That is what I was trying to tell our friend other day who came to me from the All India Radio. Religion is the science of the soul. It is not Hinduism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, etc. These are not religions. These are only the shapes that religion has taken in social relationship.
Religion is the characteristic of the soul made manifest in outward conduct and activity.
And if the soul is what you are, then religion is your conduct, and you cannot say that your conduct can be other than the religious. So, to live a kind of life minus religion is to think the unthinkable and the impossible. There is no such thing as a life without religion. That would be like your living without a soul. That would be again to live without your own self.