When the Upanishad says: that the human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge and they indicate that personal gods, scriptures, worship, and rituals are not the means to Self–knowledge, then why anyone should indulge in it.
The Upanishads say:~
Mundaka Upanishad 1:2:8:~ “Remaining in the fold of ignorance and thinking “we are extremely wise and learned,” the fools with boastful nature ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone.”
Katha Upanishad 1:2:23:~ The Soul cannot be realized through hearing the scholarly explanation of the discourses, not even by the intellect.
Katha Upanishad 1:3:6:~ “Through the knowledge of the Soul, God, one is pure and clean constantly.” Neither by reading the book nor by taking a bath at a holy place has one become pure. Inner purity is possible when one remains in constant touch with the Soul. Constant Soul Consciousness is real purity.
Kena Upanishad 2:4:~ When it is known through every state of cognition, it is rightly known, for (by such knowledge) one attains life eternal. Through one's own self, one gains power, and through wisdom, one gains immortality.
Kena Upanishad 2:5:~ If here one knows it, then there is the truth, and if here one knows it not, there is a great loss. Hence, seeing the Real in all beings, wise men become immortal on departing from this world.
The scriptures are being added from time to time. This process will go on. There is the final authority among them? One contradicts the other: duality reigns supreme.
The Upanishads are self-contradictory. Every pundit even gives conflicting interpretations of them. The final authority, therefore, is using one’s own reason. One should apply his reason to them.
Remember:~
Some people say without using the words we must express the truth, but they say all these things by using the words. Just because their Guru has said they try to impose their wordless theory on others by using the words.
The words are only for communication purposes within the dualistic illusion (world).
A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.
We are discussing within the dualistic world about nondualist truth. Thus, there is no language without words to express the truth beyond form, time, and space. The truth has to be realized in the midst of the world in which we exist.
The truth is the world, in which we exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness or Spirit.
The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the three states, observed and experienced. The commoner viewing the three states will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same three states. Each one interprets the three states that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego and, therefore, experiences birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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