RELIGION vs SPIRITUALITY

 

Religion is an indispensable part of human life. The origin of religion could be trace along with the evolution of human race (the homo sapiens). In ancient period the primitive man practice the religion called something like ANIMISM and now there are uncountable religions in the world.

  In sanskrit the word religion means Dharma. Before we proceed into the depth let's get understand the meaning of Dharma. We often know that wind's nature is to blows from high pressure to low pressure , water maintains its level same everywhere, nature of animal is animality etc and when it gets translate into odia it reads as ' jala ro dharma samanata (same level) rakhya kariba ' and ' pashu ro dharma pasabikata' etc . Here the term dharma relates to the character, nature i.e Prakriti. and it is proved like Dharma=Prakriti (religion= nature).

   The above formula is applied on human also then the religion of human must be humanity , isn't it. But here the conflict arises. We make difference between the above two . In case of humans ,the nature of human is based on his environment and the term dharma looses its relevance as nature and becomes a dictator one.

  So what is the meaning of religion particularly for humans? and what is religion? etc etc..

  Religion is the set of guidelines which are prescribed by some extraordinary person and directs humans to follow a particular path for betterment of the life. If human's life will better the environment will also better and the nature will change accordingly.

   As I mentioned that the primitive men practised Animism and gradually along with the time thinking process also changed among them . Some enlightened charismatic person born who with the grace of God prescribed some texts for the human race as a set of principles which finally regarded as today's religion like Hinduism/ Islam/ Christianity etc .

   But the point here is that all scriptures direct for the practice of monotheism which itself says that there is only one God . So the source of all Religion is one and hence we can say atleast this one supreme being manifests himself into many . and this is the line which puts light on the concept of spirituality. Then what is spirituality?

 Spirituality refers to the path of finding the god without any external influence as one awares that there is only one supreme being. Religion in itself contains many theories and paves the way towards HIM (supreme being) but can't reach because in religion there is  speed breaker in every step but in Spirituality the road is clear there are no hurdles present . Every religious person will follow spirituality but a  spiritual person may not be a religious one. A spiritual person doesn't discriminates and makes his own way . He is always happy within himself.

  But religion has it's own importance. It has a dual character. It can be both endogamous as well as exogamous. In one side it can be constructive and on the other side it can be destructive. The membes of a particular religion have their own emotional sentiments with each other but they have a negetive feeling towards others . In one side it strengthens the society but in the same time it also weakens. What is the religion (nature)of Hinduism /Islam they only provides some valuable principles which is good for human but in practice that so called religious person creates bad situation in society in the name of religion .Is it not true?

 But a spiritual person is always neutral and calm because he knows what is the meaning of true religion and lives without any bias. He is able to binds all in a common thread .  So the true religion of the human race must be humanity . 

So it is up to you to be a religious being or a spiritual being . 

and finally they said,"Religion breaks the society but spirituality connects the same."

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