Sage Sankara says:~ How can the talk of diversity, dvaita, apply to the Supreme Reality, which is one and homogeneous, Advaita.+

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 the negation of duality (all attributes and characteristics).

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?

Advaitic Gnana or nondual wisdom is for those who are capable of inquiring into their own existence to know and realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

The Advaitic wisdom is not suited for the unsettled mind, which sticks to religion, yoga, and all non-Vedic worship and activities. There is no use in convincing such a mindset. Everyone is free to move on their chosen path.

The path of wisdom is divided into three parts:~

First: hearing the truth--that the consciousness is the only reality and that the universe, along with you, is merely an illusion or Maya.

Second: reasoning upon the words of wisdom of Sage Sankara from all points of view.

Third: giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth. This realization comes from being certain that consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman, or God in truth.

You are being conditioned by the religious myth, which has made you a non-thinker. Come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth.

Realizing everything as Consciousness is God realization because the Rig Veda says Consciousness is God in truth.

If one is fully aware of the fact that the Self is not formed but the Self is formless, then all three states will naturally become unreal.

If one makes no discriminations, the thousands of things are as they are, of a single stuff. To understand the mystery of this single stuff is to be released from all entanglements.

When all things are seen equally, the timeless Self-stuff is reached. No comparisons or analogies are possible in this causeless, relation-less state, which is an illusion-less existence.

The observer and the observed (three states) are one in essence. Until we can view and judge from the standpoint of the observer, we will not become aware that the observer and observed (three states) are one in essence. The essence is consciousness. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

If the Advaita is bifurcated from all the religious add-ons, it becomes scientific, then it becomes very easy to understand and assimilate.

All these scientific inventions are nearer to the truth, but they are not the truth in themselves.

Bhagavan Buddha, Sage Sankara, and Sage Goudpada have declared non-dual truth centuries back, but one has to reach the destination with scientific[rational] investigation, not through punditry. Until one mentally reaches the conclusion, the conviction will not arise.

Without the firm conviction, the wisdom will not dawn. Therefore, there is a need to know consciousness is real, all else is myth, which Sage Sankara declared as the world is myth, Brahman alone is real.

Sage Sankara says Atman is Brahman, and everything that is Brahman is a scientific declaration, not religious or yogic.

Sage Sankara and Goudpada are more scientific than anyone else in the world. Since the real Advaitic essence is hidden, it cannot be obtained without the inner (mental) journey.

Sage Gaudapada says that:- The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upaasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

Gnana here is knowledge, uncontradictable truth, or scientific truth. Thus, their scientific truth of the whole not part was declared by Sage Sankara 1400 years back and taught only to those of higher intellect. Thus, karma and upasana[religion and yoga], which are meant for the masses, have to be bifurcated from Advaita to reach the ultimate end.

Gnana or non-dual Wisdom is for those who are capable of inquiring into their own existence to know and realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

When one goes into the annals of history, it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sage Sankara and his param guru, Sage Goudpada, was lost or mutilated by the orthodox cult, because their preaching is based on nonduality, and practices are based on duality.

Sage Sankara says in the Brahma Sutras that Brahman is the cause of the world, whereas in Manduka Upanisad, he denies it. This is because he says that at the lower stage of understanding, the former teaching must be given, for people will get frightened as they cannot understand how the world can be without a cause, but to those in a higher stage, the truth of non-causality can be revealed.

Sage Sankara himself has warned us not to use ambiguous words, and to practice semantic analysis in his book "Definition of one's own Self. (" Page 199, v.24 of "Sankara's Selected Works)

Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (brahmano hi pratisthaham, Bhagavad Gita 14.27)

Sage, Sankara’s notion of Maya, the cosmic illusion (mind or matter), which must be transcended to realize the truth of Brahman, which means ultimate truth.

If Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness, then it is necessary to realize consciousness as self, which pervades all the three states, to realize the fact that there is no second thing exists other than consciousness. Thus, consciousness (Atman) is the ultimate truth (Brahman).

The Sruti itself says: "This Atma is not to be attained by a study of the Vedas. (Katha Upanishad I, 2, 23.)

It means the seeker has to investigate on their own and realize the ultimate truth.

Ultimate Truth can be known if the seeker keeps up the pursuit to the very end, whereas some assert that ultimate truth cannot be known.

When the Vedas and Upanishads declare that Consciousness or Atman is actually nothing but Brahman, then why go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind?

One has to realize that the mind is in the form of the universe. Trace the source of the mind and realize that the source is consciousness. The mind rises from consciousness as waking or dream and subsides as deep sleep.

All are searching for truth within the illusion, not being aware that the illusion is created out of a single stuff, which is consciousness, because everyone thinks their body and their experience of the universe are not consciousness, and consciousness is limited to their body.

Thus, searching the truth in illusion with the illusory self, within the illusory experience, has to be an illusion. The illusion is created, sustained, and finally dissolved as consciousness. Consciousness is the material of the illusion. Since there is no second thing other than consciousness, consciousness itself is God or Brahman. This conviction derives only through deeper inquiry, analysis, and reasoning.

Many People want to take as little trouble as possible and gain as much as possible. They disdain the hard labour of thinking needed in pursuit of truth and hope to get truth by doing nothing, i.e., merely believing or refraining from thought in yoga.

Conversion can occur only in the sphere of religion, never in the pursuit of truth. When one knows the non-dual truth, one becomes free from the sphere of imagination.

If one’s reason is not sharp enough, then only religion and yoga can satisfy him. The seeker of truth examines both scientific and religious doctrines and discoveries to evaluate them.::~Santthosh Kumaar