Spiritually we all are one. Religiously humanity is divided. We must realize God in truth.+

Spiritually we all are one. Religiously humanity is divided. We must realize God in truth.

When religion has become merely a matter of tradition, culture, rituals, and ceremonies, it has become a prison for the Soul, the Self the God in truth

God is the Soul, the Self. Do not search for God in this universe because God is hidden by the universe. God is hidden by the universe because the universe is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious. Nothing is real but God. No second thing exists other than the Soul, the God in actuality. God pervades everywhere and in everything. God alone is and all else is an illusion.

All those whose intelligence has been stolen by religious belief, they worship blind belief as God. God is not a Christian; God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist.

All those whose intelligence has been stolen by religious belief, they worship blind belief as God.  Religions are based on the false self (ego) within the false experience.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is required to unfold the mystery of God no belief system defines God, Spirituality only points one to God.”

Remember:~

The Soul, the Self is the only Ancient One. Realize the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self is the Soul. God is not a belief that you worship because the Soul itself is God.

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

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

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

Thus, it refers to a formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman (Soul), the  ‘Self’ within the false experience. 

Thus,  it indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imaginations based on the false self. Thus, Atman or Soul, the ‘Self’ is God in truth.

Sage Sankara:~ VC Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity with the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together (verses-6)

The liberation cannot be the result of good works, for Sruti itself declares that there is no hope for immortality by means of wealth. (Verses -7)

Sage  Sankara said:~ “Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) VivekaChudamani v 56, pg 25

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)

In Gita Chap.IV where Lord Krishna says: ~ "This yoga has been lost for ages" The word yoga refers to Gnana yoga, not other yogas: the force of the word this is to point this out.

Lord Krishna describes some of the other yogas but devotes this chapter separately to Gnana Yoga. So one sees even in those ancient days people did not care for Advaita; they wanted religion; hence,  Gnana got lost. That is why Krishna calls it "the supreme secret." Krishna points out that yoga must see "Brahman in action."

Gita Chap.IV:~ "He who achieves perfection in Yoga finds the Self in time." This means that after his yoga is finished, he begins the inquiry into ultimate truth, and in due course, this inquiry produces the realization of the universal spirit as a result.

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.

There is no need for any practice to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. 

Perfect understanding assimilation of ‘what is what’ is very much necessary to realize the ultimate truth of Brahman or God in truth.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC~"All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought

The Soul or Brahman or God in truth cannot be realized through performing ceremonies and rituals, the seeker must understand that whatever Sage  Sankara indicated, the seekers have to follow it faithfully, honestly with humility to overcome the ignorance, which is blocking their realization of the ‘Self’.

Do not make your understanding just mechanical it will then bind you, rather than free you. Let all be done with all your heart in it; then you will know that all is an illusion and God is the only Reality. 

Unless you have that realization and continual awareness ~ that continual Existence is continually infinite ~ all else is beliefs that are untrue or make no sense. :~ Santthosh Kumaar