Religious people believe the
stories of Jesus who raised the dead and Krishna who picked a mountain as a
reality but Jesus who raised the dead and Krishna who picked a mountain within
the dualistic illusion. Whatever belongs to dualistic illusion is bound to be
an illusion.
Mythological
God and Goddesses are based on blind faith or belief. The blind belief is not God. The
belief implies duality. From the ultimate standpoint, the duality is merely an
illusion. Thus, whatever one sees, knows, believes, and experiences within the
dualistic illusion are bound to be an illusion.
Mythological
stories are a myth. Whatever is based on myth is merely superstition. Mythology
was introduced in the past for the ignorant masses. It has to be discarded as
one progresses in his spiritual advancement.
Swami
Vivekananda: This bending the knee to superstitions, this
selling yourself to your own mind does not befit you, the Soul. Self is
infinite, deathless, and birthless. Because the Self is infinite Spirit, it
does not befit you to be a slave. ... Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if
you must. There is none to help you. Self is the entire world. Who can help
you? -
Mythology breeds superstition, blind belief, and senseless rituals, and
most irrational and gives them divine outlook.
Swami
Vivekananda: ~ If superstition enters, the brain is gone. Superstition is our great
enemy, but bigotry is worse.
Mythological contains
stories of people with 10 with seven heads, etc., which are fables, yet are
taken seriously by pundits. All these stories are a reality within
the dualistic illusion. The waking experience is the dualistic illusion. Thus, whatever belongs to the dualistic
illusion is bound to be a falsehood. In reality, there is no duality because there
is only Oneness.
That the ancient sages had miraculous occult
power and books relate stories of their feats, are fairy tales were meant for
children, women and those whose minds had not developed.
When ‘Self’ is not ‘you’ than whatever you have seen, known believed, and experienced as reality is bound to be an illusion. Thus, self-realization is necessary to realize your present the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.
If the present the world in which you exist is merely an illusion, then whatever
you believed as a real with the world in which you exist is bound to be an
illusion.
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, 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.
Religious Gods are not God in truth. One must know God suppose to be in truth.
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 duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.
Vedas and Upanishad confirm the
Soul, the innermost Self, is present in the form of the Spirit or the
consciousness.
Remember:~
If you are seeking truth then you must know the Puranic Gods are not Vedic Gods. Puranic Gods are not God in truth. Puranic Gods are a myth based on mythology. Puranic Gods introduced for the ignorant populace who are incapable of understanding the Vedic God, the God in truth.
Vedas say:~ May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?
In Vedas, God has been described as: ~
Yajur Veda – chapter- 32:~God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. He cannot be seen directly by anyone. He pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from Vedas.
Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
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)
Even in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is present in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself’.
Thus, it clearly indicates the God is without the form and attributes and ever free.
Vedic Gods, hardly have any significance in the present-day Hindu belief system. The Gods and Goddesses important to the Hindus of today are Ram, Krishna, Kali, Ganesh, Hanuman, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and the respective consorts of the last three, namely, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Shakti. None of these deities figured prominently in the Vedic pantheon and some of them are clearly non-Vedic
The Vedas do not talk about idol worship. In fact, till about 2000 years ago followers of Vedism never worshipped idols. Idol worship was started by the followers of Buddhism and Jains. There is logic to idol worship. Vedas speak of one God that is the supreme ‘Self’ in i.e. Atman or Soul but Hinduism indulges in worshiping 60 million Gods.
It indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false ‘Self’.
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)
The Vedas as a body of scripture contains many contradictions and they are fragmentary in nature. For Hindus, scriptures like the Bhagavad-Gita, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Puranas are more attractive and appealing than the Vedas. And also the Gods and Goddesses they worship differ considerably from the Vedic ones. The collection of hymns called Vedas are written in praise of certain deities by poets over several centuries does not seem to have much significance for the Hindus.
Yajur Veda says: ~
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 is intent." (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Griffith 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.)
So, Yajur Veda indicates that:~
They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc. (Yajurveda 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.)
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 Puranas says something and the Vedas say something else, reject the Puranas and believe in the Vedas. The Puranas are just a myth.
India takes pride in being the descendants of the Sages of truth who gave the Advaita the ultimate truth. The Advaitic truth is the truth hidden by the form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
