People all over the world, in the past and present, have accepted the idea of the existence of God. The fear of God injected by the religion was the root cause of worship, superstitions, and dogmas.
The real God is stolen by ignorance, and people worship ignorance as God because the religion propagated a false God as real God.
The religious belief is passed on to the populace from one generation to the next generation.
People are being conditioned by the religious myth which has made them a non-thinker. People need to Come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth.
If people have believed in religiously propagated myth over thousands of years, the length of time does not prove it true.
Sage Sankara’s Brahman or God in truth is impersonal. Worshipping personal Gods is meant for the common people who are ignorant and refuse to accept the truth.
Mantras can do nothing. If they really had any power, why did not Lord Krishna use one to stop the war between the cousins? All mantras are based on non-Vedic Gods. Religion breeds superstition because religion is based on blind belief.
Bhagavad Gita:~ All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)
Religion preaches that God is one and the ways to God are many. It simply tries to lead them to darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the Self.
Swami Vivekananda: ~ If superstition enters, the brain is gone. Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.
The seeker of truth should not believe all the mythological stories about the magical power of mantras because they are a myth.
The myth is the duality. Whatever belongs to the duality is a myth. All the mantras are based on the attributed Gods, keeping one in the prison of the dualistic illusion. The mantras never help to cross the trash hold of the form, time, and space.
The attributed Gods belong to the dualistic illusion. The real God is without attributes.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is 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)
Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
Do not accept any other God other than the invisible Soul. The invisible Soul is God in truth. Nothing is real but the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Nothing matters but realizing God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious. No mantras help to get rid of ignorance. All the mantras and rituals are meant for the ignorant populace, which strongly believes, the world in which he exists as a reality.
For one who wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the mantras will not help to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.
In the Isa Upanishad says: ~Worshipping Gods and Goddesses is hindrances to ‘Self’-knowledge.
MANTRA 10
Vidya and Avidya both are hindrances to Self-knowledge, but Vidya is even worse than Avidya. The word Vidya is used here in a special sense; here it means worshipping Gods and Goddesses. By worshipping Gods and Goddesses you will go after death to the world of Gods and Goddesses. But will that help you? The time you spend there is wasted because if you were not there, you could have spent that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is your goal. In the world of Gods and Goddesses, you cannot do that, and thus you go deeper and deeper into darkness.
Ish Upanishad declares: ~ “ Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide.
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 one’s, own master?
That is why Sage Sankara VC~.61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?
VC- v6~ Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated--yet, without the realization of one‘s identity With the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together
God in truth, is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is real and eternal and all else is an illusion.
Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.
If God is the formless Spirit, then how does man know God created the world? There is no proof. If man had seen God creating the world, he could admit it, but how could he have seen God before he came into existence? (i.e. were created). : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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