People who stuck to religion never will be able to cross the prison of ignorance Without crossing the prison of ignorance Self-awareness is an impossibility.+

The weakness of all mysticism is: "one claims his mystic experience is this and tells the other which can be overthrown by the mystic experience of another who claims his experience is different. 

Mysticism charms people but reason does not. Faith, feeling or experience is on everyone's lips.  Therefore, it is necessary to verify about one’s own identity to realize the whole waking experience is a dualistic illusion. Whatever happens within the dualistic illusion is bound to be a falsehood,

In India, people think that religion as a stepping stone to 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).

One must go beyond form, time and space. The theistic tradition has been kept alive by religion. Religion is the path of ignorance because it is based on ignorance.  The orthodoxy is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. Thus, it is not the path of ultimate truth or Brahman.

People who stuck to religion never will be able to cross the prison of ignorance Without crossing the prison of ignorance  Self-awareness is an impossibility.  Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana is necessary to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Sage Sankara:~VC-  Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity with the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not  even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together (verses-6)

The scripture mastery, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman. 

The ultimate truth is revealed in the clear understanding and realization of ‘what is the truth and ‘what is the untruth.  

When one realizes the untruth (universe) is created out of single stuff, the Self-awareness rises in the midst of duality exposing the unreal nature of the form, time and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar