Sage Sankara says the transparent truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman (Gnani)
Sage Sankara says: ~The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then there is no need to indulge in other types of meditation.
Remember:~
The ‘I’ hides the invisible Soul, the Self, which is the cause of the 'I'.
People think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self.
The seeker has to realize that ‘I’ is not the Self, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is the cause of the ‘I’. The invisible and unborn Soul, the Self, is eternal.
That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say 'I', if you feel the Self is the ‘I’, you are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.
People are stuck with the reality of the ‘I’, which they take as real because some Gurus have propagated that the Self is the ‘I’.
There is no need to convince such a mindset. The seeker of truth accepts only the truth, nothing but the truth.
That is why Sage Sankara says: - VC-65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it, and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman.
People refuse to accept anything other than their Guru's words. For them, their Guru's words are the ultimate truth.
People do not accept anything other than their accepted truth. There is no need to convince such a mindset.
Such a mindset is not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.
The seekers of truth accept only the truth, nothing but the uncontradictable truth.
Remember:~
Religion and yoga were not the ends, for they can never directly lead to Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
All other teachings and practices other than Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana, are for beginners only. There are stages in comprehending the truth.
Advaitic truth is the ultimate truth for the seeker of truth. All religion, Yoga, mysticism, or theology is for the lower and middling intellect.
The seeker's aim is the search for the Ultimate Truth or Brahman. The search to find the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth that in actuality never was lost, only hidden.
Religious truth is not the truth because it always shows a contradiction. A contradiction arises because a different person's interpretation may disagree with others.
Poets are at liberty to imagine whatever they like, but the only thing wrong is that they take their feelings and sentiments for reality, or when they think that whatever seems, must exist.
Religions place God as the unknown reality”. Every religious believer has a different idea of God. Every man has a different idea of the real. Hence, the a need for a definition before the study.
The fallacy of orthodoxy’s appeal to scripture lies in the varying and conflicting interpretations of the same scripture that different men feel entitled to give or hold.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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