Materialisitic people mostly measure success in terms of money, business success, career success, material possessions. Religious people on the other hand measure success in terms of their religious deeds such as chanting of mantras, pilgrimages, charities they have made, rituals they have done and so on. Neither of them are correct as existence rates a person on only one parameter and that is the quality of one's consciousness. True success is only the upliftment in one's consciousness. Nothing else! PERIOD. What your consciousness is, is WHAT YOU ARE. If at the time of one's death, one's consciousness is more evolved (simply put it means if one is a better human being) than what it was during the time of one's youth, existence considers that person's life to be far more meaningful than the life of a person who has accumulated a lot of material possessions and so called religious merits but whose conscioussness has not evolved.
The so called religious people think that just by chanting mantras, performing rituals, visiting churches, temples and mosques, they have done their duty towards God but this is not so. All these activites are good and meaningful but only if they help to elevate one's consciousness such as by making one more loving, less judgemental, more silent and deep. However I personally have seen many religious people. They become so irrtiable, cranky, greedy, hot tempered and quarrelsome. No matter how many religious deeds such people do, it is a complete waste as the most important (and the only one that matters) thing has not happened and that is a beneficial change in the consciousness. It is very difficult also to make such misguided "seekers" see this point of view as most of them do not even understand what conscioussness means. The same explanation holds good for materialistic people. If thier material possessions have not helped them to develop detachment towards them, if thier wealth has not developed in the ma spirit of sharing, then thier consciousness has not really evolved.
Religious deeds, material possessions are merely tools to help us in evolving. But in truth except for very few people, these very tools become the very end. And when this happens, they become a cage which prevets one's consciouness from expanding and experiencing true bliss. A wise man makes even his misfortunes serve his soul's evolution. The expansion of one's consciousness is not dependent on wealth, fame, religious merits. One can use any circumstance of life to evolve a better and finer human being.
The so called religious people think that just by chanting mantras, performing rituals, visiting churches, temples and mosques, they have done their duty towards God but this is not so. All these activites are good and meaningful but only if they help to elevate one's consciousness such as by making one more loving, less judgemental, more silent and deep. However I personally have seen many religious people. They become so irrtiable, cranky, greedy, hot tempered and quarrelsome. No matter how many religious deeds such people do, it is a complete waste as the most important (and the only one that matters) thing has not happened and that is a beneficial change in the consciousness. It is very difficult also to make such misguided "seekers" see this point of view as most of them do not even understand what conscioussness means. The same explanation holds good for materialistic people. If thier material possessions have not helped them to develop detachment towards them, if thier wealth has not developed in the ma spirit of sharing, then thier consciousness has not really evolved.
Religious deeds, material possessions are merely tools to help us in evolving. But in truth except for very few people, these very tools become the very end. And when this happens, they become a cage which prevets one's consciouness from expanding and experiencing true bliss. A wise man makes even his misfortunes serve his soul's evolution. The expansion of one's consciousness is not dependent on wealth, fame, religious merits. One can use any circumstance of life to evolve a better and finer human being.
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