The Spirit is the root element of the universe.+

The nature of the Soul is the fullness of the consciousness without the illusory division of form, time, and space. The fullness of the consciousness is emptiness. 

Religious Gods are religious truth. In Spirituality, the ultimate truth or Brahman is God in truth. The religious truth is the dualistic truth. Spiritual truth is the universal truth. Religious Gods are based on belief and without the belief is they cease to exist.

Spirit is the Spiritual God and Spirit is universal.  Spirit is the cause of the universe and it is causeless.

 Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~  God is Supreme Spirit.

Vedas confirm the  Atma (Soul), the innermost Self, is present in the form of the Spirit or the consciousness is the ultimate truth or  Brahman or  God.  Thus, the Vedic God is Spiritual.

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) 

The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul, the innermost Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. From the Spirit, the universe comes into existence. 

In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there is. 

One has to go beyond Vedas means to go beyond religion. Going beyond religion means, going beyond the blind belief-based God.  Going beyond the Vedas, the Religion and the blind belief-based God is going beyond the illusion.   That is the end of the Vedas (Veda –antha).

Realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman itself is God-realization. God-realization itself is real worship.  

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This universe is nothing but Atman (Soul) because it is created out of Atman. Atman is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Thus the Atman, the Self is Brahman. The Atman, the Self by knowing its formless non-dual true nature becomes free from experiencing the illusory duality as reality.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul) is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe.

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ Everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman.”

All is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears, the consciousness still remains without form, time, and space.

The one who awakened to the knowledge of the 'Self' becomes Brahma Gnani. A Gnani by realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman knows that all the three states are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. 

Whoever realizes the ultimate truth or Brahman knows that the three states and the formless witness of the three states are one in essence. If a man worships God as a separate entity is ignorant.  If one is thinking God is one and the ‘Self’ another, he has not the true knowledge.

Sage Sankara says: ~ V.63 ~ "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

Sage Sankara says in the commentary on the Vedanta sutra that what is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something detrimental to our spiritual progress.

Seeker of truth should not believe blindly in Orthodox Advaita without verifying all the facts from every angle. One has to reflect through reasoning over and over again without getting tired of the process.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

The universe is the product of ignorance. The ignorance is present in the form of the ‘I’.

Sage Sankara says:~ VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world that existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward the ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding on to theories one remains in the realm of duality. You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper Self-search. Finally when you become aware of the fact that, your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence then there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality. :~Santthosh Kumaar