In spiritual or religious realm belief plays very crucial role. It has its own pros and cons of believing or nonbelieving the existence of God. But there is a way of Godless Enlightenment where devotee can have spiritual experience without believing God.

Belief offers soothing, composed psychological environment to Sadhaka. He can achieve interiorization faster if his mental or psychological faculties called as Bhava are immersed in Belief. But Belief may not be rational, may not be practical at all. Or sometimes it does not consider wellbeing of surrounding community. So, it offers some sort of alien craze to sadhaka on which he/she tries to ride to reach the Experience. This is one of the ways to achieve deliverance.

But the question is if any path exists to reach the experience which does not depend on belief system at all? And fortunately, the answer is great YES.

Yoga, I believe, is the only path where belief does not intermingle with your method of experiments and experiences thereon. If you want to mix yoga with some tantra or some belief system then its different story. But its very much true that you can have a system where you can experiment with your body and mind. And you will be landed in commonly forbidden area of awareness and there you can find evidences about the existence of God keeping whole of your belief system aside. The experiences of Yoga only will tell you the truth. We call these experiences as Yogaj Anubhava, which literally means Experiences derived from the practice of Yoga. No assumptions are required. Only some of the things which are part of your yoga routine is required to be followed steadfastly until you get deliverance.

So really what is the need of belief system if you want to bypass it and still reach the essence of Truth? You might ask this question next moment. The answer is your qualification or compatibility with the path of Yoga. This path is somewhat dry, avoiding all the cobwebs of feeling and emotions. Approach of scientist, performing sadhana like an experiment and observe your mind, awareness, your inner being for its effects are essential qualities to tread this path. Overwhelming hope for future is absent here, you do not predict what will happen next. Though you know the experiences of your seniors on this path, when those things happen to you, same alien awareness will envelope your being until you assimilate it fully over the time. If you have this temperament then you can easily tread this path of yoga. And reach the enlightenment without depending on any belief system.

You can call this path of yoga utilizing your breath as object for your concentration, ie you do your sadhana karma with your breath. Slowly over the period of time, your mind will get along with your breath. As with more practice, your breath will slow down making your mind calm & tranquil. This creates the opportunity for Laya or Manolaya. For some devotees merely interiorization leads to this Laya. Sublimating mind in its own stuff. Path of mantra or devotion to any deity also leads to Manolaya which will annihilate your sense of existence and will awaken you in the realm of omni conscious, ever joyful, deathless awareness.

For the sake of introduction, I have jotted down the whole process in few lines. Many experiences can occur along the path indicating your status on this journey. This journey can continue for months, or for some years or for some lifetimes.

Some people call this as Godless path of Enlightenment. Maybe Buddha who did not answer the question whether God exists for his whole lifetime, wanted to indicate towards this path. So really you have answer now and you are capable to take your own decision about implementing belief or treading beyond.