When Sage Sankara says Brahman, or God in truth, is impersonal and attributeless then why worship God with forms and names.+

When Sage Sankara says Brahman or God is impersonal and attributeless, why worship God with form, names, and attributes.

When Sage Sankara says Atman is Brahman or God in truth, why believe and accept anything as God other than the Atman.

Vedas say 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?

Then why worship non-Vedic Gods in place of Atman, which is God in truth. Self-realization is truth-realization. Truth-realization is God-realization and God-realization is real worship.

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.

One must realize the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.

The Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘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: that 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 dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

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

In Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit.

Rig Veda:~ Prajnanam Brahma: - Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

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)

God and Goddess are religious concepts. Whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person within the dualistic illusion (world) is a falsehood.

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God in truth) 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 (God) 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. Awareness constitutes the very essence or the true nature of Brahman (God), and not just its attributes. The attributeless Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

All those whose intelligence has been stolen by ignorance believe that God as an individual and separate from their own existence.

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

Sage Sankara declaration: ~ “Brahman (Soul) is the truth the world is Unreal everything is truly Brahman (Soul) and nothing else has any value.

In Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit.

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

Thus, it refers to a formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman, the ‘Self’ within the false experience. Thus, it indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imaginations based on the false self. Thus, Atman or Soul, the ‘Self’ is God in truth.

Vedas speak of one God that is the supreme ‘Self’ i.e. Atman or Soul. Vedas indicate clearly that all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imaginations based on the false self.

God in truth is neither personal nor impersonal because God in truth is not dualistic. God in truth is ever free from the dualistic limitation of form, time, and space.

From God in truth perspective, form, time, and space are non-existent

If the form, time, and space are non-existent then the ‘I’ is non-existent

If the ‘I’ is non-existence then the mind is non-existent.

If the mind is non-existent then the universe is non-existent.

If the universe is non-existent then waking is nonexistent.

If the waking is non-existent then God alone is real and eternal.

God in truth is hidden by the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is the dualistic illusion or Maya. You are part and parcel of the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The Soul is the cause of the dualistic illusion or Maya but the Soul itself is uncaused. The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the universe.

The form, time, and space are present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

Your existence is limited to the illusory form, time, and space. The form, time, and space are made of the same clay. That clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Knowledge of the single clay is Self–knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self–knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana helps the seeker to unfold the truth (God) hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

You have to draw your attention back every time it turns worldliness (I) and fix it in the Soul the Brahman or God in truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar