Adhyatma

Spirituality is the generic term for a widely held belief system which includes spiritual awakening and living in harmony with the Universe as their main themes. Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; spiritual experience includes that of connectedness with a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self; with other individuals or the human community; with nature or the cosmos; or with the divine realm. Spirituality is often experienced as a source of inspiration or orientation in life. It can encompass belief in an all-pervading divine principle inherent within creation, and yet transcendent at the same time. This paradoxical approach to understanding the nature of reality follows the generic panentheistic formula whereby God, or some divine source, is All in All, and yet is not limited to even these things.