You are being conditioned by the religious myth which has made you a non-thinker. Come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth.
Sage Sankara says:~ Orthodoxy is meant for ignorant people. Adyatma is nothing to do with religious sect or creed and religious belief. Adyatma is pure spirituality. Knowledge of Atma is Adyatma. Advaita is Adyatma.
Sage Sankara says the scriptures dealing with rituals are addressed to an ignorant person.
Upanishad aspiration is best expressed in the following sutra:~
Om Asato ma sad gaMaya, tamaso ma jyotir gaMaya, mrityor ma aamritaam gaMaya. Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
"OM Lead me from ignorance to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. Peace, Peace, Peace" (Brhadaranyaka Upanishad (1/3/28)).
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.
Those who lack the intelligence to
discriminate between formless witness (subject) and three states (object) will
not be able to grasp what is real and what is unreal. Both subject and object
are consciousness, not subject alone.
Ish Upanishad declares: - Those people who have neglected the attainment of ‘Self’-knowledge and have thus committed suicide ~10/11/12
Those people who have neglected the attainment of ‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana 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?
Remember:~
Sage
Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is nothing to do with religious orthodoxy.
The seeker must do his homework, and verify the
validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what orthodox pundits
expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is obtained.
Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is
only being true knowledge not the absence of duality. Self -Knowledge cannot
destroy the world but it eliminates ignorance and exposes the unreal nature of
the mind, or the universe.
Sage Sankara: ~ VC-63.- Without
causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the
‘Self’, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word
Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.
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?
How does one get knowledge? What is meant for
knowledge? What is true knowledge? –All this of which must be dealt with by the
seeker of truth to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana does not destroy the world but it exposes the unreal nature of the world which appears as the waking. The same way the unreal nature of the dream was exposed when waking took place. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
