All the Gurus of the east and west misled the seeking world by glorifying the 'I'.+

Everyone uses the word “truth" and talks of it only from their own imaginary standpoint and not as it is.

People are not even aware of what truth they are seeking. They are seeking the truth of the existence of the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness hidden by the 'I'.

All the Gurus of the East and West misled the seeking world by glorifying the 'I'.

Until we discard the 'I-centric' Gurus and their teaching, it is impossible to realize the 'Self' hidden by the 'I'.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something detrimental to our spiritual progress.

Sage Sankara says: ~ A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe, which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness), which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

When you finally realize the ‘‘Self’ ‘is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the invisible Soul. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC~.63: "Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

Sage Sankara says: - VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world, and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward, ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there, the universe prevails as reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why are you indulging in other types of meditation.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories, one remains in the realm of duality.

You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search. Finally, when you become aware that your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence, then there is Self-awareness in the midst of dualistic illusion or Maya.

Remember:~

Do not search for the truth in the world in which you exist because the world in which you exist hides the truth you are seeking.

The truth is hidden by the world in which you exist because the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Without the invisible Soul, the world in which you exist ceases to exist.

Realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Until you hold the Self as you will remain in ignorance. You are the false self within the dualistic illusion (Maya).

The dualistic illusion is created out of a single clay. And that single clay is consciousness. Knowledge of the single clay is Advaitic wisdom.

Remember:~

Sage Sankara: ~ VC~.63: "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists won't go. It can only go by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

After verifying through deeper inquiry if one finds the world is the reality within the illusion, then he cannot again say the world is not an illusion.

If one is frightened to accept the world is an illusion (waking), then he is unfit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Those who stuck with the reality of the world are stuck with the reality of the individual experiences of birth, life, and death, which take place within the unreal world.

Thus, the pursuit of truth is for those who have the courage to accept reality as it is, that is, the reality without form, time, and space.

All is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears, consciousness still remains without form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe, which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness), which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

When you finally realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Sage Sankara says:~ VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world, and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward, ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there, the universe prevails as reality.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar

By reading repeatedly my postings and reflecting and reasoning deeply, help to create a mental yardstick in your subconscious.+

All your accumulated knowledge, accumulated from different sources, is not any use in your quest for truth. Do not mix the Advaitic wisdom with any other Guru's teaching.

The invisible Soul, the Self is the inner Guru, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

Come ye slow, or come ye fast; it is but the invisible Soul, the Advaita that reveals itself at last.

Due to the absence of proper guidance, many have been deluded and fallen prey to a false sense of salvation propagated by the Gurus and yogis.

Only those serious seekers of truth can reach the goal safely. As your inner conviction about the invisible Soul, the Self grows, you will be able to realize ‘what is the truth?’ and ‘what is the untruth?’

As we keep thinking and reasoning deeper and deeper, the truth will shine as pure awareness in the midst of the duality (waking).

The Soul, the Self, is your ultimate teacher. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for the Soul is the goal.

Millions are searching for the truth, but one in a million will realize it. You are one from those million because you have the intense urge to realize the ultimate truth.

When the seeker is ready, the guidance comes on its own. An earnest desire to grow and a sense of deep commitment are the hallmarks of one who aspires to be a seeker.

When at the core of one’s being a person comes to realize he/she needs to seek a path for coming out of one’s unconscious and conditioned life, mysteriously the guidance appears to guide and shows the way.

By reading repeatedly my postings and blogs and reflect and reason deeply, it helps to create a mental yardstick in your subconscious to discriminate between ‘what is the truth? And what is the untruth?

When the subconscious is receptive and ready, then it will start rejecting the untruth, and finally then the Soul, the Self alone, will prevail as the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

There is no practice as such, but perfect understanding is needed to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atman Gnana.

Spirituality or Adyathma does not need religion and yoga. There is no need for renunciation of worldly activities.

It means the renunciation of ignorance by realizing what ignorance is. What is the cause of ignorance?

Ignorance is the cause of duality. The duality is the cause of the illusion (Maya). The illusion is the cause of experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.

Self-knowledge leads to Self-awareness. The quest for truth is not the quest for acquiring the dualistic truth within the world.

The seeker must have an intense urge to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The dualistic knowledge hides the truth beyond form, time, and space. The practical life within the practical world has nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman.

The dualistic knowledge within the dualistic illusion is not Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. realize what God supposed to be in the truth that is eternal help.

To get cleared from all your cobweb of doubts and confusion reading my blogs and posting is very much necessary.

There is no need to ask any questions as you go on reading the blogs and posts one by one, all your doubts and confusion will start clearing.

If you keep on reading my posts and blogs old as well as new, all your doubts and confusion will vanish.

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 invisible Soul, the 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.

Remember:~

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something detrimental to our spiritual progress.

Sage Sankara says:~ VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward the ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why are you indulging in other types of meditation.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories, one remains in the realm of duality. You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search.

Finally, when you become aware that your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence, then there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality.

As your inner conviction about the Soul grows you will be able to realize ‘what is the truth?’ and ‘what is the untruth?’

As we keep thinking and reasoning deeper and deeper, the truth will shine as pure awareness in the midst of the duality (waking).

The invisible Soul, the Self, is your ultimate teacher. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for the Soul is the goal.

Millions are searching for the truth, but one in a million will realize it. You are one from those million because you have the intense urge to realize the ultimate truth.

When the seeker is ready, the guidance comes on its own. An earnest desire to grow and a sense of deep commitment are the hallmarks of one who aspires to be a seeker.

When at the core of one’s being a person comes to realize he/she needs to seek a path for coming out of one’s unconscious and conditioned life, mysteriously the guidance appears to guide and shows the way.

There is no practice as such, but perfect understanding is needed to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atman Gnana. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

Sexual intercourse is not the means to Self-realization.+

Q:~ Natalja von Wascinski-Schubert- Santthosh Kumaar, I fully agree, yet as a bridge -- that is as a lesson to teach the pure unity of the Self and nonduality -- intercourse of two polarities (male and female principles), that is joining together to pure (sinless) oneness in true love and respect=appreciation, human sex could become at its peak a very faint resemblance and remembrance of the overwhelming state of Atma?

Santthosh Kumaar:~ Suppose if you had the same idea in a dream, the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns. The Advaitic wisdom dawns when you realize the ‘Self’ is not you, but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion. Thus, all the happenings within the illusion are bound to be an illusion. Until ignorance is there, the world in which you exist prevails as a reality.

When the ignorance vanishes through Advaitic wisdom than the world in which you exist which you thinks as reality becomes an illusion.

Sage Goudapada quotes from the Upanishads: ~ "There's no plurality here"; "The Soul through its powers appears to be many"; "those who are attached to the creation or production or origination go to utter darkness"; "the unborn is never reborn, for what can produce it?”

Sage Goudapada’s rational exposition of Advaita:~ Whatever is seen, whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal.

Thus, whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person within the waking experience is bound to be an illusion created out of consciousness. Thus, the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness alone, is real and eternal.

Consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world in which you exist ceases to exist. Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness, because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Sexual intercourse is not the means to Self-realization. Those who believe sexual intercourse is a means to Self-realization will permanently remain in the prison of ignorance.

Sexual intercourse is a reality within the dualistic illusion or Maya. The invisible Soul, the Self, is hidden by dualistic illusion or Maya. The invisible and unborn Soul, the Self, is hidden by the universe, which is a dualistic illusion or Maya, because the Soul or consciousness is the cause of the whole dualistic illusion or Maya.

Remember:~

Sex belongs to the domain of duality. What is the use of discussing celibacy and sex in the Atmic path when the Atma is genderless because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence?

Gurus who propagate Samadhi through sexual intercourse are not Gnanis.

Sexual intercourse has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, which is an ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnan, has nothing to do with tantric sex. Having sex or not having sex does not qualify one to get Self-realization.

Sex and the sexual act are not the means to Self-realization because the Self is genderless and ever formless. Sex implies duality.

The tantric sex is a theory based on the false self (you) within the false experience (waking). When the world in which you exist is an illusion, then having sex within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion.

Those who indulge in sexual activities to get enlightenment will permanently remain in the prison of the dualistic illusion. They are unfit to acquire Self-knowledge.

Sex has nothing to do with the invisible and genderless Soul, the Self. Sex is a reality on a physical base.

When the body is not the experiencer of the body itself, it is not correct to be judgmental on the ’I’ (physical base).

Until one becomes aware of the formless entity, which is witnessing the body and the world together, he will not be able to know and realize man and his experience of the world is an illusion. Therefore, it is necessary to become aware of the formless witness to know the experience of the birth, life, death, and the world merely an illusion.

If the experience of birth, life, death, and world is an illusion, then sex also is part of that illusion.

The seeker has to learn to view and judge the worldview on the base of the formless witness, which is the invisible Soul, the Self, to understand and assimilate the truth beyond form, time, and space.

The sex-based theories of enlightenment are mere theories based on the false Self (ego or the waking entity) and false experience (waking or universe). Sex has nothing to do with Self-realization. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

No one becomes a Gnani by taking sannyasa or wearing religious robes or by mastering the scriptures.+

One need not renounce worldly life and become a sanyasi or monk. One need not retire from their business or corporate job and become a Guru; all these religious and yogic propagated outdated ideas have to be discarded to realize the truth of true existence.

Do not become a slave of all these outdated religious and yogic ideas; they are not meant for those who are seriously seeking the truth. There is no need to follow anyone. Self–realization becomes easy if you independently walk your path.

Atmic path is your own path. You have to tread the path alone to reach it alone Finally, nothing remains as reality other than the Atma or the Soul.

Stop emotionally and sentimentally getting stuck with the Guru.

That is why Bhagavan Buddha: ~ “Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Sage Sankara was a Gnani. Most of the modern masters are not Gnani. And you have to understand that to be a Gnani is one thing; to be a Guru is totally different.

Out of a million people, perhaps one is a Gnani. Most of the Self-realized decide to remain silent, seeing the difficulty that whatever they have realized is impossible to convey in any possible way to others; seeing that not only is it difficult to convey, it is bound to be misunderstood too.

A Gnani never claims himself as a Gnani; he guides the seekers, not posing himself as a Guru, and he does not force his wisdom on others. A Gnani is not a religious person or a Yogi.

One need not roam from one mountain to another, from one ashram to another, or meet gurus or yogis to get Gnana. One can get Gnana and become a Gnani wherever one lives.

We are all searching for truth within the illusion, not being aware that the illusory universe in which we exist is created out of a single stuff, which is the invisible Soul, the Self.

The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Thus, searching for the truth within an illusory universe with the illusory self is bound to be an illusion.

The illusory universe is created and sustained, and finally dissolves as consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman, or God in truth.

No one becomes a Gnani by taking sannyasa or wearing religious robes or by mastering the scriptures or by identifying with the religious symbol. Religious robes and religious symbols are not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Blind faith is an obstacle in the pursuit of truth. The seeker should not waste his time on it; he should primarily reflect on the Soul, the Self, not on the ‘I’.

The invisible nd unborn Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness, is ever ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Sruti says: ~ "brahmavit brahmaiva bhavati" - He who knows Brahman becomes Brahman Itself. In the Advaita understanding of this statement, the "becoming" is only metaphorical. It is not as if something that was not Brahman suddenly becomes Brahman. Rather, "realizing Brahman" means a removal of ignorance about one's own essential nature as Brahman. Thus, to "know Brahman" is to "be Brahman".

The one who has realized the identity with the invisible Soul, the Self, which is Brahman, is a Gnani, one who is liberated even while embodied. Such a realization should not and cannot just be a literal understanding of the Upanishadic Mahavakya.

A Gnani has realized the ultimate truth of the identity with the invisible Soul, the Self. Thus, moksha is not a result of ritual action (path of karma a) or of devotional service (path of bhakti). These paths are egocentric, therefore, they will not help anyway to get rid of the ignorance. In fact, moksha is not a result of anything, for it always exists.

All that is required is the removal of ignorance. The path of wisdom helps the seeker to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~"The man of knowledge, though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him, and only those like him understand his state. ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The karmic account is never-ending because one has to be born again and again to reap his good or bad karma.+

Those Gurus who propagate Karma as the means to Self-realization belong to religion and yoga, not Spirituality.

When the Self is not the form, but the Self is formless, then whose karma? The one that is born lives and dies is not the Self; then the question of karma does not arise.

You are the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking). Thus, whatever action and inaction, past, present, and future belong to the waking experience, which is the dualistic illusion.

What happens to the dream entity that did good karma in the dream world, and it died and reincarnated in the next life, and suffered, but when waking takes place, the dream becomes unreal.

The waking becomes unreal when the waking entity (you) realizes that it itself (you) is not the Self, but the Self is the invisible and unborn Soul, which witnesses the appearance and disappearance of the three states in succession.

Thus, neither the karma of the waking entity nor the karma of the dream entity has meaning because the Self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity, but the Self is the Soul or consciousness.

You are not the Self because you are the birth entity; you are bound by form, time, and space,e whereas the Self’ is the invisible and unborn Soul, which is birthless and deathkess then how the karma theory has any meaning when the karma theory based on the false self (birth entity) and false experience (waking state).

The karma theory is a religious fable meant for the people who are fully immersed in the practical life and practical world, believing the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality.

If the Self is birthless, then what values will the karma theory have because it is based on birth, life, death, and rebirth?

Thus, as per my conviction, the Karma theory is merely a religious and yogic fable.

Yes, Ramana, J. Krishnamurti, and Nisargadatta all died of cancer-related illness. It does not make any difference if they died of cancer or not of cancer or any illness. Even Lord Krishna died a painful death. Death is a certain cause of death is irrelevant to a Gnani. When the invisible Soul, the Self, is birthless, then it is deathless.

A Gnani is unconcerned with death because he is fully aware that the illusion is only a passing show.

Thus, the karma theory has nothing to do with the invisible and unborn Soul, the Self.

Thus, people’s painful death cannot be taken as evidence because the Soul, the Self, is ever deathless because it was unborn because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The karmic account is never-ending because one has to be born again and again to reap their good or bad karma carried forward from one life to the next.

To end his karmic account, he has to be born in a religion that does not believe in the karma theory in his next birth. :~Santthosh Kumaar

All the Advaitic teachings of different Gurus are based on a dualistic perspective.+

All the Advaitic teachings of different Gurus are based on a dualistic perspective. Orthodox Advaita is based on a religious perspective.

Thus, they will not transport the seeker to the ultimate end of understanding. The seeker has to do their own homework to realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara gave religious, ritual, or dogmatic instruction to the masses, but pure philosophy only to the few who could rise to it. Hence, the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints.

Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

The orthodox Advaita addressed the ordinary man, who finds security in the idea of causality and thus in the idea of God.

Those of superior intelligence have no need of this idea of divine causality and can, therefore, dispense with Sruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason.

Tripura Rahasya:~ Second-hand knowledge of Self gathered from books or gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning your attention inward. –, 18: 89

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.

Without Sage Sankara, there is no Advaita (non-duality). Since it was mixed up with orthodoxy, there is a lot of confusion. Sage Sri, Sankara’s quotes (selected verified) are quoted in my blogs and postings to show what Sage Sankara meant and ‘what is blocking the seekers from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.

There are so many non-dualistic masters of the East and also from the West who expound Advaitic or non-dualistic knowledge, but none of them help reach the ultimate end.

The ultimate truth has to be ascertained without the scriptures by realizing the ‘Self’ is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity, but the Self is a formless Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

In the realm of truth, the form, time, and space are created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Realizing the single stuff as the ultimate truth is Self-realization or truth realization. To realize this truth, there is no need for the scriptures.

The ultimate truth has to be realized first, then only it is possible to know what the scriptures are saying.

Scriptures are being added from time to time. This process will go on. Is there no final authority among them? One contradicts the other: duality reigns supreme.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

The Soul, the Self is God in truth. God in truth is Self-evident. God in truth is not established by extraneous proofs.+

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

Religious Gods are based on blind belief. The religious God cannot be considered as the cause of the universe because the invisible Soul, the ‘Self’, is the cause of the universe.

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

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

Humanity has to awaken to the reality of its true existence by realizing the world in which humanity exists is merely an illusion created out of consciousness through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the invisible Soul, the Self, from the cage of the dualistic illusion.

Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

People dwelling in ignorance, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, hold various religious blind beliefs, dogmas, and superstitions as a reality and follow them blindly like the blind led by the blind.

The belief system preaches that God is one and the ways to God are many. It simply tries to lead them to darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the Self.

The religion is based on the false self (ego) and false experience (world); thus, all religion-based beliefs are a falsehood.

