Re: Difference Between Religious And Spiritual?
Namaste Spirit,
Being religious is about adopting one of the popular ways to God and sticking to it. However, this may lead to fundamentalism. Being more attached to the way than to the destination. Being religious is not bad but becoming a fundamentalist certainly is.
You must be spiritual whether or not you are religious. What is like being spiritual ? You must know your spirit ... you must know who you really are and why you are here in this world at all. I would say that a seeker who is trying to find his/her way back to the essence of his being i.e. to the Source, is spiritual. Here the most important point to note is that the importance is on the destination ... the goal is defined. This is not so when you become ONLY religious and least when you become religious fundamentalist ... because then the path is more important than the goal/destination === Such people would proclaim : My Path is better than yours. My God alone is true God. Only my religion teaches the Truth ... etc.
Sadly, it is absurd ! How can path be more important than destination ? If destination is not important then what for we need a path at all ? I have seen people spending hours in front of worshiping God in temples ... that is perfectly ok but when they fail to see God in fellow human beings around them ... in their parents, spouses, their siblings, their friends, their children, their neighbors etc. are they really spiritual ?
OM
"Om Namo Bhagvate Vaasudevaye"
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