Spirituality has nothing to do with religion, the religious God based on blind faith, its code of conduct, and its holy books.+

Spirituality is not a religion. Spirituality has nothing to do with religion, the religious God based on blind faith, its code of conduct, and its holy books.

Monotheism is based on religion, not Spirituality. Spirituality is based on the soul, which is present in the form of the spirit. 

The religion accepts the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality, whereas Sage   Sankara declares the world is unreal Brahman alone is real. 

Thus, the experience of birth, life, and death happening within the unreal world is bound to be a falsehood. Thus, the religious and religious belief and its ritual based on the birth entity is bound to be a falsehood. Thus, the seeker has to realize ‘what is that is real and eternal?

There is a need to bifurcate religion from spirituality. People think religion is the stepping stone for Self-realization but it is not so. 

The religion is based on ignorance and it keeps the seeker permanently in ignorance by hiding the truth with its mythical beliefs and dogmas and superstition. 

According to Vedas and Upanishads, all religious propagated beliefs are a myth.

Whereas the Spirituality is based on the Spirit, which is the cause of the world in which we exist.

As one goes deeper in annals of the history he becomes aware of the fact that, the so-called present Hinduism has adopted many things from Buddhism, the religion of Abraham, Jainism, and Islam. If one goes deeper enough, he will become aware everything is mixed up and messed up in time.

Sage Sankara endeavoured towards establishing Vedic religion overthrowing Buddhism. But even he was not able to avoid the influence of Buddhism. The influence of the revolutionary atmosphere of Buddhism has reappeared in the Advaita of Sage Sankara. His inability to revive Vedic religion that flourished before the Buddhist revolution in its pure form is discernible.

No one is taken pains to rectify it because; because people have been inherited them, from their ancestors and they think it is blasphemy even to hear anything against their inherited religion and belief. Once one gets involved with the religious class, then it is the end of the pursuit of truth.

The theistic (orthodoxy) Advaita is based on the dualistic perspective but Advaita philosophy is based on the Nondualistic perspective. The theistic (orthodoxy) Advaita bifurcated from Advaitic philosophy. The theistic (dualistic) Advaita is meant for the ignorant populace.

Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada are independent and rational thinkers other schools of Indian philosophy are mere theologies. Advaitic philosophy is a real philosophy. The dualistic philosophy cannot escape the charge of dogmatism.

Advaitic wisdom propagated by Sage Sankara is from a non-dualistic perspective.

There is no need to study neither Advaita Vedanta nor Vedas nor Buddhism to realize ultimate truth or Brahman. It is no use going roundabout way; trace the Brahman.

Philosophy does not begin with the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed. Hence, so-called philosophers who take Brahman for granted are not philosophers at all.

Lots of Advaitin scholars will teach that all is yourself, but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none can prove it. 

The rational proof is required so that one arrives at knowing the ultimate truth or Brahman i.e. Gnana. Theirs is mere dogma, parrotism, repetition of what they read in scripture. 

Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.

Sage  Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but the liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

Sage  Sankara ’says: ~ Gnana is common to all religions.

There is nothing like One Gnana for a Hindu and another for a Christian.

The entire philosophy of Sage Sankara can be summed up in the following statement:-

Brahma Satyam, jaganmithya, jivobrahmaivanaparah: - Brahman alone is real; the world is non-real, and the individual ‘Self’ is essentially not different from Brahman.

This is the quintessence of Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar