Showing posts with label spirituality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spirituality. Show all posts

Thursday, February 1, 2018

# 029 Religion and Spirituality


▪ Religion is for those who want to be guided.
▪ Spirituality is for those who want to inquire.

▪ Religion has a set of dogmatic rules.
▪ Spirituality has no rules.

▪ Religion threatens and frightens.
▪ Spirituality gives inner peace.

▪ Religion speaks of sin and guilt.
▪ Spirituality helps avoid sin and guilt.

▪ Religion speaks of a God.
▪ Spirituality is in God.

▪ Religion invents.
▪ Spirituality finds.

▪ Religion does not tolerate any question.
▪ Spirituality questions everything.

▪ Religion is human.
▪ Spirituality is Divine.

▪ Religion is the cause of divisions.
▪ Spirituality results in unity..

▪ Religion is looking for you to believe.
▪ Spirituality is about you looking for truth.

▪ Religion follows the concept of a sacred book.
▪ Spirituality seeks the sacred in all books.

▪ Religion feeds on fear.
▪ Spirituality thrives on inquiry.

▪ Religion lives in thought.
▪ Spirituality is about Consciousness.

▪ Religion deals with performing rituals.
▪ Spirituality deals with ultimate reality.

▪ Religion feeds the ego.
▪ Spirituality transcends ego

▪ Religion asks you to renounce the world to follow a God.
▪ Spirituality makes us live in God, without renouncing the world.

▪ Religion fills us with dreams of glory in paradise.
▪ Spirituality makes us live the glory and paradise.

▪ Religion lives in the past and future.
▪ Spirituality is living 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.

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

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


Wednesday, February 1, 2012

# 007 Levels of beauty

Beauty has 3 levels - indication, expression and exposure.

Spirituality is that indicates or reveals it gently. This is the subtle aspect.

Art expresses beauty and science exposes it.

All theses 3 aspects are to be found in creation. There is beauty in every aspect of nature - Creation, Operation and destruction. Understanding or knowing this makes life Beautiful.

Based on a lecture by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar