In Vedas the God has been described as:-
Sakshi (Witness)
Chetan (conscious)
Nirguna (Without
form and properties).
Nitya (eternal)
Shuddha (pure)
Buddha
(omniscient)
Mukta
(unattached).
All these qualities are of the Atman (soul), which is the
innermost self. It indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are
mere imagination based on the false self or ego or waking entity. Thus all individualized gods and goddesses are
non-Vedic Gods.
And also in Yajurved 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.)
[Yajurved 40:9]
Translation 2.
"Deep into shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's
worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent."
[Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Giffith 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."
[Yajur Veda 40:9.]
So, Yajur Veda indicates that:-
They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti.
(Sambhuti means created things, for example table, chair, idol etc [Yajurved 40:9]
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." [Yajur Veda 40:9.]
When the religion of the Veda knows no idols
than why so many gods and goddesses with different form and name are being
propagated as Vedic gods. Why these conceptual gods are introduced when Vedic
concept of god is free from form and attributes.
Who introduced concept
of god with attributes and attributeless gods, when Yajur Veda says: - 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.
When Yajur Veda itself declares that:- "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." -- than why believe and worship non-Vedic Gods and fall into an awful hell of pain and
sorrow.
- Swami Vivekananda :- THE MASSES IN INDIA CRY TO SIXTY MILLION GODS, AND STILL DIE LIKE DOGS.
WHERE ARE THESE GODS?
Knowing this, stand up and fight! Not one step back that is the idea. ... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. ... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune. You have cried to all the gods in the world. Has misery ceased? The masses in India cry to sixty million gods, and still die like dogs. Where are these gods? ... The gods come to help you when you have succeeded. So what is the use? Die game. ... This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind does not befit you, my soul. You are infinite, deathless, birthless. Because you are infinite spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. ... Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must. There is none to help you. You are the entire world. Who can help you?
- Swami Vivekananda
(Delivered In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900)
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita II
(Delivered In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900)
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita II
People believe in old myths
propagated by their religion. Every religion has propagated its own myth. Every
religious belief contradicts other beliefs. It is mere blind belief accepted as
truth without verification and evidence. This causes division. Modern science has
exposed many Religious dogmas as myth. All these dogma were introduced in
primitive era before people had
the benefit of modern science. Science attempts to objectively discover how
life works, and religion makes one blindly believe and cast his burden on the blind belief without
verification, to live in peace and harmony
in practical life within the practical
world.
Seekers main aim is to investigate both dual
and non-dual experiences to find and define the underlying truth in everything,
thereby realizing what the ultimate truth is. Because of so many beliefs propagated by
belief system, people think seekers of truth are atheists because they do not accept the
belief blindly. Seekers of truth believe the believers and atheists both are
believers because believers believe in the belief of god and atheists believe
in belief of no god.
Pursuit of truth is all about
accepting uncertainty and open questions and seeking for the things that are certainty.
Believers and nonbelievers will not accept anything other than their
inherited belief system or accepted truth. Atheists feel there is no proof for god’s
existence. So atheist chooses to just believe there is no such thing called
God. And religionists just believe in the existence of their conceptual
god. A Gnani is one who is fully aware
of the fact that, the existence or non-existence of God cannot be proven on the
base of physical self. Therefore deeper
understanding is necessary to understand and assimilate the truth about Gods
existence to know what is supposed to be the God.