A common error amongst followers of religion is to jump to the conclusion that the religion is ultimate and their religious Gods are real and eternal.+

A common error amongst followers of religion is to jump to the conclusion that the religion is ultimate and their religious Gods are real and eternal.

Religion is the truth for ignorant people. Advaitic truth is the ultimate truth. A Religionist takes his inherited blind belief as truth, whereas Gnani takes his reasoned judgment, which will be the same under test everywhere in the world.

People go to a famous Guru. These gurus initiate the ignorant masses. In the initiation process, He says: "All the world is Maya; Brahman alone is real." Then people move away.

What is the use of telling such things if he does not prove that they are right? And he cannot do so because he has never tried to use his reason for the purpose, but simply accepts it because he has read or because his own guru told him that.

The statements made by mystics and yogis generally must be proved by the use of reason, but they are incapable of doing so, and hence never really understood in the true sense. So, they assume pontifical airs and say, “I know.” :~Santthosh Kumaar

Know the God in truth and realize God in truth with full and firm conviction.

What you believe and worship as God is not the real God, according to the holy scriptures.

That is why 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.

Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (Advaitic wisdom) has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it today, as they did then. It is not yoga but the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita –Chap- IV-v.2)

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “Brahmano hi pratisthaham Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material (Gita 14.27)

When 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.

Do not be carried away by the gurus' standing nor by the attitude of authority which they adopt in speaking to you. It has no value.

Bhagavad Gita Krishna says: ~It is only one amongst thousands of people who strive for spiritual salvation. Even amongst such seekers, it is only the rare person who gets to know “Self” correctly.’ (7.3)

Any word one may utter is, after all, they are the words and words that have meaning only within the illusory universe or Maya.

Blind acceptance of anything as truth without proper inquiry will result only in ignorance of something detrimental to spiritual progress.

The seeker of truth should not become attached to words as being in perfect conformity with meaning, because Truth is not in the letters.

The words may give different meanings at a different level of understanding.

The words and their discrimination bind one to the duality; meaning stands alone and is a guide to non-dual awareness. Meaning is attained by much learning, and much learning is attained by becoming conversant with meaning and not with words; therefore, seekers of truth have to avoid the sticklers for particular words.

These Gurus illustrate the ‘I know’ attitude adopted because their mentor guru told them so, both of them not knowing really.

These Gurus are certainly brilliant intellectually in their other spheres, such as history, but remember the truth that most of these men keep the quest for truth in watertight compartments apart from the other sections of their brain. They apply reason admirably to their profession or business, but drop it and use feeling or emotion only when trying to philosophize.

People magnify every minor coincidence or every petty fact where Gurus or Godmen were concerned, and they see miraculous or esoteric significance therein.

Poets are at liberty to imagine whatever they like, but the only thing wrong is that they take their feelings for reality, or when they think that whatever seems, must exist.  :~Santthosh Kumaar