Different types of religions

Hinduism Judaism Christianity Islam Pagan Zoroastrianism Greek Roman Babylonian Egyptian Buddhism Jainsim Sikhism Baháí Faith Shinto Taoism Rastafari Atheism Santeria Mormomism Candomblé Unitarianism

Monotheistic religions

• Unitariasm~Jesus (or god)
• Islam~Muhammad
• Jainism~Mahavira
• Buddhism~Goutam Buddh
• Judaism~HaShem or "god"
• Rastafari

Ploytheistic religions

• Christianism (Trinity)
• Pagan
• Greek
• Roman
• Zoroastriansim
• Egyptian
• Shinto
• Candomblé
• Santeria
• Babylonian

Henotheistic religions

• Hinduism (henotheistic and pantheism)
• Mormonism

No god religions

• Baháí Faith
• Atheism
• Taoism / Confucianism / Doaism

Sikhism (many gurus)

Om Raizada

A learned man was once asked to explain the difference between Religion and Spirituality. His response was profound:

▪ Religion is not just one, there are many.
▪ Spirituality is one.

▪ Religion is for those who sleep.
▪ Spirituality is for those who are awake.

▪ Religion is for those who need someone to tell them what to do and want to be guided.
▪ Spirituality is for those who pay attention to their inner voice.

▪ Religion has a set of dogmatic rules.
▪ Spirituality invites us to explore within and get attuned to the Universal Rules.

▪ Religion threatens and frightens.
▪ Spirituality gives inner peace.

▪ Religion speaks of sin and guilt.
▪ Spirituality leads us on the path of emancipation!

▪ Religion represses everything which it considers false.
▪ Spirituality transcends everything, it brings us closer to our Truth!

▪ Religion invents.
▪Spirituality helps us to discover.

▪ Religion does not tolerate any question.
▪Spirituality encourages searching questions.

▪ Religion is human. It is an organization with rules made by men.
▪ Spirituality is Divine, without human rules....leads us to the Causeless Cause!

▪ Religion divides between us and them.
▪Spirituality unites.

▪ Religion follows the concepts of a sacred book.
▪ Spirituality seeks the sacred in all books.

▪ Religion feeds on fear.
▪ Spirituality feeds on trust and faith.

▪ Religion makes us to live in External Reality.
▪ Spirituality lives in Inner Consciousness.

▪ Religion deals with performing rituals.
▪ Spirituality has to do with the Inner Self.

▪ Religion feeds on internal ego.
▪ Spirituality drives to transcend beyond self.

▪ Religion makes us renounce the world to follow a God.
▪ Spirituality makes us live in God, without renouncing our existing lives.

▪ Religion is a cult.
▪ Spirituality is inner meditation.

▪ Religion fills us with dreams of glory in paradise.
▪ Spirituality makes us live the glory and paradise on earth.

▪ Religion lives in the past and in the future.
▪ Spirituality lives in the present.

▪ Religion creates cloisters in our memory.
▪ Spirituality liberates our Consciousness.

We are not human beings, who go through a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings, who go through a human experience.