Religion is built on the false foundation of belief and faith whereas the Spirituality is based on the Spirit the God, which is the cause of the universe in which we exist. +

Religion causes one to become crippled, Self-mortifying, and Self-deprecating is not a religion, but the social system of controlling the populace through psychological deformation and retardation.

One can think only within the waking experience. Therefore, even if one stops thinking he still remains a man without the thoughts.

The thoughts will not form without form, feeling, perception, and mental formation, and consciousness. If one of these things is not there, then the thoughts will not form.

The thoughts will not stop until one becomes aware of the fact that, the Self is formless. It is impossible to get rid of the form without understanding:

‘What the mind?

‘What is the substance of the mind? ‘

What is the source of the mind?

The formless Soul, the ‘Self’, when known becomes an object. The Soul, when realized, then it becomes consciousness. This is the distinction between knowing and realizing.

Religion is built on the false foundation of belief and faith whereas Spirituality is based on the Spirit the God, which is the cause of the universe in which we exist.

Remember:~

 You are searching for the truth.  But you are ignorant of the fact that God does not reside in temples, churches, synagogues, or mosques.

 Bhagavad Gita: ~ All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many gods. (7- Verse -20)

 First, realize what God is in actuality.  God is the Soul, the Self. No other God can exist other than the Soul, the Self.

 Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24)”,

 In Yajurveda – chapter- 32: ~  God Supreme or Supreme Spirit.

 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)

 The majority of the Indian populace worships sixty million Gods, without even doubting such God is not found in their sacred Vedas. They must realize God in truth not what they believe and worship.

 Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is present in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

 Even Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

 When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.

 Remember:~

 Swami Vivekananda: ~ The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these gods?

 How can you worship the Absolute? That implies two ~ the worshiper and the worshiped, whereas the Absolute is nondual. One can worship his idea of the Absolute only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.

 Religious rites and rigid ceremonies were passed down from one generation to the next as a practice or set customs and tradition and performed automatically with blind faith. Such worship based on the belief of God does not reach God.

 Religious rites and ceremonies, yagnas, and homa-havans, or any other forms of ritual are meant for the ignorant populace.

 Belief in God without knowing God in actuality holds the worshiper more firmly in the grip of ignorance.

All worship and the ceremonies rituals performed on the base of non-~Vedic Gods will not yield any fruits. Deeper self-search reveals the fact that worshiped, the worship, and the worshiper and the world are merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

 Religious rites and ceremonies, yagnas and homa-havans, or any other forms of ritual are meant for the ignorant populace. In the Atmic path, the seeker has to discard what is not needed to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

Religious rites and ceremonies, yagnas and homa-havans, or any other forms of ritual formal observance have long since set in. 

Sage Sri, Sankara says: ~ The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards are therefore addressed to an ignorant person.

 Sage Sri, Sankara says: ~ (11) As regards the rituals, Sage Sri, 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 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

 Thus, only the ignorant populace indulges in rituals and worship of non-Vedic Gods barred by Vedas.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many gods. (7- Verse -20)

 Kena Upanishad (6) Chapter I: ~  “That which cannot be apprehended by the mind, but by which, they say, the mind is apprehended-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (7) Chapter I:~  That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which the eye is perceived-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (8) Chapter I:~  That which cannot be heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived-That alone know as Brahman and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (9)- Chapter I:~ That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an object-That alone know as Brahman and not that which people here worship.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)

Humanity has to awaken to the reality of its true existence by realizing the world in which humanity exists is merely an illusion created out of the consciousness through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the Soul, the innermost Self from the cage of the dualistic illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar