Patanjali takes for granted that there is an Iswara (God).+

Patanjali takes for granted that there is an Iswara (God) that gives it for the purpose of concentration, and then naturally people find God in their meditations, but it is only their imagined idea of God.

Mystics see what they are looking for or whose existence they presuppose. Therefore, Patanjali Yoga belongs to religion, not to the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Sage Sankara said:~ Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) VivekaChudamani v 56, pg 25

No one has proved the existence of personal Gods. Such individual Gods and Goddesses are available only in the domain of duality. From the ultimate standpoint, the duality is not reality. The personal experience which is not universally valid is no proof, and nor is an ecstatic feeling.

If one claims that God is doing this or that, or has such and such qualities, he is hallucinating with his inherited belief. He did not see God doing it? He is simply assumed.

God is only a settled fact for believers, but for others God’s existence is problematic. Without the belief, the God of belief ceases to exist. When the world in which we exist itself is an illusion, then whatever we have seen known, believed, and experienced within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion.

To realize the truth beyond the form, time and space are not easy; it is the most difficult thing without the intense urge to realize the truth. Only the sincere and serious seeker who has the courage like Buddha to drop his religion, scriptures, and beliefs of God will be able to realize that God neither comes nor goes, but God exists always. The form, time, and space, which appear and disappear are merely an illusion. 

Thus, all the form-based Gods are merely an illusion. God is the cause of the form, time, and space, and God is causeless.

Why worship God based on the illusory form, time, and space, Self-realization is God-realization, and God-realization itself is the real worship.

Meher Baba said: ~ God is your innermost Self. Do not search for God outside of you. Let these words be inscribed in your heart. Nothing is real but God. Nothing Matters but love for God. God is everywhere and does everything. God is beyond us and is everything. God alone is and all else is an illusion. 

Meher Baba said: - To love God as he ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of life is to know God and find him as our own Self.

To realize God is to attain liberation from the bondage of illusion. 

Live only to find and realize your true identity with your Beloved God.

The energy which is expended in mere thinking, talking, or writing is like steam that escapes through the whistle of a railway engine …

That is why the sages have always insisted on practice rather than theory. This applies particularly to those who want to know and realize God.  

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~ It means one has to know and realize his innermost Self is God and identify it as his true identity to find liberation from the bondage of the illusion of birth, life, death, and the world (duality).   The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with our beloved God, which is the Self.  

The truth of  Religion can only be proved by physical strength or by imagination, or power of the weapon or power and force, never by reason.

Scientists yet to discover the mysteries beyond, They may discover something in the future.” The mystics claim to know the mystery unknown to the science is known to them. Without proof, it is foolish to believe Mysticism is the fulfillment of science.” The yogic or religious truth is the individual truth, not the universal truth.

The mystics cannot claim that they have experienced God. There is no proof they have seen it because God is not an individual experience. Man and the world are within God. God is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. God is the cause of the universe and  God is causeless.

If they say, “they know from experience” they merely assume so.” The mystic experience is based on ego thus, it is part of the dualistic illusion. Self-realization is not an individual experience. 

Yoga and mysticism are the individualized truth. Since they consider the ‘I’ as the Self they cannot know the Soul, the innermost Self. The Soul is the fullness of consciousness. :~Santthosh Kumaar