Religious God cannot exist without man’s existence.+

Theology, fiction-writing, religion, and poetry all belong to the same class--appeal to belief, fancy, and imagination, not the ultimate truth or Brahman. When one cannot know his own self is not the body, how can he hope ever to know the ultimate truth?

Religious God cannot exist without man’s existence. If the man is not there religious God is not there. When the man is not the 'Self' then why bring Him in? If God really were in every particle of everyone, as mystics claim, then everyone will be able to create the universe, because everyone will be God.

Religions place God as diverse ideas and beliefs.  Every religious believer has a different idea of God. Every man has a different idea of the real.  There is a need to accept and verify the facts about the religious Gods before accepting anything as God.  There is in religion the element of imagination and sentiments. The ordinary man is happy because religion gives him satisfaction, and pleases his taste.

Every cult, sect, and creed concocts a God to suit its own purposes. Belief in such concocted Gods is a great hindrance in the pursuit of truth.  The man himself’ suggests that there must be a God. It is an auto-suggestion. Belief in religion weakens as the man pays more attention to the facts of his practical life within the practical world.

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An honest seeker of truth says that he has not seen God. He does not know God's capacities, what God can do, and what God cannot do. Therefore any statement he might make about God would only be a lie. The seeker of truth does not wish to tell a lie. Therefore, he does not accept  God nor deny Him; he simply refuses to make any statement about God because he wants to discover what is supposed to be God.  Without verification, he does not want to accept anything as truth. 

Every sect and creed concocts a God to suit its own purposes. Belief in such concocted Gods is a great hindrance in the pursuit of truth.  The man himself’ suggests that there must be a God. It is an auto-suggestion. Belief in religion weakens as the man pays more attention to the facts of his practical life within the practical world.

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Spirituality is a new religion. Advaita is pure spirituality. Advaita is truth beyond form, time, and space. Advaita is the Spirit.  The Spirit is the universal God and God of the whole of humanity.

Do not believe in God as a separate entity. Realize God is the cause of the existence of the universe in which we exist. God should not be worshiped but realized right in this very life, not in the next life or next world.  

It is impossible to prove the existence of a religious God by any reasoning. One can only assume God's existence as a religious God by his belief.   Yoga and mysticism are primitive things that appealed in the past to the early races; now they indicate an undeveloped mindset when they are taken for truth because they are based on the false self within the false experience. When the Self is formless, all the form (ego) based theories and practices hold no water.  

People think Advaita is the best because the Vedas say so.  One can arrive at the same conclusion without any scriptures by way of reasoning based on the soul as the 'self' which is in the form of consciousness. The habitual reasoning based on the “I” as the 'self' has to be discarded in order to grasp, assimilate and realize the Advaitic truth.

The whole Advaitic teaching can be summed up in one sentence, ‘There is nothing else but Brahman. It says that Absolute Existence, Absolute Knowledge, and Absolute awareness are Real. 

The universe is not real. It says that Brahman and Atman are one. The ultimate and the Absolute Truth is the Self, which is one though appearing as many in different individuals. The individual has no reality. Only the Self is real; the rest, mental and physical are but passing appearances.

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The Advaitic wisdom leads the seeker from darkness to light, from ignorance to wisdom, from unawareness of the ‘Self’ to Self-awareness, and from unreality to reality.

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, 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."

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.

The Soul itself is God, the One without a Second:~

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

Even 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).

Consciousness, the God is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny God because God is the very essence of the one who denies God. God is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs.

Even Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul) 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?"

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

All those whose intelligence has been stolen by ignorance believe in non-Vedic Gods.
The Vedas talk about Brahman (God in truth) which refers to the ultimate truth or ultimate reality or Advaita. The consciousness is the Advaita or the ultimate truth, therefore, the consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Brahman is Advaita God. : ~Santthosh Kumaar