Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the Knowledge of God in truth.+

If there is a God, then prove it. If there is a Goddess, then prove it right here, right now. Religious doctrine dogmatically assumes the existence of an individualized God.

Kena Upanishad (6) Chapter I: ~ “That which cannot be apprehended by the mind, but by which, they say, the mind is apprehended- That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (7) Chapter I:~ “That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which the eye is perceived- That alone is known as Brahman and not that which people here worship.

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Chapter I:~ “That which cannot he heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived- That alone is known as Brahman and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (9)- Chapter I:~ “That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an object- That alone is known as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

In the Vedas, God has been described as: ~

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 Supreme or Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

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." (Yajurveda 40:9.)

Upanishads: ~

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

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~ "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)

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

Thus, it proves that the non-Vedic Gods the people believe and worship today are not God in truth because the Vedic God is Atma.

The only real knowledge is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the Knowledge of God in truth is hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

God, who appears to the mystic in meditation or penance, is merely a hallucination because whatever is known, seen, believed, and experienced as a person within the waking experience is a falsehood because waking experience itself is a falsehood. From the ultimate standpoint, there is no value in such a claim.

When one does not know the truth, then he can only guess, imagine, hence doubts and questions, and discussions arise.

One says God is Light. Again, the light may take different colors, then which color is correct? Some people contend that God is sound and say one hears the Aum sound, sound inside in meditation, still others say God is in the form of a fragrant smell, and that beautiful scent comes in meditation as the presence of God.

All these differences of opinion, they can be endless, show mutual contradiction and general error, i.e., lack of certain truth. Moreover, if one sees a light, he is seeing a second thing or duality. Where there is duality, there is no reality.

God is impotent, incompetent, or lacking in intelligence--if he exists! But all Gods propagated by belief systems are

nothing but imagination based on the false self (waking entity or ego) within false experience (waking).

There is nothing so absurd that men have not worshiped in religion; every imaginable face has been given to God. If God is created, then it is foolish to worship anything as a God from his creation because the creation is apart from God.

A Gnani does not start with the idea of God. He does not know whether there is a God or not. There is no proof.

If anyone mentions God, he must prove his existence. Just because he has inherited a belief from his forefathers, it cannot be taken as proof, because every religionist has their own God based on blind belief. Thus, the religious idea of God is individual, not universal. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar