I am highlighting some scriptural citations only to show the seeker that the Advaitic Sages themselves declared that scriptures, religion, and ideas of God are unimportant in the pursuit of truth.
It is easier to understand, assimilate, and realize the ultimate truth or non-dualistic truth by rationalizing our views and understanding:-
There is no need to condemn anyone’s views and ideas or writing, but without being judgmental, the seeker has to verify whether the author is speaking from the standpoint of ego, or whether he is speaking from the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self. If his views are based on the standpoint of the physical self (waking entity or ego), then there are many doubts and confusion. If his views are based on the invisible Soul, the Self, then there is no confusion or doubts of any sort.
Nothing has to be accepted without verifying the validity of any claim in pursuit of truth. Only the uncontradictable truth has to be accepted as truth. There is no need to condemn any religion or any saints or sages, but the seeker has to think beyond religion, scriptures, and individualized Gods.
It is difficult to understand assimilation within a framework of some teaching or holding some philosophy as a yardstick. We have to drop all our accumulated dross to understand and assimilate, and realize the non-dualistic truth.
Vedanta it is that Lord teaches us in the Gita and in it, he lashes out against the karmakanda. It is generally believed that the Buddha and Mahavira were the first to attack the Vedas.
It is not so. Lord Krishna himself spoke against them long before these two religious leaders. At one place in the Gita, he says to Arjuna: "The Vedas are associated with the three qualities of sattva, rajas, and tamas (body).
You must transcend these three qualities. Full of desire, they (the practitioners of Vedic rituals) long for paradise and keep thinking of pleasures and material prosperity. They are born again and again, and their minds are never fixed in samadhi; these men cling to Vedic rituals.
“In another passage, Lord Krishna declares: "Not by the Vedas is ‘Self’ to be realized, nor by sacrifices nor by many studies.
Lord Krishna says that Self-realization is not possible by neither by the study of the Vedas nor by sacrifices nor by many studies. Then why are you still thinking by studying Vedas you get Self-realization.
Bhagavad Gita 2:46:~ "A man of true knowledge who has attained enlightenment has the same use for all the scriptures as one has for a small reservoir of water in a place flooded on all sides."
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.
Knowing me in truth means knowing God in truth. That is God without form, time, and space. The invisible Soul, the ‘Self’, is God in truth. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.
The invisible Soul is the cause; the invisible Soul is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the invisible Soul, the Self. Never accept another God in place of the invisible Soul, nor worship anything other than the invisible Soul.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) 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.
The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the Self. In Atmic reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists. The Vedas confirm God is Atman (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 Soul alone is God. Never accept another God in place of the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit.
Even the Bible says: ~ God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24)
The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the invisible Soul, the Self.
The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness. From the Spirit, the universe comes into existence. In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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