Mundaka Upanishad:~ As rivers flow into the sea and in so doing lose name and form, so even the wise man, freed from name and form, attains the Supreme Being, the Self-luminous, the Infinite. He who knows Brahman becomes Brahman. ~ 3.2.8-
Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.
Your body is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness.
Your ego is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness.
The world in which you exist is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness.
Your body, your ego, and the world in which you exist appear together and disappear together.
Mentally reduce the world in which you exist as consciousness by realizing the world in which you exist is nothing but consciousness, which is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
There is nothing that is not consciousness, which is Brahman. Thus, consciousness alone is real and rest is merely an illusion.
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 realizing 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 of God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.
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 three states, observed and experienced. The commoner viewing the three states will see them differently from a Gnani viewing the same three states. Each one interprets the three states that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, he experiences the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness (Brahman) and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness (Brahman).
Remember:~
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.
All orthodox Advaitic schools have noting do with the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.
Advaita is Adyatma. Adyatma has nothing to do with religious sects or creeds and religious beliefs. Adyatma is pure spirituality. Knowledge of Atma is Adyatma. Advaita is Adyatma.
Adyatma is the knowledge of the truth hidden by the illusory 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.
Come ye slow, or come ye fast; it is but the Soul, the Advaita that reveals itself at last. Remember:~
As one goes deeper into annals of history he becomes aware of the fact that the so-called present Hinduism has adopted many things from Buddhism, the religion of Abraham, Jainism, and Islam. If one goes deeper enough he will become aware everything is mixed up and messed up in time.
Sage Sankara endeavored towards establishing the Vedic religion overthrowing Buddhism. But even he was not able to avoid the influence of Buddhism. The influence of the revolutionary atmosphere of Buddhism has reappeared in the Advaita of Sage Sankara. His inability to revive Vedic religion that flourished before the Buddhist revolution in its pure form is discernible.
No one is taken pains to rectify it because; because people have been inherited them, from their ancestors and they think it is blasphemy even to hear anything against their inherited religion, castes, and beliefs. Once one gets involved with the religious class it is the end of the pursuit of truth.
The theistic (orthodoxy) Advaita is based on the dualistic perspective but the Advaita wisdom of Sage Sankara is based on the nondualistic perspective. The theistic (orthodoxy) Advaita bifurcated from the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.
All the different schools of Advaita are dualistic meant for the ignorant populace.
Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada are independent thinkers other schools of Indian philosophy are mere theologies. Advaitic philosophy is a real philosophy. The dualistic philosophy cannot escape the charge of dogmatism.
Advaitic wisdom propagated by Sage Sankara is on the non-dualistic perspective.
There is no need to study neither Advaita Vedanta nor the Vedas nor Buddhism to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman. It is no use going roundabout way; trace the Brahman.
The ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed. Hence, so-called philosophers who take Brahman for granted are not philosophers at all.
Lots of Advaitin scholars will teach that all is yourself, but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none can prove it. The rational proof is required so that one arrives at knowing the ultimate truth or Brahman i.e. Gnana. Theirs is mere dogma, parrotism, repetition of what they read in scripture. Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.
Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but the liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.
Sage Sankara ’says: ~ Gnana is common to all religions.
There is nothing like One Gnana for a Hindu and another for a Christian.
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The followers of karma are orthodox people. Advaitic orthodoxy is dualistic. Advaitic orthodoxy is based on ignorance. Advaitic ortodoxy has to be rejected to realze Advaitic Gnana.
According to Advaita Vedanta, the Veda addresses itself to 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 Brahman.
Thus, the Purva mimam.sa with its emphasis on the Karma kanda of the Vedas, is meant for the first audience, to help lead
its followers along the way. However, Vedanta, with its emphasis on the Jnana kanda, is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.
The rituals mentioned in the Karmakanda of the Vedas are sought to be negated in the Jnanakanda, which is also part of the same scripture. While the Karmakanda enjoins upon you the worship of various deities and lays down rules for the same, the Jnanakanda, constituted by the Upanishads ridicules the worshiper of deities as a dim-witted person no better than a beast.
This seems strange, the latter part of the Vedas contradicting the former part. The first part deals with karma, while the second, or concluding, part is all about jnana. Owing to this difference, people have gone so far as to divide our scripture into two sections: the Vedas (that is, the first part) to mean the Karmakanda and the Upanishads (Vedanta) to mean the Jnanakand
All orthodox Advaitic schools have noting do with the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.
Advaita is Adyatma. Adyatma is nothing to do with religious sects or creeds and religious beliefs. Adyatma is pure spirituality. Knowledge of Atma is Adyatma. Advaita is Adyatma.
Adyatma is the knowledge of the truth hidden by the illusory 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.
Come ye slow, or come ye fast; it is but the Soul, the Advaita that reveals itself at last.
The one who has realized the Brahman (God) is Brahmin, not the one who is born in the Brahmin caste.
The Vedic system did not have a castes system. Hinduism is nothing to do with the ancient Vedic religion or Santana Dharma.
The caste system was a fake created in the name of Hinduism. This non-Vedic belief system called Hinduism has created hatred in the low caste Hindu for the higher caste.
Hindus indulge in non-Vedic beliefs such as idolatry, ancestor worship, pilgrimages, priestcraft, offerings made in temples, the caste system, untouchability, and child marriages. All these lack Vedic sanctions, therefore, Hinduism is not Ancient Vedic religion or Santana Dharma.
All Hindus indulge in non-Vedic practice barred by the Vedas introduced by the different founders of the different sects of Hinduism at different times, whereas the Vedic religion or Santana Dharma is ancient and has no founder.
Many followers of Hinduism translate the Vedas to fit into Hindu thought by changing the translation to reflect the beliefs of monism, reincarnation, the caste system, and the absence of animal and human sacrifice. However, these poor translators.
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In the Vedic era, a Brahmin was a person who had acquired Self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana Atma Gnana. This was an extremely difficult path of the discipline of body, mind, and intellect, and people irrespective of their birth or class, who were dedicated to such an austere life, were recognized as Brahmins.
A great example of this tradition (that a person becoming a Brahmin, rather than born as one) is the case of Vishwamitra, a warrior (Kshatriya), who became a Brahmin after attaining Atma Jnana or Brahma Gnana or Self-Knowledge.
A smritis or code of conduct composed by Sage Atri defines Brahminhood very clearly.
"By birth, every man is a Shudra (an ignorant person). Through various types of disciplines (samskaras), he becomes a dwija (twice-born). Through the studies of scriptures, he becomes a vipra (or a scholar). Through the realization of supreme spirit (Brahma jnana), he becomes a Brahmin.”
The belief that people born in the Brahmin caste, automatically become Brahmins, is a much later concept in very ancient India. Thus, Brahmin means not caste but one who has attained Atma Gnana or Brahma Gnana.
The one who has realized the Brahman (God in truth) is Brahmin, not the one who is born in the Brahmin caste. Anyone can become Brahmin by acquiring Brahma Gnana.
The very concepts of castes by birth, upper/lower castes, superior/inferior castes, outcastes, untouchables, Dalits, etc. are clearly prohibited by Rig-Veda”.
A Brahmin is not a Brahmin merely because he is born out of a Brahmin mother’s womb. Nor is he a Brahmin merely because he is born in the Brahmin caste. Brahmin is not Caste it is the state of God. Anyone can become a Brahmin by acquiring Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
A Brahmin in the Adyatmic context - one who has acquired Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana or one who is free from ignorance.
A Brahmin in the Adyatmic context refers to Gnani who has acquired Advavitic Gnana. Gnani is the one who has gotten rid of ignorance. Gnani has traveled beyond all bounds of form, time, and space. Gnani is no longer tied to experiencing the illusory form, time, and space as a reality.
A person who has acquired Advaitic Gnana is a Brahmin, not a person who indulges in priestcraft.
A Gnani has got rid of the strap of ignorance by acquiring Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
A Gnani is the one who freed himself from experiencing the illusory universe or Maya as reality.
The Brahmin does not belong to any religion, caste, race, or nationality because he does not belong to the domain of form, time, and space. He, even being within the domain of the form, time, and space is not of the form, time, and space.
The water does not get attached to the surface of the lotus leaf. The mustard seed does not get attached to the point of a needle. In the same way, the Brahmin does not get attached to religion or caste, race, or nationality. He is non-attached from the world in which he exists even though he is in the world; he is not of this world.
A Gnani has become aware of the fact that the world in which he exists itself is an illusion created out of consciousness. Brahmin is the one who is aware of the fact that Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the Soul from the cage of the dualistic illusion.
A Gnani is the one who has given up the religion and religious idea of God and religious rituals. He has also given up yogic Samadhi and the practice of meditation. He has achieved total tranquillity of the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. He has conquered the effortless reality with his mental effort.
A Gnani knows the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. He is not attached to the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world.
A Gnani has reached the destination which is beyond the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world. He possesses the knowledge of the essence which is the cause of the world in which he exists.
The path of truth is neither of Gods, nor of the religion, nor of the humans. All taints of ignorance are totally eradicated in the Atmic path. Those who tread the Atmic path have attained the highest spiritual knowledge.
He is a great Sage as he has realized the essentials. He has conquered the truth which is beyond birth, life, death, and the world. He is devoid of blemishes. He has washed away all the ignorance. He has awakened to the essentials.
He has his higher awareness. He has reached the state of a Sage. He has achieved the final perfection. :~Santthosh Kumaar
