Bhagavan Buddha was right in saying Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant populace. Even highly educated people are caught up in orthodoxy just because they have inherited from their forefathers
Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada have declared non-dual truth centuries back, but one has to reach the destination with the scientific (rational) investigation, not through punditry and intellectuality. One has to mentally reach the final conclusion, then only the conviction becomes firm. Without the firm conviction, wisdom will not dawn. Therefore, there is a need to know consciousness is real all else is a myth, which Sage Sankara declared as the world is myth Brahman alone is real.
Sage Sankara says:~ Atman is Brahman and everything is Brahman is a scientific declaration not religious or yogic. Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada are more scientific than anyone else in the world. Since the real Advaitic essence is hidden it cannot be got without the inner (mental) journey.
Sage Goudpada says :~ The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.
Gnana here is the knowledge uncontradictable truth or scientific truth. Thus, their scientific truth of the whole not the part is declared by Sage Sankara 1400 years back and thought only to those of higher intellect. Thus karma and Upasana, yoga, and orthodoxy have to be bifurcated in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Wisdom is for those are capable of inquiring into their own existence to know and realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Bhagvan Buddha: ~ No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Devotional path, yogic path, and path of love and humanity are meant for the practical life within the practical world, and they are nothing to do with the path of wisdom, because from the realm of truth, the practical life, and the practical world, are merely an illusion. Thus, mixing them with the path of truth or wisdom is like mixing oil into the water.
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The orthodoxy is based on the personal God. And orthodoxy accepts the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality, whereas Sage Sankara declares the world is unreal Brahman alone is real.
The experience of birth, life, death happening within the unreal world is bound to be a falsehood. Thus, religion and religious belief and its rituals based on the birth entity are bound to be a falsehood. Thus, the seeker has to realize ‘what is that is real and eternal?
Mythological stories are a myth. Whatever is based on myth is merely a superstition. Mythology was introduced in the past for the ignorant masses. It has to be discarded as one progresses in his spiritual advancement.
The PURANAS, including Vishnu Purana and Siva Puranas, is based on the false idea of personal God because the writers have thought of Him as a glorified man and woman.
The translations made till now of Indian philosophical works have represented religion and mythology, not philosophy. The greatest pundits do not understand it, for they do not understand science. What has this mythological teaching done for India? Look at its state today. Look at the conversions. Imagining that God has ashes on his forehead or blazing like the sun-- that is all poetry and depends only on faith.
The Saiva Siddhanta sect is a dualistic, unphilosophical religion like other dualistic orthodox sects.
Why did not the dualist Sages write commentaries on the Upanishads (as Sankara did to establish Brahman) but stop, content with writing the commentary on Vysa Sutras, and culling some paras only from the Upanishads with convenient vagueness to establish their God and Theology?
Indians are more religious than other people. The six systems of Indian Philosophy are really six systems of Indian speculation. For there is only one Truth.
The ancient Hindu tenet borrowed by theosophists of universe appearing and dissolving, days and nights of Brahma, entering into pralaya, etc. is intended for mediocre intellects who cannot rise to the truth. It is a convenient fable representing the philosophic truth that the whole universe dissolves in your mind in deep sleep, thus entering pralaya, and rises again next morning, i.e. it is all imagination, idea. The Brahma-God has nothing to do with it.
Mythology breeds superstition, blind belief, and senseless rituals and most irrational and gives them divine outlook.
Religious Gods are not God. One must know God in truth.
Lord Krishna Says Ch.V:~ “Those who know the Self in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.
Sage Sankara says: ~ Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works, nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) VivekaChudamani v 56, pg 25
But how does one have that realization? That is where Advaita and Advaita Vedanta diverge.
Sage Sankara goes on to say: ~ 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 experienced 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 orthodox cult is unaware of the fact that their inherited belief system is of superstition and dogmas based on the imagination. Most people in India think whatever they have inherited from their forefathers as the ultimate truth.
After the 2nd century, there was many adulteration and reforms in Indian society. And some saints formed their own belief system and code of conduct and many new belief systems were formed within India. Each sect has its own founder. Thus, the whole Indian society divided into many sects and creed creating separation in society. All this diverse group of caste, sect, and creed together are called as Hinduism.
The Vedic religion or Santana Dharma does not exist today. The followers Vedas today indulge in non-Vedic activities barred by Vedas in the name of Vedas.
It is time for the reform to build a strong society free from dogmas. With nagging orthodox people trying to impose their orthodox ideas on their children staying in the self-imposed prison of orthodoxy, without realizing the fact that, they themselves are on the wrong path and they think they are on the right path to Moksha. It is time to know the truth of their own inherited religion is full of adulteration with activities barred by the Vedas. It is real to the Vedas to indulge in non-Vedic activities.
The orthodox people expect their clan to follow a certain outdated religious code of conduct (Shastras) and live dogmatically following the traditional lifestyle. Those children who are married out of religion treated as not humans. Those who followed are favored and others are condemned and excommunicated from the family thinking they are going to get Moksha by doing this act. Their chosen path of orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant who have the sheepish mentality and blindly accepting the inherited dogmas and superstition. From the ultimate standpoint, the concept of God itself is a superstition. Thus, all religious ideas of heaven, hell, sin, karma are mere an imaginary theory meant for the ignorant people of ancient times.
First, Mundaka - Chapter 2 (10): ~ Ignorant fools, regarding sacrifices and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know any higher good. Having enjoyed their reward on the heights of heaven, gained by good works, they enter again this world or a lower one.
It is high time to stop judging 'who is right' and 'who is wrong' according to the shastras or the religious books, in this unreal world instead spend the same time to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to realize the world (Samsara) is unreal the Brahman alone is real.
According to Advaita Vedanta, the Veda addresses itself to two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the most advanced seeker who seeks to know Brahman. Thus, the Purva mimam. sa, with its emphasis on the karma kanda of the Vedas, is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. However, the Vedanta, with its emphasis on the jnana kanda, is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.
The orthodox people are ordinary people. Thus, the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures are obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices. The karma kanda of the Vedas is meant for the ordinary audience, to help lead its followers along the way.
A modern mindset is more advanced and capable of reasoning and discriminating. Thus, the modern mindset is the most advanced which seeks to know the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
It is high time for the orthodox highly educated noble Advaitins to realize their religious-based the orthodox path chosen path was meant for the ignorant in the past, therefore, it is outdated not suited for the modern mindset.
The right path for the modern mindset is the path of the wisdom or reason of Sage Sankara. The orthodox religious Advaitic path is nothing to do with ultimate truth or Brahman. Thus, getting stuck with the religious path is getting stuck with duality. Getting stuck with duality is getting stuck with the falsehood. Getting stuck with the falsehood is accepting the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. Thus, the people who want freedom or Moksha right here, right now must that is in this very life and in this very world must follow the path of wisdom or soulcentric reason.
Orthodoxy is the path of ignorance because it recognized the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality.
It is high time to stop judging who is right and who is wrong in this unreal world instead of one who has to spend the same time to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.:~Santthosh Kumaar
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