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The Spirit of the Upanishads1548
vain forms and ceremonies as the height of religion, and know no good
besides, return again into this world or even into a lower one.
Mundakopanishad.
Therefore, as here, in this world, dies out what may be encompassed by
Action, so dies out in the world next to this, all that may be acquired through
acts of formal religion.
Chhandogyopanishad.
Forms of religion but forge so many bonds round the individual; Spiritual
Consciousness alone disperses them.
Maha-Bharata.
Formal religion has its use in purification of the intellect, it cannot show us
That. That is realized through reflection, not at all even by a million forms
of worship.
Vivekachudamani.
Karma leads to that result alone which it can produce, reach, evolve, or
modify; liberation is not brought about in any of these ways; hence Karma
cannot be the means of liberation.
Naishkarmyasiddhi.
Karma never dispels ignorance, being under the same category. Knowledge
alone destroys ignorance, even as light dispels darkness.
Atmabodha.
Happiness or misery is not in any one’s giving, it is all a misunderstanding
of the intellect which shows either the one or the other as coming from