Chicken Soup for The Spiritual Soul

What are the three greatest teachers? They are disability, loneliness and helplessness. You experience these three things and the real picture of the world comes out in the full view. I'm not a very religious person, although I believe in upholding my traditions, well at least the ones that are worth upholding. I'm a deeply spiritual person. But I realise that my spirituality has been colonised. I'm a believer of divine mothers, even though my political stance is that of an atheist, or more of an agnostic. I have clan goddesses on both sides of my family and belief in divine mothers comes naturally to me. It's a funny thing that the thought of the void comforts me, and the thought of being safe in the womb of the divine mother comforts me and when I researched about it, the void, the shunya or mahashunya as it is called, is in fact the womb of the primordial Shakti, the divine mother, in the scriptures. It's funny how one can stumble and discover the truths that have been long found, independently and by themselves. You go to temples and you see politicians and powerful individuals getting VIP darshans while common people push and shove each other for the darshan. I see that in every temple, from South to the North. You live for long enough and you realise that temples are political arrangements and only thing that keeps them running is faith of the people. I realise that still in this country, at many places, lower caste people are not allowed to enter temples, God is really selective in this manner in this country. It's none of my business though. I'm good with my personal faith and I'm supremely comfortable and peaceful with my divine mothers and I don't need to light incense sticks to feel peaceful. I have seen disability due to illness, I have seen loneliness and I have seen helplessness due to illness as well as political interference in my life, and it opened me to the truth of this country as well as the world. The arrangement is thus, you are expected to be absolutely truthful, the nature of truth being very bureaucratic in nature, and all you get in return are lies and hogwash. I converted my loneliness into bittersweet aloneness and a peaceful solitary existence, I took my disability and used it to pave a new way for myself and I used my helplessness to learn more about the world through empathy. It's been a win-win for me. The basic truth is money though. None of the spirituality is going to help if you don't have money. Money is required for food, clothing, shelter, health and financial and social security and relationships with others, even very close relationships run on money. So one has to realise that money is the one true God in this country. Money will help you survive and once it is taken care of, you can search for the form of the Supreme Soul that gives you peace.