God taking flesh in human form to save humanity. All these suddenly appeared after the entry of St, Thomas.+

 As we peep into the annals of religious history, we find that the Vedas are in the Vedic language, which was a high-class language. Rig Veda (excluding chapters II and X) was written before the Christian era in the Vedic language. Vedic language is not Sanskrit. It is the same language in which the Zoroastrian Scripture Zend Avesta is written – a form of Persian language. All the other scriptures of India are written in Sanskrit.

These include Rig Veda Chapter II and X and the Upanishads, Brahmanas, Puranas, and the Vedantas. These were written during the Christian era after the Thomas ministry. As the use of this language diminished, it became a tough language for the commoners. The priests, who were supposed to be experts on this language, translated it into the Sanskrit language and manipulated the meanings in time, and gradually, all the practices changed.

The DaVita, Vedanta borrows the concept from Abrahamic religions, such as Eternal Damanation (of certain souls destined to hell forever), which goes against the belief of most Vedanta schools, which state that the soul must attain liberation.

It looks like the creator & creation theory is also borrowed from the Abrahamic religion, and on the base new belief system has been introduced, giving it a Vedic outlook and propagating all non-Vedic rituals and worship by someone in the past.

St. Thomas is said to have come to India to spread Christianity in the first century AD. It first spread among the people of the Malabar Coast and in areas near present-day Madras.

There is a total discontinuity in the concept of God before and after the entry of St Thomas. As one goes deeper into the annals of religious history then we become aware of the fact that the Vedic Gods were personifications of Nature, and their worship essentially involved sacrifices to these Natural Forces to appease them.

All of a sudden, by the first century, we encounter Vedanta. Vedanta literally means “End of the Vedas,” though it is today interpreted as "the essence of the Vedas."

Vedanta, which appeared as theological discourses, presents a supreme Godhead, “Para Brahman’. Such an idea was not even remotely conceivable in the Vedic context.

New Gods like Maheshwar and Vishnu appeared. The concept of Maheshwar. Vishnu means Sky or Heavens. Vishnu simply means God of the Heaven lies or one who pervades everything. Then we have the concept of incarnation – God taking flesh in human form to save humanity. All these suddenly appeared after the entry of St, Thomas.

In Vedas, the God has been described as: ~

In the Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God IS Supreme Spirit.

Vedas and Upanishads confirm that God is the invisible and unborn Soul, the Self, is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness.

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)

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 is.

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

There is a clear-cut idea of God in the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita. And also there is a clear-cut idea of what not to worship as God in place of the real God.

That is why Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

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 other than consciousness.

Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know me 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 are no dualities, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (Advaita wisdom) has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita ~ Chap ~IV~ v.2)

There is a different grade mindset, which is unable to grasp the God in truth. The Advaitic wisdom requires sharpness to grasp the truth which is beyond form, time, and space. Just by sitting mindlessly and imagining you are seeing God keeps you in the prison of the dualistic illusion.

Realize the invisible Soul, the Self, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness itself, is God. Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist. And consciousness itself is uncaused.

Thus, the truth realization itself is God realization because the ultimate truth is Brahman or God in truth. Self-realization is God realization, and God realization is real worship.

Whereas the Vedas reveal ONE GOD, but Hinduism is filled with 33 crores of Gods. Vedas reveal God as Spirit (Atman or Brahman) and no form, whereas Hinduism worships God in the form of various non-Vedic idols of Gods and Goddesses, which are barred by Vedas.

Vedas say that God does not have any form and exists as light, but in Hinduism, people worship idols with their inherited personal God.

It indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false self (ego). The ideas of conceptual Gods are a reality, from the base of false self (ego) within the false experience (waking).

All the religions and its belief of gods and their scriptures are based on the false self. Thus, their idea of God is based on blind belief in their religious doctrine.

In Advaita lord means Atman and Atman means Brahman.

Brihad Upanishad declares:~ "If you think there is another entity, whether man or God, there is no truth." This is the teaching, since time immemorial, of those who have inquired into the truth.

From the ultimate point of view, the individualized God does not exist, because God's existence implies that the Self is different from God. Any kind of difference means a contradiction. Nothing whatsoever other than the consciousness exists thus, for non-dualists the consciousness itself is the ultimate truth and the ultimate truth is God. Nonduality means the negation of the ‘I’, which is the cause of the division of the form, time, and space.

The ultimate Truth is not only that which is beyond contradiction, but also that in which is no possibility of contradiction. Such a state can only be realized as non-duality, where there is no second thing other than consciousness. :–Santthosh Kumaar