Mastering Advaita Vedanta will not help to acquire Advaitic wisdom. By studying Vedanta, you will not be able to realize the Advaita (Brahman or God) hidden by the Dvaita (ignorance).
Vedanta is only an indicator to show the truth hidden by the illusion. By challenging, provoking, and passing opinion and judgment based on a dualistic perspective, the Advaitic wisdom will not dawn. By studying Vedanta, you will not be able to realize the truth.
The intellectual wealth of accumulated knowledge is of no use in the quest for truth. Each Guru spins his own imagination and calls it Advaitic wisdom.
Sage Sankara says:~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book-knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.
That is why Sage Sankara said:~Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.
Advaita is the nondual nature of the invisible Soul, the Self. The world in which you exist is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom.
Advaitic truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to realize because you have accumulated mental garbage from different sources in the name of Advaita.
Until you discard all the accumulated knowledge, you will never be able to realize the Advaitic truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.
The Advaita is the nature of the invisible Soul, the Self shines on its own, its awareness when wisdom dawns.
The Advaita is the invisible Soul is the cause and the support of all that exists, as the world in which we exist. Advaita is the nature of God in truth.
The Advaita is present in the form of consciousness. Advaita is the root element of the universe.
From the Advaita, the universe comes into existence. In the Advaita, the universe resides. And into the Advaita, the universe is dissolved. The Advaita is the parent of all that is there.
By challenging, provoking, and passing opinion and judgment on Advaita-based on a dualistic perspective, belongs to orthodoxy, not spirituality.
The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.
A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
The ultimate truth has to be realized first, then only it is possible to know what the scriptures are saying. I do not require any scriptures.
I quote Scriptural citation and also the citation of the Sages of truth only after verifying reality and proving the truth, to point out that the scriptures teach the same thing. If one quotes them before having demonstrated truth, then it is scholasticism.
Self-knowledge cannot be attained by the study of the scriptures and intellectual understanding or by bookish knowledge. Therefore, there is no use in studying the scriptures and other scriptures to acquire non-dual wisdom.
Scripture mastery, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of that Ultimate Truth or Brahman.
The ultimate truth is revealed in the clear understanding and realization of ‘what is truth and ‘what is the untruth.
When one realizes the untruth (universe) is created out of a single stuff, Self-awareness rises in the midst of duality, exposing the unreal nature of form, time, and space.
Scriptures are being added from time to time. This process will go on. Is there a final authority among them? One contradicts the other: duality reigns supreme.
Self-knowledge cannot be attained by the study of the scriptures and intellectual understanding or by bookish knowledge. Therefore, there is no use in studying the scriptures and other scriptures to acquire non-dual wisdom.
That is why Buddha rejected the scriptures, and even Sage Sankara indicated that the ultimate truth lies beyond religion, the concept of a personal God, and the scriptures.
Sage Sankara said:~ Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) Vivekachoodamani v 56, pg. 25
Sage Sankara’s wisdom is not a teaching or philosophy, but Advaita is the universal wisdom. Advaitic wisdom is neither a teaching nor a theory, but it is merely guidance to those who are seriously seeking the ultimate truth or Brahman. Grasp the ultimate truth anytime any age, if the seeker has the spiritual maturity and capacity to grasp it.
Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the not-Self.
It really depends on his inborn natural capacity to understand and assimilate it. Sage Sankara’s wisdom is a self-examiner, to test oneself to discover how near to Gnana he has approached and what progress has already been made on the path, and what still remains to be done. It sets up criteria for Self-judgement.
There are millions in search of truth, but one in a million will be able to grasp it.
Without Sage Sankara, there is no Advaita (nonduality). Since it was mixed up with orthodoxy, there is a lot of confusion.
All the Gurus who propagate Advaita of east and west air their knowledge base Advaita on the dualistic perspective and orthodox perspective.
I am highlighting all the obstacles that are blocking one from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman. There are so many non-dualistic masters of the East and also from the West who expound Advaitic or non-dualistic knowledge, but none of them are helpful in reaching the ultimate end.
One has to know and realize his Self is an invisible Soul and identify it as his true identity to find liberation from the bondage of the illusion of birth, life, death, and the world(duality).
The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Why discuss my biography when the Self is not me but the invisible Soul? The invisible Soul has no biography because it is an ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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