This is not something you will always notice immediately. There is no campaign, no announcement. But if you pay attention, you must be looking at it – slowly, slowly, all around. More and more youth are looking inward. Not because someone told them. Not for tradition. Not even for rest. They are just searching …
General Z, which is a generation raised in the rapid lane of technology and constant changes, has begun to ask quiet questions. Those who do not always have an answer. Who am I, really? What does it mean to feel peacefully? is there anything else? Sadhguru Shri Madhusudan Sai, the founder of Shri Madhusudan Sai Global Humanitarian Mission shares that General Z is quietly turning to spirituality and that too without any label.
What they are doing is not religion – not in traditional sense. This is some subtor. Some personal. They are arriving for something that seems to be true, even if they do not have any name for it.
They do not want rules – they want meaning
If there is one thing from this generation, it is being told what to believe. They have seen how the trust system can divide as much as they unite. Labels can be heavy. Boxes are not fit for everyone.
So, they are going away from all that. Instead of choosing a path which is already sure, many people are making their own. Sometimes it means meditation. Sometimes it is silent. For some, this is nature. For others, it is art or music. What does it look like. What does it feel.
As Kathopanishad says wisely:
Answer
“Get up, wake up, and want to learn from those who know.”
The feeling of desire is very alive in them.
Austerity
- This is the noise out of there – the kind of noise that does not always come from the sound. Notifications, opinions, expectations … It never stops really.
- But gradually, many people are learning to stay. They are switching things, taking time to sit with themselves. Not because someone told them, but just because it seems necessary.
- They do not always call it spirituality. In fact, they rarely do. This is just a moment of peace – a breath, walking without music, some cool minutes.
Bhagavad Gita says:
Na hi kaścit kṣam api jātu tiṣhaty akarmakt
“No one still lives. In rest, there is movement.”
And this is true. Even when they still appear, something starts shifting inside – slowly, naturally.
No way, still moving forward
This generation is not rejecting tradition with rebellion. Rather, it is a soft refusal – a twist away from the one who feels empty, and a gentle return for what seems to be true, even if it cannot be explained completely.
There is no way. For a person, it can be found in solitude; For another, in music. Some breaks near the trees. Others sit in darkness and just breathe. There is no fixed structure – and there is no need for one.
Kathopanishad provides this line:
Ātmā labhyaḥ tapasā hay eṣa ātmā
“Self is found through honest effort.”
This effort can take the form of a breath in today’s world, walking away from the screen, walking without a headphone, or simply trying to change it.
Simple task. Still deeply honest.
A different kind of faith
What is emerging is not faith in God or a system. This is the belief – in peace, in intuition, in the possibility that the meaning may be individual. Calm. Shifting. alive.
Spirituality becomes light in their hands. More open. And in that openness, something starts to be holy – without the need for a name.
