Rituals and sacrifices belong to a premature stage of development.
Struggle for life presses a person to indulge in religious rituals. prayers and worship.
Faith in religion weakens as the man pays more attention
to the practical life within the practical world.
Those who argue that God is only in their religion are vain logicians,
depending on the blind belief propagated by their religion.
If God is everywhere, then he is in dead bodies. Why then do you burn or
bury your God? You can't get rid of God.
To remove doubts the seeker ought not to run away from them, as the
yogis and mystics do: he should not stop seeking until he finds and realizes
what God is supposed to be in actuality.
People say I know God exists always implies they must also exist always.
They just imagine that way. They are unaware of what is God in actuality.
Make sure what God is according to the Vedas. And what happens if you
worship non-Vedic Gods.
The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.
Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul or Spirit) 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 God is Atman, then why believe and
worship in place of the real God.
Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man
or God there is no truth."
God is not physical. God is present in the form of the Spirit. The
Spirit is the cause of the world and the Spirit itself is uncaused.
From the standpoint of the Spirit, the form, time, space, and name are
merely an illusion. The spirit alone is real and all else is an illusion. In
reality, the spirit (God) matter (the world in which we exist) is one.
As indicated in ISH Upanishads:
~ ‘By worshipping Gods and Goddesses
you will go after death to the world of Gods and Goddesses. But will that help
you? The time you spend there is wasted because if you were not there you could
have spent that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is your goal.
In the world of Gods and Goddesses, you cannot do that, and thus you go deeper
and deeper into the darkness.
That is why Swami Vivekananda: ~
The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and
still die like dogs. Where are these Gods?
Knowing this, stand up and fight! Not one step back
that is the idea. ... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the
sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of
garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. ...
Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune. You have cried to all
the Gods in the world. Has misery ceased? The masses in India cry to sixty
million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods? ... The Gods come
to help you when you have succeeded. So what is the use? Die game. ... This
bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind does
not befit you, my soul. You are infinite, deathless, and birthless. Because you
are the infinite spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. ... Arise! Awake!
Stand up and fight! Die if you must. There is none to help you. You are the
entire world. Who can help you? ~ Swami
Vivekananda (Delivered In San Francisco, on May 28,
1900) -The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures and
Discourses/The Gita II
As indicated in ISH Upanishads:
~ By worshipping Gods and Goddesses
you will go after death to the world of Gods and Goddesses. But will that help
you? The time you spend there is wasted because if you were not there you could
have spent that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is your goal.
In the world of Gods and Goddesses, you cannot do that, and thus you go deeper
and deeper into the darkness.
Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
God in truth is the Atman, the Self. Atman is present in the form of consciousness. Do not accept any other God other than Atman not worship other than Atman.
Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious. Nothing is real but God. Nothing Matters but love for God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything.
God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is and all else is an illusion.
Yajur Veda – 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.
Yajurveda: ~ There is no image of God in truth. God in truth is unborn and eternal. (Chapter 32, Verse 3)
Yajurveda: ~ God in truth is nondual and pure."
Yajurveda: ~ They are entering darkness, those who worship the natural things (like air, water, fire, etc.), they are sinking more in darkness who worship created things." (Chapter 40, Verse 9)
Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.
Vedas and Upanishads confirm the Soul, the ‘Self’, is present in the form of the Spirit or the consciousness.
And also, in Yajurveda says: ~
Translation 1
They enter darkness, those who worship natural
things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc.).
They sink deeper into 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 Prakriti -- the material cause of the world --
in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of
the Prakriti, 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." [Yajur Veda 40:9.]
So, Yajur Veda indicates that: ~
They sink deeper into ignorance than those who worship visible things such as the earth, trees, and bodies (humans and the like) in place of God.
When the religion of the Veda knows no idols, then why so many Gods and
Goddesses with different forms and names are being propagated as Vedic Gods.
Why
these conceptual Gods are introduced when the Vedic concept of God is free from
form and attributes.
It indicates clearly all the Puranic Gods with form and name, and their
worship and rituals were introduced by replacing in place of Vedic rituals and
modified books of the code of conduct.
Thus the pure Vedic rituals have been
replaced by the founders of present-day Hinduism, the reason best known to
them. When the Vedic goal is Self-realization all these Puranic-based
understanding and knowledge are the misguided direction to the seekers of truth.
It clearly indicates that if the human goal is to acquire
Self-Knowledge then why indulge in rituals and glorify the
conceptual Gods, Goddesses, and gurus to go into deeper ignorance. Instead,
spend that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma
Gnana, which is one’s prime goal.
: ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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