Ish Upanishad says ~ “Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide.
Ish Upanishad says:-
Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds after death.
This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain Self-knowledge. They are, in a real sense, committing suicide, for what can be worse than being a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life, which is to be your own master? To be your own master, you have to realize that you are identical with Atman, the true Self, that you are Pure Consciousness, ever free, without name and form, and unconditioned.
Isa Upanishads indicate that: By worshipping gods and goddesses and going to the world of gods after death is of no use. The time one spends in ritualistic practices is wasted; one can spend the same time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is the main goal. One cannot reach the non-dual destination by glorifying gods and goddesses, and by doing that, one goes deeper and deeper into darkness. It surely indicates the fact that the seeker of truth has to drop the worship of God and Goddess to get Self-knowledge.
It also indicates that Religious Rituals [Avidya] are Karma [action] and therefore a hindrance. By performing Agnihotra and other sacrifices, (Avidya) is a roundabout way of purifying the mind, and it is also groping in the dark.
In addition, it indicates that karma is limited only to religious rituals, not to the whole human life. This karma theory, based on human conduct, must have been adopted from Buddhism and other theories based on human conduct.
When it says: Perform the obligatory karmas without any attachment to the fruits, and at the same time worship gods and goddesses, again without any desire to go to heaven - then you can get the benefit of both, liberation and bliss.
For those who are not yet ready to renounce, this path is recommended; it means that the religion and its idea of god and goddesses, and code of conduct, and its rituals are meant for the masses who are incapable of thinking of the beyond.
In addition, it also speaks of heaven, the abode of the gods, where one goes after death, and it speaks of rebirth. This contradiction, the seeker has to conclude that religion, rituals, god, and its code of conduct are meant for the masses that are not receptive to self-knowledge.
When the Self is not the body but the Self is the invisible Soul, then whatever one sees, knows, believes, experiences, and feels based on the body as the Self is bound to be an illusion because from the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the universe is merely an illusion.
The karma performed in an illusory world with an illusory Self is bound to be an illusion.
We think that our practical life within the practical world is a reality, but it is not so, because the world in which we exist is an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The invisible Soul is the subjective reality. The world in which we exist is an object to the Soul, which is the formless subject.
That subjective experience need not be proved or disproved. However, all the confusion it created, because of the ignorance of the subject hidden by the object. This ignorance can be removed by Advaitic wisdom.
The world in which we exist is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.
The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, cannot be negated, and that which is beyond contradiction.
The dualistic reality is limited to form, time, and space. From the Standpoint of the Soul, the form, time, and space are one in essence.
Until ignorance is there, the form, time, and space prevail as a reality.
Ignorance will prevail till you hold the Self as the ‘I’. If there is no ‘I’, then there is only the invisible Soul, the witness of the coming and going of the ‘I’. :~ Santthosh Kumaar
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