The theologians, religious heads religious Gurus, Swamis, and yogis, these people dominate the ignorant crowd, and they are not Gnanis. They simply go on fabricating beautiful words and theories and creating hallucinating ignorant people. With their skill of expounding, The religious propagated myth, with ornamental words.
Religion is based on the false self, therefore, it has a false foundation whereas spirituality or Adyathma is based on the Soul, the real Self.
The Soul is the cause of this universe and it itself is uncaused. The seeker of truth should not mix the Atmic path with the religious or yogic path.
The Guru Parampara is a religious tradition. The Guru is a great religious teacher who guides the ignorant populace with the religious code of conduct ethics and morals to behave and live, love in harmony within the society.
The Gurus and Saints introduced societal reform from time to time to uplift the lives of the populace.
The Gurus and Yogis are indulging in non-~Vedic worships and rituals barred by Vedas and Upanishads. Religious Gods are mere beliefs. Belief is not God. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Even Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) 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 material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.
Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is present in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
Religious Gods are based on blind belief. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists. Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence.
Even 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 innermost self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)
Mundaka Upanishad: - The study of the Vedas, linguistics, Rituals, astronomy, and all the arts can be called lower knowledge. The higher is that which leads to Self-realization. The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless 'Self' has neither caste nor race, neither eyes nor ears nor hands nor feet. Sages say this Self is infinite in the great and in the small, everlasting and changeless, the source of life.
The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.
Guru is needed in the religious and yogic path. The Soul is the inner Guru. :~Santthosh Kumaar
