People are being conditioned by the religious myth, which has made them non-thinkers.+

People are being conditioned by the religious myth, which has made them non-thinkers. People need to come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth.

The obsession with "our sins" having been "washed away by the water of holy river would be regarded as evidence of a serious mental illness in an individual within any sane society, but when this is an obsession of millions of people it becomes "religious faith", held by many others to be something that should the be criticized.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC~12&13~ Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even hundreds of pranayama* can give us the knowledge about the Self. The firm realization of the nature of the Self is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advice of the wise.

It was desperately important for the believers of their belief system, for some reason, that others shared their beliefs because they assumed that their religious doctrine was literally true, and then justified their beliefs because "God says so in their doctrine ".

It is no use arguing with someone who has faith in his belief system because, for him, there can be no possible refutation of what he believes, so rational argument is entirely useless. He clings to his belief so strongly that he makes no distinction between the truth and his belief.

One has to know the fact that God cannot exist without his existence. The truth does not depend on God’s existence, but it entirely depends on man’s existence.

It is foolish to venture into knowing the truth of God's existence without verifying the facts about his own existence.

Deeper inquiry reveals that the Self is neither the body nor the ego. If the Self is not the body nor the ego, then it proves that whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced on the base of the Self as body or ego is bound to be a falsehood.

Thus, arguing from the standpoint of the body or ego, which is not the Self, is erroneous.

Thus, the whole argument has to be based on the true ‘Self’, which is not the body or ego. It is necessary to realize that the Self is not the form, but the Self is the formless Soul, to realize the Advaitic truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar