Why we should not worship God with form and name and attributes. People are unaware of the difference between Vedic God and Puranic God.+

Why we should not worship God with form and name and attributes.  People are unaware of the difference between Vedic God and Puranic Gods.  

The Vedas confirm God is Atman (spirit), the  Self. Thus, reject the Puranas and believe in the Vedas. The Puranas are just a myth.  

The Essence of Vedas:~ if you want to know God is in truth then accept Athma as God and reject all other Gods.  

The Vedas do not talk about idol worship; the followers of Vedic Religion or Santana Dharma never worshipped idols. Thus, all the Puranic Gods which are of the form and attributes are not Vedic Gods. 

Temple worships were not of the Vedic religion. Vedic religion or Santana Dharma is the world's oldest religion. All the idol worship and temple worship were introduced by different saints and different founders of the sect propagating as their final authority. Hindus do idol worship while Vedas bars idol worship. 

There is no need to worship the human being as God but to realize God in truth.  A Gnani does not function as a Guru or as a yogi. A Gnani helps the seeker to realize the 'Self 'hidden by ignorance.   

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

Do not accept any other truth other than the consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth,  Nothing is real but consciousness.  Nothing Matters but to realize the ultimate 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 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. 

All the idolized Gods are not Vedic God because the Vedic God is Athma. The Athma or  God cannot be seen directly by anyone. Athma, God pervades all beings and all directions.  Idolized Gods do not find any support from the Vedas. 

Yajurveda says sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, the idol.   

When Yajurveda says that God 'is the Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape then whatever the Indian innocent populace believes and worships today are non-~Vedic Gods. All the mantras and prayers are based on non-Vedic Gods. 

From the Vedic perspective, all non-Vedic Gods are a myth. Worshipping myth in place of real God barred by Vedas. 

The religion of the Veda knows no idols, so why so many Gods and Goddesses with different forms and names are being propagated as Vedic Gods. Why these conceptual Gods are introduced when the Vedic concept of God is free from form and attributes. 

Yajurveda gives clear-cut instructions on what not to worship in place of God: ~ 

Translation 1

They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc.) 

They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc.) (Yajurveda 40:9)

Translation 2

"Deep into the shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent." (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Giffith pg 538)

Translation 3

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But 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.)

If you can see the 'Self' hidden by the universe as it is, there is no difficulty in seeing the ‘Self’  hidden by the universe.  

Remember: ~  

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 in place of the real God.  

Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth." 

Chandogya Upanishad says: ~ Sarvam khalvidam brahma ~ all this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality. 

Even Sage Sankara: ~ Supreme Brahman (God in truth) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). 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 besides it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described because the description implies the distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is no distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman and not just Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal. 

God 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. 

From the Vedic perspective, Lord Krishna has been just a Mahan yogi and not God himself.   

One must remember that for all periods the Vedas are the final goal and authority, and if the Puranas differ in any respect from the Vedas, the Puranas are to be rejected without mercy.  

If you feel the Puranas say something and the Vedas say something else, reject the Puranas and believe in the Vedas. The Puranas are just a myth.   

Remember:~   

The Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27). 

When Bhagavad Gita says, that 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.

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the 'Self’. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

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.

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

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

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says:~ "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)

Thus, it refers to a formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman (Soul), the innermost ‘Self’ within the false experience. Thus, it indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imaginations based on the false ‘Self’. Thus Atman or Soul, the  ‘Self’ is God in truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar