not about creating something new. It is about understanding what is already there. When there is no becoming, no searching, no carrying of past definitions, freshness is present.
In that freshness, flowering happens, and effort drops, the idea of “me” dissolves. What remains is presence, aliveness, expressiveness, and effortlessness. This is not something to be achieved, it is a way of being that reveals itself when you are totally fresh.
Spirituality is not somewhere else, it is not in a future state or a special experience. It is here, in understanding what is already there. When this understanding is present, flowering happens naturally.
Nothing needs to be added, nothing needs to be achieved. When becoming ends, being is revealed. In that being, life is lived with simplicity, clarity, and ease. This is spirituality, not as a concept, but as a living reality.
