Are You Spiritual Enough?

“Spirituality” is a word with quite an unclear definition, everyone defines it more or less on his own.
If someone asked me whether he / she is spiritual enough I´d ask what do you mean with that?

One, perhaps, would say “I dont manage to do meditation every day although my Guru says one must do so; I prefer to do meditation when I feel an internal drive to do so but not according to a fixed schedule, but it is said that only with that fixed schedule you have spiritual discipline and that only with discipline you can make progress.”
I´d answer, then: “so dont you think that God is great enough to give to earnest seekers of YOUR sort all the spiritual progress they need?” or “do you really believe that the path to God has to be like joining U.S. Navy?”

Another would say “I dont manage to stop my thinking during meditation / bhajan / poojah / Holy Mass / Prayer.”
I´d say then “Yes, everyone who even once experienced that blessed state of consciousness which is awake but free from that constant boring thought activity will desire to experience it whenever he wants, every day, or even constantly. I agree that this wish is correct and you dont have to renounce to it. You will surely reach this state once upon a time, perhaps in this incarnation as you wish, perhaps in a future life. But whenever God allows that you have thoughts during your spiritual exercise, it must make a sense to Him that it is so. Nothing happens without His permit. Do NOT actively suppress thinking, or reproach yourself for it. Rather let it happen but without concentrating on those thoughts. Sometimes one of your thoughts will seem to you very important. Perhaps it really is, for the Holy Spirit has to use our mundane thought machine to do His work in our mundane life. Then focus on it for a moment and say to yourself you want to remember it after ending your exercise, and check out afterwards whether it is useful to you in your daily life. This is what the Holy Spirit wishes from you.”

Another, perhaps, will say “All this spiritual stuff is so alien to me, I even can´t imagine the existence of God, but I do believe that I have a soul – and what horrible things may happen to my poor soul for my lack of interest for the spiritual realm? won´t God, or perhaps some impersonal Law of Karma, punish me for this attitude?”
To those people – a multitude ! – I say
“You can´t be held responsible for this. You are born this way. It is like being innately weak at reading and writing. Our present society demands of everyone to be good at reading and writing but many people are born who dont fit in this pattern. The sub-culture that educated you about spirituality and religion, see, thinks that everyone should be interested in God and higher realms, and many within this culture feel superior to persons who are good at mundane work but see only sky when they look upwards; but do they have to be right with this idea? Certainly not. Those who are now able to see angels, heal by laying their hands upon sick people or animals, get into Samadhi trance or whatever holy miracles (siddhis) they may know – have been like you, perhaps even just one incarnation before! Dont confuse your mind by Envy. You are born for another plane of existence, the material world, which is no less important than theirs, which is some part of the celestial world. If you make a vow to work for the Good Side every morning by saying this simple prayer “Lord Creator, I dedicate to Your Glory all my work today; please lead me the right way” perhaps you will be born into a next life when you got all those siddhis and even more, by God´s Grace.”