LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 22:9 September 2022
ISSN 1930-2940

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Religion and Spirituality:
Views of Master EK, Vivekananda and Sadguru

Ramanadham Ramesh Babu and P. Sreenivasulu Reddy

Abstract

Most unfortunately and paradoxically, maximum violence and destruction happened on the globe, is in the name of Religion for the sake of God who has been hailed as an embodiment of love and compassion by all religious people. Why is it so? What does it imply? The difference between emotion and devotion has been completely blurred. The higher the emotions of senses, the greater seems to be the violence in the name of devotion. The leaders of spirituality argue that all religions demand humans to love one another and this can be achieved if one evolves to be a spiritual being, but not remain as a religious person. In this backdrop, the present paper discusses the views on spirituality propounded by some leading Indian spiritualists – Swamy Vivekananda, Master EK, and Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev.

Keywords: Swamy Vivekananda, Master EK, and Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev, Spirituality, spiritual dimensions, religious restrictions.

Introduction

Why people in every nation and every society are looking for a God? Why they want perfect ideal somewhere, either in man or in God, or elsewhere? Because, Vivekanada explains, “the idea of religion is very much within you. It is your own heart beating, but you are not aware of it.”

Indeed, Religion is deeply rooted in the blood of men & women for centuries. Still it has been dominating man and his way of thinking and behaviour. Religious thought itself is in man's very constitution, so much so that it is impossible for him to give up religion. Man is like an infinite spring, coiled up in a small box, and that spring is trying to unfold. Religion would help men and women in unfolding their potential. But, as many think, religion doesn’t mean doctrines, dogmas, nor the principles nor the philosophies. Religion doesn’t live in sects and societies. Religion doesn’t mean erecting temples or building churches or attending public worship only. Religion cannot be found in books or in sermons or in organizations. It is a relationship between soul and God. It is the gist of all worship. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already within man.

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Ramanadham Ramesh Babu
Assistant Professor, Department of English
GITAM School of Gandhian Studies, GITAM Deemed to be University
Visakhapatnam -530 045
rrbabu06@gmail.com

P. Sreenivasulu Reddy
Assistant Professor, Department of English
GITAM School of Gandhian Studies, GITAM Deemed to be University
Visakhapatnam -530 045
sreenupydala@gmail.com
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