The universal truth alone is God all else is a merely an illusion.+

Many believe spirituality and religion are considered interconnected, but it is not so. Religion is based on the false self (ego or body or you) and it is limited to the false experience (universe), while spirituality transcends race, religion, gender, language and nationality, and the universe.  

Spirituality is based on the Soul of the Self. On the standpoint of the Soul, the Self the universe in which we exist is merely an illusion. 

Belief makes the Soul permanently remain in ignorance.  Ignorance makes the Soul experience the duality as reality. Belief implies duality. The duality is not reality.  

Thus, the path of bhakti,  the path of karma and the path of yoga is based on blind belief, therefore, they are the path of ignorance. 

The seeker has to discard all the egocentric paths to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.   

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The blind belief-based God is not God in truth. Holding blind belief as God is holding an illusion as reality because the belief is possible only within the realm of duality. Duality is merely an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.  

Without the belief of God, the belief system holds no water.  Belief is not God. Belief needs believers.  The believer needs to be born in this world. If the believer is born than he is part of the illusion.   

Without the believer, there is no belief.  The believer and his world and his blind belief-based God are part of the illusion because the Self is birth-less because the Self is formless and ever nondual. 

The one, which is born, lives, and dies, is not the Self.    The Self is a formless substance and witness of the illusory universe, which is the Soul or consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.  

The religious orthodox want wage against modernity: secularism, science, reproductive rights, and the Enlightenment generally. 

The orthodox people argue that any and all problems with the world can be attributed to the groups and ideas which they most dislike. 

One of the worst aspects of this attitude is how some religions latch on to any tragedy to promote their theocratic vision. Every religion argues that only their religion and their God can cure whatever ails this world.

History speaks that man has made it challenging and difficult to understand why he has experienced and witnessed such an array of human behavior. 

With constant introspection and the continued judgments of right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust it has been a constant challenge to find and understand the truth behind his physical existence. 

This subject is super sensitive, yet if one is to continue on his pursuit of truth,  then there is a need for perfect understanding and assimilation.

There is an all need to stop these wars and violence, which is going on in the name of religion and God, by knowing and understanding and realizing the universal truth, which is holding the whole universe in which humanity exists.   The universal truth alone is God all else is a mere mirage.

Bhagavad Gita:~ brahmano hi pratisthaham Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (Gita 14.27)

            

The Upanishads say in effect that: ~ if you believe that you are one and God  (Brahman) is another you cannot understand Truth.

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A Gnani is not opposed to God, he is not an atheist, but he wants God free from the imagination, as God is in truth, as he exists apart from human imaginations. Imagined Gods is not God of reality.  

Gnani does not say God is not there, God is, but not as one imagines God. God is above all imaginations. God exists as truth. Hence in the path of wisdom do not use the word, God. It will be misunderstood.  Thus Brahman, which means the ultimate truth, is the right word.

No conceptual God can exist, apart from consciousness. 

People are not aware of the fact that there is no individual God that can exist, apart from consciousness, which is in the form of consciousness. 

The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. If there is no consciousness, then there is no physical body, no ego, no universe, no religion, and no personal Gods.

People think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one thinks physical entity or ego as the Self, then there is a creator, but if one thinks of the Soul as the Self, then there is nothing that exists other than consciousness.

If one objectifies and sees a universe, then he is bound to see many things beside himself and postulate a God, the creator. Body, God and world rise and set together from, and into, the Soul, the  Self. 

If God is apart from the  Soul, the Self, then God would be Selfless, that is, outside existence, that is, non-existent.

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 1/164/46: ~ “They call God Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni or the heavenly Sunbird Garutmat. The seers call in many ways that which is One; they speak of Agni, Yama, Matarishvan.

Rig Veda 8/58/2: Only One is the Fire, enkindled in numerous ways; only One is the Sun, pervading this whole universe; only One is the Dawn, illuminating all things. In very truth, the One has become the whole world.

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

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.

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

Do not accept any other truth other than consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth. Nothing is real but consciousness. Realize consciousness as the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. Consciousness is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

In Vedas, God has been described as:~  

v  Sakshi (Witness)

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v  Chetan (conscious)

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v  Nirguna (Without form and properties)

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v  Nitya (eternal)

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v  Shuddha (pure)

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v  Buddha (omniscient)

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v  Mukta (unattached).

So, it clearly indicates that God is formless thus there is no scope for form-based God. The religion and its conceptual Gods, and its theories of karma, heaven, hell, papa, punya,  rebirth, and reincarnation are based on the false self, within the false experience. Therefore, they are meant for lower mindset, they are of no use for those who are seeking higher truth as indicated in the scriptures.  

There are many schools of thought in Hinduism claim that they are based on the Vedas. These schools of thought are add-ons. Therefore, these add-ons have to be bifurcated from original Vedic Religion, to get the pure Vedic essence.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar