Brahma, with form, name, and attributes, is not the Vedic God because the Vedic God is Atman.+

Different Religions call God by different names. In Spirituality, the ultimate truth is called Brahman or God. The words and its meaning belong to plurality are illusory.

The words are necessary to indicate the truth. The word God is the best word to express because the ignorant populace is attached to the word God.

Brahman:-“The English use of the word real as applied to the material world, whereas we Advaitic sages use it as applied to unseen Atman, the consciousness. Hence, many errors have arisen in translations from the Sanskrit.

Brahman: ~ “The word Brahman or Sat has no proper equivalent in English. The nearest is ultimate reality or ultimate truth. The west, however, applies reality to individual objects or to the multiplicity of them all: whereas Advaitins apply it to the non-duality. Brahman is called "That" because it is something not known yet by the seeker.

The words are used for communication purpose. On nondualistic perspective, the words are meaningless. The words are only used within the in dualistic to indicate the truth, which is hidden by the illusory form, time and space.

The word Brahman means ultimate truth or reality, which cannot be indicated by any word. The Brahman can be expressed through silence because it is beyond the experience of form, time and space. Therefore, the word Brahman in the clearly stands for the essence of the three states, which is consciousness only.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is for realizing the Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Religious people use the word Brahma for their belief of God that is Brahma with forms, names, and attributes. People believe and worship Brahma with form, name, and attributes, is not the Vedic God because the Vedic God is Atman, the Spirit.

Religion dogmatically assumes God's existence, which is based on individual perception. One has to realize the fact that whatever is based on individuality is bound to be an illusion.

Thus, the physical body and the experience of the world and belief of God are part of the illusion. In reality, no second thing exists other than the Soul, the Self.

Thus, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone, is a reality. The Soul is the formless substance and witness of the illusory three states.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (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.

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.

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32: - 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 ‘Self’. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman, nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

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. Nothing matters but to realize the ultimate truth. Consciousness is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

God is formless, timeless and spaceless existence. Thus, according to the Vedas, God neither has any image nor God resides in any particular idol or statue. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.

Gods with form, name and attributes are not Vedic God because the Vedic God is Atma.

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)

The Vedas as a body of scripture contain many contradictions, and they are fragmentary in nature. For Hindus, scriptures like Bhagavad-Gita, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Puranas are more attractive and appealing than the Vedas. And also the Gods and Goddesses they worship differ considerably from the Vedic ones. The collection of hymns called Vedas written in praise of certain deities by poets over several centuries does not seem to have much significance for the Hindus

Yajur Veda says:~

Translation 1

They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc.).

They sink deeper in darkness, those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol etc.) (Yajurveda 40:9)

Translation 2

"Deep into the shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshipers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent." (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Griffith, pg. 538)

Translation 3.

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." (Yajurveda 40:9.)

So, Yajur Veda indicates that:~ They sink deeper in ignorance, those who worship created things idol

Those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." (Yajurveda 40:9.)

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

Thus, it clearly indicates the God in truth is without the form and attributes and ever free.

Vedic Gods, hardly have any significance in present day Hindu belief system. The Gods and Goddesses important to the Hindus of today are Ram, Krishna, Kali, Ganesh, Hanuman, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and the respective consorts of the last three, namely, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Shakti. None of these deities figured prominently in the Vedic pantheon, and some of them are clearly non-Vedic. : ~

The more important religious sects among the Hindus, like Vaishnavism, Saivism and so on, did not have a Vedic origin but had come into existence in comparatively recent times.

Originally, Shiva and the cult of the Mother Goddess belonged to the religion of the Indus (Sindhu) Valley people. Vedic worshiper did not use temples and idols as Hindus of today do. For them, the sacrificial rituals were more important than the temple or idol worship.

The theory of Avatara (‘descend’) of Gods which is very important to modern Hinduism is non-Vedic.

The term Avatar (…) is not found in the earlier Vedic texts, and is absent from the older Sanskrit glossaries”. The caste system which is so integral to Hinduism was also not practiced in the Vedic times.

There is hardly any evidence of a rigid caste system in the Vedas. It is argued that the purushasukta hymn of the Rig Veda (X.90) which is often referred to in order to give a religious sanction to the caste system was a later interpolation.

The Vedas, however, speak of various classes of people, which appear to have been names of professions, and they were not hereditary.

The very concepts of castes by birth, upper/lower caste, superior/inferior castes, outcaste, untouchables, Dalits, etc. are clearly prohibited by Rig-Veda”.

Avatara (‘descent’) of Gods, caste system, were absent in the Vedic religion. Only when the Vedic religion with its own as a distinct with its own sacred texts, rites, rules of social life, beliefs and practices without interlinking it with Hinduism the true essence of Vedas will be revealed.

Vedic people did not worship Hindu Gods and Goddesses.

In Spirituality or Adyathma, we have to use the word God for the ultimate truth.

Words merely cause the mind to ramble. The seeker should earnestly try to mentally grasp the truth, which is beyond the form, time and space, indicated by the words. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar