Attachment to the invisible Soul, the Self , and detachment from the ‘I’ (universe) is the key to freedom and salvation.+

The pursuit of truth is a personal journey. Spirituality has nothing to do with religion and yoga. The seeker of truth should not indulge in condemning religion and religious Gods and their saints and religious Gurus and yogis, which is meant for the ignorant populace. But he must expose the falsity of religion and yoga for his own information. Without realizing the falsity of religion and yoga, it is impossible to proceed in the pursuit of truth.

Mixing religious and yogic ideology with spirituality is like mixing oil with water. Mixing religion and yoga with spirituality, neither helps the religious believers, nor the yogis, nor the truth seekers. Since all are based on a different base of understanding.

It is better to move ahead on the chosen path that suits him, without mixing them. One has to choose their path and move ahead on the chosen path without mixing up anything other than their chosen ideology.

As per the scriptures, the three "Ashrams" or stages in life were originally intended for three grades of intelligence, thus:~

 Religion: low intellects had to do 'karmas' works, ritual actions, chanting of mantras, and indulging in Bajans and prayers, etc.

 Middle intellects: Yoga: taking yellow robes, going to caves, ashrams, etc.

 High intellects: wisdom who wanted the truth is concerned with no external rites or sanyasa but depends solely on the intelligent inquiry for their path.

The pursuit of truth is to find and realize the truth of the existence hidden by ignorance (‘I’).

Since the Self is hidden by the ‘I’, the seeker has to inquire into the nature of the ‘I’.

The seeker of truth has to reject the untruth and accept only the uncontradictable truth.

Attachment to the invisible Soul, the Self, and detachment from the ‘I’ (world) is the key to freedom and salvation.

Every one of us is attached to the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is the dualistic illusion. The world in which we exist is a dualistic illusion.

The dualistic illusion is for the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The 'I' appears and disappears as the mind is impermanent.

Why the 'I', not disappear even after inquiry, even if one knows intellectually, 'I' am not the body?

If 'I' is not the body, what is 'I', without the body?

How can 'I' remain as 'I', without the body?

Where 'I' disappear in deep sleep?

What is it that knows the appearance and disappearance of the 'I'?

When the 'I' is impermanent, what is it that is permanent, which knows the appearance and disappearance of the 'I'?

How can one remain as 'I' when it is impermanent, and judge the eternal truth, which is not the 'I'?

Seeker of the truth has to find what is eternal and what is impermanent to decide whether the 'I' or duality is permanent or the invisible Soul, witness of the 'I', is permanent? to overcome the illusion and establish in the non-dualistic reality. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar