The Guru worship is meant for the ignorant populace. Those who have chosen the path of wisdom there is no need to follow Guru or worship the Guru as God.+

The Guru worship is meant for the ignorant populace. For those who have chosen the path of wisdom, there is no need to follow a Guru or worship the Guru as God.

The invisible Soul Self is bodiless because the invisible Soul, the Self, is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The Self, not you but the Self, is the invisible Soul. From the standpoint of the Soul, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

You and your Guru exist within the dualistic illusion. Performing the Pada Pooja (feet worship) to Advaitin Gurus, you will not get Advaitic wisdom.

A Guru who preaches conduct as the means to freedom believes in the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas the Advaitic Sage Sankara declares the world as unreal. How actions performed in an unreal world can get moksha or freedom.

There is a need to know that you are not the Self, but the Self is the invisible Soul to understand and assimilate, and realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.

People think that when they meet a Guru, they get instant enlightenment because many people have experienced it. Such instant enlightenment is not wisdom but a hallucination. And such enlightenment or any experience of that sort is temporary.

There is no doubt that people must have experienced, but what they experienced is merely a hallucination. Experience implies duality. Experience is possible within form, time, and space.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge.

Sage Sankara indicates in Viveka Chudamani (2) that the Knower of the Atman (A Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Sage Sankara indicates that A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man. Yogis and gurus who identify themselves as holy men are not Gnanis

From the Advaitic perspective, 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.

In Self-awareness, ignorance vanishes, and the unreal nature of form, time, and space is exposed. '

In Self-awareness (in the midst of duality), the body is not considered as a body, the ego is not considered as ego, the world is not considered as the world, because everything is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness (Soul).

A Gnani has realized that everything is consciousness (Brahman). There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara was a Bramha Gnani. Most of the modern masters are not Gnani. And you have to understand that to be a Gnani is one thing; to be a Guru is different.+

One need not renounce worldly life and become a sanyasi or monk. One need not retire from their business or corporate job and become a Guru; all these religious and yogic propagated outdated ideas have to be discarded to realize the truth of true existence.

Do not become a slave of all these outdated religious and yogic ideas; they are not meant for those who are seriously seeking the truth.

There is no need to follow anyone. Self-realization becomes easy if you independently walk your path.

Atmic path is your path. You have to tread the path alone to reach it alone, finally, nothing remains as reality other than the Atma or Soul, or Spirit.

The seeker has to stop getting emotionally and sentimentally stuck with the physical Gurus if he is seeking nothing but the truth.

That is why Bhagavan Buddha: ~ “Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Sage Sankara was a Bramha Gnani. Most of the modern masters are not Gnani. And you have to understand that to be a Gnani is one thing; to be a Guru is different.

Out of a million people, perhaps one is a Gnani. Most of the Self-realized decide to remain silent, seeing the difficulty that whatever they have realized is impossible to convey in any possible way to others; seeing that not only is it difficult to convey, it is bound to be misunderstood too.

A Gnani never claims himself as a Gnani; he guides the seekers, not posing himself as a Guru, and he does not force his wisdom on others. A Gnani is not a religious person or a Yogi.

One need not roam from one mountain to another, one ashram to another, or meet gurus or yogis to get Gnana. One can get Gnana and become a Gnani wherever one lives.

We are all searching for truth within the illusion, not being aware of the fact that the illusion is created out of a single stuff, which is the invisible Soul, the ‘Self’. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, searching the truth in the illusion with the illusory ‘Self’, within the illusory experience, has to be an illusion. The illusion is created and sustained, and finally, it dissolves as consciousness.

There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Brahman is God in truth

No one becomes a Gnani by taking sanyasa or wearing religious robes or by mastering the scriptures or by identifying with the religious symbol.

Religious robes and religious symbols are not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Blind faith is an obstacle in the pursuit of truth. The seeker should not waste his time on it; he should primarily reflect on the invisible Soul, the Self, not on the ‘I’.

The invisible and unborn Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit (consciousness), is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Shruti says ~ "brahmavit brahmaiva bhavati" - He who knows Brahman becomes Brahman Itself. In the Advaita understanding of this statement, the "becoming" is only metaphorical. It is not as if something that was not Brahman suddenly becomes Brahman. Rather, "realizing Brahman" means a removal of the ignorance about one's own essential nature as Brahman. Thus, to "know Brahman" is to "be Brahman".

The one who has realized the identity with the invisible Soul, the ‘Self’ with the Brahman, is a Gnani, one who is liberated even while embodied. Such a realization should not and cannot just be a literal understanding of the Upanishadic Mahavakya.

Remember:~

A Gnani has realized the ultimate truth of the identity of the invisible Soul, the Self. Thus, moksha is not a result of ritual action (path of karma a) or devotional service (path of bhakti). These paths are egocentric, therefore, they will not help anyway to get rid of the ignorance. Moksha is not a result of anything, for it always exists. '

All that is required is the removal of ignorance. The path of wisdom helps the seeker to acquire the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

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

A Gnani has realized the ultimate truth of the identity of the invisible Soul, the Self. Thus, moksha is not a result of ritual action (path of karma) or devotional service (path of bhakti). These paths are egocentric, therefore, they will not help anyway to get rid of the ignorance.

Moksha is not a result of anything, for it always exists. All that is required is the removal of ignorance. The path of wisdom helps the seeker to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Emotionally sticking to your physical Guru is sticking to ignorance. Worshiping your physical Guru is worshiping ignorance.+

You and your physical Guru belong to the domain of duality. The duality is merely an illusion.

By emotionally sticking to physical Guru within the dualistic illusion (world) becomes a great obstacle in realizing the Self, hidden by the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Emotionally sticking to your physical Guru is sticking to ignorance. Worshipping your physical Guru is worshiping ignorance. Surrendering to your physical Guru is surrendering to ignorance.

If you are seeking truth, you have to get rid of the idea of the Guru propagated in the past by the gurus of the religious and yogic path.

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.” Yogis and gurus are not Gods.

This idea of worshiping the Guru as God is not a Vedic idea but was adopted from Jainism and Buddhism.

Vedas bars human worship: ~

Yajurveda:~ "They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.":~ (Yajurveda 40:9.)

Then why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis (human form) in place of God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge in such activities are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.

Thus, Gurus have no place in the domain of the Advaitic reality.

All the Guru worships belong to religion and yoga, not Spirituality.

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 the 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?

Advaita is the nature of the invisible Soul, which is the real God. Thus, Self-realization is the only way to God-realization.

By worshiping the Gurus as God, you will not get Self-realization or God-realization.

The invisible Soul, the inner Guru, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

The world in which you and Guru exist is the product of ignorance. If there is no ignorance, then the world in which you and your Guru exist ceases to exist as a reality.

When reality appears, this ignorance, which one thinks of as reality, becomes unreal.

The ultimate truth has to be realized first without any philosophy; only then is it possible to know what the scriptures are saying.

Reality is simply the loss of ignorance. Until the ignorance is there, the body, ego, and the world exist as a reality.

When ignorance vanishes, then the invisible Soul, the Self, remains in its own nondual awareness. In Self-awareness, there is unity in diversity, thus, there is only oneness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Swami Vivekananda: ~None can teach you, none can make you spiritual.+

People think that their physical Guru or Gurus' grace guides them, and they have surrendered to their Guru, and it is the Guru’s responsibility; such blind acceptance leads to hallucination.

Those who think their physical Guru’s teaching is the ultimate truth will never be able to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

So, he wore a Guru's robe only for the sake of the ignorant. So, he was identified as a Guru with a parampara by religious people. For the truth seekers, Sage Sankara is a Brahma Gnani.

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ “A Gnani bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Thus, it proves that the religious Gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.

Even Swami Vivekananda was Ramakrishna Paramahansa’s disciple. Swami Vivekananda himself 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.”

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Those who are stuck with the idea that without a Guru and Guru's grace, it is impossible to get Self-realization are not seeking truth but are stuck in their orthodox ideas. Such a mindset is unfit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

Those who are stuck with the idea that without a Guru and Guru's grace, it is impossible to get Self-realization are not seeking truth but are stuck in their orthodox ideas. Such a mindset is unfit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumar

To realize what God suppose to be in truth, Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God-realization. Self-realization is real worship.+

God in truth ceases to exist within the domain of form, time, and space. The form, time, and space are merely a dualistic illusion or Maya.

God in truth is the cause of the universe, which is a dualistic illusion, and God is uncaused.

God in truth cannot be seen directly by anyone because God in truth is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

God in truth cannot be brought down to the domain of duality. There is only one being in reality, and it is the Universal Soul. The existence of the finite or the limited is only apparent or imaginary.

The Vedas confirm that God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is the Supreme Spirit, has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.

Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

Yajurveda: ~ There is no image of God in truth. God in truth is unborn and eternal. (Chapter 32, Verse 3)

Yajurveda: ~ God in truth is nondual and pure."

