The Advaitic orthodoxy is dualistic, and it is based on ignorance. The Advaitic orthodoxy accepts the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality, whereas Sage Sankara declares the world is unreal; Brahman alone is real.
Mythological stories are a myth. Whatever is based on myth is merely a superstition.
Mythology was introduced in the past for the ignorant masses. It has to be discarded as one progresses in his spiritual advancement.
Mythology breeds superstition, blind belief, senseless rituals, and the most irrational, and gives them a divine outlook. Religious Gods are not God. One must know God in truth.
Idol worship and the rituals are, therefore, he says, addressed to the ignorant populace.
Sage Sankara:~ (11) As regards the rituals, Sage Sankara says, the person who performs rituals and aspires for rewards will view himself in terms of the caste into which he is born, his age, the stage of his life, his standing in society, etc. In addition, he is required to perform rituals throughout his life. However, the 'Self' has none of those attributes or tags. Hence, the person who superimposes all those attributes on the changeless, eternal Self and identifies Self with the body is confusing one for the other, and is, therefore, an ignorant person. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc., are therefore addressed to an ignorant person. Adhyasa Bhashya
Sage Sankara:~ (11.1) This ignorance (mistaking the body for Self) brings in its wake a desire for the well-being of the body, aversion for its disease or discomfort, fear of its destruction, and thus a host of miseries(anartha). This anartha is caused by projecting karthvya(“doer” sense) and bhokthavya (object) on the Atman. Sankara calls this adhyasa. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc., are, therefore, he says, addressed to an ignorant person. Adhyasa Bhashya
Sage Sankara:~ (11.2) In short, a person who engages in rituals with the notion “I am an agent, doer, thinker”, according to Sage Sankara, is ignorant, as his behavior implies a distinct, separate doer/agent/knower; and an object that is to be done/achieved/known. That duality is avidya, an error that can be removed by Vidya. Adhyasa Bhashya
Sage Sankara: ~ (12) Sage Sankara affirming his belief in one eternal unchanging reality (Brahman) and the illusion of plurality, drives home the point that Upanishads deal not with rituals but with the knowledge of the Absolute (Brahma vidya) and the Upanishads give us an insight into the essential nature of the Self which is identical with the Absolute, the Brahman. Adhyasa Bhashya
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Sage Sankara: ~ Atman, the Self, is verily Brahman (God in truth), being equanimous, quiescent, and by nature absolute Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss. Atman is not the body that is non-existence itself. This is called true Knowledge by the wise.
Kena Upanishad 2-5:~ God can be realized in one life. If you do not realize in one life, you are a great loser.
To know what God is, we must know what the self is. In deeper self-search, we become aware of the fact that our body, ego, and our experience of the universe are created out of a single stuff, which is the soul or the consciousness.
Due to ignorance, we identify the soul with the body, and we become egocentric. When we become aware of the fact that the self is not the form, but the self is formless, then we become soulcentric and realize the fact that all three states are merely an illusion created out of the consciousness. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth. Consciousness is our innermost self. The ultimate truth is God or Brahman.
Thus, the seekers move ahead and reach the nondual destination through this mental (inner) journey. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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