मंगल पर अध्यात्म
'मंगल पर अध्यात्म' एक निर्लाभ आध्यात्मिक + तकनीकी संगठन है जिसका मिशन बच्चों और युवाओं के साथ आधुनिक आध्यात्मिकता साझा करना है।
'मंगल पर अध्यात्म' को अंग्रेजी में 'स्पिरिचुएलिटी ऑन मार्स' या फिर संक्षेप में सिर्फ SoM कहा जाता है।
यह संगठन अभी शुरुआती चरण में है। यह वेबसाइट भविष्य के विज़न को बताती है।
SoM केवल आध्यात्मिकता पर केन्द्रित नहीं है, बल्कि व्यक्ति के शारीरिक , मानसिक , भौतिक , सामाजिक और आध्यात्मिक संतुलित विकास पर है।
SoM के कुछ फोकस क्षेत्र हैं ध्यान, इच्छा शक्ति, आंतरिक शक्ति, खेल, विवेक, निडरता, सादगी, प्रेम और दयालुता, प्राकृतिक जीवन, दृढ़ता, अटल रहना, भक्ति, स्वास्थ्य, शांति, अनुभव से शिक्षा, मानसिक हिम्मत, सकारात्मक सोच, प्रसन्नचित्त रहना, भावनाओं और क्रोध को संभालना और अन्य चरित्र लक्षण। SoM जीवन-कौशल पर भी ध्यान केंद्रित करता है।
13:50 बजे तक देखें (अवधि 3:05 मिनट)
राशि ने शाहिद कपूर, अजय देवगन और सिद्धार्थ मल्होत्रा जैसे बॉलीवुड सितारों के साथ फ़र्ज़ी, रुद्र और योद्धा जैसी बॉलीवुड और वेब-सीरीज़ में अभिनय किया।
वीडियो में की गई बातें
राशि:
मैंने ध्यान 10 दिनों तक किया और 10 दिनों के बाद मैं बस एक कार में बैठकर मुस्कुरा रही थी... इसने वास्तव में मेरे आनंदमय भाग को जन्म दिया। यह ऐसा है जैसे आप पर बादल छाए हुए हैं और अचानक बादल छंट जाते हैं और धूप में... आपको ऐसा महसूस होता है। मैं लगातार मुस्कुरा रही थी। मैं लगातार आनंद में थी। मुझे आमतौर पर इतना गुस्सा भी नहीं आता... लेकिन वह गुस्सा दूर हो गया। मुझे बस ऐसा महसूस हुआ जैसे मैं बहुत अलग व्यक्ति हूं।
मेरे ख्याल से मैं यह ध्यान 40-45 दिनों से कर रही हूं। मैं यह सुनिश्चित करती हूं कि मैं इसे प्रतिदिन करूं। और इसने वास्तव में मेरे जीवन पर बहुत अच्छा प्रभाव डाला।
इंटरव्यू लेने वाला व्यक्ति:
वह भावना क्या है? उसके बाद आपको क्या अनुभूति हुई?
राशि:
मुझे लगता है कि आप इसे निर्वाण कह सकते हैं... मुझे नहीं पता... आप इसे आनंद कह सकते हैं। यह वह एहसास है जिसे हममें से बहुत से लोग वास्तव में इतने लंबे समय से चाहते थे। [राशि आँखें बंद करते हुए कहती है..] उस अवस्था में आप बस बैठे रहना चाहते हैं, आप अपनी आँखें नहीं खोलना चाहते। आप बस मन के अंदर रहना चाहते हैं। आप खुशी महसूस करते हो...
