All the physical based theories of creation and creator, Avatar, karma, individualized God, rituals, code of conducts are meant for the people who are unable to think and reason deeply.

According to Upanishads the Self-knowledge  or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the main aim of human being. All the physical based theories of creation and creator, Avatar, karma, individualized God, rituals, code of conducts   are meant  for the people who are unable to think and reason deeply.  

  Since, there are diverse  schools of thoughts, which claim themselves  as Vedic  based are propagating non- Vedic  practices as Vedic practices , everything is  adulterated with new add-ons time to time. thus it is very difficult come out from cobweb of confession  because  confusion  each seems to be correct on their won standpoint.

 Many teachings  theories introduced in the past by many sages and gurus in the past , which are accepted by the mass.  all these teaching  and theories are not the means to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Buddha was right in saying :-

Do not believe a spiritual teaching just because:-

1. It is repeatedly recited,
2. It is written in a scripture,
3. It was handed from guru to disciple,
4. everyone around you believes it,
5. It has supernatural qualities,
6. It fits my beliefs anyway,
7. It sounds rational to me,
8. It is taught by a respectable person,
9. It was said to be the truth by the teacher,
10. One must defend it or fight for it.

However, only when it agrees with your experience and reason, and when it is conducive to the good and gain of oneself and all others, then one should accept the teachings, and live up to them."

The truth does not require any tag of some guru or teaching, the serious seekers who are tired of all the theories, paths and practices and find them inadequate and useless, will turn towards the perennial springs of spiritual truth, to quench their spiritual thirst. For those who are advanced in the spiritual pursuit, will find the entire spiritual tags and branded paths and practices are inadequate and useless, in pursuit of truth.

Deeper self-search revels the fact that, the Atman ,body and world are one in essence therefore no second thing exists other than Atman, which is in the form of consciousness.  Thus realizing all the three states as consciousness leads to Self-Awareness.

That is why Sri, Sankara indicated in (VC): -

65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

 

66. Therefore the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.

Seeker of truth has to direct realization of the true self, through deeper self-search and avoid losing precious time and effort loosing himself in philosophical studies. 

The path of religion, theory of karma, path of yoga and the path of wisdom were intended for different classes of people. The wisdom is for the advanced seekers of truth. It deals with the nature of the ultimate Truth and Reality. It is meant for superior aspirants who have inner urge to know the truth and it is not for those who are immersed in earthly desires.

Thus we have to know the fact that Buddha, Goudpada and Sri,Sankara are not only reformers but also  the greatest  scientists. Since there original thesis have been lost in the labyrinths of philosophy and mutilated by pundits and orthodoxy, it becomes very difficult understand and assimilate the wisdom expounded by the great masters. In addition, the conservativeness of the orthodox scholars will not allow any research other than playing with the words, which suits the mass mind sets, because of their egocentric outlook.

 All the add-ons have to be deleted, in order to understand and assimilate the real fragrance of the wisdom expounded by the great masters of Advith, but it is hurricane task.  Thus, it is no use going through all the scriptures, when there is direct path to non-dual truth.  The same time and effort can be used to reach the non-dual destination, in lesser time and effort. 

  

Non-duality does not need the support of any Scripture or Revelation like the Veda. For it is based, not upon the varying theological fancies, which are as numerous as the sands of the sea, but upon reason, the common heritage of all mankind, irrespective of colour or creed or clime.

Seeker of truth has to know that something is inadequate in Buddhist or orthodox Advaitic teachings to reach the nondual destination because of the add-ons and adulteration. Thus it becomes difficult to reach destination directed by the Buddha, Sri, Sankara and Sri,Goudapada.  It is for the seeker to go on his own and remove the obstacle.  The greatest hindrance is mixing religion, god, scriptures, and yogic theories. Moreover, attachment to scriptures, personal god and religious code of conduct keeps one permanently in the grip of duality.

 

Religion, belief in God, is an escape from realizing ultimate reality.  Belief in god and belief system blocks one's realization of ultimate truth or Brahman.

