All-pervading Reality is beyond both duality and non-duality.+

Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut 1.36-42:~ “Non-duality is taught by some; some others teach duality. They don't understand that the all-pervading Reality is beyond both duality and non-duality.

Sage Sankara says:~ How can the talk of diversity, dvaita, apply to the Supreme Reality, which is one and homogeneous, Advaita? Who has ever observed diversity, dvaita, in the unmixed bliss of the state of profound sleep?

Existence is nondual. Nonduality cannot be described by means of words, for all uses of language fail to express it. Nonduality is sought to be indicated by mental negation of duality (all attributes and characteristics).

Mundaka Upanishad:~ “ The Para or Higher knowledge is the knowledge of the Supreme Being, while the Apara or Lower Knowledge is that of following sacrificial rites and ceremonies. (1/2/ 1 – 6)

A Gnani may be illiterate in the dualistic world, a scholar as literate, as a well-educated person in the dualistic world. But what value is the scholar’s knowledge limited to the form, time, and space, but a Gnani’s, even if he is illiterate, his knowledge is beyond the form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara: ~ On Gnani: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior."

When the knower of Brahman wears no signs ~ it means he does not identify himself as a Guru or a teacher or a yogi.

A scholar will go on and on about the immortality of the invisible Soul, but when death approaches, he will be trembling and weeping and wailing.

Scholars, interpretations of sacred texts, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the knowledge of the immortal Soul, the one and only Self of all that exists as an illusion.

All this talk of immortality will crumble into nothingness because he has not known the knowledge of the invisible Soul, which is immortal.

A Gnani knows what he is talking about is not an explanation; what he is talking about is the realization of the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

A Gnani shares his joy by sharing his wisdom; he is singing the song about the unsung truth.

Remember, whenever a Gnani speaks about God, it is not a belief; he knows it, it is his realization. He is talking out of his realization; hence, he can be of immense help to the whole of humanity.

A Gnani always sees the world in which he exists as the invisible Soul without any division of form, time, and space. And a Gnani watches his own actions as if they were another's. He is never puffed up by the praise or disturbed by blame.

As for Gnani, his individuality is dead. It is merged in the Soul like waves in the ocean

A Gnani who lives in freedom has gone beyond the dualities of life. A Gnani is not competing with anyone; he is alike in success and failure and content with whatever comes to him. He is free, without Selfish attachments; his attention is fixed in the awareness of the invisible Soul.

A Gnani performs all practical duties of the practical world like others, and he helps other seekers to get rid of the ignorance of their true existence.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar