What is the use of indulging in wars, violence, terrorism in the name of protecting religion and the religious idea of God.+

Religions are the cause of wars, violence, terrorism, and all the unrest of the world. What is the use of indulging in wars, violence, and terrorism in the name of protecting religion and the religious idea of God?

God is not a Hindu or Christian. God is not a Jew or Muslim or Buddhist. All of those Gods in humans are imaginary and meant for the ignorant people, who are not capable of grasping the real God hidden by ignorance (I).

The Advaitic path is not for religious-minded people. The Advaitic path is pure spirituality. The Advaitic path is to help the seeker to unfold the mystery of God.

Anyone who follows Advaita knows that Advaita is not a religion. Advaita is not philosophy. Advaita is pure spirituality. Advaitic wisdom unfolds the God hidden by the universe because Advaita itself is God.

Advaita is the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the Spirit (consciousness). The Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. So Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self, which is the real God. Advaita is universal. Advaita has nothing to do with caste, sect, and creed.

Religion is nothing but a human-made concoction of many religious founders to promote the personal views of some while condemning the views of others.

A Gnani does not belong to any religion. A Gnani has realized the God hidden by the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is ignorance. The ‘I’ is the dualistic illusion. The ‘I’ hides the real God because ‘I’ is nothing but an illusion created out of God, the Spirit.

The seeker must remember that religion is not spirituality. Spirituality is knowledge of the Spirit, the real God. The seeker must know the difference between religious God and spiritual God.

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.

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

People, who worship the belief of God, are hallucinating that they become one with such God.

Vedas itself says:- 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.

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)

How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshipper and the worshiped, whereas the God is non-dual. One can worship his idea of God only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as a part.

When Upanishads and Vedas declare that, “God is the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself” then why accept another God in place of the Atman or worship other than the Atman.

God is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness, and intelligence, which is beyond the form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.

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.

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

The Bhagavad Gita: ~ 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.

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.

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.

It is high time for Humanity to discard the religion and accept the Spirituality for universal peace and universal brotherhood. :~ Santthosh Kumaar