Upanishad

Upanishad

"They enter into blind darkness who worship Avidya (ignorance and delusion)..."

The Upanishads are ancient Sanskrit philosophical and religious texts that form the concluding part of the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.

The Upanishads contains teachings of universal compassion, giving with respect, and love as the realization of oneness.

“The offering should be with modesty. The offering should be with awe. The offering should be with sympathy.”

“The wise man, who realizes all beings as not distinct from his own Self, and his own Self as the Self of all beings, does not, by virtue of that perception, hate anyone.”

In the Upanishad virtue (dharma or punya) is not treated merely as a set of social rules, but as the essential foundation for spiritual awakening if we become doers of the word. 

"As a person acts, so he becomes in life. Those who do good become good; those who do harm become bad. Good deeds make one pure; bad deeds make one impure.”

The Vedas

The Vedas, we are told, focused on external ceremonies and sacrifices but in fact in was a book that attempted to impart principles and precept in creation to guide mankind to a spiritual relationship and avoid the dangers presented by the world and life. The Upanishads, we are also told, shifts attention from the Rituals and ceremonies of religion to more inward pursuits like meditation, self-inquiry, consciousness, and metaphysical reality.

These ancient religions are far more practical than many who believe they are following these ancient practices. Those "philosophical and religious" disciplines are just as subject to Apostasy as the early Pharisees or as modern Christians with their 40,000 denominations.

The modern view of the Upanishad claims that Spiritual truth is discovered by turning the gaze inward with the hope of eventually achieving an identical to the universal reality, i.e. Brahman. Some see a parallel between Abraham and Brahman. See [The Hindu Connection].

People argue that the Abrahamic supposedly believed Truth begins with an external revelation yet there is no reason to believe that Abraham was also on an inward quest.

The Atharva Veda

The Atharva Veda or "Divine Knowledge" is one of the four Vedas in Hinduism and is sometimes associated with Abraham through an analyses of the Vedic texts suggesting that "Brahma" is possibly Abram.

Others like Sarah, Noah, Ishmael, and Isaac are also personalities mentioned in the Vedas. Those scriptures are more ancient than the text of Moses and there has been more time to twist the meaning and intent of those texts.

God calls

God calls out to Abraham leading him leave his homeland where his father, Terah, was called an idolater.

Abraham's righteousness is defined by his faithful response to an objective revelation from a personal Creator.