Discussion with the right people is always better than arguments with the wrong people. Silence is always better than meaningless discussion.+

Sage Sankara cautioned that the study of the Upanishads alone would not lead to Moksha.

Ashtavakra:~ There is no wisdom whatsoever in the scriptures- just a collection of words.

Discussion with the right people is always better than arguments with the wrong people. Silence is always better than meaningless discussion.

To come to a more precise understanding of what non-duality is or might mean, we must return to the original linguistic and philosophic backgrounds from which the word has been translated into English.

If we limit a probe of the meaning of non-duality to Sanskrit literature, we find that the most frequently used term is “Advaita”.

Advaita” is not a religious concept. Advaita is the nature of existence hidden by the illusory universe.

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained Self-knowledge, realized Atman, which is the Self, is God in truth. Atman alone exists~ everything is Atman, and there exists nothing except Atman.

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained Self-knowledge, the knowledge of Atman, realizes the Self as~ Atman that alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare."

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “Don't unsettle the minds of the ignorant by revealing the esoteric truth."

When the seeker fails to find the truth with the guru and books, and he realzes he has to investigate the truth independently without any guru and without the scripture.

When the seeker realzes names and forms are real when seen with consciousness, but are false when seen independent of consciousness.

From the standpoint of the formless Soul, the ‘Self’, the effect is non-different from the cause. However, in the realm of duality cause is different from the effect.

The non-difference of the effect from the cause has to be grasped perfectly to realize, from the ultimate standpoint, that there is neither the cause nor the effect because the cause and effect are one, in essence. That essence is consciousness.

If the cause is destroyed, the effect will no longer exist.

Despite the non-difference of cause and effect, the effect has its Self in the cause but not the cause in the effect. The effect is of the nature of the cause and not the cause, the nature of the effect. Therefore, the qualities of the effect cannot touch the cause because the cause and effect are present only when the duality is present.

The duality is present only when there is an illusion. The illusion is there only when there is ignorance. When there is no ignorance, then there is no illusion.

When there is no illusion, then there is no duality. When there is no duality, then there is no cause and effect. When there is no cause and effect, then there is the non-dualistic reality. :~Santthosh Kumaar