spirituality Vs Religion - Are we reluctant to draw the line ?

I pulled this from another blog and I was equally surprised! Now, that’s n advertisement in the US without even a name in it! Googling to my curiosity, I recently found that 'Jaggi' came from his full name - 'Jagadish Vasudev'. What sounded profound and ethereal to me till then, started looking so mortal!

I have been to the place and have read the mystic’s writings, some were totally mind-blowing! But there are also other things I was not so comfortable with, during my visit to the yoga center.

Siddarth(actor) asks him in a conversation “Is there an employment option in India as a spiritual guru?” Though he brushed it off brilliantly, don’t we all know the answer? And who else but we are guilty for creating such a market?

The proportion of we, youngsters who flock to decorated temple-likes are definitely much more than what we see in temples. Can we deny? Even God has to be packed in attractive covers to get sold?

Why can’t we listen to people who can make us think differently without jumping to worship them and start ‘religonising’ their views? And then start controversies, blow them out of proportion and have a sense of achievement about it? Is it their mistake to remind us to chat Krishna nama, to look into our own thoughts, to mediate and practice yoga? Moreover enormous projects of social importance have been undertaken by these ashrams, where the country’s policies failed. But why can’t we just stop it there?  Why do we have to look every such person as a panacea to all our problems?

The time we start extrapolating a spiritual concept is when we end up with a non-religious organization being uncomfortably changed to ‘mostly-hindu’, globalized religious worship, still not wanting to change the non-religious tag! This is exactly what made me feel out of the place. Just spirituality would have been perfect, but again, this sells better!

Both as a religion and a way of life, being so profound and undoubtedly scientific in most of its ways, nothing is lacking that has to be told new! I can say this so definitely even with the minutest idea I have on the Bhagavad Gita and some other spiritual literature. There have been and still are great orators who give the essence of spiritual literature in the most understandable way and who let us interpret it for ourselves. They believe that all that is needed is only repeating what has already been told.

   Whether the choice is spirituality or religion, the road is well laid and ways very well documented, why cant we stop running in the lookout for god men, rather just listen to people and walk on?