Rig Veda: ~ May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman.+

People believe in old myths propagated by their religion. Every religion has propagated its own myth. Every religious belief contradicts other beliefs. It is merely a blind belief accepted as truth without verification and evidence. This causes division. 

Modern science has exposed many Religious dogmas as a myth. All these dogmas were introduced in the primitive era before people had the benefit of modern science. Science attempts to objectively discover how life works, and religion makes one blindly believe and cast his burden on the blind belief without verification, to live in peace and harmony in worldly life.

The seeker's main aim is to investigate both dual and non-dual experiences, to find and define the underlying truth in everything, thereby realizing what the ultimate truth is. Religion has propagated diverse ideas of God. There is no universality in a religious God.

Seekers of truth are neither believers of religious propagated belief of God nor atheists to declare that there is no God. The seekers of truth will not accept the belief blindly without verification.

Religionists and atheists both are believers because religionists believe in the belief of God and atheists believe in the belief of no God.

The pursuit of truth is all about accepting uncertainty and open questions and seeking the things that are the certainty. Believers and nonbelievers will not accept anything other than their inherited belief system or accepted truth.

Atheists feel there is no proof for God’s existence. So, the atheist chooses to just believe there is no such thing called God. And religionists just believe in the existence of their conceptual God.

A Gnani is one who is fully aware of the fact that the existence or non-existence of God cannot be proven on the base of the physical self (ego). Therefore, deeper understanding and realization are necessary to understand and assimilate the truth about God's existence to know what is supposed to be God. 

 In Vedas, the God (soul/ataman) has been described as: ~

           v  Sakshi (witness)

       

           v  Chetan (conscious)

           v  Nirguna (without form and properties)

          v  Nitya (eternal)

           v  Shuddha (pure)

          v  Buddha (omniscient)

          v   Mukta (unattached).

       All the above-mentioned description is the nature of the Soul (Atman).  

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 innermost 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.

Do not accept any other God other than the Soul. The Soul is God in truth,  Nothing is real but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Nothing matters but realize  God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is real and eternal and all else is an illusion.

Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth.  The ultimate truth itself is God in truth. 

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 (Gita 14.27)

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

Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth."

Thus, one should never accept another God in place of the  Soul nor worship other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. :~Santthosh Kumaar