People are being conditioned by the religious myth which has made them non-thinkers.+

If people have believed in religiously propagated myths for thousands of years, the length of time does not prove them true.

People are being conditioned by the religious myth, which has made them non-thinkers. People need to come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth.

People are misled by their inherited religion, which propagates Gods based on blind faith or belief as real gods, whereas their own sacred scriptures prove that what people believe and worship as Gods are not God in truth.

The Upanishads say in effect that: ~ If you believe that the invisible 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.

People all over the world in the past and present have 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. The religious belief is passed on to the populace from one generation to the next.

The Yajurveda – chapter- 32: ~:~ God is the 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.

It is for the seeker to realize what God is supposed to be in actuality. God in truth, is hidden by the universe because the universe is merely an illusion created out of God. God is in the form of Athma.

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

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)

How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshiper and the worshiped, whereas God is nondual. One can worship his idea of God only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.

When the Upanishads and Vedas declare that “God is the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself,” then why accept another God in place of the Atman or worship other than the Atman?

People who worship God-based on blind belief are hallucinating that they become one with such God. Veda and Upanishads condemn worshiping God other than the Athma.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says: ~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the Self does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)

Even the 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 the 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.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter: ~ “All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse)

Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita, confirm that the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness, is God in truth.

It is for every seeker who is seeking truth must first know what God is supposed to be in actuality according to the Vedas and Upanishads, and reject all non-Vedic Gods, to realize the Atman is the real God. :~Santthosh Kumaar