Religious people think that through their good karma and performing rituals they get moksha but it is not so the Karma belongs to the dualistic illusion or Maya.
Sage Sankara: ~ “Action (karma) cannot destroy ignorance, for it
is not in conflict with or opposed to ignorance. Knowledge does verily destroy
ignorance as light destroys deep darkness. -Atma Bodha
According
to Advaita Vedanta, the Veda addresses itself to two kinds of audiences - the
ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as
a result of ritual sacrifices, and the more advanced seeker who seeks to know Brahman.
Thus, the purva mimam. sa, with its emphasis on the karma kanda of the Vedas, is
meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way.
However, the Vedanta, with its emphasis on the jnana kanda, is meant for those
who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.
First
Mundaka - Chapter 2 (8) - Fools, dwelling in darkness, but wise in their own conceit and
puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills,
like blind men led by the blind.
First
Mundaka - Chapter 2 (9) - Children, immersed in ignorance in various ways, flatter
themselves, saying: We have accomplished life's purpose. Because these
performers of karma do not know the Truth owing to their attachment, they fall
from heaven, misery-stricken, when the fruit of their work is exhausted.
First
Mundaka - Chapter 2 (10) - Ignorant fools, regarding sacrifices and humanitarian works as
the highest, do not know any higher good. Having enjoyed their reward on the
heights of heaven, gained by good works, they enter again this world or a lower
one.
There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the most advanced seeker who seeks to know the truth beyond the form, time, and space. The religious orthodoxy is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. The Atmic path, which emphasis on the Advaitic wisdom, is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.
Although Sage Sankara puts the mystic goal highest in his mystical books, he is careful to say that this goal leads to Brahman, not that it is a realization.
That is why 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)
As one goes deeper into annals of the history he becomes aware of the fact that the so-called present Hinduism has adopted many things from Buddhism, the religion of Abraham, Jainism, and Islam. If one goes deeper enough he will become aware everything is mixed up and messed up in time.
No one is taken pains to rectify it because; because people have been inherited them, from their ancestors and they think it is blasphemy even to hear anything against their inherited religion and belief. Once one gets involved with the religious class it is the end of the pursuit of truth.
The theistic (orthodoxy) Advaita and Maharishi Dayananda Saraswati‘s Vedic religion are based on an orthodox perspective but Advaita philosophy bifurcated from the theistic (dualistic) perspective is the real Advaita(non-dualistic) propagated by Sage Sankara.
There is no need to study neither Advaita nor Vedas nor Buddhism to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman. It is no use going roundabout way; trace the Brahman.
Sage Sankara said: ~ Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) Vivekachoodamani v 56, pg 25
Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study the Scriptures, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman
~ then why you indulge in studying the scriptures.
Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study philosophy, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman
~then why you indulge in studying philosophy.
Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge rituals, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
~ then why you indulge in rituals.
Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge in yoga, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman
~ then why you indulge in yoga.
Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the ‘Self’, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani) then why you are sticking a Guru who is not a Gnani.
Sage Sankara says ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
