Thursday, September 13, 2012

The rituals, which are practiced in Hinduism, are not Vedic rituals and the puranic gods are not Vedic gods. Because:-



Kabir views humanity as being caught up in illusion, searching for Ultimate Reality in all the wrong places, always seeking It outside of ourselves in various rituals, temples, forests and mountaintops, not realizing That for which we seek is already hidden within us. 

The ultimate truth or Brahman dwells within the three states like fragrance in the flower; Musk lies within the Musk-deer yet seeks it afar." Until one trace the truth within the three states the illusion of birth, life, death and the world is experienced as reality. 

The rituals mentioned in Karmakhanda of Vedas are sought to be negated in the Jnanakhanda, which is also part of the same scriptures. While Karmakhand enjoins upon you the worship of various deities and  lays down the rules for the same, Jnanakhanda constituted by the Upanishads ridicules worshiper of deities as dim-witted person no better than the beast. 

This seems strange, the latter part of Vedas contradicting the former part.  The first part deals throughout with karma, while the second or concluding part is all about Jnana. Owing to difference, people have gone so far as to divide into two sections:  the Vedas (that is the first part) to the mean the Karmakhanda and Upanishads (Vedanta) to mean the Jnanakanda.

The rituals, which are practiced in Hinduism, are not Vedic rituals and the puranic Gods are not Vedic gods.  Because:-

In Vedas the God has been described as:-

             Sakshi (Witness)
             Chetan (conscious)
             Nirguna (Without form and properties).
             Nitya (eternal)
             Shuddha (pure)
             Buddha (omniscient)
             Mukta (unattached).

Thus it proves that all the attributed gods are imagination because their existence is limited to the illusion, because only in illusion, there is scope for imagination and diversity. The diversity is mere mirage. Mirage is created out of single substance, which is consciousness. Thus consciousness alone is real and eternal.  Thus whatever is seen, known, believed and experienced as real within the illusion is bound to be falsehood.   

And also  in Yajurved says:-

Translation 1.

They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc).

They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example table, chair, idol etc.)- [Yajurved 40:9]

Translation 2.

"Deep into shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent."-[Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Giffith pg 538]

Translation 3.

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." [Yajur Veda 40:9.]

So, Yajur Veda indicates that:-

They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example table, chair, idol etc [Yajurved 40:9]

Those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." [Yajur Veda 40:9.]

When the religion of the Veda knows no idols then why so many gods and goddesses with different form and name are being propagated as Vedic gods. Why these conceptual gods are introduced when Vedic concept of god is free from form and attributes.

It indicates clearly all the puranic gods with form and name, and their worships and rituals were introduced by replacing in place of Vedic rituals and modified books of code of conducts.   Thus the pure Vedic rituals have been replaced by the founders of the present day Hinduism, the reason best known to them. When the Vedic goal is self- realization all these puranic based understanding and knowledge is misguided direction to the seekers of truth.


Mundaka Upanishad:- The rituals and the sacrifices described in the Vedas deal with lower knowledge. The sages ignored these rituals and went in search of higher knowledge. ... Such rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing The sea of samsara, of birth and death. Doomed to shipwreck are those who try to cross The sea of samsara on these poor rafts. Ignorant of their own ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men Proud of their vain learning go round and round Like the blind led by the blind.

All the scriptures indicate that Ataman is Brahman, and Brahman is ultimate truth. Therefore the soul, which is in the form of consciousness, is ultimate truth.  Thus to realize the ultimate truth is the prime goal.   A well-directed inquiry, analysis and reasoning will lead one to his nondual destination. 
Self-Realization is direct realization of the ultimate truth or real god, in contrast with traditional paths, which are indirect. And the other paths cannot lead to the ultimate destination because they are based on the false self, which they hold as real self and false experience as reality. 
Until and unless one overcomes physical shackle it is impossible to understand and assimilate the nondual truth, which is beyond the physical existence or the universe.  Consciousness itself is lord of itself though not of the universe. And having nothing it has all. 




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