Spiritual but not religious

Nowadays we can see many people saying that they are spiritual but not religious.

Such people could be atheists or those who accept God who is not restricted to any particular religion. The main idea here is morality or spirituality is independent of any religion known to man.

Actually Vedic Hindu view is compatible with the above as God is indwelling in all whether one is a believer in any religion or not. 

Even then, people holding such a view have to follow some dos and donts in life in order to be spiritual. And following dos and donts constitutes religion. So the idea of spiritual but not religious

is a kind of oxymoron.

But it can be argued that the golden rule of morality "to look upon others as oneself"is beyond all religions. But this golden rule gets validity only when God is seen as immanently present in all as the inner Self of all, which is the basic tenet of Hindu religion 

So it is only in the Hindu religion based on the Vedas, one can see the coming together of 

spirituality and religion as the ultimate God is identified as the Supreme Brahman that pervades and indwells in all as the absolute Self.

Namaste

Suresh