The ultimate truth or Brahman is God in truth. God in truth is not the religious God that people believe and worship.
Sage Sankara says: ~ Atman is Brahman. - it means the Soul the ‘Self’ is God in truth.
Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God) 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 beside it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described, because description implies distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not a 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.
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."
Therefore, all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false ‘Self’. Thus, there is adulteration and add-ons in the past, which has to be bifurcated if one wants pure Vedic essence.
Knowledge of God in truth is Advaita because God in truth is Advaita, the one without the second.
Understanding what is God is not so easy. Religious people can only imagine God based on their inherited blind beliefs.
All the blind belief-based Gods with form and attribute can exist within the domain of form, time, and space. From, ultimate standpoint the form, time, and space are an illusion.
From an ultimate standpoint Soul alone exists. The Soul is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
God is the Soul, the ‘Self’. God becomes the universe (duality) in waking and the universe becomes God in deep sleep (nonduality).
The universe is nothing but an illusion created out of God. When you realize the ‘‘Self’’ not but the ‘‘Self’’ is the Soul, the God then there is no second thing that exists other than the God, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Only when you realize God in truth you will realize the universe is nothing but God because the universe is an illusion created out of consciousness, which is God in truth.
Rig Veda 1/164/46: ~ “They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni or the heavenly sunbird Garutmat. The seers call in many ways that which is One; they speak of Agni, Yama, Matarishvan.
Rig Veda 8/58/2: Only One is the Fire, enkindled in numerous ways; only One is the Sun, pervading this whole universe; only One is the Dawn, illuminating all things. In very truth, the One has become the whole world.
That is why 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.
Lord Sri Krishna himself says that he can do nothing to make a man intelligent straight away. The adepts give Prasad, blessing, initiations, mantrams, etc. only to confer temporary peace of mind, to help one to get rid of worries, but not to confer Gnana. The capacity to receive it must first be inborn in man by evolutionary degree.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. ( 14.27)
Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
There is no other God exists other than the God, the Spirit, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Even 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)
Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is present in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself’.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ It God is Supreme Spirit.
Vedas and Upanishad confirm the Soul, the‘Self’, is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness.
Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in Spirit and in Truth. (John 4:24)”,
The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. From the Spirit, the universe comes into existence. In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there is.
When the Upanishad says: the human goal is to acquire ‘‘Self’’-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana and they indicate the personal Gods, scriptures, worship,, and rituals are not the means to ‘‘Self’’ –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, then why anyone should indulge in it.
Realize right now right here the Soul, the Spirit is the God. There is nothing to realize other than realizing the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘‘Self’ is the God the Spirit, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Knowledge of God is Advaita because God is Advaita, the one without the second. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
