Difference between religion and spirituality (from Internet)

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A learned man was once asked to explain the difference between Religion and Spirituality. His response was profound:

▪ Religion is not just one, there are many.

▪ Spirituality is one.

▪ Religion is for those who sleep.

▪ Spirituality is for those who are awake.

▪ Religion is for those who need someone to tell them what to do and want to be guided.

▪ Spirituality is for those who pay attention to their inner voice.

▪ Religion has a set of dogmatic rules.

▪ Spirituality invites us to reason about everything, to question everything.

▪ Religion threatens and frightens.

▪ Spirituality gives inner peace.

▪ Religion speaks of sin and guilt.

▪ Spirituality says, "learn from an error".

 

▪ Religion represses everything which is false.

▪ Spirituality transcends everything, it brings you closer to your truth!

▪ Religion speaks of a God; It is not God.

▪ Spirituality is everything and therefore, it is in God.

▪ Religion invents.

▪Spirituality finds.

▪ Religion does not tolerate any question.

▪Spirituality questions everything.

▪ Religion is human. It is an organization with rules made by men.

▪ Spirituality is Divine, without human rules.

▪ Religion is the cause of divisions.

▪Spirituality unites.

▪ Religion is looking for you to believe.

▪ Spirituality you have to look for it to believe.

▪ Religion follows the concepts of a sacred book.

▪ Spirituality seeks the sacred in all books.

▪ Religion feeds on fear.

▪ Spirituality feeds on trust and faith.

▪ Religion lives in thought.

▪ Spirituality lives in Inner Consciousness.

▪ Religion deals with performing rituals.

▪ Spirituality has to do with the Inner Self.

▪ Religion feeds the ego.

▪ Spirituality drives to transcend beyond.

▪ Religion makes us renounce the world to follow a God.

▪ Spirituality makes us live in God, without renouncing our existing lives.

▪ Religion is a cult.

▪ Spirituality is inner meditation.

▪ Religion fills us with dreams of glory in paradise.

▪ Spirituality makes us live the glory and paradise on earth.

▪ Religion lives in the past and in the future.

▪ Spirituality lives in the present.

▪ Religion creates cloisters in our memory.

▪ Spirituality liberates our Consciousness.

▪ Religion makes us believe in eternal life.

▪ Spirituality makes us aware of Eternal Life.

▪ Religion promises life after death.

▪ Spirituality is to find God in our interior during the current life before death.

Religion is for the illiterate masses

Spirituality is for our soul

-We are not human beings, who go through a spiritual experience.

-We are spiritual beings, who go through a human experience.

Why the Covid second wave could be serious in India ?

Of late, just over the past two weeks, we have been hearing about more Covid occurences. Why did this happen ? Many reasons are cited, I am listing some of them here.

1. People have felt relaxed about the restrictions of Covid

2. The second wave is a different variant not responding to the vaccines nor showing any response to the RTPCR vaccine.

3. During the elections held in some states, no Covid restrictions were followed that led to the massive spread

4. People have been traveling wide and far and have been responsible for bringing the virus from other parts

5. The covid patients now are asymptomatic, because of which they are moving freely in society acting as super spreaders

6. Asia and particularly India is showing the max Covid patients now.

7. travel is still possible over air, rail and road across the different affected states 

8. curfew restrictions were relaxed initially that led to people moving across the states and affected areas freely

9. People who have taken one and two doses of Covaxin or Covishield are now getting infected, proving that the new variant has no vaccine and is dangerous

If the situation goes this way,  lockdown will also be declared in Karnataka like it has been done in Mumbai. 

So be prepared and take care.

George