The worshiping God based on blind faith or blind belief in place of real God is superstition.+

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 Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)

The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul, the innermost Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. From the Spirit, the universe comes into existence. In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there is.

Worshipping God based on blind faith or blind belief in place of the real God is superstition.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ “If superstition enters, the brain is gone. Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.

How can you worship the Absolute? That implies two ~ the worshiper and the worshiped, whereas the Absolute is nondual. One can worship his idea of the Absolute only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.

Upanishads say in effect that: ~ If you believe that the ‘the Soul, the Self is one and God (Brahman) is another, you cannot understand Truth.

The religion preaches that God is one and the ways to God are many. It simply tries to lead them to darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the Self.

The universe is made of a single clay. That single clay is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The invisible Soul is the cause of the universe, and it is uncaused. The invisible Soul is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth.

The invisible Soul, the Go,d is hidden by the universe, which is present in the form of the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is the dualistic illusion.

Thus, it is necessary to know what God is supposed to be in actuality. God is not a belief, but God is truth.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ 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 the Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material.

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

If you are seeking truth, then you have to discard all the  Gods based on blind belief to realize the Self. The Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Self-realization is Truth realization. Truth -realization is God-realization. God-realization is real worship.

The world in which you exist is a dualistic illusion created out of the Self, which is not ‘I’ but the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced is within the dualistic illusion. Thus, your existence is bound to an illusion created out of consciousness, which is real and eternal.

Like an ornament made from gold is Gold, that which is born out of consciousness is consciousness. Like gold is a permanent thing, in ornaments made of gold, similarly, the mind, which is in the form of the universe, is born out of consciousness, is consciousness in its essence.

That is why Sage Sankara said:~Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness 

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman (Gnani)

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

That is why Swami Vivekananda: ~ “The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods? (In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900, of swami Vivekananda/volume 1)

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 is known 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 is known 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 is known as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Ishopanishad:~ "They are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worship the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God, and those who worship things born of matter, like trees, animals, man, etc., are sunk deeper in misery."

When the Upanishads themselves say they are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worship matter, instead of the all-pervading God (Atman), and those who worship things born of matter (illusion) are sunk deeper in misery, then why worship God in place of the real God, which is Atman?

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

God is hidden by the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is the dualistic illusion. You are part and parcel of the dualistic illusion. The invisible Soul is the cause of the dualistic illusion, but itself is uncaused.

The dualistic illusion is present in the form of form, time, and space. The form, time, and space are present in the form of the universe.

The universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

Bhagavad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16

Your existence is limited to the illusory form, time, and space. The form, time, and space are made of the same clay. That clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Knowledge of the single clay is Self–knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self–knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana helps the seeker to unfold the truth (God in truth) hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion.

You have to draw your attention back every time it turns to worldliness (I) and fix it in the Soul, the Brahman or God in truth.

Truth realization is Self-realization, and Self-realization is God-realization, and God-realization is real worship. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar