Vedas bar human worship. There is no need for the seeker of truth to indulge in glorifying the Gurus and worship them as Gods.+

Vedas bar human worship. There is no need for the seeker of truth to indulge in glorifying the Gurus and worship them as Gods.

The seeker has to go beyond religion. Going beyond religion means, to go beyond the belief in religious God to realize the real God hidden by ignorance.

When one delves into the annals of history, it appears that the true Advaita expounded by Sage  Sankara and Sage Gaudapada was lost or distorted by orthodoxy, as their preaching and practice do not align. Orthodoxy talks of Advaita but their practice is dualistic. 

The orthodoxy is nothing to do with Advaita because they are based on the experience of birth, life, death, and the world whereas the Advaita is based on Soul, which is ever birthless and deathless and worldless.

There is no use of prostration to holy sandals of the Guru or indulging in Pada Pooja (feet worship) when the inner Guru is invisible Soul, the  Self’, which is ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence. 

The guru who identifies with his experience of birth, life, death, and the world, and the disciple who worships his guru’s body, will remain ignorant of the truth beyond the form, time, and space. Without getting rid of ignorance, they will never get freedom from experiencing the dualistic illusion as reality.

People think prostrating to a religious Guru, adoring which the worst poverty-stricken have turned out to be great possessors of wealth, and even the mutes have turned out to be great masters of speech, are ideas based on the dualistic perspective is meant for the ignorant populace, which accepts the world as a reality. From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the world in which birth, life, and death take place is merely an illusion.

People think by prostrating to the physical Guru, which serves as the downpour of water to put out the fire of misfortunes, which removes the groups of distress of those who prostrate to them. The devotion to a physical Guru and grace with the valuable dominion of renunciation is the religious ideas. All the religious belief is nothing to with the ultimate truth or Brahman.

The devotion to a physical Guru and grace with the valuable dominion of renunciation is the religious idea.

A person who realizes the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and becomes free from experiencing the illusory duality as a reality.

Why worship and glorify the GURUS and YOGIS when Vedas bar human worship: ~

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.]

Then why worship and glorify the GURUS and YOGIS (human form) in place of God when the Veda bars such activities, and it also warns people who indulge in such activities 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.:~ Santthosh Kumaar