Religion or ideologies, they are the same thing.
The purpose of religion and religious institutions in medieval times was primarily to decipher the reality, separate truth from the mélange of information around us and, provide a course of action for human beings or the society to tread a path from which they could optimise their behaviour; the behaviour which should be aimed at attaining the “best” life which is consistent with the following terms which religions all over the earth delineated : morals, god-fearing, karma-fearing persons. The aim of these religions was to organize the agricultural societies and provide a broader course of action for every member living in it. The contemporary notions such as ‘ambitions’, ‘success’ and ‘achieving something’ were reproved as they were considered to be a course of action swerving from the greater design of the God or Brahma, and rather motivated its adherents to follow a ‘holy path’, ‘pray’, ‘devoted to the glory of God’ etc. These were considered to be the paths through which humans c