Vedas itself says: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?

Thus, to realize what God is supposed to be in truth, Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God-realization. Self-realization is real worship.

Remember:~

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 or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman 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)

How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshiper and the worshiped, whereas God is nondual. One can worship his idea of God only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.

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

In Manduka Upanishad Brahman and Atman are defined as same:~ सर्वं ह्येतद् ब्रह्मायमात्मा ब्रह्म सोयमात्मा चतुष्पात् / sarvam hyetad brahmaayamaatmaa brahm soyamaatmaa chatushpaat –

Manduka Upanishad, verse-2

Translation:~

Sarvam(सर्वम्)- Whole/All/Everything; hi(हि)- Really/Just/Surely/Indeed; etad(एतद्)- This here/This; brahm(ब्रह्म)- Brahm/Brahman; ayam(अयम्)- This/Here; aatmaa(आत्मा)- Atma/Atman; sah(सः)- He; ayam(अयम्)- This/Here; chatus(चतुस्)- Four/Quadruple; paat(पात्)- Step/Foot/Quarter

Fragmented Verse:~ सर्वम् हि एतद् ब्रह्म अयम् आत्मा ब्रह्म सः अयम् आत्मा चतुस पात् / sarvam hi etad brahm ayama aatmaa brahm sah ayam aatmaa chatus paat

Simple Meaning:~

All indeed is this Brahman; This Atman is Brahman; God, this Atman has four steps/quarters.

While Brahman lies behind the sum total of the objective universe, some human minds boggle at any attempt to explain it with only the tools provided by reason. Brahman is beyond the senses, beyond the mind, beyond intelligence, beyond imagination.

Indeed, the highest idea is that Brahman is beyond both existence and non-existence, transcending and including time, causation, and space, and thus can never be known in the same material sense as one traditionally 'understands' a given concept or object.

When Upanishads and Vedas declare that “God is the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself then why accept another God in place of the Atman or worship other than the Atman?

Remember:~

People who worship Gods based on blind faith or blind belief are hallucinating that they become one with such a God. The invisible and unborn Soul, the Self itself, is the Infinite God.

The invisible Soul is the Self is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

God in truth is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. God in truth is the fullness of consciousness without the illusory division of form, time, and space. Therefore, there is nothing apart from it.

God in truth is Self-evident. God is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny God in truth because God in truth is the very essence of the one who denies it.

God in truth in truth is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe in which you exist; God in truth is without the universe in which you exist.

God in truth is the Supreme Being, the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness, and intelligence, which is beyond form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.

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

Only the path of wisdom leads the seeker of truth on his journey to the ultimate realization of the true nature of the Universal Essence, which is the invisible Soul. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Atman, worships ‘Self’ as~ Atman (God in truth) alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare."

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 the Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. Nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.: : ~Santthosh Kumaar

One must realize God in truth. Without knowing what God is supposed to be in actuality worshiping Gods based on blind faith or blind belief is superstition.+

People all over the world in the past and present have accepted the idea of the existence of God.

The fear of God instilled by the religion was the root cause of worship, superstitions, and dogmas.

The religious beliefs were passed on to the populace from one generation to the next.

It is necessary to realize what God is supposed to be in truth to realize God in truth.

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.

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

Swami Vivekananda: ~ “The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods, and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods? (In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900, of Swami Vivekananda/volume 1)

Religion breeds superstition because religion is based on blind belief. Whatever is based on blind belief is superstition.

God in truth is not belief. One must know God in truth. Without knowing what God is supposed to be in actuality, worshipping Gods based on blind faith or blind belief is superstition.

Worshipping superstitious Gods barred by the Vedas. Know what God is supposed to be according to the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and the Bible.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is the Supreme Spirit, has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.

Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

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)

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

Kena Upanishad (6) Chapter I: ~ “That which cannot be apprehended by the mind, but by which, they say, the mind is apprehended-That alone know as Brahman(God), and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (7) Chapter I:~ That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which the eye is perceived- That alone is known as Brahman (God in truth), and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad ( Chapter I:~ That which cannot be heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived- That alone is known as Brahman(God in truth), and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (9)- Chapter I:~ That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an object, That alone is known as Brahman(God), and not that which people here worship.

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.

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

Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita confirm that the invisible Soul, the Self, is present in the form of the Spirit or the consciousness is God in truth.

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 invisible Soul, the Self. The invisible 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.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ “If superstition enters, the brain is gone. Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.

How can you worship the Absolute? That implies two ~ the worshipper and the worshipped, whereas the Absolute is nondual. One can worship his idea of the Absolute only, or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.

The Upanishads say in effect: ~ If you believe that the invisible Soul, the Self, is one and God (Brahman) is another, you cannot understand Truth.

The religion preaches that God is one and the ways to God are many. It simply tries to lead them to darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the Self.

Realizing the single stuff of which this universe in which you exist is made, is Truth realization, or Self-realization, or God-realization.

When the expression itself is illusory, then the evolution within the illusory expression is bound to be an illusion. Thus, the evolution theory holds no water from the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self.

Truth-realization is Self-realization. Self-realization is God-realization, and God-realization is real worship. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

Gurus and Yogis are nothing to do with spirituality or Adyathma.+

You have got stuck up with the 'I-centric' Gurus and their teachings. 'I-centric' Gurus and their teaching create a prison for the Soul, the Self.

You will never be able to free the Soul, the Self from the prison of the ‘I’.

You are immersed in worshipping the Gurus instead of completing your journey.

Worshipping the Gurus keep you permanently in the domain of ignorance. Worshipping the Gurus belongs to religion and yoga. Gurus and Yogis are nothing to do with spirituality or Adyathma.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

Guru is needed in the religious and yogic path. The invisible Soul is the inner Guru.

The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the source of all that exists as the universe. To realize the universe is consciousness there is no need for Guru.

Vedas bars human worship: ~

Yajur Veda:~

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.":~ (Yajur Veda 40:9.)

Then why worship and glorify the Guru s and Yogis (human form) in place of God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge in such activities are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.

Such worship, devotion, and reverence to Gurus will never allow you to realize the ‘Self’, which is hidden by ignorance.

‘I’ is the cause of all contradiction whereas the truth you are seeking is beyond all contradictions. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is infinite.

There are two dimensions of reality. The dualistic and nondualistic reality, it does not mean they are two orders of reality. They are only two perspectives. Whatever that is there is real and is unaffected by our views.

The dualistic reality is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the non-dualistic reality.

The invisible Soul is caught up in ignorance; it encounters the dualistic illusion (form, time, and space). However, the invisible Soul, in reality, is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The invisible Soul is infinite. The invisible Soul, the infinite Self, is perceived as limited to form, time and space.

The illusory form, time, and space are superimposed on the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. In reality, the form, time, and space are made of the same clay, which the consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal and form, time, and space are merely an illusion.

You are being an individual-in-the-world, you are unaware of the fact that the ‘Self’ is not you, but the Self is the Soul, which is the cause of the world in which you exist.

Thus, the Self is not an individual because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The invisible Soul is originally a pure, transcendental consciousness; it is taken; it is due to ignorance that hides the invisible Soul, the Self, that the individual fails to see the nexus between the Soul and the world in which he exists.

That nexus indicates the oneness underlying the subject-object, inner-outer distinctions. All that is required is to remove the error and the Soul will shine on its own accord.

The water in the pond is clear and undisturbed. One can see the bottom of the pond through its still water. When, however, pebbles are thrown into the pond, the water in it is disturbed and the bottom of the pond becomes no longer visible. That bottom, however, is there all the time and it remains unchanged, no matter whether the surface water is disturbed or not. The water in the pond is the transactional world. The bottom of the pond is the transcendental reality. The disturbance created is ignorance.

The seeker has to mentally recognize the subjective and objective reality. The objective reality is merely an illusion of subjective reality. The objective reality never exists from the standpoint of subjective reality. The subjective reality is the fullness of consciousness. Objective reality is merely an illusory division of form, time, and space created on subjective reality.

The objective reality is a superimposition over the subjective reality. The objective reality (world) seems as real but it actually is unreal.

The superimposition of the illusory form, time, and space on the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the cause of ignorance.

When the ignorance is removed through Advaitic wisdom than the illusory division form, time and space never again prevail as a reality the same way as the dream never becomes a reality when waking takes place.

The superimposition of the illusory form, time, and space becomes one with the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

By constantly repeating ‘I THAT” ‘I AM THIS Who AM ‘I, without realizing what is this ‘I’ supposed to be in actuality, ignorance becomes more and more deep-rooted, then it becomes impossible to come out of the prison the intoxication of the ‘I’.

The invisible Soul is the not ‘I’, but the invisible Soul is the witness of the ‘I’. The ‘I’, which appears and disappears is not permanent. The invisible Soul is eternal. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar