Religion causes one to become crippled. Self-mortifying and Self-deprecating is not a religion, but the social system of controlling the populace through psychological deformation and retardation.
Religion encourages one who can induce himself to feel convinced that he has realized the Self, or has an admirer who believes that he has done so, it opens for him the way for the founding of a new sect based on Guru-worship.
People, too, have developed curious credulousness. Often, they would install an earnest seeker and devotee, or a pious saint, on the throne of God and begin to offer him worship and homage even if he protested and resisted such acts.
People would lie prostrate, sing hymns, wave lights (arati) and burn incense before him, and present to him food which was to be returned by him as Prasad, wash his toes, and sip the wash. At times, the disciple would go to the length of getting food, fruit, or a betel-nut leaf chewed by him, and taking the morsel back from it.
Lord Krishna himself says that he can do nothing to make a man intelligent straight away. The adepts give Prasad, blessings, initiations, mantras, etc., only to confer temporary peace of mind, to help you to get rid of worries, but not to confer Gnana. The capacity to receive it must first be inborn in man by evolutionary degree.
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.
The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost Self. In reality, there are no dualities, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)
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 the 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.
Religious Gods are not God in truth. The Bible says, “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in Spirit and in Truth. Rig Veda says May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman (Spirit), nor worship other than the Atman.
What is the use of arguing with religious believers? They think what they know is the ultimate truth.
Whatever is real in the world in which we exist is the invisible Soul, which is God in truth. All that is real in the world in which we exist is the invisible Soul, the Self.
Thus, by realizing the Self, which is the invisible Soul, we discover that the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness itself, is God, which is hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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