If you are really a spiritual person, then you will find that the community that opposes you the most is not of atheists, it is of religious people. They will be the ones who would be opposing the really spiritual person the most, which is an unfortunate thing because the way religion was designed, it was designed to gradually make a person spiritual. Today, the situation is that these are not in sync or harmony with each other. Rather, these two have become greatly separated.
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Questioner: I feel that spirituality— or rather, religiousness— is misconceptualized as spirituality in the current time. People are on the crux, they are religious, but they try to believe that they are spiritual, while these are very, very different things.
Religiousness is pretty rigid, while spirituality helps us or kind of sets us free. So, how do I try to bring this thought process from a religious mindset to a spiritual mindset? How can I influence others to do so? Or is it even required, or can they…?
Acharya Prashant: Religion, as it is commonly practised, is very outward-looking, very, very outward-looking. How? It looks at others, it looks at the past, it looks at practices, and it says, “I will do all those things.” It looks at particular books, it looks at everything outside of the looker.
It need not be like that. Religion; in its classical definition, is not this, but unfortunately, this is the way religion is practised nowadays. In fact, religion has been practised this way more or less throughout the course of history.
