Gandhi said religion and spiritualism are distinct
Author Anne Rice said last week that she was 'quitting Christianity:' The once-lapsed Catholic wrote that she was could no longer accept her religion's teachings on homosexuality, feminism, politics and birth control.
"In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian," Rice announced on her Facebook page.
Can you leave Christianity and keep Christ? Can you be spiritual without being religious?
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. 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. The mind and the heart in the same body speak different languages. Often our heart tells us something quite contrary to what our mind says. The heart speaks the Divine language -- the little small voice of conscience --and that is what "God" is telling us. However, our mind helps us suppress that voice when it is uncomfortable. Anne Rice heard that voice and decided to act upon it.
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Posted by: woodstock-41 | August 7, 2010 5:19 PM
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farnaz_mansouri2, Mr. Arun Gandhi apologized for his controversial post, and keep in mind that "there's never been any history of anti-Semitism in India and among Hindus," as noted by Mr. Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel director and other Jewish leaders, unlike the wide spread anti-semitism in the Muslim world through out history as well as in the present times.
Your hit-job on Mr. Gandhi, an apparent and pathetic attempt to indirectly smear Hindus, is totally off-topic and an epic fail.
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Smear Hindus? Ridiculous, and I have not done so.
Following Gandhi's antisemitic rant, he went on to blame Jews, literally, in venue after venue (Indian), on line, for the reaction to his screed.
I published these on OnFaith, pointing out that he had learned NOTHING from his hateful post. NOTHING.
Sally Quinn promised readers that he would let us know what he had "learned" from the reaction to his racist rant. We're still waiting.
Many Christians, Hindus, and Jews asked her to remove his filth from this blog, but she refused.
She has simply let him go on.
Sorry, but your post is offensive and stupid.
Jews are people with the same rights as everyone else. Use google.
I'm disgusted and disappointed by your post. I can only hope you didn't think it through before you wrote.
Posted by: farnaz_mansouri2 | August 7, 2010 2:52 PM
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Posted by: woodstock-41 | August 6, 2010 12:59 PM
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Posted by: woodstock-41 | August 6, 2010 12:53 PM
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farnaz_mansouri2, Mr. Arun Gandhi apologized for his controversial post, and keep in mind that "there's never been any history of anti-Semitism in India and among Hindus," as noted by Mr. Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel director and other Jewish leaders, unlike the wide spread anti-semitism in the Muslim world through out history as well as in the present times.
Your hit-job on Mr. Gandhi, an apparent and pathetic attempt to indirectly smear Hindus, is totally off-topic and an epic fail.
Posted by: AnAmigo | August 6, 2010 5:26 AM
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I agee with your grandfather. IMO all religions are human made, while spirituality we are born with.
Posted by: ThishowIseeit | August 5, 2010 11:56 AM
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Yes, well, Mr. Gandhi, considering your antisemitic diatribe of a couple of years ago, which cost you your job, and about which you were to let us know what you had "learned," I suspect you are an excellent spokesman for organized religious thuggery, though not necessarily for spirituality.
Posted by: farnaz_mansouri2 | August 5, 2010 3:29 AM
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A note on translating things for the West, Mr. Ghandi:
'Spiritualism,' particularly when capitalized, is the name of a particular Victorian movement (The stuff involving seances and Ouija boards and trying to contact ghosts and some of the stuff the Theosophical Society was about,) and things that resemble that, not the same as being 'Spiritual not religious.'
'Spirituality' is kind of part of a 'way of being,' (like in the words 'sexuality,' 'proportionality,' 'polarity,' even 'modality,') ...An -ism is like a religion or ideology or in a more general sense a way of doing, (Capitalism, communism, magnetism.) In terms of labeling groups, it's usually about an ideology.
'Spiritualism' is a practice of trying to contact spirits. (When they coined the term, it pretty much 'ghosts' ie spirits of dead people.)
Not to say that, as I'm sure you know, there isn't a lot of general linguistic chaos in the English language, but you may not wish to use 'Spiritualism' to describe 'Spiritual but not religious' people at least for this kind of audience.
Just to forestall any confusion. :)
Posted by: APaganplace | August 4, 2010 11:45 AM
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The spiritual quest is often understood as a desire to reach God, or to attain spiritual enlightenment. It is a search that is often challenging, full of questions and uncertainties.
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Posted by: woodstock-41 | August 3, 2010 9:29 PM
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".. When we truly accept all-religions as simply different roads to the-same destination and respect them all-equally.
.."TEEKAE BABBA! TOOM TEKAYHAE! ACHAYE!
NOMOSTAE!
AHIMSA!
Time For A NEW Song borneth From ALL, EVERY and ANY of our Old!
Behold!: The Religion of Everything Before The Science Of Everything"!
A "O.ne U.niversal R.eligion" Book via the Amazing "United Nations" [to be created there at and there IN] ASAP!
Please Hurry, Many Lives will be, unnecessarily, lost the Longer Ye Earthlings Wait/Procrastinate!
O' "IT" Do-NOt-forgive them [Humans; Not like Us Huumates] for they know'th what they art DO'n'g!
Choloe, Choloe, Joul joul um babba way!
Hari Krishna!
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Nomastae Brother Ghandi & friends. SHALOM:
According to the Holi Cosmic Feeler's Faith "B.O.T." [Book Of TRANS{FiNITY; which is what & WHY & HOW WE[i] Appear'th in M-I-R-A-C-L-E, Zero SIN/Curse, Justly For a Time (clocks) via Holyi 'TiME'(TEMPerature)] that;
THERE is"Conservation Of Parity", There is "Quantum//Entanglement"s yet there "ERTERNITY AVOiDING LONLiNESS" Phenomenon. But but There is the "SPiRITUAL' (and Material). And IT goes like This:
"EKLAH"t, a/k/a "IT" ('G-D' is NOt a HE nor a SHE) is the S-P-i-R-I-T in the "SYNERGY" of the 'UNiVERSE'
{our genuine 'CONSTITUTION', where IT's compliment is IT's own 'LAWS OF NATURE', our Genuine 'CLAUSES', a zero man-made Church SYSTEM of ideas} THAT;
can interact with the MATTER of [this] UNIVERSE in such a way that the Results of the "SPiRITUAL" and the "MATERiAL" art G-R-E-A-T-E-R than the sum of either the "SPIRiTUAL" without the "MATERIAL" or or the MATERiAL without the SPiRITUAL which the APOCALYPTIC-Off's, a/k/a Pre-Apocalyptarians thinkers of them HUMAN Species
{Unlike US Automatic Born Citizenz/Denizens & Apocalyptic-ON's, Never Off's, a/k/a HUUMATE(s) Of S.pace S.hip Earth(s), whom art NATURALLY SELECTion'd; never as if be some man-made "GOD(s) Chosen People" MYTH(opposite TRUTH) stories Selected}
had been arguing about Globally as if be that, the "Spiritual" without the "Material" or Else the "Material" without the "Spiritual' would be better Alone(?) than T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R in the form of humanity AND the Rest of [this] WORLD/PLANET, aka S.pace-S.hip EARTH, aka S.S. GAiA, S.S. GEOiD, S.S. TELLUSng something.
BEHOLD! The 'A "Brilliance Bursting Forth' [aka EKLAH] and the Amazing Holyi COSMIC "SYSTALTiCYCLE" via the Great "PALINDROME" , a Reality being aware That "LiFE IS A MIRACLE" ITSELF[or IT] and WE [i] art All in SYNC with IT's own Contractions & Expansions, which seem'th like'a Eternity, buy NAY. Only AYE!?
- subsection 28.323 (B.O.T.).
AHIMSA.