The dream world, with all its contents, is created out of the consciousness, not different from it.+

Katha Upanishad says: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. (II -23-P-20)

Thus, those who have taken the path of wisdom are chosen ones. The chosen one will get the grace of the Soul, the inner Guru. The path of wisdom is the Soulcentric path, whereas all other paths are egocentric. All egocentric paths lead to hallucination.

Swami Vivekananda, “The wicked are always looking for defects. Flies come and seek the ulcer, and bees come only for the honey in the flower. Do not follow the way of the fly but that of the bee.

Gurus belong to religion or yoga. Spirituality has nothing to do with religion and yoga. Self-knowledge, Atma Gnana or Brahma Gnana, is not for those who are followers of religion and yoga. And Advaita is not the cocktail knowledge. Move on in your chosen path and help those who are following you and your teaching.

There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the more advanced seeker who seeks to know the truth beyond form, time, and space. Religion and Yoga are meant for the first audience, to help lead their followers along the way. Spirituality emphasis on the Advaitic wisdom, is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.

What is the use of arguing based on the birth entity, which is not the Self?

What is the use of knowing what happens after death when the Self is birthless?

What is the use of thinking of heaven and hell when the ‘Self ‘is not an individual and it is never born and never dies?

The path of wisdom is not for the Orthodox populace. It is difficult for orthodox people to accept the truth because they have already accepted something else as truth because of their samskara or conditioning. It is difficult for them to accept anything other than their inherited conditioning.

Even Sage Sankara appears personally and tells them that what they have accepted as truth is not truth; they will never be able to accept anything other than their accepted truth.

Remember:~

One must be soul-centric to drop all 'I' centric knowledge. 'I' is the cause of ignorance.

The dream world, with all its contents, is created out of the consciousness, not different from it.

Similarly, everything that exists in waking experience is consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

There is no need for the yogic control of the mind; the control presupposes a second thing, the duality. Hence, yoga is in the sphere of duality and is unnecessary in the Atmic path.

Until a man is ripe to receive Self-knowledge, it is fatal to ask him to give up meditation.

The novice seekers must understand that yoga is all right in its place and that it is good in the beginning of the pursuit of truth, but when yoga is made an end in itself and not a means to acquire the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Yoga and meditation are not useless; they are useful to bring the restless ego under control. Yoga and meditation are not final.

By indulging in yoga and meditation, it will lead not lead to the ultimate end of understanding. Yoga cannot remove ignorance. It is only a step. It removes obstructions.

Sage Sankara definitely says that yoga is not the means of liberation (page 132-133 of his commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad). : ~ Santthosh Kumaar