Religious people can only imagine God based on their beliefs.+

Understanding what God is supposed to be is not so easy task. Religious people can only imagine God based on their inherited blind beliefs.

Vedic God is Atman. God in truth is the Atma, the Self.  God in truth becomes the universe in waking and the universe becomes God in truth in deep sleep. 

Atman is present in the form of Consciousness. The English word the Self or Soul is  used to refer to Atman,   

Atman is a Sanskrit word. The word Atman has no proper equivalent word in English.

English translators used the word 'Self' for Atman. Atman means existence. Atmana is the ultimate reality or ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth

The universe is nothing but an illusion created out of God in truth. When you realize the ‘Self’ not but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, God then there is no second thing that exists other than God, which is present in the form of the consciousness.

Only when you realize God in truth you will realize the universe is nothing but God in truth because the universe is an illusion created out of consciousness, which is God in truth.

The Vedic truth is the pure spiritual truth. The essence of the Vedas is pure spirituality. Advaita propagated by Sage Sankara is pure spirituality. Advaita has nothing to do with Advaitic orthodoxy, which is meant for the ignorant populace.

Sage, Sankara gave religious, ritual, or dogmatic instruction to the ignorant populace, but pure wisdom only to the few who could rise to it. Hence, the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints.

Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

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

Certain principles are common to all orthodox Advaitic thought, that is taken for granted. Orthodox assumes that the doctrine of karma is valid because they accept the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality.

If they accept birth, life, death, and the world as a reality then whatever Sage  Sankara declaration: ~ Brahman is the truth The World is Unreal everything is Truly Brahman and nothing else has any value. Thus, the Advaitic orthodoxy has nothing to do with the Advaitic truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Advaita is “Science of the Soul, which is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Sage  Sankara’s wisdom is the universal truth and ultimate truth par excellence.

Advaita does not belong to any particular religion. It is not philosophy but Advaita is the truth of our true existence.

Advaita is the Science of Truth; the Atmic path is the path of spiritual liberation par excellence, wide and deep as the ocean which contains virtually all the water of the world and in which all particular forms ultimately dissolve.

Sage Sankara gave religious, ritual, or dogmatic instruction to the masses but pure philosophy only to the few who could rise to it. Hence, the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

The Advaita is the Soul ~ the One without A Second. 

Advaita is the nature of the Soul. The Advaita is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness itself. The Advaita is the spiritual heart. The Advaita is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the Advaita because It is the very essence of the one who denies It. Advaita l is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs.

Advaita is present in the form of consciousness and is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Those who are stuck up with orthodoxy believing it will get them Advaitic moksha will never be able to realize the Sage Sankara’s Advaita and they will rot in the prison of ignorance. The path meant for ignorance will keep them permanently in the domain of ignorance.

Those who want Advaitic wisdom have to discard the theistic Advaita which propagates falsehood as truth without mercy. :~Santthosh Kumaar