Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God) is impersonal.+

The idols are symbols of personal Gods with form names and attributes. All idolized Gods are not God in truth. Worshipping such a God keeps one permanently in the prison of ignorance.

God has to be realized not worshipped. All beliefs and worship, rituals are meant for the ignorant populace. First, one has to realize what ‘God’ supposed to be is in actuality.

In Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ “It has been said that God Supreme or 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.

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 as God other than consciousness.

Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know ‘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.

God is not a part but God is whole. God pervades everything and everywhere in the universe because the universe is nothing but an illusion. Seeing God as a part is ignorance.

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)

Yajur Veda indicates that: ~

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." (Yajur Veda 40:9.)

Even 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)

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~"He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from God (Atman) does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10) 

Remember:~

Why worship anything of the creation (illusion) as God when the creator of the illusion is the ‘Soul,’ the ‘Self’.

The Soul has nothing to do with the creation because creation is merely an illusion, the illusion has no value, from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self. In the realm of the Soul, there is neither creator nor creation but it is only a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

People of small intelligence follow religion and believe that the world was created by God. But how do they know that He did so? When a pot is created, one can see both the pot and its maker, but not in the case of the world.

Then there is the question which nobody has answered till now, viz. Why did God create all these evils, these sufferings? Even a father would never do that. If He did so, assuming that God did create, then what sort of an evil God is He! All religions which begin with "God created the world," are fit only for children. It is a lie; it is inconsistent and fit only for ignorant people.

It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘’what is untruth’. It takes time for the Soul, the innermost Self to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God in truh) is impersonal.

The dualists (Dvaita) Sages see God as the imaginer, but where is the proof. Nobody has seen God creating. You have seen no other creator, whether God or angel. The only ‘Self’ is left. Therefore, the ‘Self’ ‘is the creator because imagining means creating. The Dvaita and Religionists are based on the imagination based on the false ‘Self’ (ego).

The Puranic Gods are not real Gods. Puranic Gods are mythological Gods based on mythology. Mythological Gods are a myth. Their reality is dependent on the dualistic illusion. Such Gods cease to exist without ignorance. The reality these imagery Gods have a meaning within the dualistic illusion. So the dualistic sages did not prove the existence of attributed Gods beyond their accepted belief.

Dualist sages say God cannot exist without attributes. Then they are making God as an object whereas God is the subject. Attributes can only be seen in the objective world. Causality appears in the duality, but when one goes deeper into the matter even there the causality disappears.

Who else but the ‘Self’ could have imagined the objective world? The dualist thinkers see God as the imaginer but where is the proof. Nobody has seen God creating. You have seen no other creator, whether God or angel. The only ‘Self’ is left. Therefore ‘Self’ is the creator because imagining means creating. The dualists talk nonsense. The dualistic God with forms, names, and attributes is mere imagination based on blind belief.

Blind belief is not God. The belief belongs to the dualistic illusion. Without the dualistic illusion, the dualistic God with forms, names, and attributes ceases to exist. So, the dualists cannot prove God without the blind belief of God with forms, names, and attributes

Where people cannot and do not think, they follow the path of blind devotion to the belief-based Gods.

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)

Sage  Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). It is above all needs and desires. It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as it is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other besides it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described because the description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not a distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman and not just Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

The ultimate truth or Brahman must be independent of religion, that in Sage Sri, Sankara himself the Saguna Brahman or a personal God is only a part of the phenomenal (if not illusory) world, and the Nirguna Brahman is the only reality and has nothing to do with religion.

Sage Sankara pokes fun at ascetics and points out that all their austerities do not cause desires to go (Altar Flowers" Page 205, v.2 P.207 v.4)

The Brahma Sutras together with Sage  Sankara's commentary thereon do not contain the higher wisdom. They are intended for those who are incapable of thinking rationally. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar