Renu, Truth can not be many at all. Truth is truth after all. Truth prevails irrespective of many schools.
You are interested to know of my learning style. I do not belong to any of the school.
I am very much confused spiritually that is why I am raising many questions to you all scholars to clear my doubts scientifically and logically. Hope you people will not mind.
I have good analytical skills to understand the subjects. I am old enough to remain serious all the time and expect intelligent answers from you all !
Dear Manwar,
Don't get me wrong I am not a scholar but there are many in this forum who are scholars and very learned and will help you understand better.
Even I do not belong to any school of thought and what ever books I have read so far are the recommended gold standard like Geeta,Upanishads and works of Sathya Sai Baba,Swami Vivekananda,Paramahansa Yogananda,Ramana Maharishi,Ramakrishna Paramahansa and works of Adi Shankara.
Manwar you have to understand that all of us need to get some foundation by study or approaching a guru for further clarification.
I am no learned person but still learning and from my experience so far I feel a step wise gradual manner will lead us where we are supposed to be heading.
I started off a young child reading about our Puranas in the comics Amar Chita Katha,Chandamama magazines and also attended Bal Vikas classes run by my mother.
Then as I grew older I explored more by reading Ramayan,Mahabharat,Bhagavad Geeta then proceeded to read all books and discourses of Sathya Sai Baba and books by Swamijis which I mentioned earlier.
I keep notebooks with me and write down each of my query and look for an answer and also make notes on what I have studied.
I take the study of religion seriously like how I studied my MBBS.
Both theory and practical.
Make notes to see our progress,read what we write from time to time so that we do not forget and get confused.
I also learn Bhajans to connect to the Bhakti feeling and by singing songs the deeper meanings of religion sticks to our mind.
Once we build a foundation then we can progress to deeper study which for me I feel needs a certain understanding of Sanskrit.
So take time and learn the language and then study even further.
Gaining spiritual knowledge is not an easy thing.
Not all answers are found by just Google Search.
Some only come after years of study and realization and not to forget Bhakti.
Sanathana Dharma is not a religion where there is only one answer.
Some religions only have one book,one so called God and just one way cos thats just one path they have chosen and they haven't explored any other aspect.
Sanathana Dharma is like a MCQ question..
Multiple Choice Questions,
Multiple Answers
No wrong answers
You are both Guru and Shisya
You finally mark your own paper.
After all there is a famous saying that goes:
A person acquires a quarter of his knowledge from a Guru,a quarter from his own intelligence, another quarter from his fellow classmates and another quarter in the course of time.
All of us are still learning.