Those who blindly accept the religion and its God as the ultimate truth
are like the blind led by the blind.
Millions of people all over the world have been killed and being killed
in the name of religion and God. This is because people are not aware of the
ultimate truth of their true existence. People take their inherited belief as
the ultimate truth without verifying the validity of their belief.
Does God exists or not is the question that succeeds not only dividing
people but creates a tug of war within every individual thinker. Ironically, if
one believes in the concept of God then nothing else matters and if one is an
atheist, too nothing else matters.
Those who have implicit faith in God bow their head in submission to
what they call divine will. They believe the world is testing ground and
sorrows must be borne with patience in order to prove their love to God. On the
other hand, the Atheist claim the whole world is random creation arising, so to
speak from chemical gravy that is accidental. Both these arguments based on the false self’ (ego) within the false experience (waking).
On the base of the Soul, the ‘Self’, the waking experience itself is
merely an illusion. The man and his experience of the world are a reality
within the waking experience. The waking experience is merely a dream witnessed by
the Soul. Thus, all the physical-based theories are mere imagination based on
the false ‘Self’ within the false experience. The formless substance and witness
of the false experience, which is the Soul, which is present in the form of the
consciousness is real and eternal.
God is not physical. God is present in the form of the Spirit. The
Spirit is the cause of the world and the Spirit itself is uncaused.
From the standpoint of the Spirit, the form, time, space and name are
merely an illusion. The spirit alone is real and all else is an illusion. In
reality, the spirit (God) matter (the world in which we exist) are one.
The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace.
The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost ‘Self’. In reality, there is no
duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.
The Vedas confirms God is Atman (Spirit), the ‘Self’.
Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul or Spirit) is the cause; Atman is
the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from
the Atman the innermost ‘Self’. May ye never accept another God in place of the
Atman nor worship other than the Atman?"
(10:48, 5)
Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.
Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and
worship in place of real God.
Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man
or God there is no truth."
Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~
Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness (Spirit), 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 (Spirit) which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate
entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than
consciousness.
Lord Krishna Says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know me 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.
The famous peace invocation of Isa Upanishad says: ~
Om Purna- madah, purna-midam purnat-purnam-udacyate
Purnaysa purna-madaya purna-meva-vasisyate
Which means: ~ All this is full /from fullness,
fullness comes when fullness is taken from fullness/ fullness still remains.
This belief is all- comprehensive and all-absorbing. There is nothing
that is not God.
One of Sage
Sri, Sankara’s missions
was to wean people away from the ritualistic approach advocated by Mimamsakas and
to project wisdom (jnana) as the means of liberation in the light of Upanishad
teachings.
Sage Sri, Sankara criticized
severely the ritualistic attitude and those who advocated such practices. However,
the texts that combined rituals with wisdom (jnana_karma_samucchaya) more in favor
of the Mimamsakas position came into vogue, projecting Sankara as the rallying the force of the doctrine.
The religion, religious Gods rituals, and the sacrifices deal with lower
knowledge. The sages of truth ignored religion, religious Gods, rituals and the
sacrifices and went in search of the truth of their true existence.
The religion, religious Gods, rituals, and sacrifices are unsafe
rafts for crossing the sea of the ignorance which is the cause of experiencing
the birth, life, death and the world as a reality. Doomed to shipwreck are
those who try to cross the dualistic illusion (form, time and space) on these
poor rafts.
Ignorant of their own ignorance, yet wise in their own esteem, these
deluded men proud of their inherited beliefs in their religion wage war and
violence against humanity in the name of protecting their God and religion.
Those who blindly accept the religion and its God as truth are like the
blind led by the blind. : ~
Santthosh Kumaar
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