Meher Baba said: ~ God is your innermost Self. Do not search for God outside of you. Let these words be inscribed in your heart. Nothing is real but God. Nothing Matters but love for God. God is everywhere and does everything. God is beyond us and is everything. God alone is and all else is an illusion.
The Bible says: ~ God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)
God is not physical but God is the Spirit. God is the ultimate truth. Know God in truth that truth will set you free.
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: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
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.
Vedas declare: 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 is real worship.
Ishopanishad:~ "They are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worships the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God and those who worship things born of matter like trees, animals, man, etc. are sunk deeper in misery."
When Upanishads say they are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worships the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God (Atman) and those who worship things born of matter (illusion) are sunk deeper in misery then why worship God in place of the real God., which is Ataman. The dualistic worship of personal “Gods” is only for the ignorant populace. God in truth is only Atman, the innermost Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.
Yajurveda says not to worship the things which are part of the falsehood.
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 worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent." (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Giffith 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."(Yajur Veda 40:9.)
So, Yajur Veda indicates that if you worship non-Gods as Gods: ~ Those who worship visible things, such as the earth, trees, and bodies (humans and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater ignorance and suffering.
People, who worship the belief of God, are hallucinating that they become one with such God.
To know what God is, we must know what Self is. In deeper Self-search we become aware of the fact that our body, ego, and our experience of the universe are created out of single stuff, which is the Soul or the consciousness.
Due to ignorance, we identify the Soul with the body and we become egocentric. When we become aware of the fact that, the Self is not the form but the Self is formless then we become Soul-centric and realize the fact that all the three states are merely an illusion created out of consciousness.
Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth. Consciousness is the Self. The ultimate truth is Brahman or God in truth
Thus, the seekers move ahead and reach the nondual destination through this mental (inner) journey.
In Spirituality, the word “God” stands for the ultimate truth or Brahman. All that is needed then is to realize the fact that, the Self is not the body (you), not the mind, but the Soul, the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness (Spirit).
Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth(G0d) of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)
Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. Firm conviction about the Soul as Self leads to nondualistic Self-awareness. Self-awareness is God-awareness.
The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is God in truth. God in truth is invisible to physical eyes.
The Soul the Self is self-evident. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the Soul because it is the very essence of the one who denies it.
The Soul is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. The Soul is within, the Soul is without; the Soul is before, the Soul is behind; the Soul is on the right, the Soul is on the left; the Soul is above and the Self is below. The Soul alone is real, all else is merely an illusion created out of the Soul which is present in the form of the consciousness.
To know what God is in actuality we must know what the Self is. In deeper Self-search we become aware of the fact that our body, ego, and our experience of the universe are created out of single stuff, which is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Due to ignorance, we identify the Soul with the body and we become egocentric. When we become aware of the fact that, the ‘Self’ is not the form but the ‘Self’ is formless then we become Soul-centric and realize the fact that all three states are merely an illusion created out of consciousness.
Consciousness is the ultimate truth. The Soul is the Self.is the ultimate truth is God or Brahman. Thus, the seekers have to realize God through the mental (inner) journey. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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