Religion is meant for the ignorant populace to give samskara (conditioning) to be, to behave, to live in a certain way with love and harmony within the society.
Spirituality is most suited for Modern Society to discard religion, which is the cause of terrorism, wars, and violence in the name of religion and Gods.
In religion, there is no freedom to believe other than what it preaches. Religious people consider the mythological stories as truth, and not believing in mythological Gods is considered irreligious.
The mythological God can exist within the domain of duality. From an Advaitic perspective, the duality is merely an illusion. Thus, whatever belongs to illusion is bound to be a falsehood.
People find some of the religious doctrines very illuminating. People who renounce the world and become a monk or sanyasi who leaves it all behind to find the truth of their true existence.
People think the events that happened in the mythological stories really happened the way they are described, and hallucinate about these stories.b
Many wars, violence, and terrorism are still taking place today in the name of some religion or God.
A truth seeker can be a Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, or Jewish, Islamic, or any other religion because the truth is beyond form, time, and space.
Religion is based on form, time and space and birth, life, death, and the world.
The religious truth is individual, whereas the spiritual truth is the universal truth.
Thus, religion has nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman or God, because the real God is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
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People of small intelligence follow religion and believe that the world was created by God. But how do they know that He did so? When a pot is created, one can see both the pot and its maker, but not in the case of the world.
Then there is the question which nobody has answered till now, viz. Why did God create all these evils, these sufferings? Even a father would never do that. If He did so, assuming that God did create, then what sort of evil God is He! All religions that begin with "God created the world" are fit only for children. It is a lie; it is inconsistent and fit only for ignorant people.
It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is the truth’ and ’what is untruth’. It takes time for the Soul, the Self, to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.
In matters of religion, Gnanis have no quarrel with anyone because religion is different from spirituality or Adyatma.
The craving for religion, the fear that not following its rites and dogmas will bring punishment, the inability to give up the notion of its truth even when your reason demonstrates its fallacies and absurdities are merely forms of mild obsessions, i.e., a thought constantly repeating itself automatically; hence, it is a mental disease.
Unless you give up the ideas of heaven and hell, Advaitic wisdom is impossible. The ultimate truth must be proved here and now, on this very life. If that cannot be done, then it cannot consider any such idea, as the existence of heaven and hell is considered untrue. Religious people hold their inherited beliefs and any images they like in that realm.
In religion, the question of truth does not arise; only the question of what appears to one. Religion is outdated to suit modern society.
Until and unless the whole of humanity is made aware of what God in truth is, the truth of true existence, not what we believe and worship, the wars, violence, and terrorism that are going on in the name of God and religion continue.
Until the falsity of religion and its idea of God is exposed, world peace and universal brotherhood are impossible.
God in truth, is nothing but existence, which is free from ignorance. When the truth of God is revealed through Advaitic wisdom, then that truth will set humanity free from ignorance. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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