Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is Vedic Spirituality or Adyathma because nonduality is the essence of the Vedas.+

The seeker has to go beyond the Vedas to go beyond religion. Going beyond religion means going beyond the concept of God. Going beyond the Vedas, the religion, and the conceptual God means going beyond illusion. That is the end of the Vedas (Veda –antha).

When one goes into the annals of history, it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada was lost or mutilated by the orthodoxy because the orthodox preaching and practice are dualistic and they do not match with Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom.

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is Vedic Spirituality or Adyathma because nonduality is the essence of the Vedas.

The seeker must do his homework and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe what others expound as knowledge, till the uncontradicted truth is obtained.

The seeker must have the courage of Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth.

Since Buddha rejected religion, the idea of God, and scriptures, therefore, it is evident that he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.

Even Buddhism is mixed up with regional culture and traditions of the local religion, wherever it existed. Thus, to get the full essence of Buddhism is very difficult.

The scriptures are for the ignorant masses, who wholly accept the material world as it presents itself. Advaitic wisdom is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem.

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Sage Goudpada says:~ The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect. The karma based on the false self is not a qualification for Self-Realization.

Thus, it proves that the Advaitic wisdom is kept away from religious people who are of lower and middling intellect and made them indulge in karma and Upasana. Thus, all the religious prescription is not meant for Self-Realization.

There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the more advanced seeker who seeks to know the truth beyond form, time, and space.

The religious orthodoxy is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. The Atmic path, emphasis on the Advaitic wisdom, is meant for those who wish to go beyond form, time, and space.

The conduct-oriented religious orthodoxy is not the means to Self-Realization because all the orthodox theories are based on the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas the world in which birth, life, and death take place is an illusion.

Religion is for the lower intellect, and Advaitic wisdom is for those who are capable of inquiring into their own existence to know and realize the ultimate truth, which is consciousness. : ~Santthosh Kumaar