In India, people think that religion as a stepping stone to the higher truth but it is not so.+

In India, people think that religion is a stepping stone to the higher truth, but it is not so because religion is based on the false Self (waking entity or ego) within the false experience (waking or the world).

Religion is not spirituality. Spirituality is based on the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit.

One must go beyond form, time, and space. The theistic tradition has been kept alive by the orthodoxy. The orthodoxy is the path of ignorance because it is based on ignorance.

The orthodoxy has nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. Thus, it is not the path of ultimate truth or Brahman.

People who stick to orthodoxy will never be able to cross the prison of duality. Without crossing the prison of duality, Self-awareness is an impossibility. Thus, Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana is necessary to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the highest wisdom. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the Advaitic Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to Self-awareness. In Self-awareness, there is no second other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. :~ Santthosh Kumaar