One has to get rid of the inborn samskara or conditioning itself by realizing the fact that ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is not the self.

The man himself suggests that there must be a God. It is an auto-suggestion.  Belief is not God.  God of belief cannot exist without the believer.  Each religion has its own idea of God. 

Prayers and sacrifices belong to a belief system. Belief in conceptual God kills man’s ability to think beyond his physical existence.  Thus religion makes one remain in the prison of physicality.    When no answers come to prayers and rituals, struggle for existence presses man, and doubt arises again.  Faith in religion weakens as the man pays more attention to the facts of life and this world.  Religion is not the means to acquire self-knowledge. 

People try to overcome their inherited religious conditioning but by getting rid of the religious conditioning one will not be able to overcome the physical shackle.  One has to get rid of the inborn samskara or conditioning itself by realizing the fact that ‘I’ or ‘I AM’   is not the self.

Only by getting rid of the ignorance one can get rid of the inborn samskara or   conditioning.

v  What is the use of arguing on the base of the birth entity, which is not the self?

v  What is the use of knowing what happens after death when the self is birthless? 

v  What is the use of thinking of the heaven and hell when the self is not an individual and it is never born and never dies?

But he is unaware of the fact that, he and his experience of the world are within the waking experience.  The waking experience appears and disappears, same way as the dream. When there is dream than there is no waking. When there is waking then there is no dream.  When there is neither the dream nor the waking it is identified as deep sleep in waking experience.   One is aware of the dream or deep sleep only in waking.  The one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless witness of the three states. 

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.