Every religion has its own idea of creator and creation and heaven, hell, paradise, sin, and karma.+

The idea of God as a creator holds good theoretically. The creator and creation theory is the dualistic theory. Every religion has its own idea of creator and creation and heaven, hell, paradise, sin, and karma.

All the religious theories are based on the dualistic perspective. On the non-dualistic perspective, there is nothing that exists other than the invisible Soul is God in truth.

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Glorifying God and Guru is not needed to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ The Higher your ideal is, the more miserable you are,' for such a thing as an ideal cannot be attained in the world, or in this life, even. He who wants perfection in the world is a madman, for it cannot be. How can you find the infinite in the finite?

Only an intense urge and receptiveness to know the truth of true existence are

needed in the pursuit of truth. You have to get rid of all the accumulated knowledge of religion and yoga and start afresh to realize the truth, which is hidden by ignorance(I).

You have to be free from all sorts of egocentric knowledge, such as religious and yogic, or any sort of philosophical knowledge.

Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (Advaitic wisdom) has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita –Chap- IV-v.2)

When one goes into deeper self-search, one will become aware that Advaitic wisdom expounded by Sage Sankara has been hidden.

That is why Sage Sankara says:~ “ 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.

Therefore, you should personally strive by all means to be free from the bondage of ignorance (I).

Advaitic wisdom has nothing to do with orthodox preaching and practice because Advaitic orthodoxy is dogmatism. The Advaitic orthodoxy has to be discarded if one wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Yoga Vasistha:~ "Teachers, interpretations of sacred texts, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of that Ultimate Truth which is revealed in the clear reflection of the heart, engendered from contact with the good."

The seeker must do his homework and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe what orthodox pundits expound as knowledge, till the uncontradicted truth is obtained.

Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the only true knowledge, not the absence of duality. Self-knowledge cannot destroy the world, but it eliminates ignorance and exposes the unreal nature of the mind or the universe. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar