The diametric opposition of religion with science cannot be questioned. But when a question was asked to Swami Vivekananda that what is the benefit of religion as the whole mankind got hurt by it so many times in the form of riots and wars. He simply said "Religion is like a cow which has given many kick backs to man but we still care for it because of its nourishing milk".
Although religion doesn't provide answers to every question but there is no special need to know those answers because those who believe in it they have accepted it without even an ounce of doubt on it and they do not ask anything. Religion is related to faith, different people have faiths in different things. It will be funny If someone is worshiping his television set or computer or even a book or a pen, but what is wrong in personifying the things and express the gratitude to them it gives a sense of relief and selflessness.
To me religion is the manifestation of the divinity that is already there in a man. Religion strengthens that divinity. It gives an ethical path to a not much intelligent man or a commonest man. There are not many people on this world that can control them to follow the ethical path without deviation so religion plays a very important role in such cases.
God does not exist we can prove it with the evidences. But it’s the faith of man which has given the enormous power to god. Religion never tells anyone to be fanatic about it. It just says be spiritual and get connected to god now the question comes where is god it lies with in, if we will have faith on ourselves we don't need any other medium of worship.
Now a day’s people don't understand the difference between the religion and spiritual. In my opinion religion separates people and spirituality brings them together.
Whatever the kick backs we have faced from this cow is due to the different interpretation done by people, but it was not there fault because on nature has divided the earth by the natural walls likes mountains and seas and ocean so different people originated from different soil caught different ways of religion. If Islam religion supports eating of animals or non-veg food it had a valid reason because Islam must have originated from the deserts and there may not be any other option available to survive so people must have started killing animals and started feeding themselves to survive. Now Hindu religion should keep this fact into their mind and accept the Islam religion with the equal love then they will tend to become spiritual.
There are two types of people on this world:
TYPE1- they don't need any external factor to motivate themselves to choose the correct path to live the life, they are self motivated and intelligent enough to distinguish between right or wrong values and principles even that class of intelligent people cannot deny the fact that faith plays a very important role in there life in the form of self-beliefs and self -confidence to achieve anything. Being spiritual is to realize the divinity which is already present within us, these people are intelligent enough to realize the immense potential which they possess that too without any external factor, But I am sure they must have believed in there parents and teachers without any doubt. Making our belief very strong and strong will turn it into faith.
TYPE-2: there is a class of people who are not intelligent enough to explore there potential without an external factor so they seek for it externally. If they can get an ethical path to follow with the help of religion so there is nothing wrong in that. This faith will make them realize that god is sitting within them.
There is an interesting story about god and its place. "When god created man (suppose) he wanted to hide his identity otherwise man will not stop pester him about silly things so god thought I'll go to a place where man would not be able to find me. God thought to go to sky then realized that man is intelligent enough to reach there, then he thought to hide himself in the heights of mountains but he thought it is not a safest place, he thought to hide deep underneath the ocean but after an enough fathom god realized that there is only one unique place where man can not even think of and that is within the heart and soul of man himself".
Once we realize that we have to worship our potential our abilities and our thoughts then we can explore anything in this world without even the help of religion.
But if someone takes the help of god to explore this potential so there is nothing wrong in that, provided he does not preach that god to anyone and does not campaign his religion to anyone. But it has been found that anyhow preventing campaigning of religion is very difficult so to avoid this, the only path for the second type of people is "Spirituality" which is much different than a religion.
Example: Art of Living by H.H Sri Sri Ravishankar promotes spirituality it does not see anyone's religion while delivering the knowledge to the world and successfully transforming the lives of people through out the world.
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