Religious moksha is based on birth entity whereas spiritual moksha based on the unborn Soul, the ‘Self’.

Bhagavān Buddha: ~ No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Arguing with religious believers is fruitless. Belief in tradition and the scripture as if they were true or factual quite clearly is delusion, but the payoff for holding such delusions is, for those who hold them, extremely compelling ~ the avoidance of the "wrath of God," the hope of heaven or salvation, or the imagined "end of suffering."

Religious orthodox think that through their good karma and performing rituals, they get moksha. Religious moksha is based on birth entity whereas spiritual moksha based on the birthless Soul, the ‘Self’. Spiritual moksha is different from the religion propagated moksha. Self-realization leads to spiritual moksha.

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (9) - Children, immersed in ignorance in various ways, flatter themselves, saying: We have accomplished life's purpose. Because these performers of karma do not know the Truth owing to their attachment, they fall from heaven, misery-stricken, when the fruit of their work is exhausted.

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (10) - Ignorant fools, regarding sacrifices and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know any higher good. Having enjoyed their reward on the heights of heaven, gained by good works, they enter again this world or a lower one.

That is why Sage Sankara' gave religious, ritual or dogmatic instruction to the populace, but Advaitic wisdom only to the few who could rise to it.

If you mix Advaitic orthodoxy with Advaitic wisdom, create confusion, because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

Sage Goudpada says that:~ The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the most advanced seeker who seeks to know the truth beyond the form, time and space.

The religious orthodoxy is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. The Atmic path, emphasis on the Advaitic wisdom, is meant for those who wish to go beyond form, time and space.

That is why Sage Sankara:- VC- 61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae) and medicines to such a one?

Everyone’s individual experiences are not the same. Some are so much immersed in materiality, religion, duty bound towards their family and society, and they will not be attracted to the path of wisdom or understand and assimilate the Advaitic truth, because they accepted the world (dualistic illusion) as a reality whereas the Sage Sankara says the world is mere an illusion.

Many are good at acrobatics with words, but their knowledge is limited to the domain of the form, time and space. When the inner work is in progress then the realization will happen as the conviction about the Soul, the Self, becomes firm. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar