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
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