When one is unable to quench his spiritual thirst from his guru or teaching, he has to look elsewhere to clear the cobwebs of his understanding.+

The Advaita propagated by the Gurus of the east and the west is not the Advatic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

Religion is a prison of ignorance. People who follow religion locked up in ignorance. God in truth is not what people believe and worship. The belief or faith-based Gods are not God in truth.

Religion belongs to the world of feeling emotions. That is why people like it. Religion changes as it appeals to different feelings and emotions. On one pole the nude saint is admired; at the other, the gorgeously dressed Godmen is revered.

There is no use in quarreling with anyone in matters of religion. There is no need to convince people, let them hold any belief, any imagination they like in that realm. In religion, the question of truth does not arise, only the question of what they believe.

The craving for religion, the fear that not to follow its rites and dogmas will bring punishment, the inability to give up the notion of its truth even when your reason demonstrates its fallacies and absurdities are merely forms of mild obsessions, i.e. a thought constantly repeating itself’ automatically; hence it is a mental disease.

Unless you give up the ideas of heaven and hell, it is impossible to realize the Advaitic truth which is beyond form, time, and space. The ultimate Truth must be realized here and now, in this very life. Without realizing the ultimate truth, it is not possible to consider the existence of heaven and hell as untrue.

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Sage Sankara says:~  Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?

For one who wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the mantas will not help to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

For one who has been bitten by the serpent of ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman.  there is no use in studying the Vedas and other Scriptures and reciting mantras (sacred formulae)  to realize God in truth. 

Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity With the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not  even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together

A sickness of not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take the medicine. Liberation does not come by merely saying the word “Brahman.” Brahman must be experienced. 

Until you allow this apparent universe to dissolve from your consciousness until you have realized Brahman, how can you find liberation just by saying the word Brahman? The result is merely noise. Until a man has destroyed his enemies and taken possession of the splendor and wealth of the kingdom, he cannot become a king by simply saying “I am a king.”

A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya, can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by subtle arguments.

The world in which you and guru exist is the product of ignorance. If there is no ignorance, then the world in which you and your guru exist cease to exist as a reality.

When reality appears this ignorance that one thinks as reality becomes unreal. The ultimate truth has to be realized first without any philosophy, then only it is possible to know what the scriptures are saying.

Reality is simply the loss of ignorance. Till ignorance is there the body, ego and the world exist as a reality. When ignorance vanishes,  then the Soul, the Self remains in its own awareness. In Self - awareness there is unity in diversity, thus there is only oneness.  

When one is unable to quench his spiritual thirst from his guru or guru's teaching he has to look elsewhere to clear the cobwebs of his understanding and move forward in his spiritual quest.

It is difficult for tradition-bound people to accept anything as truth other than what they inherited from their parental grooming. Only with an intense urge to know the truth and the courage to accept the truth after verification with better understanding one will be able to drop all his accumulated dross, which is the main obstacle to Self-realization.

People are making unlimited sacrifices and enduring unlimited suffering in the name of protecting their religion and god. They are therefore ignorant about the truth and incapable of understanding the ultimate truth, which is the universal God. 

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All organized religions have unequivocally claimed man for life in the truth; thus, it is sheer folly to fight in the name of religion and god. 

It is time that humanity had a fresh vision of that truth that is beyond form, time, and space. the form, time and space are one in essence.  That essence is the Soul or consciousness. and consciousness is the only thing that is real and that matters.  

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the practical life is a vain and empty pursuit of illusory values. 

Parental grooming is the main cause of religious influence upon the mass mindset and it cannot be wiped out without knowing the truth of one’s own existence. Thus, teaching children to view and judge everything from the religious point of view of their parents, warps the minds and destroys the capacity to think beyond the belief system of their grooming.

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People who are yearning for spiritual truth will not find it what they are seeking. Religious truth is an individual truth, and it is not the universal truth because religion is based on individuality. 

As one goes into the deeper investigation find nothing satisfying in any religion.  The more he investigates any religious doctrine he becomes aware of the fact that religion is not the means for Self-realization. 

Religion is based on the false self (ego) and false experience (universe). Religion takes the false self as real Self and false experience as reality. Thus, whatever is based on the false self and false experience is bound to be a falsehood.     

The obsession with "our sins" having been "washed away by the water of river would be regarded as evidence of a serious mental illness in an individual within any sane society, but when this is an obsession of millions of people it becomes "religious faith", held by many others to be something that should never be criticized.

It was desperately important for the believers of their belief system for some reason that others shared their beliefs because they assume that their religious doctrine is literally true, and then justify their beliefs because "God says so in their doctrine ".

It is no use of arguing with someone who has faith in his belief system because for him there can be no possible refutation of what he believes, so rational argument is entirely useless. He clings to his belief so strongly that he makes no distinction between the truth and his belief. One has to know the fact that God cannot exist without his existence. 

The truth does not depend on God’s existence, but it entirely depends on the existence of the universe.   Thus, it is foolish to venture into knowing the truth of God's existence without verifying the facts about the existence of the universe. 

A deeper inquiry reveals the fact that the Self is neither the body nor the ego.  If the Self is not the body then it proves the fact that, whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced on the base of the body as the Self,  is bound to be a falsehood. 

Arguing from the standpoint of the body or ego, which is not the Self, is erroneous.  Thus, the whole argument has to be based on the  Soul, the Self, which is not the body or ego.   Thus,  it is necessary to realize the fact that, the Self is not the form but the Self is formless in order to realize the Advaitic truth. :~Santthosh Kumaar