People think god is somewhere, up there, monitoring every act of the people, guiding the lost and uplifting the poor. God is the one who punishes the evil and rewards the benevolent. Some people even claim of seeing them in stone idols or some conceptual belief, in inanimate or living things. Is it our faith that makes us believe that there is some supreme power above us or is it a reality, can never be answered. Until this conviction is there one is in the grip of physicality. The physicality keeps one in the ignorance of our true identity, which is not physical. Therefore, there is a need to verify the fact that the self is not physical but it is the formless spirit. When one becomes aware of the fact that the spirit is the true self, then one realizes the fact that whatever known, seen, believed and experienced on the base of the false self is falsehood. The false self is reality within the false experience. Thus man and his experience of the world and his belief and his accumulated knowledge is falsehood because the waking experience is mere mirage on the standpoint of the true self, which is the soul/spirit.
