Religion in the non-Indian parlance (non-oriental perhaps) is a bundle of tenets, prescriptions regarding rituals, revelations and directions of one or many prophets all with a presupposition that the votaries follow the tenets mainly with reference to their icons, idols and seers. The lifestyle adopted by them when not in the ambit or jurisdiction of church can be completely at variance with the requirements of the church or the organised religion.
However, there is no organised religion termed as Hinduism. It is a bundle of recordings of various precedence and practices, which pertain to lifestyle and to the relationship with God or what we call spirituality. Besides, there is no such dividing line. The same gita can be applied to lifestyle and religion- so also Vedas and Upanishads.. Moreover, Hinduism has no prophets, and philosophies professing atheism and agnosticism like Samkhya and Charvaka are part of the present Hinduism. The constitution of India has relied on Yajnavalkya smriti that we can treat with equal with equal acceptance as a religious text, but India is a secular state. No one can make this claim in respect of Bible or other religious texts found elsewhere.
Hinduism encompasses tribal religion to the most scholastic Vedic practices, and the practitioners of all faiths find freedom to exist in harmony even within the definitions of predominantly religious (by western standards) texts.
In India, there is nothing called religion. The texts are just pronouncements helping the lifestyle of people and worship of the almighty too forms part of human existence canvassed in those texts.
It is purely my view. I am not a prophet or one interested proselytizing. However, usually I think to the best of my capacity before taking my stands.
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