Recursive religious behaviour.

Religious people who believe in God, tend to leave there problem to God without analysing them in depth. This lack of analysis lead to baseless fear from the problems which could be easily solved, or in some cases not problems at all. This fear blocks the analytical power of the person and forces him to take refuge in God's belief.

Now since most of the problems are easy or not problem at all they get resolved with little or no effort and the credit goes to the God. Every time the credit for solving any problem goes to the God, the belief gets stronger and now even if they suffer from some problems they blame themselves for their sins but keep believing in God.

The more they believe, the more they turn towards the God when they encounter any problem in their life. This cycle goes on and on until you take charge and start analysing things and try to solve them yourself instead of going and asking help from the God.

Individuality

It might be next to impossible but not impossible to loose one's individuality. Actually it is our individuality which saparate us from The God.

Use of "The Soul of the Universe", to indicate the God, was really the beauty of the book, "The Alchemist". It actually says that God is no saparate thing. God is the soul of the universe and we are the a part of it. The misery is that we never try to feel that we can mingle in the soul of the universe to become the God itself.

The shepherd of The Alchemist did that and thus he could control the nature because he mingled with the soul of the world. As our soul controls our body, soul of the world controls the world.

So! When you loose your individuality you can control the universe but then you no more remain just a human being.

Deities, Incarnations and The God

There is a huge difference between The God, Incarnations and deities like Gayatri maa. Let's understand them one by one backwards.

Deities:
Deities like Gayatri are nothing but the representation of some set of philosophies. Gayatri is basically the name of a 'Chhand' (type of verse form). The deity Gayatri is the sculptural or pictorial representation of the philosophies explained by the Gayatri Mantras.

Incarnations:
When someone embodies a deity into his or her life then the person or the people are called the incarnation of that deity. This is one of the reason that most of the incarnation are the form of Vishnu. There are few incarnation of Mahakaal but as much as my limited knowledge say, there is no incarnation of Brhma. One can operate the world, one can also distruct it to some extent but none can generate. Things can be converted to other forms only. No construction or absolute destruction is possible that is why there is no incarnation of Brahma.

The God:
The God is beyond any definition that is why Hrigveda didn't even name it. I don't have the book at this time and I don't want to quote that 'Hricha' with spelling mistakes to I am just stating the meaning of it. It says about many properties of the God and then askes "Kasmai Devay Havishavidhem" (Which such deity we should worship). It also has the answer in itself "Kah asmai Devay Havishavidhem" ('Kah' such deity we should worship). In the vedic era 'Kah' was used in algebra similar to the 'X' now a days.

So! Indirectly Hrigveda says that we just know a part of the God. None can explain you about the God even if it become known.