RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY:

[Guest guest]

prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

 

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY: Religion is like a cage; spirituality is

like a bird. Religion is restrictive in the sense that the scripture,

rites and rituals bind it. It is external. The bird of spirituality has

the freedom to establish direct link with the Absolute. Spirituality is

all about inner purity. Misuse of religion leads to communal disharmony

and violence. Spirtuality is soul search; it can only lead to peace and

harmony with oneself and with society and nature. Spirituality is free

of dogma and can help one rise above religious dogmatism, to be one

with the Supreme being. – Soma Chakravarty