There is no need to go from one mountain to another, one Guru to another, one Ashram to another, read books after books.+

 Q:~ D R S:~ One must live doing something in this illusionary world or should one just sit naked on the street?

Santthosh Kumaar:~There is no need to become a monk and wear the religious robe or wander naked to acquire Advaitic wisdom. By becoming a monk or reaming without work is not the means to acquire Advaitic wisdom. By becoming a monk and remaining naked or remaining without the work the ignorance will not vanish. without getting rid of the ignorance the Advaitic wisdom will not dawn.

Do not neglect your family, business, and profession. Do not make spirituality a 24/7 affair. Use your spare time. Do not waste your precious time and money on meeting gurus and yogis and buying books and traveling. Enjoy worldly life as it comes.

Desirelessness is not Advaitic wisdom. Even having an urge to realize the truth also is a desire. Whether you have desires or no desires, ignorance will not vanish till the ‘Soul’ remains the domain of the dualistic illusion.

By remaining quiet, within the dualistic illusion wisdom will not dawn. The ignorance vanishes only when you realize the ‘Self’ is not ‘you’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.

Wisdom dawns when you realize the world in which you exist is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness. Thus, the whole objective universe is nothing but consciousness.

Remember:~

Advaita is universal. Advaita is not for sale. Do not buy Advaita from the spiritual supermarket. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self. The world in which you exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom.

Advaitic truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to realize because you have accumulated mental garbage from different sources in the name of Advaita. Until you discard all the accumulated knowledge you will never be able to realize the Advaitic truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

The Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the innermost 'Self' shines on its own its awareness when wisdom dawns.

The Advaita is the Soul is the cause and the support of all that exists as the world in which we exist. Advaita is the nature of God, the Soul, the Self.

The Advaita is present in the form of consciousness. Advaita is the root element of the universe. From the Advaita, the universe comes into existence. In the Advaita, the universe resides. And into the Advaita, the universe is dissolved. The Advaita is the parent of all that is there is.

To get rid the ignorance, the only remedy is Self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is to realize the ‘Self’ is not you, but the ‘Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Why you are struggling to get Self-realization. There is no need to go from one mountain to another, one Guru to another, one Ashram to another, read books after books.

Realizing the world, in which you exist is nothing but consciousness. Without consciousness, the world, in which you exist ceases to exist. Thus, there no second thing exists other than consciousness.

Thus, everything is consciousness whether it exists as the world, in which you exist or without the world, in which you exist. Realizing consciousness as the ultimate truth is truth realization. Truth realization is Self-realization. Self-realization is God- realization. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

By becoming a sanyasi or monk one will not get Self-realization or truth realization or God realization.+

It is no use in becoming a sanyasi or monk when the ‘Self ‘is not you. You are the false ‘Self’ within the universe, which is a dualistic illusion or Maya.

A Gnani is not a monk or sanyasi or Sadhu or swami. Religion is nothing to with the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

By becoming a sanyasi or monk one will not get Self-realization or truth realization or God realization.

Sage Sankara VC- (2), states that the Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

All those who have taken sanyasa and monkhood belong to religion and yoga, not Gnanis because they identify themselves as holy people.

Manduka Upanishads: ~ It is very difficult to find out who is a Gnani because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious robe has anything to do with him.

Select Works of Sage Sankara" also his commentary on Brihad: ~ “Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

A Gnani cannot have the idea of giving up, renouncing the world or some object or person in the world, because that would connote the idea of duality. Knowing no second thing at all there remains nothing to be given up.

A Gnani, on attaining realization, will not give up his vocation in life but will continue it as before. If he was a billionaire, he continues so, if a peasant, he will remain one. He still does his duty, but he is fully aware of the fact that his practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion.

It is not correct to say that, a Gnani sees only good everywhere and never evil. He is fully aware of the evil things, he knows then he is being taken for a ride, but he remains unperturbed though acting as required. He recognizes what is bad and what is good from the practical point of view and what is real? And what is an illusion? - from the ultimate standpoint.

Self-knowledge cannot be attained by taking sanyasa, by the study of the scriptures and intellectual understanding, or by bookish knowledge. Therefore there is no use in studying the scriptures and other scriptures in order to acquire non-dual wisdom.

That is why Buddha rejected the scriptures, and even Sage Sankara indicated that the ultimate truth lies beyond religion, the concept of God, and the scriptures.

There is only one Reality to be known, the same for all seekers, but the ways to it, are hidden by the religion. Self-discovery is the only way, towards non-dual Absolute without any religious doctrines, which will help the seekers to unfold the mystery of the illusion in which we all are searching the truth of our true existence. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

First Mundaka: ~ Fools, dwelling in darkness, but wise in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind men led by the blind.+

First Mundaka - Chapter 2: ~ Fools, dwelling in darkness, but wise in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind men led by the blind.

Ish Upanishad declares:~ Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide 10/11/12

The religious orthodox people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds after death.

This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain Self-knowledge. They are, in a real sense, committing suicide, for what can be worse than being a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life, which is to be one ’s, own master?

He, who does not desire to realize the truth, cannot find any interest in the Atmic path. The Atmic path is not a discussion or exchange of views but it searches after the truth of our true existence. Atmic thinking leads to Atmic wisdom. Knowledge of the Soul leads to self-awareness. Self-awareness is the ever homogeneous, unexcelled eternal.

In Self-awareness, the world in which we exist (dualistic illusion) all its luster and appears as a glowworm in the presence of the sun.

When the Soul, the ‘Self’ remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion it is free from the illusory bondage of the form, time, and space.

People are unaware of the fact that their existence is limited to the domain of form, time, and space. Without form, time, and space they cease to exist. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to realize, man is not the ‘Self’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul or the Spirit or consciousness.

Do not search the ‘Self’ in the world in which you exist. The ‘Self’ is not an entity or an identity within the world, in which you exist. The Self is the cause of the world in which you exist and the ‘self’ itself is uncaused.

The world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the ‘Self, which is the Soul or Spirit.

The seeker will find his own way when you realize the fact that the ‘Self’ is not him but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Until the seeker strives to understand the truth which is hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya the 'Self' will not be realized.

Without a perfect understanding of ‘what is what,’ it will take the seeker nowhere. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

All the Advaitic Gurus of the east and the west propagate Advaita based on dualistic perspective or orthodox point of view.+

All the Advaitic Gurus of the east and the west are based on a dualistic perspective. Dualistic knowledge is egocentric knowledge. All egocentric Advaita or nonduality is based on imagination. All imagined Advaita will not help to cross the domain of form, time, and space.

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

Sage Sankara: ~ VC~63- "Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

It is not possible to get rid of the ego alone. You are the ego. Without you, the ego ceases to exist. The ego is the basis of the world in which you exist.

You cannot go beyond the ego because you are the ego. It is impossible to get rid of the ego because the ego is part and parcel of the illusory universe. It is impossible to separate ego from the illusory universe. the ego and the universe appeared together and they will disappear together.

Ignorant sees the world from an egocentric vision, so he takes the world in which he exists as a reality. Gnani sees the world in which he exists from soulcentric vision so, he sees the world as nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The egocentric knowledge keeps the Soul in the intoxication of the ‘I’. The ‘I’ hides the whole truth.  

The Gurus and the teachers of nonduality of the east and west are stuck up with their own accepted truth gathered from here and there and  Their egoic attitude blocks them by realizing the Advaita hidden by the dvaita, which is present in the form of the ‘I’.

Mundaka Upanishads:~So-called spiritual pundits and learned are called children because a child takes whatever it thinks as truth. The question never occurs to children “Is what I have seen or thought really the truth?" (P.334 line 9)

Scriptures are not needed in the pursuit of truth. Even the Upanishads and the sages of truth declare the same.

The ultimate truth has to be ascertained without the scriptures by realizing the Self is neither the waking entity not the dream entity but the Self is formless Soul which is present in the form of consciousness. 

In the realm of truth the form, time and space are created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Realizing the single stuff as ultimate truth is Self-realization or truth realization. To realize this truth there is no need for  the scriptures. 

The ultimate truth has to be realized first then only it is possible to know what the scriptures are saying.

That is why Sage Sankara: ~ VC 56. Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by good work, nor by learning, but by the realization of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means.

58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar but are no good for Liberation.

59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

60. The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest that merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.

The real Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is soulcentric knowledge.  Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is soulcentric knowledge that destroys ignorance.

Advaitic truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to realize because you have accumulated mental garbage from different sources in the name of Advaita. 

Until you discard all the accumulated knowledge you will never be able to realize the Advaitic truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space. 

The Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the 'Self' shines on its own its awareness when wisdom dawns. 

The Advaita is the Soul is the cause and the support of all that exists as the world in which we exist. Advaita is the nature of God, the Soul, the Self. 

The Advaita is present in the form of consciousness. Advaita is the root element of the universe. From the Advaita, the universe comes into existence. In the Advaita, the universe resides. And into the Advaita, the universe is dissolved. The Advaita is the parent of all that is there is. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Whatever is based on the ego is dualistic. Whatever is based on the Soul, the Self is nondualistic.+

Whatever is based on the ego is dualistic. Whatever is based on the Soul, the Self is nondualistic. 

It is no use in discussing you, your birth, life, death, and the world in the Atmic discussion because you, your birth, life, death, and the world belongs to the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The Soul, the Self is hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya. The Soul the Self is hidden because the dualistic illusion is created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The Self is not you but the Self is the Soul. The Soul, the Self is nothing to do with you, your birth, life, death, and the world because the Soul is unborn eternal.

The Soul is unborn eternal because the Soul is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

If you keep discussing you, your birth, life, death, and world you will remain ignorant of the Soul, the 'Self' hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Remember:~

It is not possible to get rid of the ego alone. You are the ego. Without you, the ego ceases to exist.   The ego is the basis of the world in which you exist.

You cannot go beyond the ego because you are the ego. It is impossible to get rid of the ego because the ego is part and parcel of the illusory universe. It is impossible to separate ego from the illusory universe. the ego and the universe appeared together and  they will disappear together. 

Ignorant see the world from an egocentric vision, so he takes the world in which he exists as a reality.  Gnani sees the world in which he exists from soulcentric vision so, he sees the world as nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

A Gnani is an exceptional one who sees consciousness everywhere.  The Soul is present in the form of the consciousness infinite.  The Soul alone is real and eternal, therefore, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth, the one without the second. One without the second means Advaita.

Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self. The world in which you exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom.

Advaitic truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to realize because you have accumulated mental garbage from different sources in the name of Advaita. Until you discard all the accumulated knowledge you will never be able to realize the Advaitic truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space. 

The Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the  'Self'shines on its own its awareness when wisdom dawns. 

The Advaita is the Soul is the cause and the support of all that exists as the world in which we exist. Advaita is the nature of God in truth, which is Soul, the Self. 

The Advaita is present in the form of consciousness. Advaita is the root element of the universe. From the Advaita, the universe comes into existence. In the Advaita, the universe resides. And into the Advaita, the universe is dissolved. The Advaita is the parent of all that is there is.

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the object (three states), observed and experienced.  The commoner viewing the world will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, he sees the world in which he exists as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness (subject). Thus, all the objective observation has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.

Only from the dualistic perspective, the changes take place. From a non-dualistic perspective, there are no changes.  Those who believe in the dualistic world as a reality feel the knowledge changes from time to time but they must realize their knowledge is limited to the form, time, and space whereas Self-knowledge is the knowledge of the beyond the form, time, and space.

The change is possible only in ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of experiencing the world in which exists as a reality.   Consciousness is the cause of the world in which we exist and it itself is uncaused.

The world in which we exist is dependent on the consciousness of its existence but the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, is independent.  From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the world in which we exist is merely an illusion.

Only within the illusion do the changes take place, the illusory changes within the illusion  are bound to be an illusion. In reality, consciousness alone is real and eternal. Thus, the knowledge of the eternal will be always eternal. 

The intellectual knowledge based on form, time, and space is bound to change from time to time as science progresses in its dualistic inventions.    

Consciousness is ever changeless because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

People say God is everywhere, but they do not know what God suppose to be in truth because they are holding their religious propagated Gods based on blind faith or blind belief.+

My postings and blogs are meant only for those who are in the quest for true existence. It is not suited for religious believers.

What is God supposed to be in actuality?

“Where is God?”

People say God is everywhere, but they do not know what God suppose to be in truth because they are holding their religious propagated Gods based on blind faith or blind belief.

The religious propagated God is limited to a particular religion, community sect and creed cannot be universal. The believers of the other religion, community sect, and creed will not accept any other God as their own other than their inherited accepted idea of God.

The world in which you exist is not separate from God because the world in which you exist is created out of God. God is not imagination whatever you think of God is imagination based on the false self within the false experience.

Ignorance makes you have the firm conviction you are an individual separate from the world and the world that existed prior to you being born in it afterward. Till this conviction is there, you will never be able to accept any other truth than the dualistic truth based on the false self (you).

The seeker of the truth must unfold the mystery of the ‘I’ by a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’

Do not believe in any Guru or any teaching. Do not search God in this world in which you exist, religion, scriptures, holy books, ashrams, or mountain tops because ignorance hides God.

A perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ unfolds the mystery of God. Religious Gods are merely a belief. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the cause because the Soul and the ‘Self’ are the cause of all that exists as the universe.

Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul or Spirit) is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Do not accept any other God other than the Soul. The Soul is God in truth,  Nothing is real but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Nothing matters but realize  God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is real and eternal and all else is an illusion.

Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth.  The ultimate truth itself is God in truth. 

Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

Chandogya Upanishad Chapter: ~”ekam evaditiyam- God is only one without a second. (6- Section- 2- Verse- 1)

Swethaswethara Upanishad:~ “Na casya kasuj janita na cadhipah, which means of him of Almighty God, there are no parents they have got no lord. Almighty God has no true father, he has no true mother, he has no true superior. (Chapter-6- Verse -9)

Swethaswethara Upanishad: ~ “Na Tasya Pratima Asti- of that God there is no Pratima, there is no likeness, there is no image, there is no picture, there is no photograph, there is no sculpture, there is no statue. (Chapter -4- Verse- 19)

Swethaswethara Upanishad:~ “No one can see the Almighty God (Chapter -4, Verse -20)

Vedas and Upanishad confirm the Soul, the Self is present in the form of the Spirit or the consciousness.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter: - All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)

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

When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.

Lord Krishna Says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the Self in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost ‘Self’. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (Advaita wisdom) has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita ~ Chap ~IV~ v.2)

There is a clear-cut idea of God in the Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita. And also there is a clear-cut idea of what not to worship as God in place of real God.

Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)

The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul, the innermost Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. From the Spirit, the universe comes into existence. In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there is.

That is why Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

There are different grades of mindset, which is unable to grasp God in truth. The Advaitic wisdom requires demands sharpness to grasp the truth which is beyond the form, time, and space. Just sitting mindless and imagining you are seeing God keeps you in the prison of the dualistic illusion.

Realize the Soul, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness itself, is God. Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist. And the consciousness itself is uncaused.

Thus, the truth- realization itself is God-realization because the ultimate truth is Brahman or God. Self-realization is God-realization and God-realization is real worship. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The truth means existence. The real existence is hidden by the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.+

Most people have the desire to know the truth but the capacity to understand and assimilate it is limited. The result is that people resolve the conflict by jumping to the first and simplest and easiest conclusion as the correct one, and smugly but unjustifiably thinking “I know”: Thus, they commit the fallacy of primitivity.

Truth means a certainty. If there is any uncertainty it is not the truth. It does not deal with imagination.

People do not have a scientific attitude because they take things as presented to them. They have rather an emotional and sentimental attitude.

The correct attitude is to verify all the facts, to see a problem in them, something to investigate and inquire into them.

Truth must be verifiable; unless it is verifiable it is of no value. Those who lack the capacity to doubt are not fit for the pursuit of truth.

Analogical, inductive, and deductive reasoning are good only within the dualistic i; none are absolutely and universally infallible because they are based on the ego, which is the false Self within the false experience.

The truth means existence. The real existence is hidden by the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the ‘I’. Realizing the ‘I’ is the untruth leads to the realization of the truth hidden by the ‘I’.

The ‘I’ is the cause of the bondage of the illusory form, time, and space. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the Soul from the cage of the ‘I’, which is an illusion.

People think that the ‘Self’ as the ‘I’ and they think it is not possible to function without the ‘I’ as a person because they think ‘I’ is limited to the body and ‘I’ is within the body. This is an error. The ‘I’ is the whole universe in which you exist

Consciousness is the ultimate truth. Consciousness is the cause of the illusory universe in which you exist. Consciousness is the cause of all causes. Consciousness itself is uncaused.

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Do not accept any other God other than the Soul. The Soul is God in truth, Nothing is real but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Nothing matters but realize God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is real and eternal and all else is an illusion.

Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.

Remember:~

To make it clear to get firm conviction you have to make sure what is not the consciousness, in this world, in which you exist? The Soul, the Self is the fullness of consciousness.

The world, in which you exist, is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, nothing else. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

The world in which you exist is consciousness.

The form, time, and space are nothing but consciousness.

The three states are nothing but consciousness.

The experience of birth, life, death, and the world is nothing but consciousness.

The ego, body, and the world are nothing but consciousness.

The thinker, thoughts, and world are nothing but consciousness.

The world, in which you exist is rooted in consciousness.

All the objects in the world, in which you exist is consciousness.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar