Religious people are unaware that their inherited belief system is of superstition and dogmas based on the imagination. Religious people think of whatever they have inherited from their forefathers as the ultimate truth.
After the 2nd century, there was much adulteration and reforms in Indian society and there were saints formed their own belief systems and codes of conduct, and many new belief systems were formed within India.
Each sect has its own founder. Thus the whole Indian society was divided into many sects and creeds creating separation in the society. All these diverse groups of caste, sect, and creed together are called Hinduism.
The Vedic religion or Santana Dharma does not exist today. Followers of Vedas today indulge in non-Vedic activities barred by Vedas in the name of Vedas.
The seeker of truth has to be free from all this baggage of religious superstition and dogmas. The Orthodox people impose and brainwash their orthodox ideas on their children. Orthodoxy is a self-imposed prison.
Orthodox people are ignorant people. There is no truth in Advaitic orthodoxy, which is based on the false self (ego or you) within the false experience (waking).
Orthodox people without realizing that, they are on the wrong path and they think they are on the right path to Moksha because it is written in their scriptures.
All these dualistic scriptures and mythological stories are nothing but imagination.
In Vedas, God has been described as: ~
Sakshi (Witness)
Chetan (conscious)
Nirguna (Without form and properties).
Nitya (eternal)
Shuddha (pure)
Buddha (omniscient)
Mukta (unattached).
So, it clearly indicates that God is formless thus there is no scope for a form-based God.
The religion and its ideas of Gods, and its theories of karma, heaven, hell, papa, punya, rebirth, and reincarnation are based on the false self (ego), within the false experience (waking). Therefore, they are meant for lower mindsets, they are of no use to those who are seeking higher truth as indicated in the scriptures.
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 ‘Self’. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)
Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
Do not accept any other God other than the Soul. The Soul is God in truth. Nothing is real but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Nothing matters but realizing God in truth. God in truth, is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.
God in truth, is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone, is real and eternal, and all else is an illusion.
Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.
People are not aware that there is no religious God based on blind belief that can exist, apart from the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32: ~ God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.
Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.
Ishopanishad: ~ “They are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worships the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God and those who worship things born of matter like trees, animals, man, etc. are sunk deeper in misery."
No conceptual God can exist, apart from consciousness.
Ish Upanishad:~ Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide> ~10/11/12
It indicates that if the human goal is to acquire Self -Knowledge then why one has to indulge in rituals and glorify the conceptual gods, goddesses, and gurus to go into deeper darkness? Instead spend that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is one’s prime goal.
Thus the Soul, the Self, is present in the form of consciousness. If there is no consciousness, then there is no body, no ego, no universe, no religion, and no conceptual God.
People think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one thinks physical entity or ego as the Self, then there is a creator, but if one thinks of the Soul as the Self, then there is nothing that exists other than the consciousness, which is the innermost self.
If one objectifies and sees a universe, then he is bound to see many things besides himself and postulate a God, the creator. The Body, the idea of the God and world rise and set together from, and into, the Soul, the self.
If God is apart from the ‘Self ‘, then He would be Selfless, that is, outside existence, that is, non-existent.
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. In addition, 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 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. Sage 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, a 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
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
Bhagavad Gita:~ brahmano hi pratisthaham - Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (Gita 14.27)
In Advaita Vedanta: ~ Brahman is without attributes and strictly impersonal. It can be best described as an infinite Being, infinite Consciousness, and infinite Bliss. It is pure knowledge itself, similar to a source of infinite radiance. Since the Advaitins regard Brahman to be the Ultimate Truth, so, in comparison to Brahman, every other thing, including the material world, its distinctness, the individuality of the living creatures, and even Ishvara (the Supreme Lord) itself is untrue. Brahman is the effulgent cause of everything that exists and can possibly exist. Since it is beyond human comprehension, it is without any attributes, for assigning attributes to it would be distorting the true nature of Brahman. Advaitins believe in the existence of both Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman; however, they consider Nirguna Brahman to be the absolute supreme truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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