The ignorant populace is not in contact with the God in Vedas and Upanishads therefore, they believe their inherited belief in God as real Gods.
The seeker of truth must know the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God. The seeker is not concerned with the ordinary concept of God but he is only concerned with the truth of 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) is present in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself’.
Thus, it refers to formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman (Soul), the ‘Self’ within the false experience. Thus, it indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false ‘Self’. Thus Atman or Soul, the ‘Self’ is God.
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 says: "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the Self does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)
Religious Gods are mythical Gods. Mythical Gods are not God in truth. Religion is meant for the ignorant populace to believe and worships mythical non-Vedic Gods as God in truth and indulges in non-Vedic rituals and activities.
On the Vedic perspective, all your religious Gods are non-Vedic Gods based on mythology. Mythology is a myth
Religious Gods are based on blind faith or belief. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because the Soul, the ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists. Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshipper and the worshipped, whereas God is nondual. One can worship his idea of God only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.
When Upanishads and Vedas declare that, “God is present in the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself” then why to accept another God in place of the Atman or worship other than the Atman.
Even Bhagavad Gita says: ~ 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.
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.
You are being conditioned by the religious myth which has made you a non-thinker. Come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth.
You are being conditioned by the religious myth which has made you a non-thinker. Come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth.
Sage Sankara’s supreme Brahman (God) is Nirguna (without the Gunas), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without attributes), and Akarta (non-agent).
Sage Sankara says: ~ Atman is Brahman (God). The Atman alone is real. He has declared this Advaitic truth, which the ultimate truth to the whole world, many centuries back.
Thus, the Atman which is present in the form of consciousness is real and eternal, the world in which we exist is merely an illusion. : ~
Manduka Upanishad: ~ “All indeed is, this Brahman; This Atman is Brahman (God). (verse-2)
While Brahman (God) lies behind the sum total of the objective universe, some human minds boggle at any attempt to explain it with only the tools provided by reason. Brahman (God) is beyond the senses, beyond the mind, beyond intelligence, beyond imagination. Indeed, the highest idea is that Brahman is beyond both existence and non-existence, transcending and including time, causation, and space, and thus can never be known in the same material sense as one traditionally 'understands' a given concept or object.
Yoga Vasistha: ~ "Teachers, interpretations of sacred texts, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of that Ultimate Truth (God) which is revealed in the clear reflection of the heart, engendered from contact with the good." : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
