Upanishads: - They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Atman The ordinary man does not understand their way.+

Even 1% of people will not show interest in the Atmic path. And the Atmic path is for those who have found the path of religion, the path of yoga, and all theoretical philosophy and scriptural studies inadequate and useless in quenching their inner thirst.

People, immersed in ignorance in various ways, flatter themselves, saying: We have accomplished life's mission. Because these performers of karma do not know the Advaitic Truth owing to their attachment, they will never be able to cross the ocean of the dualistic illusion, the cycle of birth, life death is happening within the world. The world is a dualistic illusion or Maya.

All the orthodox Advaitins indulge and immerse themselves in ritualistic-oriented lifestyles and preach theoretical philosophies, which are obstacles to realizing the Advaitic truth.

Many chose these orthodox scholars as their Gurus. But these Gurus are good to learn the conceptual Advaita meant for those orthodox who believe their conduct-oriented lifestyle leads to liberation. But those who are seeking truth have to do their own homework in order to acquire Self–knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

That is why Sage Goudpada says: ~ The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

Thus, orthodox-based Advaita is not meant for those seeking the ultimate truth or Brahman, but orthodoxy is meant for people of lower and middling intellect.

Those who are seeking Advaitic truth have to drop orthodoxy to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Advaitic orthodoxy blocks the realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Thus, if one wants to attain Advaitic wisdom, one has to drop the path of Advaitic orthodoxy, which is meant for the traditionalists who take the practical life within the practical world as a reality.

People are searching for remedies for their problems of practical life within the practical world. The path of love is very valuable in the practical world.

A Gnani follows the path of love in the practical world, and he loves the whole of humanity, but inwardly he is fully aware that the practical life within the practical world is part of the dualistic illusion.

Upanishads: - They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Atman. The ordinary man does not understand their way. (Chapter IV — Alatasanti Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada)

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is meant only for those who have an intense urge and the courage to accept the truth with humility and reject the untruth. Since people start comparing with their scriptural knowledge, it becomes impossible to assimilate and realize the non-dual truth. Therefore, there is no need to convince anyone other than our own selves to get the firm conviction.

Seeing God implies duality. The mind or universe or waking, which appears and disappears, is not permanent.

There is no use in placing faith in the belief of an individualized god, which is part of the falsehood, and it is impermanent. It is better to abide in formless consciousness, which is the Self and eternal, by realizing that the experience of diversity is created out of a single stuff, which is consciousness.

Consciousness is the ultimate truth, and the only ultimate truth or Brahman is God in truth.

Self-awareness is what one should seek, not visions of an individualized God. It is only when the Mind is merged in its source, the invisible Soul or consciousness, that true knowledge of one's identity with the ultimate truth or Brahman will dawn.

Sage Sankara says:- one must first know what is before him. If he cannot know that, what else can he know or understand? If he gives up the external world in his inquiry, he cannot get the whole truth.

Sage Sankara says: - VC- 63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

In the Brahma Sutras, Sage Sankara says: Brahman is the cause of the world, whereas in Manduka, he denies it.

This may be because, at the lower stage of understanding, the former teaching must be given, for people will get frightened as they cannot understand how the world can be without a cause, but to those in a higher stage, the truth of non-causality can be revealed.

As one goes deeper investigation, he finds:-

Sage Sankara founded his Advaita Vedanta either on reason independent of Sruti or on Sruti confirmed by reason."

Sage Sankara's commentary on the Manduka Upanishad, II, 1: This [the unreality of duality] is borne out by the Srutis ... But it is possible also to show the unreality of the object world even from pure reasoning, and this second chapter is undertaken for that purpose.

Sage Sankara himself had often said that his philosophy was based on Sruti, or revealed scripture. This may be because Sage Sankara addressed the ordinary man, who finds security in the idea of causality and thus in the idea of God, and Revelation is indispensable to prove the latter. He believed that those of superior intelligence have no need of this idea of divine causality and can, therefore, dispense with Sruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason.

Those who lack the intelligence to discriminate between formless witness [subject] and the three states (object) will not be able to grasp what is real and what is unreal. Both subject and object are consciousness, not the subject alone.

The ultimate truth can never change. The nature of the truth is, it can never be changed under any circumstances. It may be misrepresented. It must apply to the whole of existence, to the whole of the universe. It is in the object [three states] alone that one has all changes, as deeper analysis points out.

The subject [formless witness] remains unchanged. The subject [formless witness], as such, remains immortal. It can never die for it never changes. The body and world are objects and go, but the subject or knower of the body and the universe can never go.

The seeker has to take this principle as his guiding thread, and the non-dual truth becomes easy to grasp. The formless witness can never be subject to the changes of the object; it is unchanged.

The mistake usually made is that the subject becomes an object, or that the object is the subject.

If one wants to have an absence of contradictions, an absence of duality, there must be one entity, one being. If one has experience which is an object [mind], there is a contradiction between subject and object, for the mind is an object.

The duality is a reality from the standpoint of the false self [ego]. The duality is merely an illusion from the base of the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

This understanding comes only to the serious seeker, who has a real urge to know the ultimate truth, which is beyond all the teachings and teachers. There is neither teaching, nor a teacher, nor a student in the realm of truth.

Different paths will not converge to the same Ultimate Reality because they are based on the false self. They are not different stages in the same path.

People fight about the differences and greatness of their chosen paths, but only through wisdom can one realize the ultimate reality.: : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

Egocentric inferior knowledge based on religion is not the means to Self -Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.+

Sage Goudpada: ~ To establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. He begins by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the right way to understand and assimilate.  (Manduka Karika)

Manduka Upanishad has no assumptions whatsoever. It is an honest and bold inquiry into truth. It rises above scripture.

Manduka Upanishad:~ Reality and illusion together make Brahman: nothing can be left out.

Manduka Upanishad:~ Reality and illusion together make Brahman: nothing can be left out.

 Manduka Upanishad:~ Only a few will be able to understand and assimilate it 

Manduka Upanishad is not meant for all, as it is based entirely on reasoning.

Remember:~ 

Egocentric, inferior knowledge based on religion is not the means to Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  

Scriptural Revelation is, therefore, absolutely necessary for this hypothesis of cosmology, this Saguna or inferior knowledge. Brahman, but not for the absolute truth of Nirguna Brahman.  

The Sruti itself says:- "This Atma is not to be attained by a study of the Vedas. It means that Self-knowledge is beyond the Vedas. Therefore, there is a need to drop all the scriptural baggage and reach the non-dual destination mentally using Soulcentric reasoning.  

As per the scriptures, the three "Ashrams" or stages in life were originally intended for three grades of intelligence, thus:-  

V Religion:- low intellects had to do 'karmas' works, ritual actions, chanting of mantras and indulging in bhajans and prayers, etc.  

V Middle intellects:- Yoga: taking yellow robes, going to the mountains and pilgrimages, ashrams, etc., sticking to Gurus and Godmen, worshipping them as real Gods.  

V High intellects:- wisdom who wanted the truth is concerned with no external rites or sanyasa but depends solely on the soulcentric reasoning for their path.  

The one who realizes the invisible Soul as the Self becomes one with the immortal Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  

When there is no ignorance, there is form, time, and space. Without form, time, and space, the universe ceases to exist. Without the universe, there is no individual experience of birth, life, and death.   

Thus, it is necessary to realize that form, time, and space are created out of a single clay and that clay is consciousness.  

Thus, consciousness is the only reality hidden within the domain of form, time, and space. The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth.  

Those who want higher wisdom follow the Atmic path. The rest have to choose any path that satisfies them. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

Read repeatedly my postings and blogs and reflect and reason deeply which helps you to create a mental yardstick in your subconscious to discriminate between ‘what is the truth? And what is the untruth?+

The invisible and unborn Soul, the Self in ignorance, is called subconscious.

Without ignorance, the invisible Soul remains consciously remains in its own awareness of its non-dual true nature.

Read repeatedly my postings and blogs and reflect and reason deeply, which helps you to create a mental yardstick in your subconscious to discriminate between ‘what is the truth? And what is the untruth?

When the subconscious is receptive and ready, then it will start rejecting the untruth, and finally, the invisible Soul, the Self alone, will prevail as the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

There is no practice as such, but perfect understanding is needed to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atman Gnana.

A deeper self-search reveals the fact that the Self is not physical, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

All the accumulated knowledge, experiences, and understanding based on the ego are falsehoods because the ego is the false self, within the false experience (waking).

The Self is not you. You are the ego. The ego is the waking entity. Thus, whatever is based on the waking entity is bound to be a falsehood because the waking experience itself is a falsehood.

All the Gurus and their teachings limit the Self as individuality. Thus, they yield only half-truths.

There is a need to realize that the three states, which come and go, are merely an illusion.

All three states are made of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

It is your sincerity and seriousness that will make you reach the ultimate end of understanding and realization. :~Santthosh Kumaar 

There is no need to study all the Vedas. there are only a few Vedic spiritual insights that will take the seeker to a nondual destination.+

There is no need to study all the Vedas. There are only a few Vedic spiritual insights that will take the seeker to a nondual destination.

Astavakra: ~ “My child, you may speak upon various scriptures or hear the sermons on the scriptures. But you cannot establish in the Self unless you forget all. 16-1 – p49

Ashtavakra:~ There is no wisdom whatsoever in the scriptures- just a collection of words.

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.

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.

Philosophers have made philosophy very complicated with their excessive analysis.

Philosophy has to deal with the ultimate truth, not mere words, not this Guru's or that Guru's interpretation of scriptures.

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All the gurus of the East and West interpret Advaita from a dualistic standpoint or orthodox point of view, and they are still dealing with words, not truth. It proves that they have not understood the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

Remember that only a few of those who have understood Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom will find them contradictory interpretations will never arise.

There will be no two among them, only one. The only test of the correctness of any interpretation of Sage Sankara is whether it tends towards non-duality or not, whether its author has grasped non-duality or not

Existence is nondual. Nonduality cannot be described through words, for all uses of language fail to express it. Nonduality is sought to be indicated mentally negation of duality (all attributes and characteristics).

Look into the nature of the universe. And you will be able to see that the universe, by its very nature, is illusory. The moment you understand that the universe is illusory, ignorance disappears and Self-awareness arises.

Self-awareness is the state of non-dual reality. That is the state of Advaita.

People never realize non-dualistic awareness through religion and yoga.

Self-awareness rises only by mentally transcending the dualistic illusion into non-dualistic reality. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara is Brahma Gnani the humanity has to bow with gratitude to the great Advaitic Sage.+

The Knower of the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth, is Brahma Gnani.

A Brahma Gnani has realized the knowledge beyond form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara is Brahma Gnani the humanity has to bow with gratitude to the great Advaitic Sage.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone's disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him, and only those like him understand his state.

A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.

The truth-seeker seeks only truth. The inner Sage will guide you with love. Your sincerity and seriousness lead you to your inner core. The sincere and serious seekers are not excluded.

All the chosen ones will get freedom from experiencing the illusion (duality) as a reality. All the seekers of truth are chosen ones.

Katha Upanishads: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom it chooses. To such a one, Atman reveals its own form. (II -23-P-20)

All the chosen ones will get freedom from experiencing the illusion (duality) as a reality.

All the seekers of truth are chosen ones.

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

Thus, the above passage proves that all those who wear the sanyasin robes are wearing them for the sake of bread and belong to the religion; they have nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

There is no need to criticize and condemn the Gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of the ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

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)

~ Then why stick to a Guru who is not a Gnani?

That is why Swami Vivekananda said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own Soul.”

Even leading a worldly life, you will be able to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The one who has an intense urge to realize the truth will not rest until he finds it.

Your intense urge to know the truth will take you to the ultimate end, but your accumulated knowledge will block you from realizing the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. :: ~Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is not philosophy or teaching but universal wisdom.+

Upanishads: ~ “They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Atman. The ordinary man does not understand their way. (Chapter IV — Alatasanti Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada)

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is not teaching but universal wisdom. Advaitic wisdom is neither a teaching nor a theory, but it is mere guidance to those who are seriously seeking the ultimate truth or Brahman. Grasp the ultimate truth anytime any age, if the seeker has the spiritual maturity and capacity to grasp it.

Sage Sankara says: - VC-47- All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the not-Self.

It really depends on his inborn natural capacity to understand and assimilate it. Sage Sankara’s wisdom is a Self-examiner, to test oneself to discover how near to Gnana he has approached and what progress has already been made on the path, and what still remains to be done. It sets up criteria for self-judgment. There are millions in search of truth, but one in a million will be able to grasp it.

Without Sage Sankara, there is no Advaita (nonduality). Since it was mixed up with orthodoxy, there is a lot of confusion. I am highlighting all the obstacles that are blocking one from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.

There are so many non-dualistic masters of the east and also from the west who expound Advaitic or non-dualistic knowledge but none of them are helpful to reach the ultimate end.

There is a need to bifurcate religion from spirituality. People think religion is the stepping stone for Self-realization, but it is not so.

Religion is based on ignorance, and it keeps the seeker permanently in ignorance by hiding the truth with its mythical beliefs and dogmas, and superstitions.

According to the Vedas and the Upanishads, all the religiously propagated beliefs are a myth. Spirituality is based on the spirit, which is the cause of the world in which we exist.

As one goes deeper in annals of the 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 that 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 has taken pains to rectify it because people have inherited it from their ancestors, and they think it is blasphemy even to hear anything against their inherited religion and belief. 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 Advaita philosophy is based on the nondualistic perspective. The theistic (orthodoxy) Advaita bifurcated from Advaitic philosophy. The theistic (dualistic) Advaita is meant for the ignorant populace.

Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada are independent thinkers; other schools of Indian philosophy are mere theologies. Advaitic philosophy is 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 Vedas nor Buddhism to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman. It is no use going roundabout way; trace the Brahman.

Philosophy does not begin with the ultimate truth. 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. 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.

The entire philosophy of Sage Sankara can be summed up in the following statement:-

Brahma Satyam, jaganmithya, jivobrahmaivanaparah: - Brahman alone is real; the world is non-real, and the individual Self is essentially not different from Brahman.

This is the quintessence of Sage Sankara’s metaphysics. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

If you are serious and sincerely seeking truth then that very seriousness and sincerity will help you to realize the ultimate truth.+

Going beyond the Vedas means going beyond religion. Going beyond religion means going beyond God s based on blind belief.

Going beyond the Vedas, religion, and Gods based on blind belief means going beyond illusion. That is the end of the Vedas (Veda –ante). That is why Buddha rejected the Vedas, religion, and belief in a religious God and got enlightenment.

When one goes into the annals of history, it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada was hidden from the ignorant populace.

The Advaitic orthodoxy is not Sage Sankara's path of wisdom. Advaitic orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant.

The Advaitic Orthodoxy talks of Advaita, but their practice is dualistic.

The orthodoxy has nothing to do with Sage Sankara's Advaitic wisdom. Advaitic orthodoxy is based on the experience of the birth entity, whereas Advaitic wisdom is based on the invisible Soul, the Self, which is ever birthless and deathless, and wordless.

Advaitic Orthodoxy holds the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas Sage Sankara says the world in which the individual exists is an illusion.

Sage Sankara’s wisdom is not teaching or philosophy, but Advaita is the universal wisdom. Advaitic wisdom is neither a teaching nor a theory, but it is merely guidance to those who are seriously seeking the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Grasp the ultimate truth anytime any age, if the seeker has the spiritual maturity and capacity to grasp it.

Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the not-Self.

It really depends on the seeker's inborn natural capacity to understand and assimilate it.

Remember:~

Sage Sankara’s wisdom is a Self-examiner, to test oneself to discover how near to Gnana he has approached and what progress has already been made on the path, and what still remains to be done. It sets up criteria for self-judgment. There are millions in search of truth, but one in a million will be able to grasp it.

Without Sage Sankara, there is no Advaita (nonduality). Since it was mixed up with orthodoxy, there is a lot of confusion.

I am highlighting all the obstacles that are blocking one from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman. There are so many non-dualistic masters of the East and also from the West who expound Advaitic or non-dualistic knowledge, but none of them help reach the ultimate end.

One has to know and realize that the Self is the invisible Soul 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 the invisible Soul, which is the Self.

If you are serious and sincerely seeking truth, then that very seriousness and sincerity will help you to realize what is truth and what is the untruth. Self-discovery leads to Self-awareness.

Upanishads:~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking they are wise and erudite, go around and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Upanishads Nikilanada - Ch II-5 P-14)

The scriptures' mastery, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of that the ultimate truth or Brahman. The ultimate truth is revealed in the clear understanding and realization of ‘what is truth and ‘what is untruth'.

When one realizes the untruth (universe) is created out of a single stuff, the Self-awareness rises in the midst of duality, exposing the unreal nature of the form, time, and space.

People think that by studying Vedanta thoroughly, they are under the delusion and conclude that they have become Gnanis.

Becoming adept in Advaita Vedanta does not mean that one has become a Gnani. One gains thereby a mere intellectual understanding of the truth. The truth is e beyond the intellect.

Sage Sankara said:~ ‘Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) Vivekachoodamani v 56, pg 25

Fortunate seekers are those who do not lose themselves in the labyrinths of philosophy.

Conceptual divisions invented by the Advaitic Gurus of the east and the west by their excessive analysis. there is no end for concepts, they create more confusion. the serious seeker is the one who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy but searches the Self independently and realizes it.

Among thousands of people, scarcely one strives for perfection; and of those who strive and succeed, scarcely one knows the Self in truth. The truth is beyond form, time, and space.

Come ye slow, or come ye fast; it is but the invisible Soul that reveals itself at last. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar