Until you hold the Self as you, you will remain in the domain of ignorance.+

Until you hold the Self as you, you will remain in the domain of ignorance. Only those who are still in elementary stages hold the Self as the ‘I’ and say everything is within you.

Remember this: Everything is not within you because you are not the Self. You exist within the dualistic illusion.

The dualistic illusion is limited to form, time, and space, whereas the invisible Soul, the Self, is limitless because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

If you hold the Self as you, then you will never be able to realize the Self which is beyond the ‘I’

You have nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self, which is hidden by the ‘I’.

You have to draw your attention back every time it turns to worldliness (I) and fix it on the invisible Soul, the Self.

Remember this: the ‘I’ is not the Self. The ‘I’ is illusory. The Self is the invisible Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the ‘I’.

The invisible Soul is permanent and eternal; only the ‘I’ appears and disappears.

The ‘I’ becomes the invisible Soul in deep sleep. The invisible Soul becomes ‘I’ in waking experience.

The ‘I’ is not the witness. The 'I' is an object to the invisible Soul, the Self-which is the subject.

The invisible Soul is the witness of the ‘I’ which comes and goes. Holding the ‘I’ as the witness is a great error.

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

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

You have to draw your attention back every time it turns to worldliness (I) and fix it on the invisible Soul, the Self."

Remember this: the ‘I’ is not the Self. The ‘I’ is illusory. The Self is the invisible Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the ‘I’.

The invisible Soul is permanent and eternal; only the ‘I’ appears and disappears.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16

The ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as the waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

The witness of the appearance of appearance and disappearance is the invisible Soul, which is the Self. From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the three states are one in essence. That essence is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

In reality, the witness (Soul) and the witnessed (three states) are one in essence.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar

You have nothing to do with the Self. Self-realization is possible only when you realize the Self, not you but the invsible Soul.+

You have nothing to do with the Self. Self-realization is possible only when you realize you are not the Self, but the Self is the invisible and unborn Soul.

Until you think the Self is within you, you will never be able to realize what the Self is in actuality.

Those who preached that the Self is within you propagated only cocktail knowledge.

The Self is the invisible Soul hidden by the illusory world in which you exist, because the Self is not an entity or identity within the illusory world in which you exist.

The invincible Soul, the Self, pervades the whole world in which you exist.

The Self is the cause of the world in which you exist, and it, itself, is uncaused. The Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Without consciousness, the world in which you exist ceases to exist. Perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-realization.

Remember:~

Second Mundaka - Chapter 2 (9) - There the stainless and indivisible Brahman shines in the highest, golden sheath. It is pure; it is the Light of lights; it is that which they know who knows the Self.

Second Mundaka - Chapter 2 (10) - The sun does not shine there, nor the moon and the stars, nor this lightning, not to speak of this fire. When the Soul, the Self, shines, everything shines after the invisible Soul; by its light, everything is lighted.

The invisible Soul appears as the universe in the waking, and the universe disappears as the Soul in deep sleep.

The invisible Soul is the universe, and the universe is the invisible Soul. The universe is merely an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The illusion and reality are nothing but consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal.

When the Advaitic wisdom dawns, then this world in which you exist, which you think it as reality, becomes unreal.

The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. That means the dream entity, people within the dream, and the dream world become unreal. In the same way, the waking experience becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns.

Advaitic wisdom dawns when you realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

A person who stamped his foot on the ground to refute, to show the world, is real, ignores that in the dream he would do exactly the same--stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real.

Second Mundaka - Chapter 2 (11) - That immortal Brahman (Athma) alone is before, that Brahman is behind, that Brahman is to the right and left. Brahman alone pervades everything above and below; this universe is that Supreme Brahman alone. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Why you are sticking to a Guru who is not a Gnani.+

Someone posing as a Gnani is not a Gnani. If someone poses himself as a direct disciple

le of some guru cannot be a Gnani. Those who pose themselves as Gnanis are not Gnanis.

A Gnani never poses himself as a Guru, a swami, a sadhu, or a yogi, or some Guru’s disciple.

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

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."

Sage Sankara 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.

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

Thus, it proves that Sage Sankara meant, taking sanyasa and wearing the religious robes to earn bread. Sanyasa is not a qualification to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana

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 are you sticking to a Guru who is not a Gnani. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Vedas bar human worship. There is no need for the seeker of truth to indulge in glorifying the Gurus and worship them as Gods.+

Vedas bar human worship. There is no need for the seeker of truth to indulge in glorifying the Gurus and worship them as Gods.

The seeker has to go beyond religion. Going beyond religion means going beyond the belief in a religious God to realize the real God hidden by ignorance.

When one goes into the annals of history, it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sage Sankara and Sage Goudapada was lost or mutilated by the orthodoxy because the orthodoxy's preaching and practice do not match. Orthodoxy talks of Advaita, but their practice is dualistic.

The orthodoxy has nothing to do with Advaita because they are based on the experience of birth, life, death, and the world, whereas Advaita is based on the Soul, which is ever birthless and deathless, and wordless.

There is no use of prostration to holy sandals of the Guru or indulging in Pada Pooja (feet worship) when the inner Guru is the Soul, the ‘Self’, which is ever formless.

The guru who identifies with his experience of birth, life, death, and the world, and the disciple who worships his guru’s body, will remain ignorant of the truth beyond form, time, and space.

Without getting rid of the ignorance, they will never get freedom from experiencing the dualistic illusion as reality.

People think that prostrating to a religious Guru, adoring which the worst poverty-stricken have turned out to be great possessors of wealth, and even the mutes have turned out to be great masters of speech, are ideas based on the dualistic perspective is meant for the ignorant populace that accepts the world as a reality.

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the world in which birth, life, and death take place is merely an illusion.

People think that prostrating to the physical Guru, which serves as the downpour of water to put out the fire of misfortunes, removes the groups of distress of those who prostrate to them.

The devotion to the physical Guru and grace with the valuable dominion of renunciation is the religious idea.

All religious beliefs have nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman.

The devotion to the physical Guru and the grace with the valuable dominion of renunciation is the religious idea.

A person who realizes the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and become free from experiencing the illusory duality as a reality.

Why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis when Vedas bar human worship: ~

Yajur Veda

Translation 3

"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 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. :~Santthosh Kumaar 

Those Gurus who indulge head and heart game keep you in the prison of emotions. The emotion belongs to ignorance.+

The Self is not within the human heart. The world in which you exist hides the invisible Soul, which is the Spiritual heart.

Those who are stuck up with head and heart will not be able to unfold the mystery of their true existence.

When you realize the Self is not the body, then the question of the Self within the heart does not arise. The poets use the word heart to indicate the center of existence.

When the whole universe is created out of the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, still, you are thinking the Self is within the human heart; you are not a wise seeker.

Those Gurus who indulge in head and heart games keep you in the prison of emotions. The emotion belongs to ignorance.

Some gurus propagate that the Nadi you refer to is called Amrita Nadi. It connects the Spiritual Heart with the Sahasrara. It is best to merge in the Heart and then see that the Heart is beyond time and space.

But remember:~

When the ‘Self’ is not the body, then the question of the Nadi or Amrita Nadi, or Sahasrara, does not arise.

Until we think the Self is within the body, it is impossible to cross the threshold of dualistic illusion.

Deeper self-search reveals that the Self is not the body, so why bring Nadi, chakras when they are part and parcel of the body.

Deeper self-search reveals that the Self is neither the body nor the ‘I’. Thus, one has to go beyond the ‘I’ meaning beyond form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Those Gurus who indulge head and heart game keep you in the prison of emotions. The emotion belongs to ignorance.+

The spiritual heart is the invisible Soul, the Self, not the physical heart. The world in which you exist is created out of the invisible Soul, the spiritual heart.

Mistaking the spiritual heart within the physical body is a great error.

Even some Advaitic Gurus say that the Self is within the spiritual heart. And the spiritual heart is on the left side. Such a declaration is merely an imagination, based on the false self (ego).

When the ‘Self’ is bodiless, then the question of the heart being left-sided or right-sided does not arise.

The Seeker must realize that the Soul, the Self, itself is the spiritual heart. The Soul, the spiritual heart, is ever formless.

The invisible Soul itself is the spiritual heart that is present in the form of the Spirit or Consciousness.

Without the form, time, and space, the invisible Soul, the Self, becomes naked. The nature of the invisible Soul, the Self, is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Remember:~

The Self is not within the human heart. The world in which you exist hides the invisible and unborn Soul, which is the Spiritual heart.

Those who are stuck up with head and heart will not be able to unfold the mystery of their true existence.

When you realize the Self is not the body, then the question of the Self within the heart does not arise. The poets use the word heart to indicate the center of existence.

When the whole universe is created out of the Soul, Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, still, you are thinking the Self is within the human heart; you are not a wise seeker.

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Those Gurus who indulge the head and heart game keep you in the prison of emotions. The emotion belongs to ignorance.

Some gurus propagate that the Nadi you refer to is called Amrita Nadi. It connects the Spiritual Heart with the Sahasrara. It is best to merge in the Heart and then see that the Heart is beyond time and space.

But remember:~

When the ‘Self’ is not the body, then the question of the Nadi or Amrita Nadi, or Sahasrara, does not arise.

Until we think the ‘Self’ is within the body, it is impossible to cross the threshold of dualistic illusion.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that the ‘Self’ is not the body, so why bring Nadi, chakras when they are part and parcel of the body.

Deeper self-search reveals that the ‘Self’ is neither the body nor the ‘I’. Thus, one has to go beyond the ‘I’ - means beyond the form, time, and space : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

First, know what the ‘Self’ is supposed to be in actuality.+

Bhagavad Gita Krishna says: ~It is only one amongst thousands of people who strive for spiritual salvation. Even amongst such seekers, it is only the rare person who gets to know the “Self” correctly.’ (7.3)

First, know what the Self is supposed to be in actuality. Simply saying ‘I AM without the body is an error because the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’, but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, the witness of the coming and going, of the ‘I’.

Till you hold the ‘Self ‘as the ‘I’, you will never be able to get Self-realization. The ‘I’ hides the Soul, which is the 'Self'.

What is this 'I'?

The 'I’ is ignorance.

The ‘I’ is the duality.

The ‘I’ is the form, time, and space.

The ‘I’ is the universe.

The ‘I’ is the waking.

The ‘I’ is the dream.

The ‘I’ is the illusion.

The ‘I’ is the experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

Remember:~

Without the ‘I’, there is no ignorance.

Without the ‘I’, there is no duality.

Without the ‘I’, there is no form, time, or space.

Without the ‘I’, there is no universe.

Without the ‘I’, there is no waking.

Without the ‘I’, there is no dream.

Without the ‘I’, there is no illusion.

Without the ‘I’, there is no experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

The ‘I’ hides the truth of the whole. The ‘I’ hides the truth.

That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say ‘I', if you feel the ‘Self’ is the ‘I’, you are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.

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

It is time to discard the ‘I’. Never use the word ‘I’ or I AM for the Self. Use the word 'Self only for the 'Self'.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar