People are not aware of the fact that, no God can exist, apart from soul or consciousness, the innermost self.

Devotional path is religious path. Devotion towards an inherited belief cannot transport the seeker of truth towards the non-dual destination.  Devotion is between the person and his belief.  The devotion is based on the belief system. The person who has inherited some belief system believes in the individualized God and indulges in the devotional path. The devotion makes one believe that he is person and god has created this world.  Therefore he believes that he is born in this world and world existed prior to him, this conviction makes him feel he is the doer.  Since, he accepts himself as the doer he will remain ignorant of the true self, which is the soul.    The ignorance makes him feel the illusion as reality.

People are not aware of the fact that, no God can exist, apart from soul or consciousness, the innermost self. If there is no soul or consciousness, the innermost self, then there is no body, world and their belief of God. They think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one thinks waking entity as self, then there is a creator, but if one thinks the formless soul or consciousness as Self, then there is nothing exists other than the soul or consciousness.

If one objectifies and sees a universe, then he is bound to see many things beside himself and postulate a God, the creator. Body, idea of God and no god and world rise and set together from, and into, the soul or consciousness, the innermost self. If God is apart from the soul or consciousness, the innermost self, then He would be Self-less, that is, outside existence, that is, non-existent. -FORMLESS PATH