Spiritual Discipline.

Spiritual discipline is totally different from religious life. Do not rest content with mere prayer,worship and other rituals, though these may bringpurity of mind other merits. There is something aboveall these which will take us to the ultimatereality.Being endowed with the power ofdiscrimination, we should be able to analyse the realand the unreal without mistaking the chaff forgrain.Wisdom lies in choosing the right way forobtaining the spiritual enlightenment which only willconfer eternal bliss.This will eliminate the cycle ofbirth and death. Virtuous acts done with a motive maybring heavenly pleasures like earthly ones. But whenmerits are exhausted , men are pushed down to theearth again to roll and whirl in the cycle of birthand death.Having enjoyed the vast realms of Heaven, they nearlyexhaust the stock of merit and will be obliged tocome down into the mortal world again.Those who hankerafter pleasures and follow the ritualistic path ofthe knowledge will obtain temporary results. They go up to Heaven and come down to earth and revolvelikewise as contained in Bhagvad Gita. (ref Ch.IX-21)