The seeker of truth has to unlearn what he has learned from the standpoint of the ego.+

Holding some Guru or some teaching as a yardstick leads to all types of doubts, confusion, and unnecessary arguments. Argument fuels the ego. Argument is possible only when one tries to grasp the Non-dualistic truth from the dualistic perspective.

The seeker of truth has to unlearn what he has learned from the standpoint of the ego. Without mentally burning the accumulated knowledge, accumulated from different sources, it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

The seeker of truth should not become attached to words as being in perfect conformity with meaning, because Truth is not in the letters. When a man with his fingertips points to something, the fingertips may be mistaken for the thing pointed at; in like manner, the ignorant are unable even to the day of their death to abandon the idea that in the fingertips of words there is the meaning itself. They cannot realize the ultimate reality because of their intent clinging to words that were intended to be no more than a pointing finger.

The words and their discrimination bind one to the duality; meaning stands alone and is a guide to non-dual awareness. Meaning is attained by much learning, and much learning is attained by becoming conversant with meaning and not with words; therefore, seekers of truth have to avoid the sticklers for particular words

The Soul, the Self, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

Sages of truth restrained themselves, parting the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to the mass and only a selected few. It was hidden from the people who were not qualified and receptive to it.

Self-knowledge, or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, was not written down but was imparted orally to the chosen few.

Thus, religion was given to the ignorant populace, while knowledge of the Spirit was reserved for a select few. Thus, we find traces of the knowledge of the Spirit in the religious books in the form of parables.

Katha Upanishad says: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one, Atman reveals its own form. (II -23-P-20)

Remember:~

There is no such thing as ignorance beyond the ‘I’. Beyond the ‘I’ is the invisible Soul, which is the Atmic reality.

The invisible Soul is the fullness of consciousness without the division of form, time, and space. The invisible Soul is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The ‘I’ itself is ignorance, the cause of the bondage of illusory form, time, and space.

When ignorance is eliminated, the unreal nature of form, time, and space is exposed. Only ignorance is the form; time and space prevail as reality. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar