Spirituality or Adyatma has nothing to do with religion and its concept of God and its code of conduct and its holy books.+

Spirituality is not a religion. Spirituality or Adyatma has nothing to do with religion and its concept of God and its code of conduct and its holy books.

Religion belongs to the world of emotions. That is why everyone likes it.

You will always find it in primitive times, as now, linked with music, dancing, and art--both emotional expressions.

Religion changes as it appeals to different emotions. You will find at one pole the nude monk is admired; at the other, the gorgeously-dressed Guru is revered.

In matters of religion, Gnanis have no quarrel with anyone because religion is different from spirituality or Adyatma.

The craving for religion, the fear that not to follow its rites and dogmas will bring punishment, the inability to give up the notion of its truth even when your reason demonstrates its fallacies and absurdities are merely forms of mild obsessions, i.e. a thought constantly repeating itself automatically; hence it is a mental disease.

Unless you give up the ideas of heaven and hell, Advaitic wisdom is impossible. The ultimate truth must be proved here and now, in this very life. If that cannot be done, then it cannot consider any such idea, as the existence of heaven and hell is untrue.

Religious people hold their inherited beliefs and any images they like in that realm.

For in religion, the question of truth does not arise, only the question of what appears to one. 

Religion:~

Monotheism is based on religion, not spirituality. Spirituality is based on the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit. 

The religion accepts the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality, whereas Sage Sankara declares the world is unreal and Brahman alone is real. 

Thus, the experience of birth, life, and death happening within the unreal world is bound to be a falsehood.

Thus, the religion and religious belief and its ritual based on the birth entity is bound to be a falsehood.

The seeker has to realize what is real and eternal.

In the Vedas, God has been described as ~

Sakshi (Witness)

Chetan (conscious)

Nirguna (Without form and properties).

Nitya (eternal)

Shuddha (pure)

Buddha (omniscient)

Mukta (unattached).

All these above qualities are the nature of the Soul, the Self, which is God in truth. That is, Atman is Brahman. Brahman is God in truth. : ~Santthosh Kumaar