Why worship personal Gods when Sage Sankara says God is impersonal.
Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman 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 besides it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described because description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not 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 must be independent of religion. Sage Sankara himself
says the Saguna Brahman or a personal God is part of the illusory world and the
Nirguna Brahman is the only eternal reality.
God is universal because God is impersonal. God does not belong
to any religion because religious Gods are based on blind beliefs. God
has to be realized not worshiped.
How can you see God without knowing what God is in actuality? When
the ‘Self is not you how can you find God within you? God is not within you.
Those who say God is within you just propagating half-baked knowledge.
First, realize the ‘Self is not within you. You are bound by the
experience of birth, life, death, and the world whereas the ‘Self is
birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless
existence.
The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you
exist and it itself is uncaused. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or
Brahman or God in truth.
From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self the world in
which you exist is merely an illusion. Thus, the world in which exists hides the
Soul, which is God in truth.
Till you think the ‘Soul, the innermost Self’ is within you, you
will never be able to realize God. God is not limited to you but it pervades everything and everywhere in the world in which you exist.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32: ~ It has been said that God is Supreme or Supreme Spirit.
Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they
that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)
The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is
present in the form of the Soul, the 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.
There is no God but God. There is no God because the world in which
we exist is merely an illusion created out of God, the Spirit. Call it by
any name God is universal. God belongs to the whole of humanity because God is
Advaita.
Religion creates separation. God in truth is unity in diversity. God in truth is one, which is the Soul, the cause of the whole universe in which humanity exists.
There is no God but
God means the world in which we exist is an illusion. The Spirit, which is God in truth is the cause of
the world and is real and eternal. God in truth alone is real and all else is an
illusion. There is no second thing that exists other than the Spirit, the God in truth thus, God in truth is Advaita.
Religion belongs to you. The religious belief of God belongs to you.
All religious code of conduct belongs to you. Religious rituals belong to you.
But remember you belong to the dualistic illusion because the world in which
you exist is an illusion created out of the Spirit, the God, which is present
in the form of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.
God in truth is divine, only held in the bondage of ignorance
(matter); perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word
they use for it is, therefore, freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection,
freedom from ignorance.
Realize what God is supposed to be
in truth:~
Religious Gods are based on blind belief. Belief-based Gods are not God in truth. Religious God
cannot be considered as the center because the Soul the ‘Self’ is the
center of all that exists. Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases
to exist, which means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his
existence. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is present in the
form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
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.
Even 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)
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
declares: "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate
from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)." (1. 4. 10)
Nirguna Brahman is nothing to do with religion because nirguna
Brahman is Atman, the real God is not the God people believe in and worship.:~Santthosh Kumaar