While reading scriptures, this must be remembered -
The knowledge gained by reading the scriptures is inferior to the knowledge one gains through one own experience. Nothing is to be trusted or taken for granted, however authoritative the source may be, unless one tests it through ones own experience.
All scriptural knowledge is lower knowledge, where as the knowledge gained through inner purification and self-transformation is much more superior. Besides the more educated a mind is, the greater is the need for its cleansing and purifying before it becomes receptive to divine knowledge. Knowledge hardens the ego, builds walls of resistance in the mind and blocks the entry of true Knowledge.
<!--Signature-->Scriptures are there to help you develop your own understanding and make your own rule-book or laws. If you follow a rule-book (scriptures), you always find an escape for your failures by finding an excuse. But, if you make your own rule-book (by your own understanding), you can never hide from taking responsibility for your actions.
If this is taken as the essence of 'Hinduism', every 'Hindu' follows his/her own religion...
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