The followers of the Vedic Religion or Santana Dharma never worshiped idols because the Vedic God is Athma. The Vedas bars idol worship.
Max Müller says: ~ “The religion of the Veda knows no idols; the worship of idols in India is a secondary formation, a degradation of the more primitive worship of idol Gods."
Hindus are idol worshipers of the large numbers of Gods and Goddesses whereas Vedas say God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ Godis Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.
Hindus are idol worshipers of the large numbers of Gods and Goddesses whereas Vedas say God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ Godis 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 Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)
Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.
Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman, then why believe and worship anything else in place of the real God.
Thus, Atman the Self is God. Thus, Self-realization itself is real worship. ‘Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to get realization.
Hindus are idol worshipers of the large numbers of Gods and Goddesses whereas Vedas say God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman.
Chandogya Upanishad Chapter: ~ ekam evadvitiyam ~ God is only one without a second. (6- Section- 2- Verse- 1)
According to Vedas the Atman the Self is God.
Shiv is not a Vedic God. All the gods and Goddesses with form, name, and attributes belong to Hinduism, not of the Vedic religion or Santana Dharma.
God and Goddesses are religious concepts. Whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person within the dualistic illusion (world) is a falsehood.
Thus, it refers to a formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman, the Self within the false experience. Thus, it indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are merely imaginations based on the false self. Thus, Atman or the 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 Jains. There is logic to idol worship. 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 all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imaginations based on the false self.
The Vedas as a body of scripture contains many contradictions and they are fragmentary in nature.
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 Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)
Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.
Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman, then why believe and worship anything else in place of the real God.
Thus, Atman the Self is God. Thus, Self-realization itself is real worship. ‘Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to get realization.
Hindus are idol worshipers of the large numbers of Gods and Goddesses whereas Vedas say God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman.
Chandogya Upanishad Chapter: ~ ekam evadvitiyam ~ God is only one without a second. (6- Section- 2- Verse- 1)
According to Vedas the Atman the Self is God.
Shiv is not a Vedic God. All the gods and Goddesses with form, name, and attributes belong to Hinduism, not of the Vedic religion or Santana Dharma.
God and Goddesses are religious concepts. Whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person within the dualistic illusion (world) is a falsehood.
Thus, it refers to a formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman, the Self within the false experience. Thus, it indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are merely imaginations based on the false self. Thus, Atman or the 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 Jains. There is logic to idol worship. 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 all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imaginations based on the false self.
The Vedas as a body of scripture contains many contradictions and they are fragmentary in nature.
For Hindus, scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Puranas are more attractive and appealing than the Vedas. And also the Gods and Goddesses they worship differ considerably from the Vedic ones.
The collection of hymns called Vedas is written in praise of certain deities by poets over several centuries and does not seem to have much significance for the Hindus.
Yajur Veda says: ~
Translation 1
They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc).
They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc.) (Yajurveda 40:9)
Translation 2
Deep into the shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent." (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Griffith pg 538)
Translation 3
"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." (Yajurveda 40:9.)
So, Yajur Veda indicates: ~
Those who worship visible things, such as the earth, trees, and bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater ignorance.
Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.
Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman, then why believe and worship anything else in place of the real God.
Thus, Atman the Self is God. Thus, Self-realization is real worship. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to get realization.
To acquire Self -knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the seeker has to realize his inherited religion is adulterated in the past and it becomes a great obstacle is realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The Seeker's aim is the search for the Ultimate Truth or Brahman. The search to find the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth that in actuality never was lost, only hidden.
Upanishad aspiration is best expressed in the following sutra: ~
OM Asato ma sad gaMaya, tamaso ma jyotir gaMaya, mrityor ma aamritaam gaMaya. Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
"OM Lead me from ignorance to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. Peace, Peace, Peace" (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1/3/28)).
The belief system was coherent because they had a transcendent individualized God as a central doctrine, whereas in the realm of truth, an individualized God cannot be considered as the center. After all, the Soul and the Self is the center of all that exists.
First, one should not hold a God as the center of existence without verification. Both the theists and atheists are theories, they have nothing to do with ultimate truth or Brahman.
Remember:~
Yajur Veda says: ~
Translation 1
They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc).
They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc.) (Yajurveda 40:9)
Translation 2
Deep into the shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent." (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Griffith pg 538)
Translation 3
"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." (Yajurveda 40:9.)
So, Yajur Veda indicates: ~
Those who worship visible things, such as the earth, trees, and bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater ignorance.
Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.
Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman, then why believe and worship anything else in place of the real God.
Thus, Atman the Self is God. Thus, Self-realization is real worship. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to get realization.
To acquire Self -knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the seeker has to realize his inherited religion is adulterated in the past and it becomes a great obstacle is realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The Seeker's aim is the search for the Ultimate Truth or Brahman. The search to find the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth that in actuality never was lost, only hidden.
Upanishad aspiration is best expressed in the following sutra: ~
OM Asato ma sad gaMaya, tamaso ma jyotir gaMaya, mrityor ma aamritaam gaMaya. Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
"OM Lead me from ignorance to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. Peace, Peace, Peace" (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1/3/28)).
The belief system was coherent because they had a transcendent individualized God as a central doctrine, whereas in the realm of truth, an individualized God cannot be considered as the center. After all, the Soul and the Self is the center of all that exists.
First, one should not hold a God as the center of existence without verification. Both the theists and atheists are theories, they have nothing to do with ultimate truth or Brahman.
Remember:~
Swami Vivekananda:- The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods?
If you seeking the truth then you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being a man or woman or even human should be discarded because the Self is not you but the Soul.
All the attributes are merely an illusion. It is the Soul, the Self that is in illusion and it is the Soul, the Self that has to get free from the bondage of the illusion. The illusion is present in the form of the mind.
The mind is in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. The individual experiences of birth, life, death, and the world are within the waking experience. The dream is a parallel waking experience and waking is a parallel dream.
Remember:~
Deeper self-search reveals that the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity but the Self is formless Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession without the physical apparatus. This has to be mentally grasped and assimilated to realize the invisible Soul, the Self is nothing to do with the three states. From the standpoint of the three states, the three states are merely an illusion.
The practical life within the practical world, which is present as the waking experience, is merely an illusion. If the waking experience is merely an illusion then the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion.
If the experience of birth, life, death, and the world are mere illusion, it means the form; time, and space are mere illusion.
If form, time, and space are merely an illusion, it means the past, present, and future are merely an illusion.
Thus the seeker must realize that form, time and space are one in essence, to realize the three states are one in essence. That essence is consciousness.
Deeper self-search reveals that the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity but the Self is formless Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession without the physical apparatus. This has to be mentally grasped and assimilated to realize the invisible Soul, the Self is nothing to do with the three states. From the standpoint of the three states, the three states are merely an illusion.
The practical life within the practical world, which is present as the waking experience, is merely an illusion. If the waking experience is merely an illusion then the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion.
If the experience of birth, life, death, and the world are mere illusion, it means the form; time, and space are mere illusion.
If form, time, and space are merely an illusion, it means the past, present, and future are merely an illusion.
Thus the seeker must realize that form, time and space are one in essence, to realize the three states are one in essence. That essence is consciousness.
Thus, all the diversity is created out of formless consciousness. Thus no second thing exists other than the Soul, the Self.
The seeker of truth has to constantly reflect on the subject to get a firm conviction of the truth. The seeker has to reflect on the same truth again and again until it becomes reality.
The seeker of truth has to constantly reflect on the subject to get a firm conviction of the truth. The seeker has to reflect on the same truth again and again until it becomes reality.
One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what.:~Santthosh Kumaar
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