The God who appears to the mystic in meditation or penance is a hallucination.+

No one can honestly say that he knows the ultimate truth unless he is Soul centric. Yet mystics and Godmen glibly declare, "I know God."  And “I AM GOD.  Such a declaration is nothing but falsehood because God is not a form but God is the formless Spirit or consciousness. 

Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God  must worship God  in spirit and in truth (John 4:24)”,

Yajur Veda also says: ~ God has no image and His name is Holy. “(32.3)”,

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. 

Mythreyi Upanishad 2:26 says: ~ “All those who desire to have salvation without taking several births, should worship God in spirit and truth.  

If there is God -- prove it. If there is Goddess -- prove it right here right now. Religious so-called philosophy dogmatically assumes the existence of individualized God.

The God who appears to the mystic in meditation or penance is a hallucination because whatever is known, seen, believed, and experienced as a person within the waking experience is a falsehood because the waking experience itself is a falsehood. From the ultimate standpoint, there is no value for such a claim.  

When one does not know the truth, then he can only guess, imagine, hence doubts and questions, and discussions arise.

One says God is Light.  Again the light may take different colors, then which color is correct? Some people contend that God is sound and say one hears the Aum sound, the sound inside in meditation, still others say God is in the form of fragrant smell and that beautiful scent comes in meditation as the presence of God. All these differences of opinion, they can be endless, show mutual contradiction and general error, i.e. lack of certain truth. Moreover, if one sees a light he is seeing a second thing or duality.  Where there is duality there is no reality.

God is impotent, incompetent, or lacking in intelligence--if he exists! But all Gods propagated by belief systems are nothing but imagination based on the false ‘Self’ (waking entity or ego) within false experience (waking. 

There is nothing so absurd which men have not worshipped in religion, every imaginable face has been given to God.  If God is created then it is foolish to worship anything as  God from his creation because the creation is apart from God. 

Mystics speak of cosmic consciousness. How do they know it in this rock, or in that log? It is mere guesswork!  People who speak of developing God-Consciousness are meaningless because they merely find their own idea of hallucination of God. They do not know what God is in actuality.

How is one to know that what he believes as God is true? This question must prick the seeker of truth.

What do they know? ~ means ~ “What do they know as a fact?"

How do they know there is a God?  Just a belief in God is not the truth. The onus of proof is on the one who makes this assertion. You have not seen God but you only believe in the existence of God. If you say that God did this or God went there, it will be only your imagination. The seeker must examine whether what he believes is really God.  He must think about what it is. That is to inquire.

• Is there a God?

• What is his nature?

Let there be proof. Such questions must arise.

• Why God created this pain?

• Why does he torture men with new diseases?

• Has God no better business to do?

• It is useless to say that God is teaching people lessons through these sufferings.

• What lesson can God teach the year-old child died in a road accident?

• Why there is no universal God?

• Why every religion has its own idea of God?

•  Why God created pain?

• Why does he torture men with new diseases?

• Has God no better business to do?

It is useless to say that God is teaching people lessons through these sufferings.

Remember:~

How can we believe that God is all-merciful when he constantly makes the whole of humanity suffer from wars, violence, terrorism in the name of protecting religion and God? Is God is so weak as to protect himself?

Suppose one person says he has got faith in his religious God. Suppose his friend says he has no faith in any God. Thus there is a contradiction. Nothing can be done. Everyone is stuck to their own beliefs. 

Those who pray to God for something occasionally get what they ask for. They then declare it to be a miracle to be placed to the credit of God! But when they fail to get what they pray for they do not attribute these failures to God, and thus the obvious fact that the failures far outnumber the successes

Millions of people in the world every day prayed to their God of their belief to protect them but the people who don’t believe other people's ideas of God mercilessly kill them so the prayers remained unheard of those who prayed for protection.

There is no invisible power of God is working to save mankind. There are visible tangible signs in the world of such power? There are no signs of benefit to humankind in this world.   The wars, violence terrorism calamities epidemics are happening despite most people in the world are praying to their God of their belief. There is no proof that by praying to God such as wars, violence terrorism calamities epidemics will stop happening.  

There cannot be any proof to show that the wars, violence terrorism calamities epidemics can be stopped by praying to God.  People indulge in wars, violence, and terrorism in the name of God and their religion.  How God of one religion can protect the people who belong to another religion.

So, it is time to investigate what God is supposed to be according to the religious Doctrine. 

Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24)”,

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

When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness (Spirit) which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness. 

Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the Self in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost ‘Self’.   In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the  ‘Self’.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul or Spirit) 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 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.

Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship in place of real God.

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

When Upanishad itself’ declares: ~   Sarvam khalvidam brahma ~ all this (universe) is verily Brahman (God). By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality (Chandogya Upanishad). 

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

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God in truth) 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. It has no other beside it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described because the description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not a distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman, and not just Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

God is not physical. God is present in the form of the Spirit. The Spirit is the cause of the world and the Spirit itself is uncaused.

From the standpoint of the Spirit, the form, time, space, and name are merely an illusion. The spirit alone is real and all else is an illusion.  In reality, the Spirit (God in truth) matter (the world in which we exist) are one.

Belief is not proof. Thus, whatever is propagated by the belief system is not proof According to their own doctrine God is Spirit but they worship humanized God. First, one must know what is God is in truth.

All the religious worship and prayers to God are meant for the ignorant populace.  One must know the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God. :~Santthosh Kumaar