Each sect concocts a God to suit its own purposes. Belief in such concocted Gods is a great hindrance in pursuit of truth.+

One may believe in a position, but he is required to prove the truth of his belief. A belief is based on the false self within the false experience, ultimate truth or Brahman is based on the invisible unborn  Soul the  Self.

Everyone likes religion because it belongs to the world of sentiments and emotions. Religion changes as it appeals to different emotions. One will find at one pole the nude Sadhu is admired; at the other, the gorgeous life-styled Godman is revered. Belief in religious prohibitions arises out of fear of God's punishment.

The man himself suggests that there must be a God. It is an auto-suggestion.  To say that one knows God exists always implies he must also exist always. It would be correct to say at this point, he does not know about the existence of God because God's existence depends on the individualized belief

People magnify every minor coincidence or every petty fact where yogis or Good men were concerned, and they see the miraculous or esoteric significance therein.

Religion is “believers Truth”; spirituality is “Truth for the seeker of truth.” This means a believer takes his feeling of truth whereas the seeker of truth takes his reasoned judgment, which will be the same under test everywhere in the universe.

 The position of the seeker of truth is this: he has not seen God. He does not know his capacities, what God can do, and what God cannot do. Therefore any statement he might make about God would only be a lie. 

The seeker of truth does not wish to tell a lie. Therefore he does not accept  God nor deny Him; he simply refuses to make any statement about God.

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Each sect concocts a God to suit its own purposes. Belief in such concocted Gods is a great hindrance in the pursuit of truth. 

The man himself suggests that there must be a God. It is an auto-suggestion. Prayers and sacrifices belong to a premature stage of development. 

When no answers come to prayers to their  God based on blind belief, then doubt arises about the existence of such God. Belief in religion weakens as the man pays more attention to the facts of his practical life within the practical world.

People who argue that truth is only in their religion are vain logicians based on mere ideas and imaginations.  Religions that say "If one follows the religion they will go to heaven, while others “go to hell," are stories invented on the base of false Self within the false experience.

Religious truth is not the ultimate truth because it always shows a contradiction. A contradiction arises because a different person's interpretations may disagree with others.

Poets are at liberty to imagine whatever they like, but the only thing wrong is that they take their feelings and sentiments for reality, or when they think that whatever seems, must exist.

"Religions place God as the unknown reality”.  Every religious believer has a different idea of God. Every man has a different idea of reality. Hence the need for definition before the study.

The fallacy of orthodoxy’s appeal to scripture lies in the varying and conflicting interpretations of the same scripture which different men feel entitled to give or hold.

The mystic who sees or experiences something in his meditation and takes it as the highest does not know the ultimate truth or Brahman.  

There is in religion the element of imagination and sentiments. The ordinary man is happy because religion gives him satisfaction, and pleases his taste. In pursuit of truth, the seeker has to discard the religion because religion is based on the false self within the false experience.

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How is one to know that the scriptures are true? The seeker has to look into the facts, for the proof of what has the worship of God done for the people! 

When a tsunami occurred in Japan God did not save the believers of Japan. Thus God saves one who prays such an argument is of no value in pursuit of truth. 

One has to investigate “Why Yoga is right and other paths can't give truth?" Or how is one to know that Yoga leads to final truth?"

People believe that they have their religion inherited from their forefathers, therefore, why bother to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

The ultimate truth or Brahman will interest only less than 5% of people. Religion pleases minds that are stuck believing their practical life within the practical world as reality.

The scriptures are for the ignorant masses, who wholly accept the practical life within the practical world as it presents itself. Gnana is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem.

People believe scripture is infallible but deeper Self-search reveals the fact that they are merely books of words. The words are merely an expression of thoughts. Then it is impossible to see if the scripture-writers' thoughts are founded in fact or not.

The Atman or the Soul, the Self is present in the form of consciousness.   Consciousness is the witness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. 

It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theatre, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

What is not the consciousness (formless) in waking, dream, or deep sleep?  The waking and the dream cease to exist without consciousness.    

The Soul (witness and the three states (witnessed) are one in essence.  That essence is consciousness.  Thus, the seeker, seeking and his destination all are one in essence.

There is only a need to realize the whole universe in which we exist is created out of consciousness.

From the standpoint of the Soul the Self, the universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. From the ultimate standpoint, no second thing exists other than consciousness. Thus,  consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth. : ~Santthosh Kumaar