Where are the Devatas now?

We are sure it cannot be denied anymore that the devatas took birth as the Masooms or Ahlebayts (final and most visible proof from the Vedas still remains to be seen). Masooms may have lived and died during a particular period but their importance in the creation of this universe and their role in leading all beings towards the worship of One God has remained the same right from beginning of the creation. All great religions of the world would not have come into existence without the Masooms. All attempts to lead the mankind towards righteousness and worship could not have emanated without the consciousness generated through them. If we continue to have goodness around, if evil has not enveloped everything, then it is courtesy the Masooms - the Manus or the 14 devatas.
Now is the time to shed our ignorance. Now is the time to give the devatas their rightful place inside our souls. Now is the time to return to the worship of One God alone, from where we all have deviated irrespective of our beliefs, caste and creed.
As Mundaka Upanishad says, all devatas lead to the One God alone (I.2.13).
Unto him who has approached in due form, whose mind is tranquil and who has attained peace, let the knowing teach in its very truth that knowledge about Brahman by which one knows the imperishable person, the true.
What is the use of all this knowledge, some would say? Main purpose of life is to do good act and refrain from doing evil, they would argue. You do good things and that is the route to salvation or moksh? Unfortunately this is not true, as per Krishna’s own teachings in Gita:
[III:7]
He, on the other hand, who keeps the senses under control by means of the mind, and then commences unitive activity while still unattached, he excels.
Krishna says that good acts should necessarily be accompanied by efforts to attain union with somebody, while still remaining unattached. What does he mean? A little later he says:
[III:17]
But for him who happens to be attached to the Self alone, who finds full satisfaction in the Self, for such a man who is happy in the Self as such, too, there is nothing that he should do.
[III:18]
Neither is there anything indeed for him resulting from work done nor any from work omitted here nor is there either for him any dependence in respect of anything derivable from any being whatsoever.
It has been clearly said that the Manifest Self has to be identified. Unless one does so, there is no salvation. The same is said in Chapter 18 of Gita:
[XVIII, 46]
He from whom all existences come forth, and by whom all this is pervaded, by offering worship to Him with his own occupation, man wins perfection.
And the secret of attaining salvation is also described in Chapter IX, in which it has been clarified that good acts can ensure place in heaven but cannot guarantee salvation, unless good acts are done while seeking union with the Manifest Self.
[IX:1]
Sribhagavan said:
To you indeed who do not mistrust I shall declare this profound secret of wisdom together with its applied aspects, by knowing which you shall be freed from what savours of evil.
[IX:2]
Royal science, crowning secret, purificatory is this, superior, objectively verifiable, conforming to right living, very easy to live (and) subject to no decrease.
[IX:3]
Men without whole-hearted faith-affiliation to this way of right living, O Burner of Foes (Arjuna), not attaining to Me, return to the paths of mortality and cyclic repetition of existence.
It is clearly said that person who does not attain to the Manifest Self does not attain salvation and returns to the paths of mortality and cyclic repetition of existence. But those who give even small and insignificant things in offering to the Manifest Self are valued.
[IX:26]
He who offers to Me with devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water, that do I accept as being offered with devotion by one who makes the (Right) effort.
Making an effort is important. God accepts the offering of one who makes effort, even if he offers an insignificant thing to the God. Such is the bounteous nature of God.
[IX:27]
What you do, what you eat, what you offer, what you give, what austerity you practice, O Son of Kunti (Arjuna), let that be done as an offering to Me.
[IX:28]
Thus you will be liberated from the bonds of action, whether its results are good or evil. With Self affiliated to unitive Self-denial, as one thus emancipated you will attain to Me.
And that the Manifest Self is both mutable and immutable, as said in Upanishads, has been referred to in Chapter IX (10) and subsequent verse tells the mutable portion of Manifest Self will take birth in human form:
[IX, 10, 11]
By Me presiding, nature gives birth to both the moveable and the immoveable entities; because of this, O Son of Kunti (Arjuna), this (moving) world revolves.
The foolish misunderstand Me because of My adopting the human form, ignorant as they are of My being that is beyond, as the Lord of all beings.
It is a long time since we have blindly followed the religion. Now is the time to open our eyes. Unless and until we explore and inquire, we are not going to reach the truth. All beliefs, all rituals, all actions need to be verified on the basis of reason and unless there is a specific injunction commending or negating an act, nothing should be accepted as truth and part of religion.
India, we have seen, has always remained a favourite place of the devatas. This region has given the best of the thinkers, the best of the worshippers, and most righteous of men – something that devatas always wanted from all of us. It is this region alone that saw huge armies stand up to fight on the side of Prophets of God, who even went on to gain victory in battle. It is symbolic of truth, steadfastness and peace. Some of the sheen may have got lost from these virtues lately, but even now Indians, collectively, continue to remain more simple, more truthful, more hardworking and more God-fearing than people of most other places.