People believe in old myths propagated by their religion. Every religion has propagated its own myth. Every religious belief contradicts other beliefs. It is mere blind belief accepted as truth without verification and evidence. This causes division. Modern science has exposed many Religious dogmas as myth. All these dogmas were introduced in the primitive era before people had the benefit of modern science. Science attempts to objectively discover how life works, and religion makes one blindly believe and cast his burden on the blind belief without verification, to live in peace and harmony in worldly life.
The Seekers main aim is to investigate both dual and nondual experiences to find and define the underlying truth in everything, thereby realizing what the ultimate truth is. The religion has propagated diverse ideas of God. There is no universality in religious God.
Seekers of truth are neither believers of religiously propagated belief of God nor atheists to declare that there is no God. The seekers of truth will not accept the belief blindly without verification.
The religionist and atheists both are believers because religionists believe in the belief of God and atheists believe in the belief of no God.
All the Gods with form and attributes are mythical Gods introduced by religion are not God in truth.
Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (Advaitic 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)
Advaitic reality there is neither God nor Goddess but only the consciousness. The consciousness is the real God.
The Bhagavad Gita: ~ 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 other than consciousness a God.
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 is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.
It is for every seeker who is seeking truth must first know what God supposed to be in actuality according to Vedas and Upanishads and reject all non-Vedic Gods to realize the Atman is real 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 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 innermost ‘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 innermost ‘Self’ is God.
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 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’.
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad declares: "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)
A great majority of Hindus are not in contact with their religious history therefore, they believe their inherited beliefs as ultimate truth.
The Vedas confirms God is Atman (Spirit), the 'Self’.
The pursuit of truth is all about accepting uncertainty and open questions and seeking for the things that are a certainty. Believers and nonbelievers will not accept anything other than their inherited belief system or accepted truth.
Atheists feel there is no proof for God’s existence. So atheist chooses to just believe there is no such thing called God. And religionists just believe in the existence of their conceptual God.
A Gnani is one who is fully aware of the fact that, the existence or non-existence of God cannot be proven on the basis of physical Self. Therefore, deeper understanding and realization is necessary to understand and assimilate the truth about Gods existence to know what is supposed to be the God.
Rig Veda: ~ May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman
In Vedas, the God (soul/Atman) has been described as: ~
v Sakshi (witness)
v Chetan (conscious)
v Nirguna (without form and properties)
v Nitya (eternal)
v Shuddha (pure)
v Buddha (omniscient)
v Mukta (unattached).
All the above-mentioned description is the nature of the Soul (Atman).
RIG VEDA: ~ The Atman (Soul) is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman the innermost self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)
The Upanishads say in effect that: ~ if you believe that the Soul is one and God (Brahman) is another you cannot understand Truth.
Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth."
Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”. And never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman
It means the ultimate truth is God. That is Atman is Brahman. That is the Soul, the innermost Self, is the ultimate truth. Thus, the ‘Soul’ is ‘God’.
The Soul, the innermost Self, is in the form of the Spirit (consciousness) is the ultimate truth and it is God.
The Soul is hidden within the mind. And the mind is within the Soul. The mind is present in the form of the universe and the Soul is present in the form of the consciousness. The universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality). The one that witnesses the coming and going of the three states is the Soul. on the standpoint of the Soul, the three states which come and goes are mere an illusion.
The mind is within the Soul and Soul is within the mind.
The chicken is in the egg and the egg is in the chicken. The tree is in the seed and the seed is in the tree.
The same thing that was told by the Vedas was repeated by the Saint John (10-38)~ Father is in me and I am in Father.
Thus, the father (Spirit or Soul) is our immediate, neighbor- love thy neighbor. Therefore, one has to love the Spirit or Soul or God, in order to become one with the formless Spirit or Soul or God. The Spirit is the creator, sustainer, and dissolver of the dualistic illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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