• Spiritualism and Materialism in Kaliyuga can hardly be together. There are rare exceptions.
• Places of high spiritualism such as Kailash, Girnar, Arunachalam, Puri, Banaras are all poor (daridra) materialistically.
• Pir, Fakirs are also poor.
• Centres or ashrams of spiritualism that have started and gone towards materialism for various purposes have only achieved disrepute and become centers of vaasnas (lust)
• Similarly, materialism when trying hand in spiritualism in form of charity such as foundations, hospitals, schools are only doing hypocrisy – They actually do that for money, name or fame.
• In different yug, spiritualism and materialism could stay together such as at the time of Janak Raja.
• However even in areas of immense materialism there are small pockets of spiritualism such as few churches in Europe.
• Some current ashrams are centres that are channelized towards patriotism. They are not exactly centres of spiritualism.
- These are topics of various aspects of spirituality as told by Para.