{"id":70,"date":"2021-10-05T17:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zorbawellness.com\/blogs\/?p=70"},"modified":"2021-10-05T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T17:02:29","slug":"spiritual-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zorbawellness.com\/blogs\/2021\/10\/05\/spiritual-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Books are too heavy, PDF&#8217;s are too temporary,<br>The smell of a new novel is nirvana, the digital work of a lifetime will be not be saved because of<br>a comma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life is too fast paced, people want to slow down,<br>The days of writing are forgotten, it&#8217;s now about carrying information digitally all over town<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once upon a time we found one mentor and obeyed their guidance, today we mentor ourselves<br>through digital abidance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Temples and meccas are now visited on youtube, where are those times when we walked long<br>miles to take blessings in groups?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Science is for the mind, spirituality is for the heart,<br>We need to stop typing for once and cut it right back to the start<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital is infinite yet fragile, spirituality will seep through your soul and make you agile,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adapting to the new ways of life will take us through the digital route,<br>But you cannot replace it with the solidarity of one&#8217;s physical roots,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s only wise to marry the two,<br>The amalgamation of both will take the layman through,<br>He will no longer complain of lack of information, gone are the days when one struggled for any<br>explanations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spiritual gurus are compiling their knowledge online,<br>Yet the sages sitting by the river will chant endlessly until their voices are heard by the divine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not a matter of divide but a matter of awareness,<br>It&#8217;s about cutting the chaos and reducing that stress<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a solution to all problems online,<br>All so superficial to convince yourself that you doing completely fine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without digital our learnings will get stagnant,<br>But let&#8217;s not forget the base is in the old literature making digital today so rampant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t visit temples anymore but listen to gurus online through paid sessions,<br>It makes me wonder if monetizing it all is the purpose of their profession<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spirituality comes at a cost, it charges your soul,<br>It&#8217;s not about just saving that information only to glance it later by a scroll<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s in the words and not the platform that will get through eventually,<br>Let&#8217;s not fall for everything we see in our notifications and direct us mentally<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget the wise words we learnt and wrote in school,<br>Let it resonate with our personality and that was the rule<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be wise about what you adopt in the digital world,<br>It&#8217;s just a matter of deleting and you will be back in the old world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital is the present, future and will be in continuity,<br>But to stand apart in a pool of corrupted files, is what is Spirituality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<strong>Mr Ronak Shah<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books are too heavy, PDF&#8217;s are too temporary,The smell of a new novel is nirvana, the digital work of a lifetime will be not be saved because ofa comma Life&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zorbawellness.com\/blogs\/2021\/10\/05\/spiritual-in-the-digital-age\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","gt-excerpt","gt-excerpt-thumbnail-square"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Spiritual in the Digital Age -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/zorbawellness.com\/blogs\/2021\/10\/05\/spiritual-in-the-digital-age\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spiritual in the Digital Age -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Books are too heavy, PDF&#8217;s are too temporary,The smell of a new novel is nirvana, the digital work of a lifetime will be not be saved because ofa comma Life... 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