Buddha said:- Do not believe a spiritual teaching just because

Buddha said:- 

Do not believe a spiritual teaching just because:-

1. it is repeatedly recited,
2. it is written in a scripture,
3. it was handed from guru to disciple,
4. everyone around you believes it,
5. it has supernatural qualities,
6. it fits my beliefs anyway,
7. it sounds rational to me,
8. it is taught by a respectable person,
9. it was said to be the truth by the teacher,
10. one must defend it or fight for it.

However, only when it agrees with your experience and reason, and when it is conducive to the good and gain of oneself and all others, then one should accept the teachings, and live up to them."

....Buddha.

Seeker has to understand the fact that whatever is based on the form [I] is falsehood and whatever is based on the formless (Soul or consciousness) is the truth. When the subconscious is able to discriminate everything on the base of soul,   then it will start discriminating everything on the base of formless, and reject whatever is based on the form. Finally nothing exists to reject other than soul.  Finally, the soul or consciousness will prevail as ultimate truth or Brahman.

Seeker has to establish the truth for himself by verifying himself by reasoning on the true base, not by blindly believing what others say, or what scriptures say.  Once he creates a formless base mentally by replacing the form base which was discriminating good and bad, negative or positive in worldly life will start discriminating truth and untruth or real or unreal and start rejecting the untruth/unreal and starts accepting only truth /real. 

Simply quoting the doctrines and sages will not help true seekers, in their pursuit of truth. Seeker has to use appropriate methodology for one to cognize those truths that are being stated within oneself by oneself. Truth pursuit is not an intellectual pursuit, but a spiritual understanding and realization.