Terms are a very crucial aspect , specially when it involves a typical tendency of limiting something, someone or some aspect through an outlined definition. We often mix spirituality and religion and make the mistake of calling a spiritual person as religious or a religious person as spiritual. Though these two strong terms are related but they are not similar. A person can be both religious and spiritual or just religious or just spiritual.
Though a religious person can enter the gates of spirituality but Spirituality is an independent term on its own,with no anchors. The term itself is like a liberated soul, who is free from bondage, paving its way swiftly, to the one and only absolute truth. Whereas different religions identify the same truth in different forms and faces. If understood correctly it can be a bridge that can take you to spirituality and if not then it becomes a man-made superficial basis through which one is distinguished and humanity disintegrated.
Religion is more like believing in your Own form of God, but spirituality is searching, finding and believing in the ultimate Truth. In spirituality all religions are the same, all Gods are the same, as we, belonging from all the socially divided sects, knowingly or unknowingly are seeking for the same truth, the same God, the same results. Just like the same soul is walking on the planet with different bodies, so is the same spirituality being carried by different religions. We identify ourselves through our bodies but never see the true detached self beyond ego, that is the soul.
When religion is confined with dogmas, superstitions, orthodox mindset, egoistic identity, then one is far away from realization. One should strive for spirituality to find the absoluteness residing in the soul and not stay limited to religion. Hence let us try to become spiritual selves, respecting all religions, because as Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa quoted,"God is one, but His names are many".