Mixing religion with Spirituality or Adyatma is a great error.+

Spirituality or Adyathma is nothing to do with religion and religious Gods. Religion is based on the blind belief whereas the spirituality is based on the Soul, the God hidden by the ‘I’, which is ignorance. Mixing religion with Spirituality is a great error.

Worshiping God without knowing what God supposed to be in actuality is not of any use. Remember, the religious God worshiped by you is not real God according to your own scriptures.

First, realize what God supposed to be in truth. Being the ignorance of the truth is being ignorance of God.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter:~ All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)

Religious Gods are mere belief. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because the Soul and the ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists.

Without the Soul the universe in which you exist ceases to exist, it 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 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. (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.

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

Religious Gods are based on blind faith or blind belief. Religious God cannot be considered as cause of the universe because the Soul, the ‘Self’ is the cause of the universe. Without the universe, religion and its Gods cease to exist.

Without the Soul the universe in which you exist ceases to exist, it means the religious Gods are dependent on the Soul for their existence.

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 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)

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, 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 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 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, and not that which people here worship.

When Upanishad itself declares:- “sarvam khalvidam brahma - All this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality (Chandogya Upanishad).

Then it is no use going a roundabout way, to trace the Brahman (God) which is the formless substance and witness of the universe, which is present in the form of mind. By tracing the source of the mind or universe, one will be able to realize the Brahman (God). : ~ Santthosh Kumaar