Religion is based on form, time, and space. The Soul, the Self belongs to no religion because the Soul is ever formless timeless, and spaceless existence.
The religion accepts the concept of God, believes in the physical body as the Self, and injects a theoretical code of conduct to live in the world, whereas, in spirituality, the Soul is the Self and body, ego, the world, conceptual God are part of the dualistic illusion or Maya created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.
Swami Vivekananda: ~ Creeds and sects have their parts to play, but they are for children, they last but temporarily. Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must never forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul. We must never forget that. (Talk given at Unity Hall, Hartford (Connecticut), USA, on March 8, 1895, as reported in "Hartford Times" (March 11, 1895). Complete Works, 1.324.)
The religion accepts the concept of God, believes in the physical body as the Self, and injects a theoretical code of conduct to live in the world, whereas, in spirituality, the Soul is the Self and body, ego, the world, conceptual God are part of the dualistic illusion or Maya created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.
Swami Vivekananda: ~ Creeds and sects have their parts to play, but they are for children, they last but temporarily. Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must never forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul. We must never forget that. (Talk given at Unity Hall, Hartford (Connecticut), USA, on March 8, 1895, as reported in "Hartford Times" (March 11, 1895). Complete Works, 1.324.)
The birth, death and the world, pain, and pleasure, Good and bad, right and wrong, negative or positive belong to you, not to the Soul, the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.
You are the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking). Your existence is limited to the domain of form, time, and space. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the form, time, and space are an illusion created out of consciousness.
Remember the ‘Self’ is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The illusion has no value in the domain of the Soul, the Self. In reality, the soul and the illusion are one in essence.
Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ This whole universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms is nothing else but Brahman (consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.
Getting rid of the ignorance by realizing the Self is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness and rests in consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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