The idea of God as a creator holds good theoretically. The creator and creation theory is the dualistic theory.

The idea of God as a creator holds good theoretically. The creator and creation theory is the dualistic theory. Every religion has its own idea of creator and creation and heaven hell, paradise, sin, and karma.

All the religious theories are based on the dualistic perspective. From the non-dualistic perspective, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is God in truth.

Glorifying God and Guru is not needed to acquire Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ The Higher your ideal is, the more miserable you are,' for such a thing as an ideal cannot be attained in the world — or in this life, even. He who wants perfection in the world is a madman — for it cannot be. How can you find the infinite in the finite?

Only an intense urge and receptiveness to know the truth of true existence is needed in pursuit of truth. You have to get rid of all the accumulated knowledge of religion and yoga and start afresh to realize the truth, which is hidden by ignorance(I).

You have to be free from all sorts of egocentric knowledge such as religious and yogic or any sort of philosophical knowledge.

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)

When one goes into deeper self-search you will become aware that Advaitic wisdom expounded by Sage  Sankara has been hidden.

That is why Sage Sankara says:~ VC-65- As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it, and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

Therefore, you should personally strive by all means to be free from the bondage of ignorance (I).

The Advaitic wisdom is nothing to do with orthodox preaching and practice because Advaitic orthodoxy is dogmatism. The Advaitic orthodoxy has to be discarded if one wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Yoga Vasistha:~ "Teachers, interpretations of sacred texts, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of that Ultimate Truth which is revealed in the clear reflection of the heart, engendered from contact with the good."

It is necessary for the seeker to do his homework, and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what orthodox pundits expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is obtained.

Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is only being true knowledge not the absence of duality. Self -Knowledge cannot destroy the world but it eliminates ignorance and exposes the unreal nature of the mind or the universe. 

Remember:~

The only real knowledge is Self- Knowledge. The knowledge of the Soul is hidden by the dualistic illusion.

The idea of the creation and creator within the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the idea of creation and creator waking world becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. The wisdom dawns when the waking entity realizes the fact that, the matter is created out of Spirit.

Without the Spirit (consciousness) there is no matter. The Spirit alone is real and all else is merely an illusion created out of the spirit or consciousness.

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

You, search for the ‘Self’ you will find only the Soul. You, search for truth and you will find only the Soul. You, search for God you will find only the Soul.

Thus, the Soul is the Goal. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God.

What exists with or without the world, in which you exist, is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

When the Soul remains in its own awareness in the midst of the world, in which you exist, it is in its swa swaroopa or Self-awareness.

The unreal is created out of the real. The Soul is the fullness of consciousness without any division. A Gnani is fully aware of the division of form, time, and space is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Thus, consciousness is one without the second. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar