One must
realize God in truth. Without knowing what God supposed to be in actuality
worshipping blind faith or belief-based God
is superstition.
People
all over the world in the past and present accepted the idea of the existence
of God. The fear of God injected by the religion was the root cause of
worship, superstitions, and dogmas. Religious beliefs were passed on to the
populace from one generation to the next generation.
It
is necessary to realize what God supposed to be to realize God in truth.
Sage
Sri, Sankara said:~Talk
as much philosophy, as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe
ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even
after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.
Bhagavad
Gita Chapter: ~ “All those whose intelligence has
been stolen by material desires, they worship many God s. (7- Verse -20)
Swami
Vivekananda: ~
“The masses in India cry to sixty million gods and still die like dogs. Where
are these Gods? (In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900, of Swami Vivekananda/volume
1)
Religion
breeds superstition because religion is based on blind belief. Whatever is
based on the blind belief is superstition. God in truth is not a belief. One must
know God in truth. Without knowing what God supposed to be in actuality
worshipping belief of God is superstition.
Worshipping
superstitious Gods barred by Vedas. Know what God supposed to be according to
Vedas Upanishads Bhagavad Gita and Bible.
In
Yajurveda – chapter- 32: ~ It has been said that God Supreme or
Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen
directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry
does not find any support from the Vedas.
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 innermost self. May ye never accept another God in
place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)
Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is present in the form of the
Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
Kena
Upanishad (6) Chapter I: ~ “That which cannot be apprehended by
the mind, but by which, they say, the mind is apprehended-That alone know as
Brahman(God), and not that which people here worship.
Kena
Upanishad (7) Chapter I:~ That which cannot be perceived by the
eye, but by which the eye is perceived-That alone know as Brahman (God), and
not that which people here worship.
Kena
Upanishad (8) Chapter I:~ That which cannot be heard by the
ear, but by which the hearing is perceived-That alone know as Brahman(God), and
not that which people here worship.
Kena
Upanishad (9)- Chapter I:~
That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an
object-That alone know as Brahman(God), and not that which people here worship.
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.
Bhagavad
Gita says: ~ “Brahmano hi pratisthaham Brahman
(God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all
the animate and inanimate entities and material (Gita 14.27)
When
Bhagavad Gita says God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is
the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing
has to be accepted as God other than
consciousness.
Vedas,
Upanishad and Bhagavad Gita confirm the Soul, the Self, is the
present in the form of the Spirit or the consciousness is GOD.
Bible
says: ~ “God
is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him 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 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.
Swami
Vivekananda: ~ “If superstition enters, the brain
is gone. Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.
Remember:
~
How
can you worship the Absolute? That implies two ~ the worshipper and the
worshipped, whereas the Absolute is nondual. One can worship his idea of the
Absolute only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.
The
Upanishads say in effect: ~ If you believe that the ‘the Soul, the Self’ is one and God (Brahman) is another you cannot understand Truth.
The
religion preaches that God is one and the ways to God are many. It simply tries
to lead them to darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart
from the Self.
Realizing
the single stuff of which this universe in which you exist is made is Truth
realization or Self-realization or God-realization.
When
the expression itself is illusory, then the evolution within the illusory
expression is bound to be an illusion. Thus, the evolution theory holds no
water from the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost Self.
Truth-realization itself is Self-realization and Self-realization itself is God-realization and God-realization itself is real worship.:
~Santthosh Kumaar

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