Belief in non-Vedic religion and non-Vedic religious Gods and non-Vedic religious rituals keeps you permanently in ignorance.+

Belief in non-Vedic religion non-Vedic religious Gods and non-Vedic religious rituals keeps you permanently in the prison of ignorance. God of belief is not God in truth.

Non-Vedic religious Gods and religious rituals because religious Gods are not God in truth and rituals based on religious Gods are based on non-Vedic Gods barred by Vedas.

Holding non-Vedic God as real God is holding the superstition as God. Sticking to non-Vedic rituals is sticking to ignorance.

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)

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

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 present in 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 itself is real worship.

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.

Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self. Advaita is the Soul itself. Advaita is the Soul, which is God in truth. Advaita is another word for God, which is second to none.

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)

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

Kena Upanishad (6) Chapter I: ~ “That which cannot be apprehended by the mind, but by which, they say, the mind is apprehended alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (7) Chapter I:~ That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which the eye is perceived- That alone know as Brahman and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (8) Chapter I:~ That which cannot be heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived- That alone know as Brahman and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (9)- Chapter I:~ That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an object- That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Even the Bhagavad Gita says: ~ ‘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, 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.

That is why Bhagavan Buddha said: ~ “Believe nothing because a wise man said it. Believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be divine. Believe nothing because someone else said it. But believe only what you, yourself judge to be true

Remember this:~

Go beyond means mentally realizing God in truth:

Beyond there is neither the ‘I’ nor the world in which you exist. There is only consciousness.

The ‘I’ is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

The world in which you exist is present in the form of the ‘I’.

Without knowing what is this ‘I’ supposed to be in actuality, the truth hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion, will not reveal. The ‘I’-centric teachings lead to hallucination.

People who argue that the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, does not exist are not aware of the fact that their own existence is dependent on the Soul, which is in the form of consciousness.

The ‘I’- centric teaching says the consciousness is temporary and ‘I’ is the permanent thing. The ‘I’- centric teachings lead to all sorts of confusion.

Sometimes they say consciousness is an illusion. Sometimes they say I am an illusion. Sometimes they say the being is free from consciousness and I am. So, still, they are in elementary stages without reaching anywhere. It is only hype created that ‘I-centric teachings as the ultimate.

Those who say consciousness itself is an illusion and impermanent are still in the elementary stages.

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)

~ Then why stick to a Guru who is not a Gnani.

That is why Swami Vivekananda said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your own Soul.”

There is nothing that exists prior to consciousness. The ‘I’ ceases to exist without consciousness. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.:~Santthosh Kumaar