Spirituality Has Nothing to do With Religion

A lot of people confuse spirituality with religion – but that’s not necessarily true. Religion is an enabler – an enabler to make a person more spiritual but it is not a prerequisite to spirituality.

So, if the above is true then what is spirituality? Spirituality is belief in a higher self and that higher self is within every living creature. All religious leaders across all religions are/were human beings, but what differentiated them was their awareness of the higher self. Spirituality guides you to clock into your higher self and it gives you the freedom to choose that higher self within you or outside of you. It is when it is outside of you that a religion, a spiritual leader, a guide or a guru becomes important. If you seek the higher self within you, then self discipline, deep concentration, yogic meditation (as learnt from a guru or a religious leader) will open the chakras and you behold your own true eternal self.

For many of us, even comprehending the size of the universe is daunting. Even more daunting than that is to open ourselves to an energy synchronicity which makes us one with the eternal. But if you can believe in galaxies and uncountable stars then why can’t you believe in your own higher power?

A lot of people spend their entire lives in pursuit of selfish happiness. They have no time to focus on spirituality much lesser on their higher self. This also is God intentional. Spirituality is not something you choose. It comes to you when the time is ready. Just as you are reading this article, because you are embarking or have already embarked on your spiritual journey. There are hundreds of topics to read on from sex to songs, music to melodrama, relationships to entanglements and yet you clicked on the word spirituality. This is no coincidence. Your eagerness to know more about this topic suggests that the journey has begun.

This is the first step to set you thinking. Questions will flow through your mind and confusion will set in. But just like you read this article when you were not sure where you were, so too, when confusion becomes too much, another message will come to you.

For those who have read this article, it is obvious that you have already begun your journey into the unknown.

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