देखिए, मैं भी यह बात वहां से कह रही हूं जहां मेरी नौकरी में लगातार तनाव रहता है, हर चीज को लेकर लगातार तनाव रहता है। इसके बावजूद अगर मैं मुस्कुरा रही हूं और खुश हूं तो यह काम कर रहा है। क्योंकि बहुत अधिक तनाव है, आपके पास बहुत सारे लोग हैं और आप लगातार काम कर रहे हैं। लेकिन जब मैं उन 20 मिनटों के लिए बैठती हूं, तो मैं अपनी आंखें नहीं खोलना चाहती क्योंकि मैं बहुत आनंदित होती हूं। और यही चीज़ मुझे पूरे दिन के लिए तैयार करती है। तो.. मुझे लगता है.. इसने मेरी जिंदगी बदल दी।
इंटरव्यू लेने वाला व्यक्ति:
मैं लोगों से कहता हूं... आप लोगों को यह एहसास नहीं है कि खुशी समुद्र-तल है, खुशी सामान्य है। लेकिन जब आप आनंद का अनुभव करते हैं, जब आप परमानंद का अनुभव करते हैं, तो वे खुशी से पूरी तरह से अलग अवस्थाएं होती हैं। वास्तव में आपके पास यही लक्ष्य होना चाहिए।
राशि:
मैं बस यही सोचती हूं, कि ध्यान तकनीक उपलब्ध हैं, हमें बस उन पर पकड़ बनानी है क्योंकि यही वह जगह है जहां हमें आनंद मिलेगा या भले ही आनंद न मिले... कम से कम शुरुआत में आप कम तनाव महसूस करेंगे।
SoM सभी बच्चों, युवाओं और माता-पिता का भी स्वागत करेगा, चाहे वे नास्तिक हों या आस्तिक, मॉडर्न हों या ग्रामीण, जिम-बॉडी वाले या पार्लर-बॉडी वाले या पतले या मोटे। ध्यान के आनंद, प्रेम और शांति का अनुभव करने के लिए, खुशी की अपनी लालसा को संतुष्ट करने की दिशा में अपनी यात्रा शुरू करने के लिए SoM में हर किसी का स्वागत है।
SoM का ध्यान ग्रामीण और शहरी आबादी पर समान रूप से केंद्रित है।
ग्रामीण समुदाय को उनकी सभी समस्याओं के समाधान के लिए तुरंत आध्यात्मिकता नहीं सिखाई जा सकती। उनको देखभाल और मदद की आवश्यकता है। उनकी आर्थिक, शैक्षिक और अन्य प्रमुख समस्याओं को हल करने में मदद की जाएगी। और आध्यात्मिकता को एक प्रमुख उपकरण के रूप में इस्तेमाल किया जाएगा। और खुशी को लक्ष्य बनाया जाएगा, न कि धन को।
निःसंदेह, उन्हें खुश रहने के लिए अधिक धन की आवश्यकता है। अध्यात्म हमें तब भी खुश रहना सिखाता है जब हम उन सभी चीजों को पाने की राह पर हों जिनकी हमें जरूरत है, या फिर चाहते हैं।
ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में टेक्नोलॉजी की पहुंच सीमित है। यह संभावना है कि SoM के कुछ इच्छुक स्वयंसेवक गरीबों को जानने और उनकी मदद करने के लिए अक्सर गांवों का दौरा करेंगे और हफ्तों या महीनों या उससे अधिक समय तक गांवों में रहेंगे।
गरीब समुदायों के लिए शिक्षा सहित लगभग हर चीज़ मुफ़्त होगी। जो क्षेत्र शुल्क देने की क्षमता रखते हैं, उनसे उचित शुल्क लिया जाएगा।
हिंदी में अनुवाद का कार्य प्रगति पर है।
SoM may fulfill its mission through the following initiatives:
An Online Spiritual Development and Happiness Development Platform based on ancient spiritual teachings and scientific research and is applicable to modern, practical, busy, and fast-moving lives of Children and Youth.
This is the most important project for SoM.
Implementation Priority:
Character Module and Online Community Module in Phase 1
Rest of the Modules from Phase 2 onwards
Alexa Infinity
An AI-based and Voice-based app for android/iPhone which will talk with students like Alexa, guide like a Spiritual Teacher, entertain like a standup comedian, remind like a mother, be kind like a professional, and is ahead of chatGPT4 in understanding & answering the user (because it will be developed when AI is much more advanced that today). Seeing the current development in AI, it will probably be able to properly guide a child or youth just like a Level 1 Spiritually trained teacher. If Computer vision advancement allows, it may even capture the users physical body and suggest correction in posture to meditate properly. Even without computer vision, it will be able to teach meditation & other practises and will refer to a human teacher when needed.
This will be a part of Life-University.
Implementation Priority: Phase 3
Coaching classes (Spiritual + Academic)
1–2 hour classes on Science, Maths, Robotics, etc, combined with 15 to 30 minutes of Spirituality, conducted during evenings, weekends, or summers.
Courses for rural population, like for Electrician, Plumber, etc, will also be taught on the same pattern.
Overtime, duration for spirituality can be increased to make it equal to the time allotted to academics.
Implementation Priority: Phase 1
This is a good starting point for SoM.
Schools & Colleges (Spiritual + Academic)
"I think they should put Spiritual Education in schools. That is very important! More than anything else, this is very important... how you deal with your life. I think today's generation needs it more than anybody else."
~ Raashi Khanna, Bollywood Actress
New and innovative Alternative Schools, for urban and rural population, which focus equally on Academics and Spirituality should be opened.
On the same lines, new and innovative Tier 1.5 colleges for Engineering, Vocational, and other popular courses need to be established which will focus equally on Academics and Spirituality.
