Religion creates separation, whereas Sprituality or Adyathma brings unity in diversity.+
Religion creates separation, whereas God in truth is unity in diversity.
People believe in old myths propagated by their religion. Every religion has propagated its own myth. Every religious belief contradicts other beliefs. It is the mere blind belief accepted as the truth without verification and evidence. This causes division.
What have the prayers, rituals, and worship of religious Gods done for the people all over the world? What is the use of praying or worshipping God without knowing what God is supposed to be in actuality?
That is why Swami Vivekananda: ~ ‘The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods, and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods?
Knowing this, stand up and fight! Not one step back, that is the idea. ... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of garments. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. ... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune. You have cried to all the Gods in the world. Has misery ceased? The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods? ... The Gods come to help you when you have succeeded. So, what is the use? Die game. This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind, does not befit you, my Soul. You are infinite, deathless, and birthless. Because you are the 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. You are the entire world. Who can help you? - Swami Vivekananda (Delivered In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900) -The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita II
When an earthquake and cloudburst happened in the Himalayas, one temple did not wash away. People said it is a miracle of God: Such an argument is of no value because their God did not save the people and their property, which washed away in the floods or disappeared.
The ignorant people believe in religiously propagated blind belief as God. The wise man believes the religious Gods are a falsehood.
A Gnani has realized the invisible and unborn Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness as the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. If one realizes what is supposed to be God in truth, he will never again pray or worship the God of his belief.
Religion is so strong and popular because it makes no demand on the intelligence: It simply requires blind belief in the religious idea of God.
The religious believers never doubt their religion and religious beliefs. They never use their reason, because they start and conclude that the religion they belong alone is true, because they never question.
Advaita is the scientific God because the nature of God is Advaita. Advaita means existence one without the second. Advaita is hidden by the universe, which is Dvaita. Without the Advaita, the universe or Dvaita is non-existent. From the standpoint of Advaita, the Dvaita is merely an illusion.
Gnani helps the seeker of truth and leads them always step by step, just as they can go, and knows that every step until they realize the Advaita (God) hidden by the Dvaita(Maya or illusion).
Religious Gods are based on blind belief. God, based on blind belief, is not God in truth. The religious God cannot be considered as the cause of the universe because the invisible and unborn Soul, the Self, is the cause of the universe.
Without the invisible Soul, the world in which you exist ceases to exist; it means the religious God is dependent on the invisible Soul for his existence.
God in truth is only the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The 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 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.
There is no God but God. There is no God because the world in which we exist is merely an illusion created out of God, the Spirit.
Call it by any name, God is universal. God belongs to the whole of humanity. Religion creates separation. God is unity in diversity. God is one which the cause of the whole world in which humanity exists.
There is no God but God means the world in which we exist is an illusion, GOD is the cause of the world is real and eternal. God alone is real, and all else is an illusion. There is no second thing that exists other than the Spirit, which is God in truth; thus, God in truth is Advaita.
The Vedas confirm that God is Atman (Spirit), the Self
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ It has been said that 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.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
People who worship God based on blind belief are hallucinating that they become one with such God.
Vedas itself says: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman? Thus, to know the real God, Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God realization. Self-realization is real worship.
How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshipper and the worshiped, 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 the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself, then why accept another God in place of the Atman or worship anything other than the Atman?
God is the Supreme Being, the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness and intelligence, which is beyond form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many gods. (7- Verse -20)
Only the path of wisdom leads the seeker of truth on his journey to the ultimate realization of the true nature of the Universal Essence, which is the invisible Soul. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.
Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Atman, worships ‘Self’ as~ Atman (God) alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare."
The Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) 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.
Most people are not capable of understanding the falsity propagated by religion, so it is useless to invoke their capacity to think. They fall prey to the prison of the falsity propagated by the religion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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