Sage Goudpada’s rational exposition of Advaita: ~ Whatever is seen, whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal.+

Sage Goudpada’s rational exposition of Advaita: ~ Whatever is seen, whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal.

The essence of the Mundaka Upanishads is:~ Do not be satisfied with rituals, yoga, etc., which are good in their own way, but inquire. Inquire into the nature of the mind.

Brahman and Atman are things one can never see. So the seeker should not inquire into them. He has to inquire into the world around him, which he can see.

A deeper analysis reveals the world is passing away every second. Everything is dying repeatedly.

Where is it going?

Thus, he follows up his investigation into what he can lay his hands on.

How can he inquire into Atman, which he cannot see?

So first, he must deal with the known and seen; this inquiry leads up to the unknown in the end.

Mediocre minds waste their time arguing about unimportant matters. Accumulation of scriptural knowledge is dangerous in the pursuit of the truth.

The Seeker has to establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. The seeker has to begin by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the right way to discuss, understand, and assimilate Self-knowledge. Thus, the seeker has to remove all the hindrances to acquire Self-knowledge.

Remember:~

Those Gurus who speak of the ‘Self is within you are propagating half-baked knowledge, made their own cocktail, propagated it as nonduality or Advaita.

The Self is the Soul is the cause of you and the world in which you exist. Your individual experience of birth, life, and the world has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self, because you and your individual experience of birth, life, and the world are merely an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

You are not you, but consciousness; your body is not the body, but consciousness; the world in which you exist is not the world but consciousness.

Everything is known, seen, believed, and experienced by you is nothing but consciousness; then what else remains, which is not consciousness?

There is nothing else to realize other than to realize that consciousness alone is, and everything else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

By realizing that everything is consciousness is the Advaitic wisdom dawns. A perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’ leads to Advaitic awareness.

Without the world in which you exist, God in truth alone exists. When God in truth disappears, then the world, in which you exist, appears. The world in which you exist disappears, God in truth appears. Thus, realize the God in truth to be the invisible Soul, the Self.

The invisible Soul is the Self. Thus, the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

If you stick to the ultimate truth, then the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

If you realize this truth, you will live in this world but not in this world. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal. : ~  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar