Spirituality or the Escape Mode ✴️
by Shivani Shiv
The word escape might sound harsh or blunt, but it truly expresses a deeper concern I often feel within the modern spiritual landscape.
Many seekers today awaken to truth — they meditate, read sacred texts, attend retreats — and yet, somehow, they begin to withdraw from life. They start to believe that spirituality means renouncing action, avoiding the world, or detaching from all responsibilities.
But when awareness truly dawns, everything begins to happen through consciousness — not away from it.
With awareness comes a sacred responsibility: the responsibility to live and lead life with awakened eyes.
When everyone else is asleep, and you are awake, your duty is not to hide away in isolation, but to lead — to bring the light of consciousness into motion. Whether through business, art, education, politics, or healing — whichever path your soul chooses — spirituality must be lived through action.
We are not meant to withdraw completely into the mountains, close our eyes, and wait for miracles to happen. That, to me, is an escape mode — a subtle avoidance of our divine role in co-creating the world.
We are all children of God, sent here with a purpose — to act rightly, to express divine energy through our daily choices, gestures, words, and intentions.
Meditation is essential; it is the inner alignment that purifies and strengthens our connection with the Supreme. But the true test of spirituality lies in implementation — in translating that inner awareness into right action.
Even a small act done in truth — like offering a glass of water in a barren land — carries immense value. Imagine if millions of awakened souls, monks, and true God’s children stepped forward into the world, expressing their divine awareness through work, leadership, creativity, and service.
Imagine if they all carried their meditative stillness into their workplaces, their families, and their communities — what a beautiful transformation the world would witness!
It is not enough to only pray and meditate for change.
The world transforms when divine awareness moves into right action.
Meditation aligns us with truth,
but action manifests it.
And that is how real transformation — both personal and collective — begins:
When the awakened ones stop escaping,
and start embodying the light.
✨ Author’s Note: