The religious orthodox
wants to wage against modernity: secularism, science, reproductive rights, and
the Enlightenment generally. The orthodox mass, argue that any and all problems
with the world can be attributed to the groups and ideas which they most
dislike. One of the worst aspects of this attitude is how some religion latch
on to any tragedy to promote their theocratic vision. Every religion argues
that only their religion and their god can cure whatever ails this world. Such blind belief of religion blocks people from
knowing the ultimate truth or Brahman.
History speaks that man has made it challenging and difficult to
understand why he has experienced and witnessed such an array of human
behaviour. With constant introspection and the continued judgments of right
and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust it has been a constant challenge to
find and understand the truth behind his physical existence. This subject is
super sensitive, yet if one is to continue on his pursuit of truth then there
is a need for perfect understanding and assimilation. There is need to stop
this wars and violence, which is going on in the name of religion and god, by knowing
and understanding and realizing the universal truth, which is holding the whole
universe in which the humanity exists. The universal truth alone is god all else is
mere mirage.
In Vedas the God has been described
as:-
v Sakshi (Witness)
v Chetan (conscious)
v Nirguna (Without form and properties).
v Nitya (eternal)
v Shuddha (pure)
v Buddha (omniscient)
v Mukta (unattached).
So, it clearly indicates that god is
formless thus there is no scope for form based god. The religion and its idea
of conceptual gods, and its theories of karma, haven, hell, papa, punya,
rebirth, reincarnation are based on the false self, within the false
experience. Therefore, they are meant for lower mind-sets, they are of no use
for those who are seeking higher truth as indicated in the scriptures.
There are many schools of thought in Hindu religion based on Vedas.
These schools of thoughts are add-ons based on dualistic view point. Therefore,
these add-ons have to be bifurcated from original Vedic Religion, to get the
pure Vedic essence.
Sri, Sankara said: The world is unreal and Brahman
alone is real. It means the birth, life
and death, which happens within the world, also is unreal. If birth, life and death are unreal, then the
rebirth and reincarnation and Avataric concept has to be unreal. Thus, it is
for the seeker to find out, on what standpoint the world becomes unreal, to
know the Brahman, which is ultimate truth.
Causality taught in the Upanishads
is only to enable us to understand the supreme truth of no-origination. The
world is not different from the self and the self is not different from Atman
and Atman is not different from Brahman. That the non-dual absolute appears as
the diverse world is only an illusion. If it really became diverse then the
immortal would become mortal.
The dualists who seek to prove the origination
of the unborn, by that very enterprise try to make the immortal, mortal.
Ultimate nature can never change - the immortal can never become mortal and
vice versa.
Gaudapada
quotes from the Upanishads:- "There's no plurality here";
"The Soul through its powers appears to be many"; "those who are
attached to creation or production or origination go to utter darkness";
"the unborn is never reborn, for what can produce it?”
