Religious beliefs and practices are considered superstitious by Gnanis whereas religious believers do not consider it as so Superstition.+

Superstition is considered a widespread social problem. Superstition refers to any belief or practice which is explained by supernatural causality and is in contradiction to modern science. Religion is the fountainhead of Superstition.

Religious beliefs and practices are considered superstitious by Gnanis whereas religious believers do not consider it as so  Superstition.

People all over the world in the past and present accepted the idea of the existence of God.  The fear of God injected by religion was the root cause of worship, superstitions, and dogmas.  The religious beliefs were passed on to the populace from one generation to the next generation. It is necessary to realize what God is supposed to be to realize God in truth.

In the modern age, the proposition that science will replace faith has become an attractive one. Much that was a mystery earlier has now been rationalized through scientific discoveries. Inevitably many more mysteries of the present also will be explained in the years to come. But science has its limitations. For example, it can theories how the universe began with the Big Bang, but not explain what agency caused it. Scientific theories also are fickle. Science propagates knowledge; it does not necessarily confirm wisdom.

There is no scientific proof that God exists; neither is there any proof that God does not exist. That is where rationale drifts outside the scientific path. They make assertions in matters of faith, forgetting their own principles. They can say at the most there is no proof of God's existence. They cannot proceed further and assert that God does not exist because it is impossible to verify through scientific experiments.

The ignorant populace believes in God's existence but they are unaware of what God suppose to be in truth. The belief in religion is and leads to wars and terrorism. Admittedly, there is at any one time, far greater unanimity about scientific truths but those truths are merely hypotheses liable to be superseded in the future.

Rationalists are right in condemning superstition as dangerous and harmful. They overstep when assert science has the answers. As of today, it does not. The science is dualistic. Scientific research is based on form, time, and space whereas the truth of existence is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Remember:~

Swami Vivekananda:~ “This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind does not befit you, the Soul. Self is infinite, deathless, and birthless. Because the Self is infinite Spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. ... Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must. There is none to help you. Self is the entire world. Who can help you? -

Mythology breeds superstition, blind belief, senseless rituals, and the most irrational and gives them a divine outlook.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ “If superstition enters, the brain is gone. Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.

Mythological contains stories of people with 10 with seven heads, etc., which are fables, yet are taken seriously by pundits. All these stories are a reality within the dualistic illusion. The waking experience is a dualistic illusion. Thus, whatever belongs to the dualistic illusion is bound to be a falsehood. In reality, there is no duality because there is only Oneness.

That the ancient sages had miraculous occult power and books relate stories of their feats, are fairy tales were meant for children, women, and those whose minds had not developed.

When ‘Self’ is not ‘you’ then whatever you have seen, known believed, and experienced as reality is bound to be an illusion. Thus, self-realization is necessary to realize your present the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

If the present world in which you exist is merely an illusion, then whatever you believed as a reality with the world in which you exist is bound to be an illusion.:~Santthosh Kumaar