By repeating the ‘I’ as a mantra is
making ignorance even more deep-rooted. Some Guru prescribed repeating the
word ‘I’ as a mantra without knowing the ‘I’ itself is ignorance. By
repeating the ‘I’ as a mantra is making ignorance even more deep-rooted.
Some Gurus recommend repeating the
God’s name as a spiritual practice but what is the use of such practice without
knowing ‘what God is in actuality. Such practices based on religious God.
Religious Gods are not God in truth. God with forms and names and attributes
are not God in truth.
Before repeating the name of God, one
must know what God supposed to be in actuality.
The belief system preaches that God is
one and the ways to God are many. It simply tries to lead them to darkness with
its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the Self.
The religion is
based on the false self (ego) and false experience (world) thus; all religion-based
beliefs are a falsehood.
Religious Gods are based on belief.
Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because,
the Soul, the ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists.
Without the
Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, it means the religious God
is dependent on the Soul for his existence. God in truth is only the Soul,
which is present in the form of consciousness.
Even the Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “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. (14.27).
When Bhagavad Gita says, God is
considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the
animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted
other than consciousness.
Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman
(God in truth) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
Religious Gods are based on blind belief.
Religious God cannot be considered as a center because the Soul the innermost
‘Self’ is the center of all that exists. Without the Soul the world in which
you exist ceases to exist, it means the religious God is dependent on the Soul
for his existence.
Even 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)
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ "He
who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the Self does not know
the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)
No mantras help to get rid of ignorance.
All the mantras and rituals are meant for the ignorant populace, which strongly
believes, the world in which he exists as a reality. For one who wants to
acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the mantas will not help
to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time and space.
That is why Sage Sankara: ~ VC~.61. For
one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the
knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures,
Mantras (sacred formulae) and medicines to such a one?
VC- v6~ 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.
Sage Sankara goes on to say: ~A sickness
of not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take the medicine.
Liberation does not come by merely saying the word “Brahman.” Brahman must be
experienced. Until you allow this apparent universe to dissolve from your
consciousness until you have realized Brahman, how can you find liberation just
by saying the word Brahman? The result is merely noise. Until a man has
destroyed his enemies and taken possession of the splendor and wealth of the
kingdom, he cannot become a king by simply saying “I am a king.”
A buried treasure is not uncovered
by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right
directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it
your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under
Maya and the effects of Maya can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and
other spiritual disciplines but never by subtle arguments.
As indicated in ISH Upanishads: ~ “By
worshipping Gods and Goddesses you will go after death to the world of Gods and
Goddesses. But will that help you? The time you spent there is wasted because
if you were not there you could have spent that time moving forward towards
Self-knowledge, which is your goal. In the world of Gods and Goddesses, you
cannot do that, and thus you go deeper and deeper into darkness.
It clearly indicates that if the human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge then why one has to indulge in rituals and glorifying the conceptual Gods, Goddesses, and Gurus to go into deeper darkness. Instead spend that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is one’s prime goal.
The religion preaches that God is one
and the ways to God are many. It simply tries to lead them to darkness with its
dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the Self.
People all over the world in the past
and present accepted the idea of the existence of God. The fear of God
injected by religion was the root cause of worship, superstitions, and
dogmas. The religious belief is passed on to the populace from one generation
to the next generation.
God based on blind belief is not God in truth. God in truth is
hidden by the illusory world in which we exist because God in truth is the cause of the illusory world
in which we exist.
In reality, the world in which we exist
does not really exist; and what does not exist for us, really exists.
By worshipping God in human form,
repeating mantras is like watering a barren soil. The seeker of truth should
not waste life in empty formalities.
Without realizing the world in which he
exists is merely an illusion it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma
Gnana or Atma Gnana.
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.
By believing and worshiping what is not truth (God in truth), one is in the prison of the dualistic illusion. Truth-realization or Self-realization is God-realization. Self-realization itself is real worship.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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