Awakening Beyond Religion: Spiritual Freedom in the Modern World

Religion is often confused with spirituality. People think that if they are religious, they are spiritual.

- AIR ATMAN IN RAVI

HAPPINESS AMBASSADOR AND SPIRITUAL LEADER

Religion is often confused with spirituality. People think that if they are religious, they are spiritual. Spirituality, awakening, Enlightenment, however, is beyond religion. While religion can be considered the kindergarten of faith, spirituality is the university. And while there are many religions and sects, spirituality is 'one'. Religion can be described as an organized way of praying to God, an institution that lays down a code of conduct based on morals and ethics for its followers.

Spirituality is the science of the spirit, the Soul. It helps us realize who we are — the Atman, the Soul, a Spark Of Unique Life, a part of God. This realization is the purpose of life. Spirituality proclaims that one universal truth — God is one. God is not a person or a saint but energy, a Power — the Supreme Immortal Power, a Power that is nameless, formless, birthless, deathless, beginningless and endless. God does not live in the sky. God is within us, in every being, in fact, in everything. God is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient.