The garbage of religious beliefs and dogmas superstition is confounded with the human imagination. The great reality of the glory of the religious Gods is hyped and obscured by so much tinsel and commercialism.
Spirituality is not theology. Advaita is not a philosophy but Advaita is the ultimate truth of Brahman or God. Advaita is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana or knowledge of the Spirit or God in truth.
Religious upbringing is a major cause, which blocks one from realizing the Self hidden by ignorance. The orthodox people have a narrow-minded outlook because they think of what religious samskaras they inherited from their forefathers as the ultimate truth.
Hindus get samskara as Hindus. Christian gets samskara as Christian. Muslims get samskara as Muslims. Buddhist get samskara as Buddhists.
The seeker of truth should not start with the idea of God. The seeker does not know whether there is God or not. There is no proof. The seeker needs proof of God's existence.
There is need not doubt that people saw Shiva, Jesus, etc. That they saw visions may be an undeniable fact. But the question is “Was what they saw the Truth?" They no doubt had a such vision but they never stopped to inquire if their visions are true.
Remember:~
After years of effort glorifying Christ when Christian closes his eyes and Christ comes to him.
After years of effort glorifying Krishna when a Hindu closes his eyes and Krishna comes to him.
After years of effort glorifying the Buddha when a Buddhist closes his eyes and Buddha comes to him.
After years of effort glorifying the Mahavira when a Jain closes his eyes and Mahavira comes to him.
Christ doesn’t come to a Hindu; Mahavira doesn’t come to a Christian. Buddha doesn’t come to a Jain: only the image projected in the subconscious will come. The image became almost solid. It became so real from constant repetition, from continuous remembering, that it seemed the projected deity was standing in from of him. No one was standing there.
Wherever is projected is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Any experience is possible only within the domain of form, time, and space. Whatever belongs to the form, time and space is merely an illusion.
The illusion is created out of single stuff and that single stuff is the consciousness. The knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
In reality, consciousness alone exists without the division of form, time, and space. There is no second here, no other. From the standpoint of the Soul, form, time, and space are merely an illusion.
The seeker has to take all the facts, and then proceed to examine and analyze, how far is it true?”
To talk of seeking God is as meaningless as saying "seeking dog". It is only a hollow word. one must know God in truth.
Remember:~
Religious Gods are mythical based on blind belief or faith. Mythical
Gods are not God in truth.
Religion is based on blind belief whereas spirituality is based on
Spirit, the truth, which is the existence itself.
Spiritual truth is universal whereas religious truth is the
individualized truth. Religion is based on the dualistic perspective whereas spirituality is based on the nondualistic perspective. Whatever is based on the dualistic perspective is egocentric and whatever is based on the nondualistic
perspective is soulcentric.
There is no need for any religion. Religion is based on blind
belief. The belief is not the truth. Religion conditions one based on blind belief. The belief is always based on the false self (ego), within the false
experience (waking).
Believing in any religion is a great hurdle in assimilating the truth
hidden by ignorance. From the ultimate standpoint, there is no value in any Gods based on blind belief.
Religion can never make you know God because it propagates the blind
belief as God. Only an intense urge to know what God is supposed to be in truth
can make you realize God.
Spirituality is based on the Spirit, which is the cause of the world in which we exist.
Religion is the cause of wars, violence, and terrorism.
The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is pure spirituality nothing to do with religion,
sects, or dualistic-based spirituality.
Until Sage Sankara’s Advaitic
wisdom is propagated effectively, many generations will suffer from violence,
wars, and terrorism, which is going on in the name of religion and God.
Sage Sankara’s Advaitic
wisdom will one day replace all the religions of the world because Advaitic
wisdom is the knowledge of God in truth.
Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom brings universal brotherhood and
unity in diversity.
Sage Sankara’s Advaitic
wisdom is the power that can lead to peace."
There is a need to bifurcate religion from spirituality. People think religion is the stepping stone to Self-realization but it is not so.
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 the religious propagated mythical Gods and beliefs are a myth.
By Spiritual based upbringing one becomes exposure to both the real and
unreal, and the freedom from experiencing unreality as a reality.
The Soul, the ‘Self is the Infinite God.
The Soul is the innermost Self. God is the Soul, which is present in
the form of consciousness. God is the fullness of consciousness without the
illusory division of form, time, and space. Therefore, there is nothing apart
from it.
God is self-evident. God is not established by extraneous proof. It
is not possible to deny God because God is the very essence of the one who
denies it. God is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and
proofs. God is within the universe in which you exist, God is without the
universe in which you exist.
The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:
~ God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen
directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry
does not find any support from the Vedas.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (Godin truth) is present in the form of the Athma,
and it is indeed Athma itself.
People, who worship the belief of God, are hallucinating that they
become one with such God.
Vedas itself says: May ye never accept another God in place of the
Atman nor worship other than the Atman? Thus, to know the real God
Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God-realization.
Self-realization itself is real worship.
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)
How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshipper and the
worshiped, whereas God is non-dual. One can worship his idea of God only or
realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as a part.
When Upanishads and Vedas declare that, “God is in the form of the Athma,
and God is indeed Athma itself” then why accept another God in place of the Atman
or worship other than the Atman.
God is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence,
indivisible consciousness, and intelligence, which is beyond form, time, and
space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘All those whose intelligence has been stolen by
material desires, they worship many Gods. (7-
Verse -20)
Only the path of wisdom leads the seeker of truth on his journey to the
ultimate realization of the true nature of the Universal Essence, which is the
Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.
Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19: ~ "Such a man who has attained true knowledge,
the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Atman, worships ‘Self’ as~ Atman (God in truth)
alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a
man is extremely rare."
Bhagavad Gita: ~ 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 the material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.
Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~
“Those who know the ‘Self’ in
truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits,
but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.
The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace.
The God in truth is only Atman, the Self. In reality, there is no duality, no
differentiation. Only Atman exists.
Brahman or God in truth — The One Without a Second.
The Atman is self-evident. It is not established by
extraneous proof. It is not possible to deny the Atman, because It is the very
essence of the one who denies It. The Atman is the basis of all kinds of
knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Self is within, Self is without; Self
is before, Self is behind; Self is on the right, Self is on the left; Self is
above and Self is below. Brahman is not an object, as it is Adrisya, beyond the
reach of the eyes. Hence the Upanishads declare: “Neti Neti—not this, not
this....” This does not mean that Brahman is a negative concept, or
metaphysical abstraction, or nonentity, or a void. It is not another. It is
all-full, infinite, changeless, Self-existent, Self-delight, Self-knowledge,
and Self-bliss. It is Svarupa, essence. It is the essence of the witness. It is
the Seer (Drashta), Transcendent (Turiya), and Silent Witness (Sakshi).
Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman is impersonal, Nirguna (without
Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special
characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). It is above all
needs and desires. It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an
object It is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a
second. It has no other besides it. It is destitute of difference, either
external or internal. Brahman cannot be described, because description implies
a distinction Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In
Brahman, there is not distinction between substance and attribute.
Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman, and not just
Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is
impersonal.
By converting people from one religion to another one will not be able
to realize God because God in truth does not belong to any religion. God is
universal. All the religious Gods are not God in truth. You must realize what
God is supposed to be in truth in this very life.
What is the use of indulging in wars, violence, and terrorism in the name of
protecting religion and the religious idea of God? God is not a Hindu or
Christian. God is not a Jew or Muslim or Buddhist.
All of those Gods in human form are imaginarily meant for the ignorant
populace, which is not capable of grasping the real God hidden by ignorance
(I). The Advaitic path is not for religious-minded people. The Advaitic
path is pure spirituality. The Advaita path is to help the seeker to unfold the
mystery of God. : ~Santthosh Kumaar
