Isa Upanishad says: ~ Andharh tamah pravisanti ye Vidyam upasate, tato bhuya iva te tamo ya u vidyayarh ratah.
Ish Upanishads:-
MANTRA 10
Vidya
and Avidya both are hindrances to Self-knowledge, but Vidya is even worse than Avidya. The word Vidya is used here in a special
sense; here it means worshipping Gods and Goddesses. 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 spend 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.
Avidya is Karma and therefore a hindrance.
You perform Avidya - i.e., you perform Agnihotra
and other sacrifices. This is a roundabout way of purifying the mind, and it is
also groping in the dark. But it may not have as heavy a toll on your time and
energy as the other.
Ishopanishad:~
"They are
steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worships
the matter, instead of the all-pervading God and those who worship things born
of matter like trees, animals, man, etc. are sunk deeper in misery."
Ish Upanishad: -
Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge
and have thus committed suicide.
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Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge
and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds
after death.
This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain Self-knowledge.
They are, in a real sense, committing suicide, for what can be worse than being
a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life,
which is to be one’s, own master?
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 spend 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.
Into blinding darkness enter those who cling to ignorance, but into still deeper darkness go those, who flirt with knowledge. It is the promotion of nescience with the help of scholarship to justify the worship of a mortal in lieu, of God. It makes no difference whether God is conceived as clothed with attributes (saguna} or as absolute attribute-less existence (nirguna).
Gods and goddesses are merely religious beliefs not God in truth. God is universal. God in truth does not belong to any particular religion. Every religion has its own God but religious Gods are based on belief.
Remember:~
People believe everything that comes from their religion is true. Until you find cogent reasons for disbelieving it. Everything that comes from other than their religious belief people take as false.
Until people find cogent reasons for disbelieving their religion it is impossible for them to make them accept anything else as truth other than their accepted truth.
God is universal. God does not belong to any particular religion. Religion breeds superstition because religion is based on blind belief or faith.
Belief is not the truth. Belief breeds superstition. All religiously propagated dogmas are nothing but superstition.
Swami Vivekananda: ~ “If superstition enters, the brain is gone. Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.
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How can you worship the Absolute? That implies two ~ the worshiper and the worshiped, whereas the Absolute is nondual. One can worship his idea of the Absolute only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.
Upanishads say in effect that: ~ If you believe that the ‘the Soul, the Self’ is one and God (Brahman) is another you cannot understand Truth.
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 the religion was the root cause of worship, superstitions, and dogmas. Religious belief is passed on to the populace from one generation to the next generation.
Realizing the single stuff of which this universe in which you exist is made, is Truth realization or Self-realization or God-realization.
When the expression itself is illusory, then the evolution within the illusory expression is bound to be an illusion. Thus, the evolution theory holds no water from the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost Self.
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. :
Remember:~
Gods and Goddesses are merely based on blind faith or belief not God in truth. God is universal. God in truth does not belong to any particular religion. Every religion has its own God but religious Gods are based on belief.
People believe everything that comes from their religion is true. Until you find cogent reasons for disbelieving it. Everything that comes from other than their religious belief people take as false.
Until people find cogent reasons for disbelieving their religion it is impossible for them to make them accept anything else as truth other than their accepted truth.
God is universal. God does not belong to any particular religion. Religion breeds superstition because religion is based on blind belief. Religion is based on blind belief. Belief is not the truth. Belief breeds superstition. All religiously propagated dogmas are nothing but superstition.
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 the religion was the root cause of worship, superstitions, and dogmas. Religious belief is passed on to the populace from one generation to the next generation.
Realizing the single stuff of which this universe in which you exist is made, is Truth realization or Self-realization or God-realization.
When the expression itself is illusory, then the evolution within the illusory expression is bound to be an illusion. Thus, the evolution theory holds no water from the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost Self.
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. : ~Santthosh Kumaar
