When the Self is realized then the falsity of the religion and its idea of God and heaven and hell and sin and karma is exposed.+

When the Self is realized then the falsity of the religion and its idea of God and heaven and hell and sin and karma is exposed.

Religion is a prison of ignorance. People who follow it are locked up in ignorance. God in truth is not what people who believe and worship.

The belief or faith-based is not God in truth.

From the Vedic perspective, all your religious Gods are non-Vedic Gods based on imagination.

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. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

The Religions are based on personal God whereas 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). God is above all needs and desires. God is always the Witnessing Subject. God can never become an object as God is beyond the reach of the senses. God is non-dual, one without a second. God has no other besides it. God is destitute of difference, either external or internal. God cannot be described because the description implies a distinction. God cannot be distinguished from any other than God. In God, there is not distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constituted the very essence or Svarupa of God, and not just God's attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

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.

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

Only the path of wisdom leads the seeker of truth on his journey to the ultimate realization of the true nature of the Universal Essence, which is the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Remember:~

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Atman, worships ‘Self’ as~ Atman (Godin truth) alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare."

Religious Gods are based on blind faith or belief. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because the Soul, the ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists.

Even The Bhagavad Gita says: ~ 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.

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

Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious Gods are dependent on the Soul for their existence. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

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

Constant remembrance of the nature of God leads to Self-awareness, which itself is God-awareness.:~Santthosh Kumaar