For one who is aware of the fact that, the self is not physical but formless soul or consciousness , for him the question of being Christen, Hindu, Jew or Muslim does not arise.

Dualist sages say God cannot exist without attributes. Then they are making God as an object whereas God is the subject. Attributes can only be seen in objective world. Causality appears in the duality, but when one goes deeper into the matter even there the causality disappears.

Who else but the self could have imagined the objective world? Ramanuja and Madva see God as the imaginer, but where is the proof. Nobody has seen God creating. You have seen no other creator, whether God or angel. The only self is left. Therefore self is the creator because imagining means creating. The Dvaita and Religionists talk nonsense. Has God a meaning to you? Yes. It is an idea. What is an idea? Idea is  an imagination. So God has no proved existence beyond that of idea.

Where people cannot and do not think, they follow others. A Gnani will see the world and get to know it is only appearance. He is not blind; he sees three states or objects as it is, but he knows it is only falsehood. Just as you see a mirage, the Gnani sees the mirage of this universe too; but he is not deceived by it. So long as one is ignorant, he will have the idea that God has created this world because the causal notion will be there. Nobody wants suffering, and while the notion that suffering can be got rid of by appealing to God these wishes will sway the mind to believe in God. For them religion will arise, but for the man who wants truth, religion offers no consolation.

Anybody can write a commentary on the Upanishads other scriptures and other scriptures, all they need to do to pour out with or mental word words. It is quite easy to do this even by those who have never understood the Upanishads and but think they have. Thus the dualists and their disciple have written commentaries on scriptures: But all these have written to satisfy themselves, not to get the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Religion is regarded as sacred and real by the common people, by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful. 

In the realm of truth, the belief system has no place. The birth, life and death itself is mere illusion on the ultimate standpoint.  Therefore, the reincarnation, resurrection and rebirth theories are mere intellectual speculation.  For one who is aware of the fact that, the self is not physical but formless soul or consciousness , for him   the question of being Christen, Hindu, Jew or Muslim does not arise. 

The man who is aware of the truth, for him, the intellectuality is mere speculation or imagination on the base of physical self within the illusion.  

Until one remains stagnant with his accumulate knowledge as truth, he will not be ready to verify anything other than his accepted truth, because he is in the clutches of his physical based/egocentric truth/knowledge.  

Each sect concocts a God to suit its own purposes.  Such concocted Gods have no value in pursuit of truth.  Man himself suggests that there must be a God. It is an auto-suggestion. 

Prayers and sacrifices belong to a premature stage of development. However when no answers come to prayers, struggle for existence presses man, and doubt arises again.  Faith in religion weakens as man pays more attention to facts of life and this world.

Physical & mental discipline   such like Karma, Mantra Yaga, Yajna, Puja Japa blind devotion to deity or guru are not the tool for liberation or freedom from experiencing the duality as reality. It is dualistic cult including tradition Advaitic orthodoxy propagate this discipline has no value if one is seeking truth to get non-dual moksha.  

Mysticism, scriptural knowledge, penance based Scholasticism are great are great hindrance to self-realization. Inherited blind belief   with corresponding actions based on scriptures, worship, ritual faith which imply certain mental and physical discipline, or scripture supporting belief, faith, creed, ritual, theological knowledge personal or opinion leads to hallucinated knowledge.  All these become great hindrance in grasping understanding, assimilating and realizing the Advaitic or nondual truth.    

Scriptural mastery including ancient Sastras, Tarka, Samkhya disciplines to support Karmas & belief Bhakti Argument & interpretation with help of logic, grammar etc.to support beliefs, revelations, prayers etc. Also dogmas, theological or other based on authorities.

Yoga, Silence, path of love,   meditation, rituals and devotion are based on the false self and false experience does not yield truth one seeking for, because the truth is beyond false self [ego] and false experience [universe]. Mysticism is based on individual experience. The self is not individual because the self, which s in the form of consciousness, pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. Blind beliefs without verification and argument and interpretation on the base of false self are not verified knowledge therefore it is not truth.

v  What is the use of arguing on base of the birth entity, which is not the self?

v  What is the use of knowing what happens after death when the self is birthless? 

v  What is the use of thinking of the heaven and hell when the self is not an individual and it is never born and never dies?

Seeker has to look into the facts, for the proof of what has the worship of God done for him, when he had setbacks in life. If he thinks God saved him: Such a statement without a proof is of no value.

Mesmerism ,Yoga  and Religion are only for those who are immersed in practical life within the practical world, for those who are seeking truth there is reason. When a devotee says that God has sent him food through human instruments, how does he know? It is only his imagination. Unless a man is a fool, he will never be an atheist. How does he know that God does not exist? 

The seeking mind must find answers to the question which arises from within:

v  How is one to know that the scriptures are true?

The scriptures are for ignorant masses, who wholly accept the Waking/dream experience as it presents itself. Wisdom is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem. 

v  When a devotee says that God has sent him food through human instruments, how does he know?

It is only his imagination. 

v  Only an ignorant person can be an atheist. How does he know that God does not exist?

No one can say about gods’ existence with certainty on the base of the false identity [‘I’].  Only a Gnani is can say conceptual god propagated by religion does not exist on the standpoint of the soul, which is the true self. 

v  "Why yogis say that Yoga leads to freedom and inquiry   can't give truth?" How is one to know that Yoga leads to final truth?"

Yoga kills the ability to know intelligently, so that when one believe or are told by Guru that he has seen Atman, there is no means of his understanding whether this is so. This is because Yoga suppresses thinking.

Ultimate truth will interest only very few; the rest blindly follow their inherited Religion, they do not bother to know the truth." Religion pleases mass mind sets, which lack vigor.

Each religion/sect concocts a God to suit its own purposes: seeker of truth should not care for such concocted Gods.

Belief is a self-mesmeric condition out of which it is extremely difficult to escape. Man himself suggests that there must be a God. It is auto-suggestion.  Prayers and sacrifices belong to the mass who are still in premature stage of development of thinking faculty. When no positive results come from prayers man starts doubting about existence of god and religious claims. Struggle for existence presses man, and doubt arises again. Faith in Religion weakens as man pays more attention to facts and this World. 

Reason is the common ground for all in pursuit of truth, whereas the appeal to scriptural relations reaches only groups. One day the World would throw up religion, concept of god and scriptures as Buddha did and, people will start using reason to know what truth is and what is not. 

Those who argue that truth is only in their Religion are vain logicians, depending on imaginations. The scriptures are not the yardstick to say what is truth and what is untruth.  

 If God is everywhere, then he is in corpse, then there is no necessity to burn or bury that God. One cannot get rid of him. To remove all doubts and confusions one need to inquire and reason and realize the fact that, man, world, god and religion are reality, only on the base of the false self within the false experience.

 

 Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, waking entity [‘ego’] is not the self. Therefore, whatever seen, known, believed and experienced on the base of waking entity [‘ego’] as self bound to be false hood. Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, the soul is the true self. Thus on the standpoint of the soul the waking experience, which contains man and his experience of the world, and his belief of god is mere illusion. Thus mans existence, which is limited to waking experience alone   is mere mirage. Thus the formless substance and witness of the mirage, which is the soul/consciousness is the true self.  Thus on the standpoint of the soul as self, the three states are unreal.