God is not a person. Personifying God can make it difficult to realize
the truth is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.
To realize the ultimate truth is the prime goal. All the scriptures
indicate that Atman is Brahman, and Brahman is the ultimate truth. Therefore
the consciousness, which is in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate
truth. Thus, to realize the ultimate truth is the prime goal. A well-directed
inquiry, analysis, and reasoning will lead one to his nondual destination.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ “Brahmano
hi pratisthaham’ ~ Brahman is considered the all-pervading
consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and
material. (14.27)
In Advaita Vedanta: ~ “Brahman is without attributes and strictly
impersonal. It can be best described as infinite Being, infinite Consciousness,
and infinite Bliss. It is pure knowledge itself, similar to a source of
infinite radiance. Since the Advaitins regard Brahman to be the Ultimate Truth,
so in comparison to Brahman, every other thing, including the material world,
its distinctness, the individuality of the living creatures and even Ishvara
(the Supreme Lord) itself are all untrue. Brahman is the effulgent cause of
everything that exists and can possibly exist. Since it is beyond human
comprehension, it is without any attributes, for assigning attributes to it
would be distorting the true nature of Brahman. Those Advaitins who believe in
the existence of Saguna Brahman (God with form and attributes) belong to the
religion, not spirituality. In Spirituality, Nirguna Brahman (attributeless God).
Athma is Nirguna Brahman, which is the absolute supreme truth.
Chandogya Upanishad: ~ One who meditates upon and realizes the Self
discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water,
name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantras and
meditation--all come from the Self.
So, it clearly says the one who meditates upon the
self (consciousness) discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and
space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and
deed, mantras, and meditation--all come from the Self. Therefore, there is a
need to know the fact that, the true self is not physical, but the Soul in
order to realize the fact that: the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water,
name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantras and meditation--all
come from the Self, which is in the form of consciousness.
Atman is Brahman. Brahman is alone real; this
waking is unreal, and the three states are non-different from Brahman.
Whatever is, is Brahman. Brahman itself is
absolutely homogeneous. All difference and plurality are illusory."
Brahman is not a person, as the Absolute is not this. But if one wants to call
it God or Param Atman, then fine. But it is not a person. Personifying God can
make it difficult to realize the truth hidden by the illusory form, time, and
space. :
~ Santthosh Kumaar
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