How does a Sai devotee discuss religion vs. spirituality?
” Robert Kirk, New York NY, USA MoonSwan@aol.com In 1950, I was born to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father. They decided that I would learn both religions, and when the time was ripe, I would choose my own path. To me, religion was simply another school that taught me stuff, and by the age of nine years, I already received the initiations from the Catholic church, usually only granted to children several years older than I. I remembered my Jewish grandfather’s words,”You cannot find God in a temple or a church, unless you first find Him in your heart, and in your home.” I never again entered a temple of worship during my childhood years, and instead, followed my grandfather’s advice, and learned meditation and prayer. My grandfather opened the threshold to my spiritual evolution. By the time I was twenty years old, after an unsuccessful spiritual quest to India, I noticed, and purchased a book by Arthur Osborne about Sai Baba of Shirdi. I remember finishing the book, as I lay in bed
