The real God is stolen by ignorance and people worship ignorance as God.+

The number of religious believers is more, but the number of seekers of truth is much less. The religious believer seeks the pleasure of his own devotion, while the seeker's only aim is. 

A religious believer accepted his inherited belief as the ultimate reality.  A seeker of truth finds his path independently.  Many can become seekers, but only a few can become Gnanis.

To realize God means to become one with God. Without knowing what God supposed to be in actuality how can you become one with God?

One must realize God in truth.  People think there are different ways to realize God but it is not so, the only way is to realize God is through Advaitic wisdom.  

People try to see God through yogic samadhi meditation. And this process of yogic samadhi meditation does not help the seeker to get rid of the ignorance. Ignorance hides God.

The seeker has to rip open the veil of ignorance through Advaitic wisdom then only the god hidden by the ignorance will be revealed. 

Truth realization is Self-realization and Self-realization is God-realization.  Realizing the ‘Self- is not you but the Self is Soul is truth realization. Realizing the Soul as the Self is Self-realization. Realizing the Soul as the ultimate truth or Brahman or God is God-realization.  

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Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Do not accept any other truth other than consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth. Nothing is real but consciousness. Realize consciousness as the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. Consciousness is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman the innermost ‘Self.’ May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5) 

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~  God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas. 

All the idolized Gods are non-Vedic Gods.  Vedas clearly mentions not to accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman.

The Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “Among thousands of men, scarcely one strives for perfection; and of those who strive and succeed, scarcely one knows the ‘Self’ (Atman) in truth.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “Don't unsettle the minds of ignorant by revealing the esoteric truth."

~ It means God in truth.

The real God is stolen by ignorance and people worship ignorance as God.  God is hidden by the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is the dualistic illusion. You are part and parcel of the dualistic illusion. The Soul is the cause of the dualistic illusion but itself is uncaused. The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the form, time and space. The form, time and space are present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality). 

Your existence is limited to the illusory form, time and space. The form, time and space are made of the same clay. That clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of the single clay is Self –knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Self –knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana helps the seeker to unfold the truth hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion.

You have to draw your attention back every time it turns worldliness (I) and fix it in the Soul, which is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.  

When Upanishads and Vedas declare that, “God is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself’ then why to accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman.

Yajur Veda indicates that: ~ They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc. - (Yajurved 40:9)

Those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time."- (Yajur Veda 40:9.)

Thus, to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the seeker has to realize his inherited religion is adulterated in the past and drop all non-Vedic Gods, which belongs to the dualistic illusion.  Thus, it is necessary to realize God, which hidden by the ‘I’ which is the dualistic illusion.

God in truth is a formless, timeless and spaceless existence. Thus according to the Vedas God neither has any image nor God resides in any particular idol or statue. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.  

Bhagavad Gita: ~ “All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many God s. (7- Verse -20)

Kena Upanishad (6) Chapter I: ~ “That which cannot be apprehended by the mind, but by which, they say, the mind is apprehended-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (7) Chapter I: ~ “That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which the eye is perceived-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (8) Chapter I: ~ “That which cannot be heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (9)- Chapter I:~ “That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an object-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness. 

Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the Self in truth." The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.

So, on the Vedic perspective, Lord Krishna is not a Vedic God because Rig Veda says:   May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?"

That is why Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know me in truth." The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.

Thus, it is necessary to realize the Soul, the Self itself is God in truth. The seeker of truth should not accept another God in place of the Soul nor worship other than the Soul as God. Self-realization is God-realization and God-realization itself is real worship. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar