What is the destination of spiritualists who don’t follow scripture properly?
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one more thing sir same question so if some organization is teaching impersonalism but they’re not teaching bona fide properly what is the destination of people basically the destination is not determined by affiliation affiliation is any particular organization destination is determined by consciousness so broadly speaking there is Satyogana, Rajogana, Tamogana and there are Dharma itself has various understandings from the spiritual perspective Dharma is that which helps one to develop love of God from the material perspective Dharma is that action which increases Sattva and decreases Rajas and Tamas. Sattva is basically order no Dharma is Rajas is expansion and Tamas is destruction so from the material actually there is this Jaimini Sutra which begins with Athato Brahma Jikyansa and it gives many definitions of Dharma over there so one of the definitions of important definition of Dharma is that which includes the Sattva so if any way of living is enabling people to rise more towards goodness and decrease Rajas and Tamas that is also Dharma at one level it may not be Paradharma it is Dharma at one level so other organizations if by following it by following them people are even living learning some principles of piety they are following some kind of regulation they’re getting elevated that they are also following Dharma at some level now in this where something is not exactly scriptural that Krishna addresses in the 17th chapter when Arjuna asks they do not have Shraddha but those who have Shraddha but not according to Shastra what happens to them and Krishna answers basically by analyzing things into the three modes and he says you look at their Aha, look at their Yajna, look at their Dana, look at their Tapa and then based on that we can infer their destination so the point of the verse is that we should rather than just looking at the affiliation of people we look at their lifestyle we look at the kind of more they are living in and based on that their destination will be so if they are living Satvik to some extent coming to goodness that is good and that is elevating them to some extent so we don’t have to so whether they will attain Brahman liberation that so they have to become actually purified of material attachments the Brahman liberation also is a very exalted state and if they have material attachment they will not attain that there is not just a clear scriptural conception of Brahman that is required but even purification is required so there is there is Siddhanta and there is Acharya so there is a Siddhanta and there is Sadacharya no so sometimes you know we we condemn people because they don’t have the right Siddhanta but sometimes condemn organizations which do not have the right Siddhanta but those organizations may also be promoting Sadacharya to some extent so that way we can appreciate Siddhanta is important Sadacharya is also important Siddhanta should lead to transformation into Sadacharya so if some people are getting promoted in Sadacharya by certain organizations we appreciate that so if they are not teaching the right Siddhanta we can try to if the people are said to give them the right Siddhanta but we don’t have to be dismissive towards anyone if the Sattva Guna is being elevated Sattva Guna will be increasing people if Sadacharya is being created we appreciate that and if they don’t have a proper Siddhantic understanding not even of the personal aspect or even of the impersonal aspect still there is some elevation of consciousness that will happen and liberation is a very lofty goal that will not happen unless they are very good than the purified material attachments but some elevation will definitely happen thank you very much so Vrindraj question if terrorists call and remember Allah at the