All the religionists believe in god and goddesses (vidya) and performing rituals and other sacrifices(Avidya) both are hindrance to self-knowledge according to Ish Upanishads, then why the seeker of truth needs worshiping of god and goddesses, when the essence of Advaita is Atman is Brahman (soul or self as ultimate reality).
When the self is formless there is no need pada pooja (feet worship). Advaitin gurus to get freedom prescribes rituals . A guru who preaches conduct as the means to freedom believes in birth, life death and the world as reality whereas the Advaitic sage Sri, Sankara declares the world as unreal. Therefore, How actions(karma) performed in the unreal world can get Moksha or freedom. Therefore, there is a need to know the fact that, the self is not physical in order to understand and assimilate and realize the truth beyond physicality.
That is why Gaudapada says that: - The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upaasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.
It means the people who follow the religion and the worship of the guru and conceptual god are lower and middling intellect. But in this modern world people are sharp enough to understand and assimilate the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. Thus, it is high time to discard the lower knowledge and move ahead to realize the ultimate truth, which is Brahman or God.
They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Ataman. The ordinary man does not understand their way. [Chapter IV — Alatasanti Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada]
Therefore, if one is seeking truth he has to know his true self is not physical, but it is the Atman, which is in the form of consciousness.
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