Spirituality and Religion

My understanding is that 'Spirituality' is very much individual whereas religion is all about group movement. Each individual has his spiritual progress as per his prakruti ( natural attributes gifted by the universe ie God). Whenever somebody has attempted to get in touch with the ultimate universal truth, he has been able to take a few steps ahead and experience the magic of God in bits and pieces. Later when he tries to verbalise his experience and guide his nearones, the essence is lost in transit. Therefore a cult or religion may take birth with a lot of distorted ideas. When these ideas are dissiminated to a group of people with different thinking and understanding capabilities, a religion starts forming with many flaws. However, fear being one of the biggest attributes of a human being, he tends to follow what is understood by him without any compromise and believes that any other spiritual or religious practice may go against 'God'. Since we lack sainty leaders who can streamline and control religious groups, the groups are controlled by individuals in the form of clerics who have personal inerests in religious activies. This scenario results in spiritual anarchy and degradation of the society. Therefore I BELIEVE that each individual may practise tools to improve his spiritual strength rather than focussing on group activities. One may start with simple activity of spending time on introspection about his own self. He may take help from scriptures and self help books for a better understanding of his existence and start with other activities such as meditation, chanting and being constantly aware of his actions. This will surely help him kick start his spiritual journey.