Why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis when Vedas bars human worship.+

Religion is the home of mysticism and deification which is why they are not very keen on the rational truth. Religion and scholasticism and yoga are for those to help who are incapable of grasping the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Religion is based on dogmatism, not philosophy. One finds philosophical insights here and there in religious doctrine. All the religious doctrines are dogmatic because they also begin by assuming their inherited Gods based on blind faith or blind belief. 

Religious Gods become a center of the religion, thus, every religion has its own idea of God thus there is no universality in religious beliefs.

Religion takes the position that God as a separate entity outside us, i.e. God really exists separately from us. Orthodox people are afraid to go deeper and refuse to accept anything other than their religious authority because of punishment by God.

 A Gnani says the scriptures are for children, but wise seekers will think rationally.

Vedas bars human worship: ~

Yajur Veda:~

"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.)

Then why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis (human form) in place of God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge in such activities 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.

No one has ever seen God by practicing religion or yoga or indulging in glorifying the religious God and Goddesses because God exists prior to the form, time, and space. Form, time, and space cease to exist as a reality when wisdom dawns. Thus, the Gods and Gurus have no place in the domain of the Advaitic reality. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, which is the real God. Thus, Self-realization is the only way to God-realization.

By worshipping the religious Gods and Gurus one will not get Self-realization or God-realization.

There is no scope for God based on blind belief because God based on blind belief is not God in truth. Religion and its ideas of Gods are mere imagination based on the false Self (ego), within the false experience (waking).

All beliefs based on the false self are bound to be a falsehood. Thus, it is erroneous to worship the matter, instead of the All-Pervading Spirit (God in truth) and those who worship things born of matter.

 The religious-based Gods and Goddesses with form and attributes (matter) are not the Gods in truth. That is why Vedas declare, those who sink into the greatest depth of misery and suffer who worship the matter.

Ishopanishad says: ~ “They are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worships the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God and those who worship things born of matter like trees, animals, man, etc. are sunk deeper in misery."

Rig Veda: ~ May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman

Vedas declare: ~ One should never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman. If one, worships any other God in place of Atman, 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."

So, it clearly indicates the so-called Gods worshiped in the temples today are not Vedic Gods. Vedas bars worshiping such Gods.

Why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis when Vedas bar human worship.

 If you are a truth seeker then it is better to spend time discovering the facts about your own existence than waste precious time discussing God’s existence. Religion blocks the realization of truth because religion is built on the foundation of form, time, and space whereas the ultimate truth is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.

If one is ready to drop all his baggage of inherited accumulated knowledge then it becomes easy to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Freedom means becoming free from experiencing the illusion or duality as reality by realizing the fact that, the Self is not the form but the Self is the formless Soul. It is not possible to realize the Self without realizing the fact that, the individual Self (ego) is a reality within the false experience (waking). Thus, all the knowledge accumulated by judging on the base of the false Self (ego), is a false knowledge. 

All religiously propagated ideas of God, heaven, hell, and sins, karmas are mere imagination based on the birth entity whereas the Soul, the Self is birthless and deathless because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. 

Till all religious-based knowledge is dropped, it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar