Religions are dependent on their holy books. No God ever created a Soul because the Soul itself is God in truth. Without religion, there is only undivided humanity.
All the philosophies are a mental fabrication. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
All religions claim that their books are not man-made. Hindus claim that the Vedas are Aporsheya: not made by man but revealed by God himself; and Sanskrit is the divine language, not human.
All religions have the same type of claim. Muslims say the Koran has descended from God, and so with Jews and Christians. Everybody is trying to claim that their book is the sacred book and nobody bothers to look at the real divine book.
All religious books are man-made. The universe is the book that is authored by God in truth because God in truth is hidden by the universe.
The universe is real Veda, the real Koran, the real Bible. The universe is the book, and all other books are man-made.
Only when you open the book of the universe the God hidden in the book will be revealed. When you finish reading the book of the universe then the universe will become an illusion and God alone prevails as the ultimate reality.
Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something detrimental to our spiritual progress.
You are also part of the divine book of the universe! And whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced as an individual is part of it.
It is difficult to understand assimilate Advaitic wisdom within a framework of some Gurus teaching or holding some philosophy as a yardstick.
We have to drop all our accumulated dross to understand and assimilate and realize the non-dualistic truth.
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Religions, castes, sects, dogmas, creeds, doctrines, and rituals are all hindrances in the path of Truth. The truth is all-pervading and infinite.
Religion is not based on truth it renders no help to find the truth, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space. Truth belongs does not belong to any religion.
Churches, temples, and mosques are nothing to do with the ultimate truth, which is hidden by the form, time, and space because they are based on belief. To attain the ultimate Truth, the seeker has to get rid of all obstacles by a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’.
Religion is regarded as sacred and real by the common people, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Religion belongs to the ignorant populace. Spirituality is higher than religion. People must get prepared to accept the truth, which was hidden by the religion they belong to. The falsity of the religion has to be exposed so that people will be able to realize the Truth of their true existence.
There is no religion, which is a higher goal other than Self-realization. Self-realization itself is God-realization.
Gurus and yogis provide only a superficial understanding of Advaita; it is dry knowledge. One must realize God by realizing the world in which he exists is an illusion created out of the Soul, which is Brahman or God in truth.
The shortest, quickest way to the realization of Truth is through to realize the world in which we exist is nothing but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness, which the ultimate truth or Brahman. Brahman is God or Advaita. :~ Santthosh Kumaar
