Sage Sankara says Orthodox people are ignorant people because the orthodox people found Advaitic wisdom as a hard task and therefore compromised the liberating wisdom with the performance of rituals.+

The orthodox people found Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom as a hard task and therefore compromised the liberating Advaitic wisdom with the performance of rituals

The Advaitic Orthodoxy is a Self-imposed prison. Sage Sankara says Orthodox people are ignorant people because the Orthodox people found Sage  Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom as a hard task and therefore compromised the liberating wisdom with the performance of rituals.

The religious people are unaware of the fact that their inherited belief system is of superstition and dogmas based on the imagination. They think whatever they have inherited from their forefathers as the ultimate truth.

After the 2nd century, there were many adulterations and reforms in Indian societies and there were saints formed their own paths and practices belief systems, and codes of conduct, and many new belief systems were formed within India. Each sec and caste t has its own founder. Thus, the whole Indian society was divided into many sects and castes creating separation in society. 

All these diverse groups of caste, sect, and creeds together are called Hinduism. The Vedic religion or Santana Dharma does not exist today. The followers of Vedas today indulge in non-Vedic activities barred by Vedas in the name of Vedas.

The seeker of truth has to be free from all this baggage of religious superstition and dogmas.   The Orthodox people impose and brainwash their orthodox ideas on their children. 

The Advaitic Orthodoxy is a Self-imposed prison. Orthodox people are ignorant people. There is no truth in orthodoxy, which is based on the false ‘Self’ (ego or you), within the false experience (waking).   

Orthodox people without realizing the fact that, they are on the wrong path and they think they are on the right path to Moksha because it is written in their scriptures. All these dualistic scriptures and mythological stories are nothing but imagination. 

The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self. 

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ It has been said that God's Supreme or Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. 

Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas. 

People, who worship the belief of God, are hallucinating that they become one with such God. 

Vedas itself declares: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman? Thus, to know the real God Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God-realization. Self-realization itself is real worship. 

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5) 

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself. 

How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshipper and the worshiped, whereas God is non-dual. One can worship his idea of God only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as a part. 

When the Upanishads and Vedas declare that, “God is in the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself” then why accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman. 

God is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness, and intelligence, which is beyond the form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words. 

So, it clearly indicates that God is formless thus there is no scope for form-based God. The religion and its ideas of Gods, and its theories of karma, heaven, hell, papa, Punya, rebirth, and reincarnation are based on the false self’ (ego), within the false experience (waking). Therefore, they are meant for a lower mindset, they are of no use for those who are seeking higher truth as indicated in the scriptures.  

Ishopanishad: ~ “They are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worships the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God and those who worship things born of matter like trees, animals, man, etc. are sunk deeper in misery."

No conceptual God can exist, apart from consciousness because the consciousness itself is God.

All is consciousness.  The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears, the consciousness still remains without form, time, and space. 

Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20) 

Sage Sankara: ~ ‘The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are therefore addressed to an ignorant person. Adhyasa Bashya (11)

Only the path of wisdom leads the seeker of truth on his journey to the ultimate realization of the true nature of the Universal Essence, which is the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. 

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.  

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Atman, worships ‘Self’ as~ Atman (God in truth) alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare." 

All is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears,  consciousness still remains without form, time, and space 

The Soul itself is God, the One without a Second:~ 

The Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. The Soul, God is present in the form of consciousness. Thus, consciousness itself is God in truth. 

People are not aware of the fact that there is no individual God can exist, apart from the Soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Thus, the Soul or   Consciousness is the true ‘Self’.   If there is no consciousness, then there is no physical body, no ego, no universe, no religion, and no conceptual God.

People think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one thinks physical entity or ego as ‘Self’, then there is a creator, but if one thinks that the Soul is the ‘Self’, then there is nothing that exists other than consciousness.

If one objectifies and sees a universe, then he is bound to see many things besides himself’ and postulate a God, the creator. The Body, the idea of the God and world rise and set together from, and into, the Soul or consciousness  If God is apart from the Soul, the   Self  then God  would be self-less, that is, outside existence, that is, non-existent.:~Santthosh Kumaar