You cannot have a spiritual culture

No culture is spiritual. Indian, Western, Martian, no culture is spiritual. Spirituality has nothing to do with culture. All culture is just a social phenomenon.

You cannot have a special land that enables the coming of the spiritual mind. You cannot have a spiritual culture where it is easier to be spiritual. But for sure, you can have a mind that is attentive to its own falseness. That you can have! Not something definitive or particular, like a culture. Not something positive and affirmative. But, rather something reductive and destructive.

“You know nothing can lead me to God, let me just find out what keeps me away from God.” That kind of an approach.

Instead, we have cultures that claim to lead you to God. And that’s what all God-men do. They say, “I’ll take you to God.” You cannot be taken to Truth or God, you only need to find out what keeps you away. What makes you think that you are away. That kind of thing can be there. That rigor, you can even equate it to the intellectual rigor, so it is not really intellectual. That rigor, even if it is found, even if it has been found in India, has been found only intermittently and that too very privileged and very tiny pockets.