The religion blocks one from realizing God in truth because religion is based on myth whereas Spirituality or Adyathma is based on the truth.
The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is nothing to do with religion, caste, rituals, worship, yoga, and other practices. Therefore, an obvious disparity between Sage Sankara‘s path of Gnana and the path of Karma.
Path of Gnana is meant for the advanced seeker of truth and the path of Karma is
meant for the ignorant populace.
The path of wisdom is divided into three parts:~
First: hearing the truth--that the consciousness is the only reality and that the universe along with you merely an illusion or Maya.
Second: reasoning upon these words of wisdom of Sage Sankara from all points of view.
Third: giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth. This realization comes from being certain that consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
Philosophers have made philosopy very complicated with their excessive analysis.
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.
Remember:~
There is a need to bifurcate religion from spirituality. People think religion is the stepping stone for Self-realization but it is not so. Religion is based on ignorance and it keeps the seeker permanently in ignorance by hiding the truth with its mythical beliefs and dogmas and superstition. According to Vedas and Upanishads, all the religious propagated beliefs are a myth.
Whereas Spirituality is based on the Sprit, which is the cause of the world in which we exist.
As one goes deeper in 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.
Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but the liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.
Sage Sankara ’says:~ Gnana is common to all religions.
There is nothing like One Gnana for a Hindu and another for a Christian.
The entire philosophy of Sage Sri, Sankara can be summed up in the following statement:-
Brahma satyam, jaganmithya, jivobrahmaivanaparah: - Brahman alone is real; the world is non-real, and the individual ‘Self’ is essentially no different from Brahman.
This is the quintessence of Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom.
Remember:~
Religion is a prison of ignorance. People who follow religion locked up in ignorance.
