Spirituality is at the heart of business response, although few companies would use the `spiritual' label to describe their actions. Effective Executive invited eminent personalities like Prof. Prabhu Guptara; Wayne Visser, Author and Speaker; Alex Pattakos, Founder of the Center for Personal Meaning; and Linda Sue Grimes, Columnist; to share their views on spirituality .
It is fashionable nowadays to try to
make a distinction between “religion”
as consisting of Christianity, Islam,
Buddhism and so on (established
and formal religions) and “spirituality”
as consisting in attempts to relate
to the divine outside the established
formalities of Christianity, Islam,
Buddhism and so on. In India, we
have had a long tradition (since the
first century before Christ) of a split
between religion (as in temples) and
spirituality (as in meditation and so
on). However, in fact there is no real
distinction between “religion” and “spirituality” or, if there is a distinction,
it is a purely academic and theoretical
one. In practice, all devotees of
any religion are seeking to experience
God and to be guided by him....and
everyone who is “spiritual” is seeking
exactly the same. |
