[Advaita-l] [advaitin] New topic for Discussion - Religion vs Spirituality

kuntimaddi sadananda kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 22 22:37:01 CDT 2016


Malathyji - PraNAms

Great. Thanks for sharing your personal experience.

Wish you all the best.

Hari Om!
Sada

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On Tue, 3/22/16, Malathy Krishnan malathykj at gmail.com [advaitin] <advaitin at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [advaitin] New topic for Discussion - Religion vs Spirituality
 To: advaitin at yahoogroups.com
 Cc: "adviata-l" <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
 Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 10:45 PM
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       Sadaji, pranAms..
 I can share from my my own personal
 experience..
 Though I was born in a family and also got
 married to a family, where religious traditions were
 followed to a large extent, I was not a highly religious
 person (of there is such a term). I used to visit temples
 almost on a daily basis , believed in God and has a lot of
 questions (to which I sometimes got answers but also did not
 at other times).. My gravitation towers vedAntA a little
 more than half a decade back, made me to understand Hinduism
 as a religion better.. To me hence, one does not need to be
 religious to become spiritual.. But when one becomes
 spiritual, one understands religion better :-)
 On Mar 23, 2016 8:08 AM,
 "kuntimaddi sadananda kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com
 [advaitin]" <advaitin at yahoogroups.com>
 wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       
 
 Malathy - PraNAms
 
 
 
 Thanks - Pertaining to the last sentence - Does one have to
 be religious (whatever that means) to be spiritual.
 
 
 
 Hari Om!
 
 Sada
 
 
 
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 On Tue, 3/22/16, Malathy Krishnan malathykj at gmail.com
 [advaitin] <advaitin at yahoogroups.com>
 wrote:
 
     
 
 
 
 To me, religion is confining oneself to a form,
 
  applicable to groups of people.. 
 
  
 
  Spirituality is a way of living and hence encompasses
 every
 
  sphere of our life.. Applicable to anyone and everyone,
 
  irrespective of gender and religion..
 
  One can be religious and not be spiritual.. 
 
  
 
  When one is spiritual, one is religious also.. 
 
  PranAms..
 
 
 
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 On Mar 22, 2016 8:42 AM,
 
  "kuntimaddi sadananda kuntimaddisada at yahoo.com
 
   
 
  
 
  What is the difference between Religion vs Spirituality?
 Are
 
  the complimentary or sometime contradictory. Should one
 has
 
  to be Religious (whatever that means?) to be spiritual
 and
 
  for one to follow spirituality should one has to be
 
  religious. 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  The question is raised since I see in some posts in
 facebook
 
  that Religion is a problem or is causing lot of problem
 in
 
  the very practice and can even be obstruction for
 
  spirituality. I have also seen many who spend lot of time
 in
 
  daily religions practices and not interested in Vedantic
 
  study. 
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  Hari Om!
 
  
 
  Sada
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
     
      
 
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
      
 
     
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