The religion is based on blind belief whereas spirituality is based on Spirit, the truth, which is the existence itself.
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 in truth. The Soul, the ‘Self is the Infinite God.
The Soul, the ‘Self is the Infinite God.
The Soul is the Self. God in truth is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. God in truth is the fullness of consciousness without the illusory division of form, time and space. Therefore, there is nothing apart from it.
God in truth is Self-evident. God in truth is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny God in truth because God in truth is the very essence of the one who denies it. God in truth is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. God is within the universe in which you exist, the God in truth is without the universe in which you exist.
No second thing exists other than Soul which is the fullness of consciousness without the division of the form, time and space. From the standpoint of the Soul, there is neither the form nor the 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.
Spiritual truth is universal whereas the religious truth is the individualized truth. Religion is based on the dualistic perspective whereas spirituality is based on the nondualistic perspective. Whatever is based on dualistic perspective egocentric and whatever is based on the nondualistic perspective is soulcentric.
Advaita is pure spirituality nothing to do with religion, sect or dualistic based spirituality. That is why Bhagavan Buddha rejected the religion, scriptures, and religious Gods, and Sage Sankara indicated the truth is beyond the religion, scriptures, and belief in the religious idea of God.
Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.
Religion is regarded as sacred and real by the common people, by the wise as false and by the political class as useful.
Comparing Vedas with Koran or Bible or any other scriptures will not yield the truth, which is beyond form, time and space.
The religion was introduced in the past for the benefit of the populace which was incapable of grasping the ultimate truth, which is beyond the form, time and space.
All religions of the world are based on the form, time and space. Thus, religion is nothing to do with the pursuit of truth, because the truth is not belief and religion is based on belief.
The belief is based on the individual whereas the Soul, the innermost Self is not an individual because the Soul is ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.
The scriptures are not necessary to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman or God or Spirit. The scriptures are meant for the ignorant populace.
Sage Sri, Sankara said:~ Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) VivekaChudamani v 56, pg 25
Sage Sankara said:~ The world is unreal and Brahman alone is real. It means the birth, life, and death, which happens within the world, has to be unreal. If birth, life, and death are unreal, then the rebirth and reincarnation and Avataric concept have to be unreal. Thus, it is for the seeker to find out, from what standpoint the world becomes unreal, to know the Brahman, which is the ultimate truth or God.
By studying Vedas or Koran or Bible or any other scriptures will not yield the truth, which is beyond form, time and space. The truth beyond the form, time and space are the Spirit or God.
One must know God in truth not the belief in the religious idea of God. The belief is not God. The diverse beliefs have diverse ideas of God. The beliefs have no value in the domain of the truth.
That is why Lord Krishna Says Ch ~ V:~ “Those who know the Self in truth. The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.
Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.
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)
Yajur Veda also says:~ God has no image and His name is Holy. (32.3)”
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. (Gita 14.27)
The rituals based on belief are meant for the ignorant populace.
That is why Mundaka Upanishad condemns rituals. The Para or Higher knowledge is the knowledge of the Supreme Being while the Apara or Lower Knowledge is that of following sacrificial rites and ceremonies. (1/2/ 1 – 6)
The scriptures are meant for the ignorant mass, which strongly believes, the experience of the world in which they are born, live and die as a reality.
The ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth cannot be attained by the study of the scriptures of any religion, or by intelligence, nor by much hearing of sacred books then why to compare Vedas with Bible or Koran or any other religious scriptures to realize the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time and space.
Katha Upanishad: ~ This Atman cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas, or by intelligence, nor by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one Atman reveals Its own form. (Katha Upanishad Ch-II -23-P-20)
Mundaka Upanishad: ~ This Atman cannot be attained through study of the Vedas, nor through intelligence, nor through much learning. He who chooses Atman—by him alone is Atman attained. It is Atman that reveals to the seeker Its true nature. (3 –page-70 Upanishads by Nikilanada)
The above passages further prove that: Self-knowledge cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas and intellectual understanding or by bookish knowledge.
Sage Sankara says:~ Keep the scriptures for children but throw them on the fire for wise seekers.
In Brahma Sutras Sage Sankara takes for granted, assumes that a world was created: He there mixes dogmatic theology with philosophy.
