Intellectuals deceive themselves by thinking their accumulated intellectual knowledge as the ultimate truth. Intellectual knowledge is egocentric knowledge is not Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
You will find nothing there but dust and stones. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is soulcentric knowledge.
Katha Upanishad says ~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Ch~ II-5 P-14)
Intellectual knowledge is dualistic knowledge; dualistic knowledge is not Advaitic wisdom. Advaitic wisdom can never be gained by argument and provocation based on the dualistic perspective.
The seeker has to discard all the accumulated dualistic knowledge by realizing that the world in which you exist exists because of ignorance.
Get rid of ignorance by realizing the world in which you exist is created out of a single clay and that single clay is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Realizing the Self is not you but the invisible Soul is Self-realization. The invisible Soul is the cause of the universe, and it, itself, is uncaused.
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.
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.
Sage Sankara's declaration: ~ “Brahman is the truth, the world is unreal, everything is truly Brahman and nothing else has any value.
Swami Vivekananda said:~ "The Vedas teach that the Soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukthi - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery."
The Advaitic truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to grasp because of ignorance.
You have to only realize that the world in which you exist is created out of a single clay. And that single clay is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Thus, you and your body and the world in which you exist are nothing but consciousness because they are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. A perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.
A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.
It is necessary to reflect on the same truth again and again till it becomes a reality.
One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until one gets a firm conviction of what is what. Words of wisdom are needed until one gets a firm conviction of ‘what is what’.
People need to read and hear the words of wisdom to think, reason, and reflect deeply and reach the ultimate end.
It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is truth’ and 'what is untruth’.
It takes time for the invisible Soul, the Self, to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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