Religion is a prison of ignorance. Religion keeps the populace ignorant of God in truth. God in truth is hidden by religion.
In religion, there is no freedom to believe other than what it preaches. Religious people consider mythological stories as truth and not believing in mythological Gods is irreligious. The mythological God can exist within the domain of duality. From the Advaitic perspective, the duality is merely an illusion. Thus, whatever belongs to illusion is bound to be a falsehood.
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Religion causes one to become crippled, Self-mortifying and Self-deprecating is not a religion, but the social system of controlling the populace through psychological deformation and retardation.
One can think only within the waking experience. Therefore, even if one stops thinking he still remains a man without the thoughts. The thoughts will not form without form, feeling, perception and mental formation, and consciousness. If one of these things is not there, then the thoughts will not form.
The thoughts will not stop until one becomes aware of the fact that, the Self is formless. It is impossible to get rid of the form without understanding ‘What the mind?’ is and ‘What is the substance of the mind? ‘What is the source of the mind?
The formless Soul, the ‘Self’, when known becomes an object. The Soul, when realized, then becomes the consciousness. This is the distinction between knowing and realizing.
Religion declares one must believe that there is no other God but God propagated by the particular belief system.
The seeker has to deny the existence of such a God based on blind faith or blind belief. First one must realize what God really is.
People find some of the religious doctrines very illuminating. People who renounce the world and become a monk or sanyasi leaves it all behind to find the truth of their true existence.
People think the events that happened in the mythological stories really happened the way they are described, and hallucinate about these stories.
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The Hindus believed in polytheism, believing all of their Gods to be separate individuals, which were introduced much later by the founders of Hinduism which contains diverse beliefs caste, and creed.
When the religion of the Veda knows no idols, then why so many Gods and Goddesses with different forms and names are being propagated as Vedic Gods. Why these conceptual Gods are introduced when the Vedic concept of God is free from form and attributes.
Religious Gods are not God in truth. Bible says “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in Spirit and in Truth. Rig Veda says may ye never accept another God in place of the Atman (spirit) nor worship other than the Atman.
What is the use of arguing with religious believers? They think of what they know as the ultimate truth.
The founders of different castes in India introduced the different Gods and Goddesses. All such Gods are non-Vedic Because Yajur Veda says: ~ those who worship visible things, born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like), in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness. Therefore, all these add-ons prove that the form and attribute-based concepts are introduced by some sages of the past with a new belief system and code of conduct in the name of Vedas.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ 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 everything is nothing but the consciousness.
Swami Vivekananda: ~ ‘The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods, and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods?
Religion depends upon the books of the reformers, founders, and prophets Religion is not based on truth. The truth is hidden by the universe because the universe is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
No religious books or teachers can help us to find the truth because religion propagated a blind belief in religious ideas of God as truth.
The seeker of truth can realize the ultimate truth or Brahman or God without the region and its books.
You have gratitude for Sages without bondage to them. Do not blindly accept anything as truth without deeper verification. Think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of the ‘Self’, which is the cause of the universe.
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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ The Self is indeed Brahman (God in truth), but through ignorance, people identify it with intellect, mind, senses, passions, and the elements of earth, water, air, space, and fire. This is why the Self is said to consist of this and that and appears to be everything.
Religion can never make you know God. Only an intense urge to know what God is supposed to be in truth can make you realize God. The Soul, the ‘Self is the Infinite God.
The Soul, the ‘Self is the Infinite God.
The Soul is the Self. God is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. God is the fullness of consciousness without the illusory division of form, time, and space. Therefore, there is nothing apart from it.
God is self-evident. God is not established by extraneous proof. It is not possible to deny God because God is the very essence of the one who denies it. God is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. God is within the universe in which you exist, God is without the universe in which you exist.
No second thing exists other than the Soul which is the fullness of the consciousness without the division of form, time, and space.
From the standpoint of the Soul, there is neither form nor time nor space.
Religion propagates the creator and the creation theory hence people are forced to admit it. People are stuck believing in the creator and the creation theory thus they are stuck to the reality of the world in which they exist.
The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is 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.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
People, who worship the belief of God, are hallucinating that they become one with such God.
Vedas itself says: 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)
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 form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)
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: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Atman, worships ‘Self’ as~ Atman (God) alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare."
Yajurveda says: - if one worships what is not God: ~
Translation 1
They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc.).
They sink deeper into darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc.) ~ (Yajurveda 40:9)
Translation 2
Deep into the shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent.~("Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Giffith pg 538)
Translation 3
"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time."~ (Yajur Veda 40:9.)
So, Yajur Veda indicates that: ~
They sink deeper into darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things-means- matter
Those who worship matter in place of Spirit ( God in truth) are enveloped in still greater ignorance, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly.
It clearly indicates that: -If the human goal is to acquire the Self -Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, then why one has to indulge in rituals and glorifying the religious Gods and Goddesses to go into deeper darkness. Instead, spend that time moving forward toward the Self -knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, which is one’s prime goal. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is knowledge of God in truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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