Can the materialistic man be spiritual?

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner: Can a totally materialistic man is spiritual?

Acharya Prashant: The emphasis, then, will not be on ‘materialistic’, but on ‘totally’. The totality is important.

Totally, if you are anything, then you are spiritual. The totality itself is spirituality.

Listener 1: Sir, what do you mean by ‘totally into something’? Like I am building a sand castle and when I am building it I am one with it. Is this being total?

AP: Yes. And which also means that totality is not really a function of the activity that you are doing. The totality, had it been a function of making a sand castle, would disappear with the sand castle.

L2: So, then why there is no possibility of being total with the activity?

AP: Being total you can be in the activity.

What do you mean by being total with the activity?

Is the activity something outside of you? Are you and the activity any different?

Being total means you are total — not divided, not limited, not small and then you are in the activity.