Schools and Colleges for urban population will give 51% importance to Spirituality and 49% to Academics.
For rural population, the exact ratio will depend on what kind of problems children face in their area.
Implementation Priority: Phase 3
Spiritual Programs for existing Institutions
Practical Spiritual programs for existing regular Schools or Colleges or Companies, to reduce stress, increase happiness levels, differentiating between short-term happiness and long-term happiness, reduce daily problems in lives of children & youth, and more. The institution will run as it is with some additional spiritual bent to it.
Implementation Priority: Phase 2
Conversion from a Regular Institution to a Spiritual + Academic Institution
Plan and implement complete transformation of those schools or colleges where administration and students are willing to see their institution getting transformed to a Spiritual institution, similar to SoM's school or college.
Implementation Priority: Phase 4
All of SoM's spiritual programs are likely to be free. SoM will generate funds by charging for academics and that may prove to be the primary source of funding from day one.
Therefore, SoM may not need any major funding to start. SoM can start teaching Spirituality in academic coaching classes conducted by SoM.
It may also generate funds through Donations and a Software Development Business.
Angela Duckworth is a Professor in University of Pennsylvania in US and is a world-famous Author of the book named GRIT. She is a Scientist and runs a non-profit "Character Lab".
She has developed a "Character Growth Card" that helps school children assess and develop Character traits like Perseverance, Kindness, Gratitude, etc. Her work is already being used in many schools in US with good results.
This path-breaking research in the area of Character Measurement and Development in Children & Grownups is central to SoM.
TECHNOLOGY USE
SoM will not use ultra-modern technologies to look fancy. Technologies will be used for utilitarian purposes, to reach more people and to teach more efficiently.
Artificial Intelligence: Highly trained interactive video-based AI-teachers will be created to talk to and guide children in spirituality and life skills, and may be also in academics.
Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality (VR/AR): If VR/AR becomes popular among the masses, SoM may use VR/AR for teaching spirituality. Using VR, a student may be able to visit a beautiful virtual-ashram where he would meet friendly teachers and learn from them.
Community platforms like 'Discord' will be used along with collaboration tools like MS Teams or Zoom.
Social Media platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Blogs, etc, will be used extensively.
INITIAL MONTHS/YEARS OF SOM
Funds generated by teaching Academics will help SoM to start the work.
Also, SoM will need to gain a lot of experience in SoM's new philosophy of education and will need to test out the innovative ideas at a small level to become an expert in this this new philosophy of academic & spiritual education. Then SoM will be more ready and prepared to run a larger and more complex initiative at scale, like Life-University and later on a School.
So, it is very essential for SoM to go slow and gain experience working with a few children and gradually build-up on that experience to do something at a bigger scale.
Therefore, SoM plans to start with 1-2 hour evening classes on Science, Maths, Programming, etc, like the coaching classes which are very common in India. In these classes, in addition to the allotted time for academics, about 30 minutes of Spirituality can be taught which may include Meditation and discussions on Spiritual topics. The children may be focussing on character development also. SoM will charge for these classes for teaching academics.
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PILLARS OF SoM
The goal of SoM is to help every modern, busy, spoilt, or simple child or a youth have an actual inner-experience of the Divine that begins as Peace and then blossoms into Joy, Love, Inner-Strength, and Wisdom, and brings happiness that pervades all day-to-day activities in school, college, work, and later-on in married life.
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Daily long Meditation as per student's willingness, and Devotion, when the child feels ready for it, may be because of his own inner-experiences of the Divine during meditation, is central to SoM.
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SoM focuses primarily on Teens and Youth (upto 25 years of age). Smaller Children and Parents, and also people of all age groups, are also the secondary focus of SoM.
These days Companies working in the area of Education are called EdTech companies because they use Technology to achieve their goal of imparting Good Education to maximum people.
SoM can be called a SPATech company because it intends to achieve its Mission of imparting life-giving Spiritual Education efficiently and widely, using Academics and Technology as a means.
SoM's Motto
Spirituality need not be boring, impractical, or force anyone to believe in something that seems unreal! It can be logical, life-changing, entertaining, interesting, science-based, happiness & life giving, relevant in day-to-day life, and something that children and youth will look forward to.
Actual Experience of the Divine
SoM exists not to give a superficial knowledge of Spirituality, but to facilitate an actual experience of the Divine, so that anyone who is associated with SoM - a Child, a Youth, or a Grown-up - must experience the most tempting and all-fulfilling Joy, Love, Peace, Inner-Strength, Wisdom, and other aspects of the Divine in Meditation, irrespective of their religious background. Experiencing these attributes of Krishna, Shiva, Jesus, Allah and the other Great Ones, is the ultimate Goal and the Crux of all Religious Scriptures.
