Whatever appeared in a vision as God with form and attributes is not God in truth.+

The invisible Soul is the root element of the universe. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

From the Soul, the universe comes into existence. In the invisible Soul, the universe resides. And into the invisible Soul, the universe is diss invisible olved. The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the parent of all that is there.

The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman, or God in truth.

Chandogya Upanishad: ~ sarvam khalvidam brahma ~ All this (universe) is verily Brahman (consciousness). By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality.

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).

The consciousness is the only reality in which the universe exists, to which the universe belongs; from which the universe has emerged, which is the cause of the universe, and which itself is uncaused. Thus, the universe is nothing but consciousness.

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.

Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita confirm that the invisible Soul, the Self, is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness.

The real God is stolen by ignorance, and people worship ignorance as God because the religion propagates a false God as the real God.

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 seeker must know the difference between the religious God and the spiritual God. Religious gods are based on the belief that God in truth, is Spirit.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ “The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods, and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods? (In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900, of swami Vivekananda/volume 1)

Religion breeds superstition because religion is based on blind belief. Whatever is based on blind belief is superstition. God in truth is not belief. One must know God in truth.

Without knowing what God is supposed to be in actuality, worshipping belief of God is superstition. Worshipping superstitious Gods barred by the Vedas. Know what God is supposed to be according to the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and the Bible.

No one has ever seen God by practicing religion or yoga or indulging in glorifying the religious God and Goddesses because God exists prior to form, time, and space.

The form, time, and space cease to exist as a reality when wisdom dawns. Thus, the Gods and Gurus have no place in the domain of the Advaitic reality.

Advaita is the nature of the Soul, which is the real God. Thus, the Self-realization is the only way to God realization. By worshipping the religious Gods and Gurus, one will not get Self-realization or God-realization.

Religious Gods are based on the belief, form, and attributes, whereas the God in truth is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Whatever appeared in a vision as God with form and attributes is not God in truth.

Yajur Veda – chapter- 32: ~ God Supreme or 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 the Vedas.

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 Self? May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

It is for every seeker who is seeking truth must first know what God is supposed to be in actuality, according to the Vedas and Upanishads, and reject all non-Vedic Gods to realize the Atman is the real God.

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

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

Thus, it refers to a formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman (Soul), the Self within the false experience. It indicates clearly that all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false self.

Thus, Atman or Soul, the Self, is God in truth. The Vedas do not talk about idol worship. In fact, till about 2000 years ago, followers of Vedism never worshiped idols. Idol worship was started by the followers of Buddhism and Jainism.

Vedas speak of one God that is the supreme Self, i.e., Atman or Soul, but Hinduism indulges in worshiping 60 million Gods. It indicates clearly that all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false self.

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad declares: "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)

If you want truth realization, then reject all non-Vedic Gods to realize the Atman is the Vedic God, Advaita is the one without a second. Self-realization is Truth realization. Truth realization is God realization. God realization is real worship.

The invisible Soul, the inner Guru, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal when the seeker is receptive and ready. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana has nothing to do with yogis, mystics, and religious Gurus.

Religion and yoga are based on the ego, which is the false self within the dualistic illusion (waking), whereas Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the knowledge of the invisible Soul, the Self.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana pries into the reality, which is beyond form, time, and space, whereas religion and yoga are within the domain of form, time, and space.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana invalidates all the religious and yogic theories, which are based on birth, life, death, and religious beliefs, and the world.

Advaitic truth is very easy, but it is most difficult to assimilate because of the inherited beliefs and accumulated knowledge.

Without dropping all the inherited beliefs and accumulated knowledge that are based on the illusory form, time, and space, it is difficult to understand and assimilate the knowledge of the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. ~ Santthosh Kumaar