Intellectuals are using dualistic lenses and they think they know the non-dualistic truth. This ‘I know business blocks their realization of Advaita.+

In the context of Advaita Vedanta, ~ Jagat (the world) is not different from Brahman; however, Brahman is different from Jagat

It has not been possible to preach Advaitic Truth entirely free from the settings of dualistic weakness; it has not been more operative and useful to mankind at large because only a few will be able to grasp and realize it.

'To realize the Advaitic Truth, a freer and fuller scope the seeker has to realize that form, time, and space are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness. And the invisible Soul, the Self, is present in the form of consciousness.

To realize the Advaitic truth, the seeker has to be free from all superstitions and orthodox contaminations. The seeker dedicated himself to acquiring Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana alone.

A scholar is proud that he has accumulated so much knowledge; Gnani is humble that he knows no more.

Sage Sankara was a rationalist philosopher. The orthodoxy projected him as a theologian.

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is not even a philosopher's dish cooked to suit exclusively the palate of one particular religion. Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sri, Sankara is like the air and the water, the common food for the whole humanity.

Advaitic wisdom is the Science of the Spirit. If rightly interpreted, Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is spiritual food for the whole of humanity. The Advaitic wisdom is the universal wisdom par excellence. Advaitic wisdom is not just a not a philosophy, but not a science, but the Science of Truth.

Sage Sankara gave religious, ritual, or dogmatic instruction to the masses but pure philosophy only to the few who could rise to it. Hence, the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

The Upanishads declare:~

Mundaka Upanishad 1:2:8:~ “Remaining in the fold of ignorance and thinking 'we are extremely wise and learned,' the fools with boastful nature ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone.”

Mundaka Upanishad 3:2:3:- “The weak and timid cannot realize the Self. Self-realization is not possible through intellect or hearing spiritual discourse. One who welcomes God in every activity, through a thoroughly controlled and disciplined life, to him also the Soul is revealed

Katha Upanishad 1:2:23:~ The Soul cannot be realized through hearing a scholarly explanation of the discourses, not even by the intellect.

Katha Upanishad 1:3:6:~ “Through the knowledge of the Soul God, one is pure and clean constantly.” Neither by reading the books nor by taking a bath at the holy place has one become pure. Inner purity is possible when one remains in constant touch with the Soul. Constant Soul Consciousness is the real purity.

Kena Upanishad 2:4:~ When it is known through every state of cognition, it is rightly known, for (by such knowledge) one attains life eternal. Through one's oneself, one gains power, and through wisdom, one gains immortality.

Kena Upanishad 2:5:~ If here one knows it, then there is the truth, and if here one knows it not, there is a great loss. Hence, seeing the Real in all beings, wise men become immortal on departing from this world.

The scriptures are being added to from time to time. This process will go on. There is no final authority among them? One contradicts the other: duality reigns supreme.

The Upanishads are Self-contradictory. Every pundit even gives conflicting interpretations of them. The final authority, therefore, is using one’s own reason. One should apply their reason to them.

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

The Scriptures are of value only when dealing with persons who are incapable of understanding the Advaitic truth. They have no value as authority for those who use reason.

I quote only verified citations from the scriptures. I need no scriptures, but I quote them to help the seekers realize that the scriptures are saying

People who were not able to mentally digest Advaitic wisdom think that awareness is prior to the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The invisible Soul or consciousness, or awareness, is one and the same thing. Those who are stuck with their intellectual wealth will never be able to cross the ocean of ignorance.

Intellectuals are using dualistic lenses, and they think they know the non-dualistic truth. This, I know, business blocks their realization of Advaita.

Upanishads:~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking they are wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Upanishads Nikilanada - Ch II-5 P-14)

Nondual Awareness is the nature of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The invisible Soul, the Self, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because a wise man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by dualistic knowledge. Find out the truth for yourself. The seeker has to use Soulcentric reason, which leads to the realization of the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

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Advaitic wisdom can never be gained by argument and provocation. 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. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar