BUDDHA SAID: - Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
The religious based realist will not be able to grasp, understand, assimilate and realize the non-dual truth because they are egocentric. The religious realist rejects the all talks of illusion. The realist believes in a vast universe of material things, there are an infinite numbers of finite conscious souls inhabiting material bodies and there is God. They are incapable of grasping non-dual awareness because of their awareness is limited to physicality. And they take their physical experience as reality without verifying the fact that, the self is not physical. Until their reason is based on the physical self they will not be able to realize the non-dual truth.
In addition they follow the path of devotion to the imaginary entity as god and love for the imagined God. Devotion demands distinction between devotee and the Deity. Thus the duality prevails. Until duality is there is no reality because duality hides the reality. Thus, they will remain believing the false self as real self and false experience as reality and get in the bondage of birth, life, death and the world and permanently remain in the prison of ignorance believing the ignorance as reality.
They hold that universe of souls and material objects, the very universe one can see through see with himself as he turns his gaze inwards, is actually body of the God. Just as the human soul is the animator and controller of its body, so the God is the animator and controller of the universe. God penetrates every atom of it; he is inseparable from it. Furthermore, there is no other reality anywhere besides this all-pervading god.
For realist the souls and things are essentially different from God, not just apparently, and they will always be different. As realist think god is immeasurably raised above all possibility of anyone being equal or superior to God. God besides pervading all, love all. God delights in attracting souls to Himself. God’s mercy extends to all cast down to the lowliest. All one has to do is surrender his will to the god. And sooner or later every soul will—in the end no soul will want to resist his free grace. Thus realist believes in universal salvation. This belief is consistent with their view that all soul starts with the same spiritual apparatus. None is privileged when brought forth into manifestation. What differentiate one from another is choices each makes, their respective actions, over the course of many lives. And just as they all start out the same, they end up the same when finally from cycle of birth and death. They think no soul is superior to another.
All these religious realist theories based on the false self ( waking entity or ego) considering the false experience [waking] as reality. All these theories are good for the mass mind-set that is incapable of verifying the validity of their own existence.
Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning revels the fact that, the self is not physical but the self is the formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Therefore, on the base of soul [consciousness] as self the physical existence [mind] is mere mirage created out of consciousness. Thus consciousness alone is real and alleles are mere mirage.
Thus, by accepting himself as devotee of a deity or disciple of some guru one has accepted himself as an individual separate from the world. By accepting himself as an individual he remains ignorant of the reality, which is hidden within the mind which appears as waking or dream [duality] and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). The one which is aware of the appearance and disappearance of the mind is not the form but it is formless. The formless knower is consciousness. The consciousness is the formless substance and witness of the mind or 'I' or universe or waking .
One who has immersed in the intoxication of ignorance has to overcome the intoxication of illusion by seeking truth directly by inquiring into the nature of the mind and learn the truth of the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.
