Spirituality and Religion

From an early age, children are always taught that religious and spiritual things go hand in hand. In terms of our experience with religious books and discussions, religion came first. Nowadays, it is seen that more and more people are talking about spirituality and writing about it. This is because of the changing world and modernization that spirituality spreads. People discover that only religion can’t answer their desire for improvement of life. So they turned to something more specific and found it in spirituality.

In terms of the origin of the reality behind those words or in terms of the object of our understanding, spirituality came first. The spirit was there before there was any religion. God was there before there was anybody to worship him. Because, spirituality in a sense is an offshoot of religion, it’s obvious to have certain level of similarities between them. This can be related to the story of the origin of the egg and the chicken.

Both spirituality and religion tend to show the connection with the higher power. Religion names it as God while spirituality termed it as positive energies. Sometimes religious ways may be felt like showing fear whereas there is a feeling of love and affection in case of spirituality.

Also in both the paths there is not only respect for the higher power but also upliftment of mankind. Religion preaches us to respect each and every creature on this world, similarly spirituality guides to better experience of life.

 As both minutes and hour hand of the clock are incomplete without each other, same goes with spirituality and religion. There are various areas which these two have common platform to share. But still there are things that separate them and which people can distinguish...