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 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