Just as mud is described as a jar, gold as an ornament, and water as ice, so is Consciousness described as the ego. Just as blueness in the sky, water in the mirage is but illusory, so is the universe in Consciousness.
Just as it is copper that appears under the name of a vessel, or it is threads that appear under the name of a cloth, so it is consciousness that appears under the name of the universe. This Consciousness is to be known by negating the forms and names.
Advaitic Gnana was not written down but was imparted orally to the chosen few.
Thus, religion was given to the ignorant populace, and the knowledge of the Spirit, God in truth, is given only selected few.
We find traces of the knowledge of the Spirit in religious books in the form of parables.
The Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Among thousands of men, scarcely one strives for perfection; and of those who strive and succeed, scarcely one knows the Self in truth.
The path of wisdom attracts only those who are in search of truth, and they appreciate it greatly. The ignorant are not spiritually mature; they receive Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.
The ignorant indulge in argument and provocation, and personal attack, which hinders their own realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman.
People think the invisible Soul, the Self, is different from awareness, but it is that different words are used for the same thing.
People make their own intellectual theory and get stuck in intellectual prison.
By becoming more and more intellectual, one becomes more and more intoxicated with individuality.
Intellectuality is limited to the domain of form, time, and space. In the realm of the truth, intellectuality is replaced by Advaitic wisdom.
In Atmic reality, there is no second thing that exists other than the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The world in which you exist is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness. Everything is one, that is, unity in diversity. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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