5 Spiritual rituals that changed my perspective on life forever.

Spirituality awakening.

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I was born into an orthodox and religious family. To be precise I am a Hindu Brahmin. When I was a child and teenager, I came across a lot of religious rituals and rigid tradition-oriented discipline in our family. Few examples of the rituals are:

• Being a Teetoler and Non-smoker,
• Being a VEGETARIAN
• Lighting sesame oil lamp in an earthen pot,
• waking up before Dawn hits.
• Doing Japa ( chanting with prayer beads),
• Sandhyavandanam Salutation to the goddess of Dawn and dusk ( Sun salutation),
• Pranayama ( breathing exercise) during puja,
• Devatha Aradhana ( Conducting a lengthy prayer with the food offering in sacred clothes).
• Sacred cleaning and cooking in the kitchen.
• Offering food to God first and many more,

All of these rituals never made great sense to me until I moved to a different country and started living on my own. I believe in God, but I felt that people were wasting time in these religious rituals, assuming that God is watching them 24/7. I was completely wrong and ignorant in that regard.