George Harrison, who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the famous Beatles Music Group, speaks about the importance of inner-experience.
Among Catholics also, there have been many great Saints who have experienced the Divine. Read More
Beyond India
SoM may start from India but the intention is to establish the institutions in other countries as well to bring spirituality to maximum number of children, youth and others.
Spirituality is not bookish knowledge, it is all about realization through Spiritual practices, like Meditation and Devotion. SoM will select those for teaching Spirituality who have gone through years of rigorous Spiritual Training by themselves (or through other means) and have at least some level of Spiritual Realization and Selflessness.
Sister Nivedita, a disciple of Vivekananda, was a good example of what a SoM teacher should be like. The Black & White image that you see is of her character from a movie on her. Read More to find the download link of the movie.
Academics will not be based on rote learning. Instead, it will be very hands-on, project based, and experiential.
Rote learning is boring. Hands-on, experiential, and active-learning methods are much more effective for learning, as per research in Education (Pedagogy).
Scientific Research (not Pseudo-Science) has well-proved some important areas of Spirituality.
To be specific, Quantum Physics and Theories of Einstein prove that the world is unreal and is an illusion.
Near Death Experiences and Research in Reincarnation brings out convincing evidence of Reincarnation and thus existence of souls.
My Role in som
I, the writer of the content on this website, did start this website and this work but I do not see myself the owner of this work. I am a volunteer, with a certain set of important responsibilities. This is a work that is expected to be owned and run collaboratively by many devotees and non-devotees who would be willing to give their lives to this cause.
The concept of Social and Emotional Learning, was popularized by Daniel Goleman. He is a long-time devotee of Neem Karoli Baba and is a world famous author of the best selling book, "Emotional Intelligence".
Now, many schools in US teach Social and Emotional Learning though meditation, anger management activities, emotional regulation through deep breathing, empathy and other social & emotional traits.
SoM will teach unity of all religions. Those who have experienced God, they say that all religions are good. Stories may differ, rituals may differ, beliefs may differ, words may differ but meanings are the same in a deeper sense. They differ only at superficial level. There is underlying unity between religions. Divinity experienced by spiritual practitioners of all religions are marked with same feelings of Joy, Love, Wisdom, and Peace.
SoM is God's Bhandara
We all have heard of Bhandaras, also called Langars among Sikhs. These are events where devotees, out of devotion for God, serve free food to all at a large scale. These events are not organized by one person but by many devotees, in God’s name, for serving and feeding God’s children.
Spirituality on Mars is God's Bhandara which will be run by devotees of God, in God's name, to serve the Spiritually Hungry, with God's help.
A bhandara satiates hunger of the hungry. SoM will help in satiating the hunger of the happiness-hungry souls.
It will be run collectively by devotees through and through, with the thought that they are doing it for God alone, not for the leader of the organization. Someone has to lead in the leading position, but God will be the main leader.
Current Status of SoM
The work is in very initial stages. No children are being taught as of now. The word is being spread. Study, planning and research is on.
There are a few people who have shown interest in volunteering.
No particular person will be looked upon as the main creator or founder of this work. Everyone will be a contributor and will do their part of the work while staying devoted to God and the Great ones. Some will also be in the leading positions, but no one person will have complete authority on the Organization.
SoM's Board of Members will have a major role to play in the decision-making process. It will not be the leader of the organization alone who would make decisions. Instead, Board will have a lot of power to decide how the organization would run.
I am just a volunteer in this work, with a certain set of important responsibilities.
If you too wish to give your name for volunteership, please feel free to fill the form. I filled out the same form for adding my own name to the volunteer list.
People often express their desire to teach spirituality. If you too have such a desire, please do check the section "Who can Teach Spirituality?".
SoM is a LOVE-ORGANIZATION
Spirituality on Mars is not just an organization, it is a love-organization. Every individual will be taken care of lovingly and caringly.
Most of the educational institutions these days are business-centered or teacher-centered. SoM is child-centered. When decisions are made, they will be based primarily on what is good for children instead of thinking primarily about what is beneficial for the teachers or the organisation.
Spiritual joys are indeed more joy-giving than the more human pleasures of life. But it takes a lot of years and efforts to reach that state of realization in which joy, love, contentment, and happiness become so fulfilling and strong that one feels more interested in Spiritual joys than normal pleasures.
Watch THESE VIDEOS to UNDERSTAND SOM BETTER
SoM has a Youtube channel that has a lot of videos of initiatives that are doing work that is similar to what is planned in SoM. Watching these will help in understanding SoM better.
Read These DOCS to Dive EVEN Deeper into SoM
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