People of various walks of life believe in their inherited belief system and its idea of God. People indulge in God and guru glorification to symbolize that they are religious people. 

Religion makes one believe that, the practical life within the practical world as reality.  By believing the practical life within the practical world as reality one is bound to believe, the experience of the birth, life, death and the world as reality.  By believing in the experience of  birth, life, death and the world as reality one is accepting the false self (waking entity or ego) as true self and  the illusory  world(waking) as reality). By accepting the false self as real self and illusory world as reality, one is accepting the experience of the form, time and space as reality. By accepting the experience of the form, time and space as reality one is accepting   illusion or mind or universe or waking as reality. 

Religion and its idea of God make one, more and more egocentric.   Egocentricity makes one feel he is an individual separate from the world and world existed prior to him and he is born in this world afterwards.  Thus this conviction or condition or samskara is so deep rooted therefore it is impossible acquire Self-Knowledge or brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Religion is tool for   giving   samskara or conditioning to be, to behave, to believe, to live according to its code of conduct, in family and society to live peacefully honestly loving the humanity with the fear of GOD.  Thus region is belief centric not truth centric.  

  

Religion makes one getting stuck with the reality of the practical life within the practical world. Religion is nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because it is based on the formless soul, which is the innermost self, whereas religion is based on the form or waking entity (ego).   Therefore mixing religion with spirituality or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana and trying to realize the truth is like trying to find snow in the desert.    

The path and practices and theories based on the waking entity or ego are not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana

The one which wakes up dreams and sleeps is not the innermost self,  because the innermost self is formless soul.  The one which is aware of the coming and going of the  waking ,  dream and deep sleep is the formless  soul, the innermost self . The soul  is in the form of consciousness. Thus the waking, dream and deep sleep is mere mirage on the standpoint of the soul, the innermost self.  The soul or consciousness is ever aware  of the three states [illusion] which comes and goes in succession.

 On the standpoint of the soul, the innermost self,  the three states are mere illusion. The reality will  be revealed  only when waking entity  realizes the fact that, it itself is not the self but the  self is the  formless  soul ,which witnesses   of the coming and going of the  three states.

 The path  and  practices and theories based on the  waking entity or ego are not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana  or Atma Gnana. If the meditater  thinks he is the doer of the meditation and takes the authorship of meditation then it is not meditation because he is the waking entity and waking entity is not the self. Waking entity and waking world are part of the illusion. 

The one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is Within the three states but it is apart from the three states.  it is within the three states as their formless substance and it is apart from the three states as their formless witness. . It is apart form the three states  because it is not an entity or identity within the three states because it is ever formless.  in the realm of truth the formless substance and witness are one in essence.  that essence is consciousness. Thus the three states are one in essence. thus no second thing exists other than consciousness.

 The Self  is not the doer. The waking entity is false self within the false experience.  thus whatever  seen,known,believed and experienced as waking entity is bound to be falsehood because the waking experience itself is false hood.

The one which knows itself as body and perceives the world is not the body, but the soul. Without the soul the experience of diversity (waking or dream) is non existent.  the  three states are reality only in the states of ignorance. The soul,  the innermost self can exist with or without the waking or dream , the illustration is deep sleep. (In deep sleep the soul is in its  own formless non-dual true nature).  

  Thus consciously being aware of soul,  the innermost self  in the midst of waking   will lead to non-dual self- awareness .   Thus all meditation practiced on the waking entity or false self (ego)  is preparatory practices to reach the ultimate state, which  frees one from experiencing the duality (birth, life ,death and the world)  as reality.  The formless substance and witness of the three states is not physical but  it is the formless soul or consciousness.   

Thus seeker of the truth has to realize the  fact that,  his practice of meditation is based on the waking entity or ego will not yield any fruit but it is only hallucinated awareness .  thus , his present practice of meditation based on waking entity  or ego  is inadequate and useless to acquire non dual self-awareness.