From Religion to Spirituality

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When religion is flooded with reasoning, much of what it holds will get washed away; what remains is pure spirituality. Religion minus superstition is spirituality. Religion is a technique to become spiritual.

Spirituality is nothing but Life Engineering. It is a quality in you that enables you to live a life centered not on material things but on the sweetness of life, on the miracles of Existence, on the firm conviction that you are part of a macrocosmic orchestra that is being conducted by the Existential Energy. It keeps you in a liberated state inside while you perform in the outer world, intelligently and effortlessly. It keeps you in tune with the Existential Energy.

Man, ever since his creation wondered and researched on what it is that created this beautiful universe; what it is that created this beautiful earth and rolled it into space; what makes the rivers flow. He concluded that there is a Life Force or Energy making all this happen. He then started wondering about how to establish a connection with that Energy. A scientist is one who creates a formula to reproduce what he understood in the outer world for others to understand. A Rishi is one who creates a formula to reproduce the same experience that he had in the inner world, in others also!

What has to be clearly understood is, although the formula given by each Rishi was different, all of them are talking about the same experience of the Existential Energy. But what do we do? We cling onto the formula and by and by forget the whole purpose of the formula. Because of this, we don"t even get a glimpse of the real experience that the Rishis were trying to express!

Those who fight in the name of religion are those who have not had a taste of any spiritual experience. They remain a religious nut instead of becoming a spiritual fruit. If they can just understand how religion took root and what the whole purpose of religion is, they will see how they are missing the whole thing.

When religion takes you to spirituality, you will understand that spirituality is nothing but life itself. Religion is quantity; spirituality is quality. Because religion is quantity and it takes time, we want to finish up all our responsibilities and turn towards spirituality at the fag end of our lives! What is the use? You have missed it all your life!

So just understand that religion is nothing but a stepping-stone to go inside yourself and understand your spiritual nature and live life in a sweet and blissful way.

Be Blissful!