That God created the world is an absolute lie; nevertheless, you will find Sage Sankara (in his commentary on Vedanta Sutras) clearly says this! He has to adapt his teachings to his audience, reserving the highest for philosophical minds.
The text of Brahma Sutras is based on religion, dogmatism, but in the commentary, Sage Sankara cleverly introduced some philosophy. If it is objected that a number of Upanishads are equally dogmatic because they also begin by assuming Brahman, but a few Upanishads do not but prove Brahman at the end of a train of proof.
The causality and creation but these are for religious people only. Religion is only for those who are unable to understand truth beyond the form, time and space. Religion is not final. It only gives satisfaction to the populace.
Self-knowledge is for the whole of humanity to free them from experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as reality.
People of small intelligence follow religion and believe that the world was created by God. But how do they know that He did so? When a pot is created, one can see both pot and its maker, but not in the case of the world.
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is meant only for those who have intense urge, and courage to accept the truth with humility and reject the untruth. Since people start comparing with their scriptural knowledge, it becomes impossible to assimilate and realize the Advaitic truth. Therefore, there is no need to convince anyone other than our own selves to get a firm conviction.
Remember:~
It is not you who is in ignorance because the world in which you exist is product ignorance. It is the Soul that has to wake up from its sleep ignorance. All the nondualistic teachings of the modern authors are based on the dualistic perspective and intellectual speculations and logical conclusions.
One must keep in mind only Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada are the finality in the Atmic path. All other Gurus and teachings have stopped in the preliminary stages of Advaitic teaching ‘Who Am ‘I’? and ‘I AM THAT’.
So many centuries have passed since Sage Sankara appeared, yet it is very hard to find his true wisdom is understood anywhere in the world today. It is because so few could rise to his level.
Sage Sankara‘s doctrines spread after his lifetime. Very few were capable of understanding his wisdom. The orthodox pundit’s followers are not Gnanis or have grasped the Advaitic wisdom.
The Advaitic orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant populace. According to Advaita Vedanta, the Veda addresses itself to two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices.
The more advanced seeker who seeks to know the ultimate truth or Brahman. Thus, the Purva mimam.sa, with its emphasis on the KARMA KANDA of the Vedas, is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. However, the Vedanta, with its emphasis on the JNANA KANDA, is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.
Sage Sankara said: ~ Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) VivekaChudamani v 56, pg 25
The seeker should never stick to any Guru or his teaching if he is seeking the ultimate truth. Scriptural knowledge is conceptual divisions invented by some past and modern authors of Advaita by their excessive imaginary analysis.
All these imaginary analyses are a great obstacle in the Atmic path. They create more confusion and try to satisfy their imaginary explanations based on the dualistic perspective. Fortunate are people who do not lose themselves in the labyrinths of such bookish knowledge, but they will never be satisfied until they find ‘what they are seeking for.
Most thinkers hold views of Maya (illusion) which are entirely incorrect and untenable because they do not know Sage Sankara's Upanishad Bashyas, but only the Brahma Sutra Bashya.
When one is unaware of what illusion is, then there is ignorance. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, The duality is merely an illusion. The illusion is a reality only from the standpoint of you (ego). The world in which you exist is the product of ignorance. Till ignorance is there, the world in which you exist prevails as a reality.
"One may recognize a fool by the fact that he talks too freely"… Sunyavadin Buddhists say everything is non-existence but their judgment is based on the dualistic perspective.
As one goes deeper and deeper he realizes; how can one see, hear, and think? …All these differences, all this multiplicity, all this ignorance which regards the multiplicity as real, is caused by ignorance of the Soul, the Self.
The Soul is the witness of the world in which you exist. Your youth, maturity and old are happening within the dualistic world. The Soul remains unchanged amid these changes.
All these experiences as a father, son, owner, and pupil and all the contents of the world were one and the same the Soul or consciousness appearing differently. All these distinctions disappear in the Soul wakes up from its sleep of ignorance.
Dream the mountain which is apparently insentient and material, is nevertheless still the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone.
Whether living or dead, conscious or unconscious thought or matter; all things are appearances of one and the same consciousness. All these distinctions are seen by Gnani as only the Soul or consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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