Meher Baba: ~ "There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization. +

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Do not accept any other truth other than consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth. Nothing is real but consciousness. Realize consciousness as the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. 

Consciousness is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32: ~ God is 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.

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

Since the Atman the Self is eternal and infinite, it comprises the only truth. The goal of Vedic religion is to realize that the  Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is actually nothing but Brahman or God in truth.

The Vedic Gods are said, in the Vedas and Upanishads, to be only the Atman,  For this reason, "ekam sat" (all is one), and all is Brahman. 

Thus, the goal is to realize Atman which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness. 

The Atman which is present in the form of consciousness is nothing but Brahman or God in truth.

Realization of  Ataman or consciousness as the ultimate truth or Brahman is truth realization or Self-Realization. Self-realization is God-realization because the Self is God in truth.  

Meher Baba said: ~ God is your innermost Self. Do not search for God outside of you. Let these words be inscribed in your heart. Nothing is real but God. Nothing Matters but love for God. God is everywhere and does everything. God is beyond us and is everything. God alone is and all else is an illusion. 

Meher Baba: ~ "There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization." 

Meher Baba: ~ When religion has become merely a matter of external rituals and ceremonies, it has become a cage for the Soul.

There is no need to follow religion, study scriptures or glorify Gods or gurus and follow the path of doubts and confusion by losing yourself in the labyrinths of philosophy. 

By mentally tracing the source of the mind from where it rises and subsides one becomes aware of the fallacy of the mind, which rises as waking or dream and subsides as deep sleep.  The mind rises from the consciousness and subsides as consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar