Ashtavakra Gita: ~ The fool tries to control the mind with the mind - what folly! The wise one delights in the Self alone. There is no mind to master.+

Controlling senses are religious and yogic body-based theory is nothing to with path of the Advatic wisdom, which is based on the Soul.

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ The fool tries to control the mind with the mind - what folly! The wise one delights in the Self alone. There is no mind to master. 

Yogis say they control the Mind. They think the mind is an organ within the body. Thus, yoga is limited to form, time and space, whereas the truth is beyond form, time, and space. It is high time for them to realize the mind is not within the body, but their body and the world are within the mind.

Without knowing what is the mind it is impossible to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The ‘I’ is present only when the mind is present. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as the waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality). The one that becomes dual and nondual is consciousness. 

Thus, all three states are nothing but consciousness. Consciousness alone is real and all the three states are merely an illusion. When the conviction about consciousness becomes firm, then it leads to Advaitic awareness in the midst of the duality.

Thus, it is necessary to have a perfect understanding of ‘what is ‘what’ to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space. 

Remember:~

It possible is to concentrate it quietly on one subject, keeping all other subjects away ~ but the subject, the thoughts, must be there. It is not the absence of the duality which gives you knowledge of the Soul, the innermost Self: for this absence prevails during deep sleep or Yogic Samadhi. There is no difference between the two, only sleep comes of its own accord whereas Samadhi is self-induced.

The true knowledge cannot come from Yogic Samadhi but only through learning what the whole world really is.

Yoga should be used as a preliminary to such a study. Then only can you understand that the external world is unreal, a phenomenon? But this truth about yoga has been lost, and people in the past misunderstood and miss interpreted the scriptures, turning philosophy into religion and yogic blankness into Brahman. The secret knowledge has disappeared.

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Everything you see must become consciousness. It is a most difficult practice because every minute you are being drawn away from consciousness. When you take a walk you think only of the walk and surrounding instead of consciousness because you fail to recognize the world in which you exist is created out of consciousness.

Thus it is very much necessary to understand, assimilate that whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced in this world is nothing but consciousness because the world in which you exist is created out of consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal all else is merely an illusion. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

Love is not the means of Self –realization.+

People think love is the means to Self-realization, but they are unaware of the fact that love and hate are made of the same stuff. Love is not the means of Self –realization.

Love is very much necessary in practical life within the practical world. Love implies duality. Whatever is of duality is a falsehood. Thus, love is a reality within the falsehood. Lover and love cease to exist in reality because the duality is not a reality.

The experience of practical life within the practical world is a reality within the waking experience, but the waking experience itself is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Thus, lover, love, and the world are one, in essence. Thus, the path of love is a religious path because religion is the path of individuality. The ‘Self’ is not an individual to love or hate. In reality, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. Thus, there is no duality whereas love implies duality. The ‘Self' is the fullness of the consciousness. The Soul, the innermost Self, is the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Humanism is limited to practical life within the practical world. The path of love is the path for humanity therefore, it is the individualized path.

Thus, the path of love is limited to the physical structure, it cannot transport one to the ultimate end. Thus, the seeker has to understand the fact that, from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the practical life, and the practical world are merely an illusion.

Meher Baba said: - To love God as he ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of life is to know God and find him as our own Self.

To realize God is to attain liberation from the bondage of illusion.

Live only to find and realize your true identity with your Beloved God.

The energy which is expended in mere thinking, talking, or writing is like steam that escapes through the whistle of a railway engine …

That is why the sages have always insisted on practice rather than theory. This applies particularly to those who want to know and realize God in truth.

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~ It means one has to know and realize his innermost Self is God and identify it as his true identity to find liberation from the bondage of the illusion of birth, life, death, and the world (duality). The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with our beloved God, which is our Self. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The birth, life, and death are happening within the illusory universe or Maya, therefore, it is bound to be an illusion.+

The birth, life, and death are happening within the illusory universe or Maya, therefore, it is bound to be an illusion.

Rebirth and reincarnation theories based on the false self within the false experience are bound to be illusions on the base of the Soul, the real Self.

Only the cause of the illusion which is the Soul, the Self is real and eternal. Therefore, everything has to be viewed and judged, on the base of the Soul, the Self to overcome ignorance.

The seeker of truth has to know somewhere he is going wrong, and it is for the seeker to go on his own and remove the obstacle.

The greatest hindrance is mixing religion, religious Gods, scriptures, and yogic theories.

Attachment to scriptures, personal God, and religious code of conduct keep one permanently in the grip of duality.

Seeker has to have the courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Most people will not be able to subscribe to the path of truth because they are sentimentally and emotionally involved with their inherited religion

These are problems for the seekers who are from religious backgrounds because of their inherited samskaras or conditioning.

People are made to accept their blind faith or blind belief as truth and their interest or insight is not deep.

All my blogs are useful to analyze these problems because they highlight what is not the truth according to their own religious scriptures and make them accept the truth and reject all the false conditioning and move ahead in pursuit of truth.

It becomes difficult for the orthodox cult to accept anything else as truth other than their accepted belief, which they hold as truth. :~Santthosh Kumaar

It is difficult for orthodox people to accept anything as truth other than their inherited samskara or conditioning.+

Mundaka Upanishad: ~ “The study of the Vedas, linguistics, Rituals, astronomy and all the arts Can be called lower knowledge. The higher Is that which leads to Self-realization. The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes not ears nor hands nor feet. Sages say this Self is infinite in the great And in the small, everlasting and changeless, The source of life.

Orthodox people are being conditioned by the religious myth which has made them a non-thinker. They have to come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth.

Sage Sankara gave religious, rituals, and dogmatic instruction to the orthodox populace, but Advaitic wisdom 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. 

If people have believed religious propagated myth thing over thousands of years, the length of time does not prove it true. 

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 thorough controlled and disciplined life, to him also the Soul is revealed. 

It is time to free oneself from the prison of orthodoxy and strive to acquire the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

Adyatma is nothing to do with religious sects or creeds and religious beliefs or any philosophy or thinkers teaching. Adyatma is pure spirituality. Knowledge of Atma is Adyatma. Advaita is Adyatma.

Adyatma is the knowledge of the truth beyond form, time, and space. Bifurcate religion, yoga, and theoretical philosophy and base the truth on the Athma it is Adyathma.

Adyatma is based on the ultimate truth which is based on the Atman or Spirit, which is the Self.

Sage Sankara's Advaitic wisdom is pure spirituality or Adyathma.

Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is pure spirituality or Adyathma do not make it a philosophic sect. Sage Sankara’s path of wisdom is the independent search for truth. 

If an orthodox Guru speaks today before a large crowd, and the same subject is repeated by the 500 listeners to others, there would be many different interpretations. 

The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara was interpreted after his death perhaps a million times through different interpreters in the past by orthodox Gurus. 

The original wisdom of Sage Sankara is lost sight of and or made irrelevant because each orthodox Guru clings to his own different interpretation as the original. 

That is why so many today hesitate to believe in the Sage Sankara because his wisdom is buried under orthodoxy. 

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It is difficult for orthodox people to accept anything as truth other than their inherited samskara or conditioning.  

Only intense urge to know the truth and the courage to accept the truth after verification with better understanding one will be able to drop all his accumulated dross, which is the main obstacle in self-realization. 

Religion needs a guru to propagate its belief system, whereas in pursuit of truth there is no need for a guru. The ultimate truth has to be ascertained by him alone. Yoga needs a guru to guide its student to practice Samadhi. 

Religion encourages one who can induce himself to feel convinced that he has realized the Self, or has an admirer who believes that he has done so, it opens up for him the way for the founding of a new sect based on Guru-worship. 

People, too, have developed curious credulousness. Often, they would install an earnest seeker and devotee, or a pious saint, on the throne of God and begin to offer him worship and homage even if he protested and resisted such acts. They would lay prostrate, sing hymns, wave lights (arati), and burn incense before him, and present to him food which was to be returned by him as prasad, wash his toes, and sip the wash. At times the disciple would go to the length of getting food, fruit, or a betel-nut leaf chewed by him and taking the morsel back from it. 

They would place his photo in the private temples of their homes and perform all these rites and ceremonies which are usually offered to temple idols. In this way, there might be at present in our country scores of individuals who are worshipped as living God, with the following varying in numbers. 

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If one is seeking truth one has to drop religious baggage and move forward in their pursuit of truth. 

Sage Sankara pointed out those rituals could in no way bring about wisdom, much less Moksha. 

Sage Sankara says:~ One alone exists, and the rest is all superimposition on that One, due to ignorance  

The seeker of truth should not become attached to words as being in perfect conformity with meaning because Truth is not in the letters.  

The words and their discrimination bind one to the duality; meaning stands alone and is a guide to non-dual awareness. Meaning is attained by much learning, and much learning is attained by becoming conversant with meaning and not with words; therefore, seekers of truth have to avoid the sticklers for particular words.  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 his chosen path. 

Chandogya Upanishad: - This universe comes forth from Brahman and will return to Brahman. Verily, all is Brahman. A person is what his deep desire is. It is our deepest desire in this life that shapes the life to come. So, let us direct our deepest desires to realize the Self. 

If one is seeking truth then it is necessary to bifurcate and drop the traditional Advaitic path which is not the means to self-knowledge and move ahead without the traditional baggage to get direct realization on his own as suggested by the great sages. :~Santthosh Kumaar

The earliest uses of the word God in Germanic writing are often cited to be in the Gothic Bible or Wulfila Bible.+

 GOD IS a mere word used by the religion who believed there is a higher power that is the cause of the creation. Different religions used different words for the same thing.

The idea depends on the man’s imagination. God is an English word. The different language uses different words for the same thing.

The words are there for only communication purposes.

The Sages of truth called the ultimate truth as Brahman. For them, the ultimate truth is God in truth.

The earliest uses of the word God in Germanic writing are often cited to be in the Gothic Bible or Wulfila Bible, which is the Christian Bible as translated by Wulfila (a.k.a. Bishop Ulfilas) into the Gothic language spoken by the Eastern Germanic, or Gothic Tribes. The oldest part of the Gothic Bible, contained in the Codex Argenteus, is estimated to be from the fourth century. During the fourth century, the Goths were converted to Christianity, largely through the efforts of Bishop Ulfilas, who translated the Bible into the Gothic language in Nicopolis ad Istrum in today's northern Bulgaria. The words guide and guþ were used for God in the Gothic Bible.~wiki

All these experiences as the father, son, guru, pupil, and the world were one and the same consciousness appearing differently. All these distinctions disappear when one realizes the ultimate truth. :~Santthosh Kumaar

People are stuck with the reality of the ‘I’, which they take it as real because some Gurus have propagated the Self is the ‘I’.+

When the ‘I; is present then only the world in which you exist is present.

When the ‘I is absent then the world in which you exist is absent.

The one which is aware of the coming and going of the ‘I’ is not you but the Soul, the Self.

The seeker has to make sure what is this ‘I’ supposed to be? The seeker has to make sure the unreal nature of the ‘I’ which comes and goes to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space

That is why Bhagavad Gita: ~ “The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)

The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self, which is ever nondual. 

People think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The seeker has to understand the fact that ‘I’ is not the Self, but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which 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 it as real because some Gurus have propagated 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.

If you are a seeker then you must think, you must reason, you must learn to think on the Soulcentric was; by thinking and reasoning on soulcentric way you can learn view and judge the worldview on nondualistic perspective then only it is possible to unfold the truth, which is hidden by the ‘I’. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

In the guise of Gnani, the self-declared Gurus deceives people. For instance, some Gurus claim, I AM BRAHMAN. The fact is, if they know what Brahman is in actuality they would not be making the self-asserting statement.+

In the guise of Gnani, the self-declared Gurus deceives people. For instance, some Gurus claim, I AM BRAHMAN. The fact is, if they know what Brahman is in actuality they would not be making the self-asserting statement.

You are not God. The Soul the ‘Self’ is God. It is not correct to say I AM God or I am Brahman. But when Brahman is, how can "I" remain? Only Brahman or God remains, not the I.

Simply saying ‘I AM’ that or ‘I AM this to the genderless Soul is not wisdom. Without knowing what this ‘I’ supposed to be in actuality not wisdom but ignorance. First, know what his ‘I’ is supposed to be.

The ‘I’ is an object to the Soul, which is the formless, timeless, and spaceless subject. The ‘I’ is the whole universe, which appears and disappears. Without the ‘I’ the universe ceases to exist.

Perfect understanding of ‘what is what leads to unfolding the mystery of the ‘I’. Sticking to the ‘I-centric’ gurus and their teaching keeps you in the cage of ignorance.

The ‘Self, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is not limited to you because it pervades in everything and everywhere in the world in which you exist.

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the ‘I’ is an illusion, which appears and disappears.

It is erroneous to use the word ‘I’ for the Self, because ‘I’ represents the form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the  Self is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)

To understand the false nature of the ‘I’, the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary.

The Self is not ‘I’, but the Self is the Soul which is the witness of the ‘I’. By holding the’ Self’ ‘I' leads to hallucination based on the imagination.

Those who are stuck with the ‘I’ based teaching never be able to cross the domain of the form, time, and space.:~Santthosh Kumaar