Rig Veda says: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman if so what is the value of all the worship rituals, and prayers based on Mythical Gods.
Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
Do not accept any other God other than the Soul. The Soul is God in truth. Nothing is real but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Nothing matters but realizing God in truth. God in truth, is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.
God in truth, is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone, is real and eternal, and all else is an illusion.
Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.
People are not aware of the fact that there is no individual God exists, apart from the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Thus, the Soul is the true Self. If there is no Soul, then there is no physical body, no ego, no universe, no religion, and no personal Gods.
People think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one thinks of the physical entity or the ego as the Self, then there is a creator, but if one thinks of the Soul as the Self, then there is nothing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
If one objectifies and sees a universe, then he is bound to see many things besides himself and postulate a God, the creator.
The body, the idea of God, and the world rise and set together from, and into, the Soul, the ‘Self’. If God is apart from the Self, then he would be self-less, that is, outside existence, that is, non-existent.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is present in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed the Athma itself.
People, who worship the belief of God, are hallucinating that they become one with such God. Vedas itself declares: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman? Thus, to know the real God Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God-realization. Self-realization itself is real worship.
Remember:~
If people have believed a false God over millions of years, the length of time does not prove it is God in truth.
Without realizing what God is supposed to be in actuality what is the use of the prying and worshiping God.
God in truth is not what you believe and worship. Worshiping inherited belief is ignorance. If people have believed a false thing over millions of years, the length of time does not prove it true.
The reason is the common ground for the whole of humanity in the modern age, whereas the appeal to scriptural relations reaches only the sects. Those who argue that truth is only in their religion are vain logicians, depending on mere ideas, speculations, and imaginations.
Search for truth is searching to know God in truth. If you search for the ‘Self’ then you will find only the Soul. If you search for truth then you will find only the Soul. If you search for God you will find only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Thus, the Soul is the Goal. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
God is not he or she God is the Spirit. Do not physicalize God's worship. Such worships of non-Vedic Gods are barred by Vedas. All God with forms and attributes are not God in truth.
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.
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.
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 as God other than consciousness.Bhagavad Gita Chapter: ~ “All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~ "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)
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 ideal 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:~ 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 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 (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 the Soul, the ’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 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 worshipers. 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: ~
They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc. (Yajurveda 40:9)
Those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, and 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.)
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 in truth. 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 personal God as a central doctrine, whereas in the realm of truth, a personal God cannot be considered as the cause of the universe because the Soul and the Self is the cause of the universe.
First, one should not hold a God as the center of existence without verification. Both the theists and atheists are theories, it has 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 Self that is in illusion and it is 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.
Deeper self-search reveals the fact 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.
Deeper self-search reveals the fact 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 formless 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.
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 bound to be an illusion.
If the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion, it means the form; time, and space are bound to be an illusion.
If form, time, and space are merely an illusion, it means the past, present, and future are bound to be 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. One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what.:~Santthosh Kumaar
If the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion, it means the form; time, and space are bound to be an illusion.
If form, time, and space are merely an illusion, it means the past, present, and future are bound to be 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. One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what.:~Santthosh Kumaar
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