Religions are more concerned with their beliefs dogmas and superstitions.+

There is nothing more rational, more intelligible, and more undogmatic insights of Sage Sankara is to drop all theistic non-duality or Advaita, which is meant for those who are incapable and not receptive to realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.

People’s approach was more practical, and they are stuck with the belief in their inherited belief system.

Religions are based on blind belief and are not the truth. Religions are more concerned with their beliefs, dogmas, and superstitions.

Religious Gods are based on blind faith or blind beliefs.

The beliefs are not the truth. The belief is part of the dualistic illusion. The Atman is Brahman or God in truth. Other than the Atman, which is God in truth, all else is an illusion. Whatever is based on blind belief is a myth.

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?

Ish Upanishads: ~ Avidya is Karma and therefore a hindrance. (Mantra 10)

Sage Sankara: ~ “Action (karma) cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with or opposed to ignorance. Knowledge does verily destroy ignorance as light destroys deep darkness. ~ Atma Bodha

Sage Sri, Goudpada says:~ the merciful Veda teaches karma and Upasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

So they clearly indicate rituals and theories are not meant for the ignorant populace, not for those who are searching for higher knowledge or wisdom. The path of wisdom is the only means to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

All the orthodox Advaitins indulge and immerse themselves in a ritualistic-oriented lifestyle and follow the path of karma and Upasana, which is meant for lower and middling intellect and not for realizing the Advaitic truth.

Many chose these orthodox scholars as their gurus. But these gurus are good to learn the conceptual Advaita meant for those Orthodox who believe their conduct-oriented lifestyle leads to Moksha [liberation].

Religion-based Advaita is not the means to acquire Self-knowledge or nondual wisdom. Those who are seeking truth have to do their own homework to acquire Self-knowledge, or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

When everything is consciousness, where is the room to say the thinker, thought, words, body, and the universe are not consciousness? Consciousness alone is real and eternal, and the thinker, thoughts, words, body, and the universe are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. :~Santtosh Kumaar