The Clouds of Ignorance

Today I was reading in the Daily paper about Karma and the way to get-rid-of the effects. While the author seemed well versed in diction and to some extent convincing, of his point, that to live a happy life one should accept his/her bad Karma and repent. Just carryoing the load of guilty conscience will not help any way.
On some web page I was reading that God is life and life is God. That one should not touch money and let someone else handle it. And many more things that just cloud our mind rather than removing any layer of darkness or ignorance.
Today we come across huge collection of literature on spirituality, religion, astral, non-physical science that talk about God. The more I read the more intricate web I weave around myself. My approach is simple, my words are the basic which every body can understand. I have read, subscribed to some of the well known names in west who are acting like "mediamship" pretending to innocent people that they have super natural powers.
Huge gathering of people around the Globe are running, practically crawling on their knees and elbows on the soil, roads etc to reach the temple of God, the temple built by man ! Merciful God cannot desire that his children crawl on roads to reach the temples which they buit for him, then I will be happy. This is unthinkable. No earthly parent will desire of its children that way, then how can all merciful God?
Then there are countless people who bath, take dip in holy waters. We have been told that such act will cleanse our soil of all bad Karma. If so then whole mankind must take a deep sink in the holy waters to get rid of the sins of the world. Then there will be no crime, no war, only love and peace every where.
But this doesnot seem so. The water however pure it may be, can only cleanse our body, not the mind.
Because the mind is deep seated in the sub-consciousness and all Karmic seeds are embedded there. These cannot be cleaned by any extrenal method.
This way we find ourselves in clouds of ignorance due to which we wander here and there in search of salvation.
The salvation is in His hands, who has put us in bondage with the physical, the human body.
All scriptures, plenty of books, countless websites are chanting the praise of God. Restlessly they sing, God is this , God is that.Our God , their God. And so on and on.
I wonder, without seeng any one how can one figure-out what is it? We read God is omnipresent, omnipotent and see even after chanting these mantras, what good/bad Karma we do whenever we get a chance. We all need to look inside ourselves and search the answer.