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Shantanu
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I am sure some Hindu must practice this form of atheism. I believe @Aupmanyav considers Brahman as physical energy and all there is.
Nontheistic Samkhya and early Vaisesika would qualify. Ajjivika also qualifies.
Sounds like my non-dual (God and creation are not-two) Advaita beliefs kind of fills that bill. God/Brahman is understood as pure consciousness of which the universe is its thought-form. God/Brahman is the animator in us and all things.
Aupmanyav
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Yeah, Brahman is physical energy IMHO. When we proceed from there, we encounter a problem. Where did this energy arise from? Could it be from non-existence, Creatio-ex-nihilo? Are existence and non-existence just to phases of what there, i.e., Brahman? We do not know the answer, so we look to science to say something in this Century or perhaps the next. 
Shantanu
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I come from a different perspective on energy whilst agreeing that Brahman is physical energy. Please read this: Brahman in Hindu cosmogony and religion.Yeah, Brahman is physical energy IMHO. When we proceed from there, we encounter a problem. Where did this energy arise from? Could it be from non-existence, Creatio-ex-nihilo? Are existence and non-existence just to phases of what there, i.e., Brahman? We do not know the answer, so we look to science to say something in this Century or perhaps the next.
It means that Brahman will emerge by birth from Sri Krishna and will be resorbed back when the time for disolution of the universe comes.
So do you actively pray to this god? Or is it just a force of nature of all living and nothing more
Actually we and everything are this God. So the practice of worship doesn't really apply. Self-Realization is a better term. We are trying to identify with that One Consciousness that appears as many.
I agree. In my response to his intro thread, I pointed him in the direction of qualified non-dualism (Vishishtadvaita) as he posited an outline of his current beliefs and asked what religion or philosophy was most congruent to them.
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That sounds materialistic to me.