Religion and spirituality

Rekha Sahay

Religion

I believe religion gives us an art of living  and initiates our journey towards spiritualism. Our first brush with our own religion is just like going to schooling and learning many basic things. 

Religion has a strong impact of the life of people, so its easy to teach them right-wrong or good-bad with the help of religion. I am obviously talking purely about religion on its own, not the  hypocritical, political, divisive ways in which it is often used.

 

spirituality

Spirituality is deep wisdom (inner voice / inner wisdom)  and might be like getting higher education. Spirituality enables us to respect all religions and all living beings. It provides the wisdom to work for a greater cause and to understand that all religions are path directed to the same universal power. 

53 thoughts on “Religion and spirituality”

  2. Very well written rekha. thank you for sharing your beautiful thoughts. Spiritual means a well-disciplined life, clarity of thoughts, honesty and clear-cut goal. You may fail initially, gets rejection & dejection when opportunity seems to knocks at your door. But finally, you win.

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  3. Nice thoughts Rekha Ji. All the same, let me express my viewpoint that it’s required to differentiate between being religious and being spiritual. A person should be allowed to be spiritual without being religious. I feel that forcing anybody / any citizen of a nation-state to follow one or the other religion is nothing but a coercion by the authority. If somebody believe in the religion of humanity and sensitivity, why he / she should be asked to formally declare himself / herself as following one particular (known) religious faith ? Isn’t being a humanitarian and sensitive person enough to lead a normal life ?

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    1. You expressed your views, I am really gratefulI. I completely agee with you Jitendra ji, as India is a secular country and does not have a national religion.

      I appreciate this sentence of you’re – A person should be allowed to be spiritual without being religious…….

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  4. Thankfully organized religion started most of us on the path of our spirituality. The precepts and concepts in religion should lead us all to the “inner religion” which is in essence all our movements subtle and massive. Gibran spoke on religion and said “you can’t separate what you do for you and what you do for God”

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  12. While the video asked some interesting and fair questions, I still want know:
    Dear UNbeliever: For the sake of argument, let’s assume you are right. What if all people abandoned what you call their superstitions? What then?

    This is the part that never gets talked about! What kind of society would you like to live in? Why? What would an ideal world be like, for you?

    #Religion #Faith #Beliefs #God

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  16. Dear Rekha

    My Master said: No need for digging a new well (creating new religions) – but each one can develop and stay in his own religion in such a way that a Moslem believer has to become a good Moslem, a Hindu a good Hindu, a Christian a good Christian etc. then we rise above all outer religions into one inner religion – starting on the level of man into unity and oneness…

    Thank you, my friend 🙂

    Have a good time
    Didi

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  17. More and more people are starting to understand the distinction between the two. The “I’m not religious, im spiritual” line, is becoming more common. It is important to know they are not the same thing. Wonderful post.

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  18. Reblogged this on Sinfins and commented:
    Unfortunately it is all too easy to confuse the religions with the institutions they have become. Rekha is correct in that politicised religion can be nothing other than divisive and hypocritical.

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