Santana Dharma or Vedic religion is pure spirituality because it is based on the invisible Soul, the Spirit, whereas all other religions are based on matter-based blind belief.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32: - God is the Supreme Spirit, has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. He cannot be seen directly by anyone. He pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

The Vedas, as a body of scripture, contain many contradictions, and they are fragmentary in their nature. For Hindus, scriptures like the Bhagavad-Gita, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Puranas are more attractive and appealing than the Vedas. And also, the Gods and Goddesses they worship differ considerably from the Vedic ones.

The collection of hymns called the Vedas, written in praise of certain deities by poets over several centuries, does not seem to have much significance for the Hindus

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

It is very much necessary for people to know what God is supposed to be according to their scriptures and the Sages of truth.

Sage Sankara says God is impersonal.

Brahman - The One without a Second:

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

The invisible Soul, the Self, is God in truth. God in truth is self-evident. God in truth is not established by extraneous proofs.

The invisible Soul is the God in truth. God in truth is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe or Maya. God is without the illusory universe or Maya.

God in truth is not an object because God in truth is the subject. God is beyond the reach of the eyes. Hence, the Upanishads declare: “Neti Neti—not this, not this....” This does not mean that Brahman is a negative concept, or a metaphysical abstraction, or a nonentity, or a void. It is not another. It is all-full, infinite, changeless, Self-existent, Self-delight, Self-knowledge, and Self-awareness.

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman 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 description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is no 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.

Remember:~

The Advaitic wisdom is free from all dogmas and superstitions. With orthodox people trying to impose their orthodox ideas on their children, staying in the ‘Self’-imposed prison of orthodoxy, without realizing the fact that they, themselves, are on the wrong path, and they think they are on the right path to Moksha. It is time to know the truth that their own inherited religion is full of adulteration with activities barred by the Vedas. Why indulge in non-Vedic activities when they hold the Vedas as the ultimate authority?

The orthodox must remember that for all periods the Vedas are the final goal and authority, the Puranic Gods are non-~Vedic. Non-Vedic Gods and their worship are barred by the Vedas; the Puranas differ from the Vedas; the Puranas are to be rejected without mercy.

Puranic Gods are not God in truth. God with forms and names and attributes is not God in truth.

Lord Krishna himself 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.

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.

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

Thus, it proves that Gods with form, names, and attributes are not God in truth.

Even Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “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.

The Vedas confirm that God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.

Even the Vedas indicate that the Self is consciousness:-

v Tat tvam asi: -Thou art That “Self is that.” (Sam Veda).

v Prajnanam Brahma: - Consciousness is the ultimate reality (Rig Veda).

v Ayam Aatma Brahma: -The Self is the ultimate truth (Atharva Veda).

v Aham Brahma Asmi: -Self is the ultimate reality (Yajur Veda)

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)

That is why Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

Yajur Veda says:~

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. 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 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." (Yajurveda 40:9.)

So, Yajur Veda indicates that: ~ Those who worship visible things such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater ignorance.

Thus, it indicates that God is without form and attributes and ever free.

Vedic Gods, hardly have any significance in present day Hindu belief system. The Gods and Goddesses important to the Hindus of today are Ram, Krishna, Kali, Ganesh, Hanuman, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and the respective consorts of the last three, namely, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Shakti. None of these deities figured prominently in the Vedic pantheon and some of them are non-Vedic.

The more important religious sects among the Hindus, like Vaishnavism, Saivism and so on, did not have a Vedic origin but had come into existence in comparatively recent times.

Originally Shiva and the cult of the Mother Goddess belonged to the religion of the Indus (Sindhu) Valley people. Vedic worshiper did not use temples and idols as Hindus of today do. For them, the sacrificial rituals were more important than the temple or idol worship.

There is hardly any evidence of a rigid caste system in the Vedas. It is argued that the purushasukta hymn of the Rig Veda (X.90) which is often referred to to give a religious sanction to caste system was a later interpolation.

The Vedas, however, speak of various classes of people, which appear to have been names of professions, and they were not hereditary.

The very concepts of castes by birth, upper/lower castes, superior/inferior castes, outcastes, untouchables, Dalits, etc., are prohibited by the Rig-Veda.

Avatara (‘descent’) of Gods, caste system, were absent in the Vedic religion. Only when the Vedic religion with its own as a distinct with its own sacred texts, rites, rules of social life, beliefs and practices without inter-linking it with Hinduism the true essence of Vedas will be revealed.

Vedic people did not worship Gods and Goddesses. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar