I am running into opinions about beliefs and believers and how the two exist, co-exist or do not blend together at all.
Gandhi said religion and spiritualism are distinct
According to my grandfather, M. K. Gandhi, religion and spiritualism are distinctly apart -- that is, it is possible to practice one without believing in the other. Religion, as it is commonly understood, is the practice of a set of rituals based on the interpretation made by human beings. Since we humans are imperfect, our interpretation too is imperfect.So it goes.
On the other hand Spiritualism, according to him, is achieved when one comes to one's own understanding of the Power that we call God. When we truly accept all religions as simply different roads to the same destination and respect them all equally.
Ultimately whichever religious belief we may follow we are all going to the one destination. We call God by different names but that does not mean there are so many different Gods. There is only one God with many names and, according to Gandhi, God is not someone sitting in heaven but in the hearts of every being.
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Gandhi comparable in almost every way imaginable to a modern day Jesus of Nazareth. The messenger is secondary to THE MESSAGE! Saw the Ben Kingsley movie not too long ago and was brought to tears. A true genius who got it..and lived it!
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