There is a need to bifurcate Religion from Spirituality to realize God in truth, which is hidden by ignorance. Belief in the religious Gods keeps the Soul, the ‘Self’ in the cage of ignorance.
The seeker of truth has to discard the idea of a personal God because God in actuality is impersonal. In spirituality the ultimate truth or Brahman is God.
God has no gender because God is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The male /female Gods are religious Gods. The religious Gods are not God in truth.
Without realizing God in truth what is the use of praying and worshipping the religious Gods, which is not God in truth.
God is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness and intelligence, which is beyond the form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
People, who worship the belief of God without knowing the real God is not the belief but the Athma the Spirit,.
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.
Vedas itself says: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman? Thus, to know the real God Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God-realization. Self-realization itself is real worship.
All the male and female Gods and Goddesses belong to religion, not spirituality. Spirituality is nothing to do with religion. Spirituality is based on the Spirit, the real God whereas the religion is based on the false self within the false experience.
The metaphysics based on Vedas and Upanishads are beyond any form of theism be it monotheism or polytheism, as they point to “reality” which cannot be described by terms like monotheism or polytheism.
The individualized God and Goddesses belong to the religion. Religion is not spirituality. In spirituality, God is the Spirit the ‘Self. The Spirit is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul itself is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, everything is God. Everything is God means the whole universe is nothing but an illusion created out of God.
The religious Gods are not God in truth. Because the religious belief of God without the dualistic illusion or Maya. The religion is based on the waking entity. The waking entity is a false self (ego) within the false experience (waking). Thus whatever one had seen, known, believed and experienced as waking entity is a falsehood, because from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the waking experience itself is an illusion.
The seeker has to realize the God in truth is hidden by the universe, which is the dualistic illusion. God is hidden by the dualistic illusion because the dualistic illusion is created out of God, which is present in the form of consciousness.
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Religious Gods are not God in truth. Bible says “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in Spirit and in Truth. Rig Veda says may ye never accept another God in place of the Atman (Spirit) nor worship other than the Atman.
Attachment to a name and gender of God is an obstruction to realize God in truth, which is ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.
History speaks that in the past those who questioned the validity of this religious authority were exiled, killed or termed as irreligious and condemned by the religious fanatics.
What is the use of arguing with religious believers? They think what they know as the ultimate truth.
Whatever is real in the world in which we exist is God. All that is real in the world in which we exist is the Soul, the Self.
Thus, by realizing the Self, which is the Soul, we discover the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness itself is God which is hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion.
The Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:24)”,
Even the Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness (Spirit), which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).
When the Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness (Spirit) 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.
The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost Self. In reality, there is no dualities, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.
Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God in truth) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal. It is above all needs and desires. It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as It is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other beside it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described, because description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not the distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman, and not just Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman (God) of Sage Sankara is impersonal.
Sage Sankara: ~"That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman or God in truth."
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Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality of 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 (Soul or Spirit) 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)
Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.
Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship anything else as God in place of real God.
Bhagavad Gita Chapter: ~ “All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse)
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)
Vedas, Upanishad and Bhagavad Gita Bible confirm the Soul, the innermost Self, which is the present in the form of the Spirit or the consciousness is God.
It is for every seeker who is seeking truth must first know what God is supposed to be in actuality according to Vedas and Upanishads and reject all non-Vedic Gods to realize that Atman is the real God.
Self-realization is the Truth-realization, truth realization is God realization. Thus, Self-realization itself is real worship. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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