Following path of religion or spirituality is purely a matter of personal choice.
It is path of spirituality that directly leads to God Almighty. Spirituality demands our indulgence in sacred texts of different religions of world. Practice of celibacy for a minimum period of 12 years was also necessitated. Spirituality demands our indulgence in contemplation, introspection… logical reasoning at each and every stage of life. Path of spirituality was like traveling razor’s edge.
On the contrary, path of religion was simple to travel. Though indulging in religion (rituals) human beings never gained anything on spiritual platform.
As we were primarily a soul atman, a spirit… it is imperative on human beings to undertake spiritual journey to reach cosmic end of life. We can delay it but not forever. God Almighty ordained a long journey of 1.1 million manifestations in human form to reach stage of enlightenment and finally moksha salvation. The spiritual path is not that easily traveled, prime reason why in last about 150 years only Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Maharishi Ramana succeeded in gaining enlightenment in their lifetime.
Truthfully speaking, based on residual balance of karma at any given moment of time we took our decisions. As karma was governing, unless we exercised power of discrimination… we would undertake religious or spiritual journey based on residual balance of karma of the moment.
By: Vijay Kumar “Atma Jnani”… The Man who Realized God in 1993 – (Ref. 161019)
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