History
speaks The Religious paramparas like Advaita, Dvaita, and Vishista
Advaita is orthodox paths.
Advaitic orthodox parampara
was introduced in the 8th century and Dvaita, and Vishista
Advaita were introduced in the 12th century by the founders of the
caste-oriented founders are noting to do with Sanatana Dharam which existed 2500 years prior to Hindusim.
All
these paramparas are based on myth meant for the ignorant people who incapable of grasping the
Advaitic truth hidden by the illusory universe.
Vedas are in the Vedic language which was a high-class language. Rig
Veda (excluding chapters II and X) were written before the Christian An era in the Vedic language. Vedic language is not Sanskrit. It is the same language
in which the Zoroastrian Scripture Zend Avesta is written – a form of Persian
language. All the other scriptures of India are written in Sanskrit.
These include Rig Veda Chapter
II and X and the Upanishads, Brahmanas, Puranas, and the Vedanta. These were
written during the Christian Era after the Thomas ministry. As the use of this
language diminished, it became a tough language for the commoners. The priests,
who were supposed to be an expert of this language, translated it into Sanskrit
language and manipulated the meanings in time and gradually, all the practices
changed.
The DaVita, Vedanta borrows the concept from
Abrahamic religions, such as Eternal Damnation [of certain Souls destined to
hell forever] which goes against the belief of most Vedanta schools, which
states that Soul attains liberation.
It looks like the creator creation theory is
also borrowed from Abrahamic religion and on the base new belief system has
been introduced giving it a Vedic outlook and propagated all non-Vedic rituals
and worships by someone in the past.
Remember this:~
St. Thomas is said to have come to India to
spread Christianity in the first century AD. It first spread among the people
of the Malabar coast and in areas near present-day Madras.
There is a total discontinuity in the concept of
God before and after the entry of St, Thomas. As one goes in deeper into annals
of religious history then we become aware of the fact that the Vedic Gods were
personifications of Nature and their worship essentially sacrifices to these
Natural Forces to appease them. All of a sudden by the first century, we
encounter Vedanta. Vedanta literally means “End of the Vedas,” though it is
today interpreted as "the essence of Vedas."
Vedanta, which appeared as theological
discourses, presents a supreme Godhead, “Para Brahman’. Such an idea was not
even remotely conceivable in the Vedic context.
New Gods like Maheshwar and Vishnu appeared. The
concept of Maheshwar. Vishnu means Sky or Heavens. Vishnu simply means God of
Heaven lies or one who pervades everything. Then we have the concept of
incarnation – God taking flesh in human form to save humanity. All these
suddenly appeared after the entry of St, Thomas.
This was also the time when most of the Vedic
Gods passed into oblivion. Their place was taken by the trinity of Gods, with
Brahma as the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer. It is
believed that when evil is rampant, various incarnations of Vishnu enter the
world of men to save them. Krishna is one such 'avatar'.
There are many contradictions, Brahma Vishnu and
Maheshwar are the three main Gods but they are one. Brahma is the creator of
this universe (Generator), Vishnu is responsible for the smooth conduct of the
same (sustainer), & Maheshwar is Destroyer! But if you go and read Vishnu
Purana, he is characterized as the supreme power.
Further, due to many castes and sub-caste
prevailing in the society, some more rules and principles were added for the
benefit of these priests. Can you imagine how would you get rid of the sin you
committed by killing a cat? You will have to make a golden cat weighing equal
to the dead cat and hand over this golden cat to the priest chanting for the
purification of the individual Soul! Hinduism is different from the Vedic
religion.
Vedic religion was modified and reintroduced
with new add-ons by the great Sage Sankara to uplift the
Vedic culture and Santana Dharma, which were in ruins in the
clutches of Buddhism. 18 Puranas are introduced in the name of Veda Vyasa.
As one goes deeper in the annals of history,
it indicates the fact that somewhere someone has added the Puranas in the name
of Sage Veda Vyasa the grandmaster of Vedas. It is impossible to accept
and believe that Sage Veda Vyasa authored and introduced Puranas which has all
conceptual Gods because: ~
Veda Vyasa was an ancient Vedic Sage who might have lived thousands of years but all these non-Vedic Gods of Hinduism did not exist in the Vedic era. It was introduced after the 2nd century.
Vedas reveals ONE GOD but Hinduism filled with
33crores of Gods Vedas reveals God as Spirit (Atman or Brahman) and no form whereas
Hinduism worships God in the form of various non-Vedic idols of Gods and
Goddesses are barred by Vedas.
Puranas are mythological stories. Mythological
God and Goddesses are based on belief. The belief is no God. The belief implies
duality. From the ultimate standpoint, the duality is merely an illusion. Thus,
whatever one sees, knows, believes, and experiences within the dualistic
illusion are bound to be an illusion.
Mythological stories are myths. Whatever is
based on myth is merely superstition. Mythology was introduced in the past for
the ignorant masses.
All the mythological Gods are worshiped in the
form of idols. The belief system which propagated ideas of many Gods and
Goddesses Bhakti is the only way to God is simply tries to lead the people to
darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which apart from the Soul,
the God in truth.
Mythology breeds superstition, blind belief, and senseless rituals, and
most irrational and gives them a divine outlook. Mythological stories are a
myth. Whatever is based on myth is merely superstition. Mythology was
introduced in the past for the ignorant masses. It has to be discarded if one
has to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman or real God.
The
Religious paramparas like Advaita, Dvaita, and Vishista Advaita are orthodox
paths meant for the ignorant populace. Orthodox Advaita, Dvaita, and
Vishista Advaita are nothing to do with the Advaitic wisdom of Sage
Sankara. Mixing orthodoxy with the path of wisdom is like mixing
oil with water. Advaitic wisdom is pure Spirituality based on the Soul,
the Spirit.
Sage
Sankara says: The orthodoxy is meant for ignorant people.
Sag
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?
The
Brahma Sutras together with Sage Sankara's commentary
thereon do not contain higher Vedanta. They are intended for duffers.
Sage
Sankara's commentary on Brahma Sutras is
not on the philosophical basis, but on a religio-mystic one, with an appeal to
Vedas as a final authority.
In
Brahma Sutra Sage Sankara takes the position that there is
another entity outside us, i.e. the wall really exists separately from the
mind. This was because, Sage Sankara explains in Mandukya that
those who study the Sutras are religious minds, intellectual children, hence
his popular viewpoint to assist them. These people are afraid to go deeper
because it means being heroic enough to refuse to accept Sruti, and God's
authority, in case they mean punishment by God.
Sage
Sankara says: Keep the scriptures for
children but throw them on the fire for wise seekers.
In
Brahma Sutras Sage Sankara takes for granted, assumes that the world was created: He there mixes dogmatic theology with philosophy.
That
God created the world is an absolute lie; nevertheless, you will find Sage
Sankara (in his commentary on Vedanta Sutras) clearly says this! He
has to adapt his teachings to his audience, reserving the highest for
philosophical minds.
The
text of Brahma Sutras is based on religion, dogmatism, but in the commentary
Sankara cleverly introduced some philosophy. If it is objected that many
Upanishads are equally dogmatic because they also begin by assuming Brahman,
but a few Upanishads do not but prove Brahman at the end of a train of proof.
The
causality and creation, but are for religious people only. Religion is
only for those who are unable to understand truth beyond the form, time, and
space. Religion is not final. It only gives satisfaction to the populace.
Self-knowledge is for the whole of humanity to free them from experiencing the
birth, life, death, and world as reality.
People
of small intelligence follow religion and believe that the world was created by
God. But how do they know that He did so? When a pot is created, one can see
both pot and its maker, but not in the case of the world.
This
is the following prescription prescribed by orthodoxy in the name of Sage
Sankara. The orthodoxy has listed down in 5 verses, 40 steps of
Sadhanas (discipline) to be followed to achieve the (only meaningful) goal of
human life Moksha, liberation. Use it every day as contemplative prayer.
Rituals and sacrifices are orthodox prescriptions to ignorant people who are incapable of grasping
Advaita:~
Sage Sankara clearly says:~ Neither studying philosophy nor by worship as many gods nor observe ceremonies nor by singing devotional hymns nor by uttering mantra nor by mastering the scriptures liberation comes without realizing the Oneness.
Sage Sankara pointed out those rituals could in no way bring about wisdom, much less moksha.
But
remember:~
If people have believed religious propagated myth thing over thousands of years, the length of time does not prove it true.
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.
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 still remain in ignorance of the
Atman the real God.
People who perform rituals throughout their life. People who perform rituals and aspire
for rewards will view the world in which they exist as a reality. However, the Soul,
the Self unborn eternal hidden by the world in which they exist. From the standpoint of the Soul, the world in
which he exists is merely an illusion.
The
scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are therefore addressed
to an ignorant person.
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.
Sage
Sankara says, that, the orthodoxy is meant for
ignorant people.
Sage
Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes
of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."
~
This shows he was wearing the religious robe only for the sake of bread."
All
the rituals based on the false belief of God will not yield any fruits and they
are meant for the ignorant populace who are unable to grasp God beyond the
form, time, and space.
One of Sage Sankara’s missions was
to wean people away from a ritualistic approach advocated by Mimamsakas and to
project wisdom (jnana) as the means of liberation in the light of Upanishad
teachings.
Sage Sankara criticized
severely the ritualistic attitude and those who advocated such practices.
However, the Orthodox texts that combined rituals with wisdom (jnana_karma_samucchaya) more in favor of the Mimamsaka the position came into vogue, projecting Sage Sankara as the
rallying force of the doctrine.
That
is why Sage Sankara:~ (11) As
regards the rituals, Sage Sankara says, the person who performs rituals and
aspires for rewards will view himself’ in terms of the caste into which he is
born, his age, the stage of his life, his standing in society, etc. Also, he is required to perform rituals all through his life. However, the
‘Self’ has none of those attributes or tags. Hence, the person who superimposes
all those attributes on the changeless, eternal Self’ and identifies the ‘Self’
with the body is a confusing one for the other; and is, therefore, an ignorant
person. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are therefore
addressed to an ignorant person. -Adhyasa Bhashya
Sage
Sankara:~ (11.1) This
ignorance (mistaking the body for ‘Self’) brings in its wake a desire for the
well-being of the body, aversion for its disease or discomfort, fear of its
destruction, and thus a host of miseries(anartha). This anartha is caused by
projecting karthvya(“doer” sense) and bhokthavya (object) on the Atman. Sankara
calls this adhyasa. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are,
therefore, he says, addressed to an ignorant person.-Adhyasa Bhashya
Sage
Sankara:~ (11.2) In short, the person
who engages in rituals with the notion “I am an agent, doer, thinker”,
according to Sage Sankara, is ignorant, as his behavior implies a distinct,
separate doer/agent/knower; and an object that is to be done/achieved/known.
That duality is Avidya, an error that can be removed by Vidya. -Adhyasa
Bhashya
Adhyasa
Bhashya of Sage Sankara: ~ (12) Sage
Sankara affirming his belief in one eternal unchanging reality (Brahman) and
the illusion of plurality, drives home the point that Upanishads deal not with
rituals but with the knowledge of the Absolute (Brahma Vidya) and the
Upanishads give us an insight into the essential nature of the ‘Self’ which is
identical with the Absolute, the Brahman.-Adhyasa Bhashya
No
conceptual God can exist, apart from consciousness. People are not aware
of the fact that there is no individual God can exist, apart from the Soul,
which is in the form of consciousness. Thus the Soul or
Consciousness is the true Self’. If there is no consciousness, then
there is no physical body, no ego, no universe, no religion, and no conceptual
God. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
