There is no need to condemn religion , Gurudom and yoga but seeker has to know their fallacies and how they are obstacle in acquiring Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana for his own information.

 

By condemning any religion, yoga or theories  one cannot acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana . There is no need to condemn religion , Gurudom and yoga but seeker  has to know their  fallacies  and  how they are obstacle in acquiring  Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana for his own information. It  is necessary to highlights how and why they are obstacle in realizing the  innermost self,which is beyond form,time and space. 

For mysticism or religion anyone can interpret texts as they like, in whatever way that pleases them, they simply imagine away. 

Pursuit of truth  does not begin with God: that has to be proved, not assumed. People who are yearning for spiritual truth will not find it through intellectualism. Intellectual truth is individual truth. 

 Love implies duality and love is individual feelings within the falsehood. Love is necessary and valuable in the stated of ignorance but it is not the means to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana .  Love is religious tool to lead life in practical world.  And Religious truth is individual truth and it is not universal truth because the religion is based on individuality. 

People think they taken diksh or initiation and they are practiced under some guru or yogi   and they are experiencing the bliss and now they are capable of transforming that bliss to others and they start hallucinating that what they experienced as bliss is reality without realizing the fact that their own existence within the universe is mere illusion because the universe is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint.  It is very difficult for those who are caught up in the understanding based on the false self to realize the fact that, whatever they have experienced as bliss   is mere hallucination because the ultimate truth or Brahman cannot be experienced because the self is not an individual because it is formless. 

 Religious scholars will teach that all is self, but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none can prove it.  Rational proof is needed , so that one arrive at knowing truth that is Wisdom; theirs is mere dogma, parrotism, repetition of what they read in scripture. Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved. 

• v  How does one know that the scriptures knew the truth?
• v  How does one know that the person he quotes knew the truth? 
• v How can mystic know that their happiness is the highest? May it not be that there is a higher one beyond their experience? 

One may believe in a position, but one is required to prove the truth of one’s belief. A belief is a feeling, truth is knowledge. 

only in the realm of  duality   there is ignorance .  Error or   ignorance create the question. "Whether they are right?" Where is the certainty that they are proceeding on right lines?" Thus doubts arise and the inquiring spirit comes and impels to search elsewhere for truth where it will not be possible even to have doubt. 

Only in non-duality, where there are no two to argue about views or to have difference of opinion can such doubtlessness be possible. Belief depends upon unstable bases whereas certainty depends on proof. 

Getting " rid of all  doubts" about one’s true existence is the purpose of spiritual pursuit.  seeker of truth should not  simply go on  believing  everything what has been  told in the religion and yoga without verifying them. All the doubt is to be got rid of "by the sword of censorious reasoning.

 

There is a controversy as to the meaning of Illusion. One religious School says it is a power of god whereby both illusion and creation are brought about.  However, how does one know that it is the truth? If one bases it on the sayings of god men,sages  and saints even, granting that they honestly believed in their experiences, there is still the query how do they know that these experiences were the truth? 

 What then is it in one which ascertains the truth of these experiences? If one says it is experience, mystic experience, then one’s experience differs from others: Such disagreement does not settle the matter. 

Thus these are the two common sources--authority and Samadhi--but both are shown untenable. Some object that the differences of Samadhi or experience.  

Spiritualist has no quarrel with any one in the matters of religion. Let all people hold any belief, any imagination they like in that realm. For in religion the question of truth does not arise, only the question of what appears to on. 

Religionists  or Yogi’s they limit the mind to the physical entity, thus they fail to realize the non-dual truth.  They stick up to their accepted truth and they remain stagnant with their belief.

The individual experience is mere illusion. Thus without first examining them and inquiring into them thoroughly is to delude oneself. The three states common to all; therefore, one must begin his inquiry analysis and reasoning on the true base. It is only after it has inquired into the nature of the three states that he should inquire into who is the knower/witness. If, however one inquiries into the knower before the analysis of the three states, then it is mere mysticism. What are these three states? Must precede what is ‘I’?

Many intellectuals have a tremendous intellect; most will agree with their theories based on the ego, which is false self within the false experience. It does mean possesses Self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana? And knowledge based on the false self within the false experience is limited to false experience (waking) therefore it is certainly not  Self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana .