The document discusses definitions of saints from various perspectives. Spiritual science defines a saint as someone who has raised their spiritual level to at least 70% through spiritual practices like meditation. This allows them to experience their true nature as the soul within and see others in the same way, giving them a very low ego. Formal recognition involves assessing someone's spiritual maturity and identity with the soul over their individual ego.

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For centuries, the world has revered various spiritual masters and has
considered them as Saints.

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Various religions and cultures stipulate different attributes or criteria for
Sainthood to be bestowed upon someone.

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What does the world think of Saints?
Generic criteria that prompted people from various
religions to consider a person as a Saint

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What does the world think of Saints?
Some generic criteria from various religions to consider a person as a Saint
1. Righteous and virtuous

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What does the world think of Saints?
Some generic criteria from various religions to consider a person as a Saint
1. Righteous and virtuous
2. Needs to be from a particular religion

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What does the world think of Saints?
Some generic criteria from various religions to consider a person as a Saint
1. Righteous and virtuous
2. Needs to be from a particular religion
3. Has to have passed away before they can be
considered for Sainthood

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What does the world think of Saints?
Some generic criteria from various religions to consider a person as a Saint
1. Righteous and virtuous
2. Needs to be from a particular religion
3. Has to have passed away before they can be
considered for Sainthood
4. Needs to have performed miracles while
After her death, Saint living and also after death
Bernadette's body reportedly
remained incorrupt 5. He needs to be able to intercede with God
on behalf of people

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How Saints are proclaimed| Common viewpoints
• Informal or formal
For example : The formal process in the Roman Catholic Church is known
as canonization

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How Saints are proclaimed| Common viewpoints
• Informal or formal
In most cases, the people conducting this formal or informal process of
proclaiming a Saint are not Saints themselves but just religious people
or people of some standing in the religion

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How Saints are proclaimed| Common viewpoints
• Informal or formal
• Popular vote of society

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How Saints are proclaimed| Common viewpoints
• Informal or formal
• Popular vote of society
• Has to be from a certain religion to be considered

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How Saints are proclaimed| Common viewpoints
• Informal or formal
• Popular vote of society
• Has to be from a certain religion to be considered
• Self-proclaimed (along with display of supernatural powers)

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Who is a Saint?
How does the science of Spirituality define a Saint?

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Who is a Saint?
Increasing spiritual level through spiritual practice
1%
Spiritual
level
100% Being one with God

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Who is a Saint?
Increasing spiritual level through spiritual practice
1%
20% The spiritual level of an average person today
Spiritual
level
100% Being one with God

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Who is a Saint?
Increasing spiritual level through spiritual practice
1%
20% The spiritual level of an average person today
Spiritual 35% Over 80% of the world below 35% spiritual level
level
100% Being one with God

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Who is a Saint?
Increasing spiritual level through spiritual practice
1%
20% The spiritual level of an average person today
Spiritual 35% Over 80% of the world below 35% spiritual level
level
70% One has to be at a spiritual level of at least 70% to be
recognised as a Saint
100% Being one with God

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What are we comprised of?
1. Physical body
Om Namo Bhagawate Vasudevyaa
The physical body:
This includes our physical
being and the five senses of
touch, taste, sound, smell
and sight.
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What are we comprised of?
1. Physical body
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2. Mind
The Mind:
This consists of both the
conscious and sub-
conscious mind. The mind
is the source of all our
feelings and emotions
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What are we comprised of?
1. Physical body
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2. Mind
The Intellect: 3. Intellect
Our ability to process
information
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What are we comprised of?
1. Physical body
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2. Mind
The Subtle Ego: 3. Intellect
Which gives us the feeling
of being separate from God 4. Subtle ego
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What are we comprised of?
The five senses,
mind and intellect
Soul
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1. Physical body
2. Mind
The Soul: 3. Intellect
The God Principle within
each one of us 4. Subtle ego
5. Soul
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What is spiritual level
1. Physical body
2. Mind
The ego
3. Intellect
4. Subtle ego
The God Principle
5. Soul
within each of us

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Definition of spiritual level?
Increasing spiritual level through spiritual practice
20% 70%
High ego Low ego
The ‘evolved-ness’ or spiritual maturity or spiritual level of a person: is how
much they identify with, or have an experience of the Soul within and
conversely how much they dissociate their identity from their five senses, mind
and intellect that they are born with or in short their ego.

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Who is Saint?
A Saint is therefore a person who
has a very low ego as they
experience God within themselves
and see others as the God principle
within them.
His Holiness Dr. Jayant Athavale
For more information please refer to our section on Saints on www.ssrf.org

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Raising one’s spiritual level to reach Sainthood
• The only way to raise one’s spiritual
level is by doing progressively higher
levels of spiritual practice as per the
6 basic principles of spiritual
practice.
• These principles have been
explained in detail in other tutorials
in the SSRF classroom.
For more information please refer to our section on Saints on www.ssrf.org