The Self is the invisible and unborn Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.+

Your existence is limited to form, time, and space because the Self is not you. The Self is the invisible and unborn Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The Soul is ever nondual because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. First, realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Mentally hold on to the Soul and mentally reduce the world in which you exist as consciousness by realizing the world in which you exist is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth of Brahman or God in truth.

Consciousness is God in truth; rest all else is an illusion.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “Brahmano hi pratisthaham, Brahman (God in truth) 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.

You are not you but consciousness; your body is not the body, but consciousness; the world in which you exist is not the world but consciousness.

Everything is known, seen, believed, and experienced by you is nothing but consciousness; then what else remains that is not consciousness? There is nothing else to realize other than to realize that consciousness alone is, everything else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

By realizing that everything is consciousness is the Advaitic wisdom dawns. Perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’ leads to Advaitic awareness.

Without the world in which you exist, God alone exists. When God disappears, the world in which you exist appears. The world, in which you exist, disappears God appears. Thus, realize God to be the invisible Soul.

The invisible Soul is the Self. Thus, the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth.

If you stick to the ultimate truth, then the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. If you realize this truth, you will live in this world but not in this world. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal. :  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

Religion and yoga were not the ends, for they can never directly lead to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.+

Religion and yoga are not the ends, for they can never directly lead to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Meditation is not a mechanical process of forcing your attention upon an idea or object.

Without realizing the Self is not you but the Soul, meditating is useless because it is not meditation but an imitation of the formless existence.

Meditation is not Advaitic wisdom. Meditation is not a means to find the truth hidden by form, time, and space.

Without realizing the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, all the effort used in the meditation leads to hallucinating thoughtlessness.

The thoughtlessness is not wisdom. By ending the thoughts, you may get peace, not Advaitic wisdom.

Ashtavakra says: ~ “This is your bondage, that you practice Samadhi or meditation.”

Meditation is a progressive step, and there is no need to condemn it.

Religion and yoga are not the ends, for they can never directly lead to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

All other teachings and practices other than Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana, are for beginners only. There are stages in comprehending the truth.

Meditation always means the critical analysis of the Self to get rid of ignorance. The ignorance will not vanish by remaining without thoughts or focusing attention on some object.

Sage Sankara says ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why are you indulging in other types of meditation.

Until a man is ripe to receive Self-knowledge, it is fatal to ask him to give up meditation.

The novice seekers must understand that yoga is all right in its place and that it is good at the beginning of the pursuit of truth, but when yoga is made an end in itself and not a means to acquire the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

It is all made so complicated, and books written by different yogis have made it even more complicated.

No amount of reading and understanding can lead to Self-realization.

All other teachings and practices other than self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana, are for beginners only. There are stages in comprehending the truth.

Advaitic truth is the ultimate truth for the seeker of truth. All religion, Yoga, mysticism, or theology is for the lower and middling intellect.

The seeker's aim is the search for the ultimate truth or Brahman. The search to find the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth that, in actuality, never was lost, only hidden.

Religious truth is not the truth because it always shows a contradiction. A contradiction arises because a different person's interpretation may disagree with others.

Poets are at liberty to imagine whatever they like, but the only thing wrong is that they take their feelings and sentiments for reality, or when they think that whatever seems, must exist.

Remember:~

Meditation is not meditating on the object, but realizing the object is not the Subject.

The Soul is the subject. The world is an object.

The world in which you exist is an object to the invisible Soul, the Self.

Remember, you are part of the objective world.

Chandogya Upanishad:~ One who meditates upon and realizes the Self discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantrams and meditation--all come from the Self.

People dip into meditation, but they do not understand that that is only one-half of the truth and that this dipping is also a mental discipline for them to understand the true nature of the external universe, which understanding they must next get if they are to become a Gnani.

Ashtavakra says: - "This is your bondage, that you practice Samadhi or meditation.”

For meditation, one need not sit and chant God's name or concentrate on some object. Anything you do will not be meditation. If there is a doer, then it is not meditation. As long as there is doing, there is ignorance.

As long as the doer is present, the ego is present. If the ego is present, the whole world is present. If the world is present, the duality is present. If the duality is present, then there is an illusion. If the illusion is present, birth, life, death, and the world are experienced as reality.

By realizing the world in which you exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to Self-awareness.

In Self-awareness, the Soul, the Self, remains in its own awareness in the midst of form, time, and space. Thus, Self-awareness is real meditation. Mediation is the nature of the Soul, the Self. :~Santthosh Kumaar

Meditation always means the critical analysis of the Self to get rid of ignorance.+

For the wise who realize everything as the consciousness, what is there to meditate or not to meditate, what to speak or not to speak, what to do or not to do?

Only the Soul or consciousness is Real and all else is an illusion. Only your constant remembrance will allow you, one day, to realize what truth really is, and, in so doing realize the ‘Self.

Sage Sankara says ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

The meditation, meditator, and the world in which meditation is performed are an illusion created out of a single clay. That single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to Self-awareness. In Self-awareness of the Soul, the 'Self' remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion. Self-awareness is real meditation.

Thus, Self-awareness is real meditation. Mediation is the nature of the Soul, the Self.

Meditation always means the critical analysis of the Self to get rid of ignorance.

Chandogya Upanishad:~ One who meditates upon and realizes the 'Self' discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantrams and meditation--all come from the Self.

People dip into meditation, but they do not understand that that is only one-half of the truth and that this dipping is also a mental discipline for them to understand the true nature of the external universe, which understanding they must next get if they are to become a Gnani.

Ashtavakra says: - "This is your bondage, that you practice Samadhi or meditation.”: ~Santthosh Kumaar

The meditations, yogas are not the means to get rid of ignorance.+

The meditator, meditation, and the world in which the meditator exists are within the dualistic illusion or Maya. It is no use indulging in meditation within the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Why waste time indulging in physical-based meditation instead, the seeker has to utilize the same time to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana through deeper self-search.

The meditations, yogas are not the means to get rid of ignorance. Without getting rid of the ignorance, the truth hidden by the dualistic illusion will not be revealed.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why are you indulging in other types of meditation.

Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding onto theories, one remains in the realm of duality.

You have to mentally go on dropping what is not the truth through deeper self-search. Finally, when you become aware that your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence, then there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality.

Remember:~

Ashtavakra says: - "This is your bondage, that you practice Samadhi or meditation.”

Chandogya Upanishad:~ One who meditates upon and realizes the 'Self' discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantrams and meditation--all come from the Self.

Meditation is not a tool to acquire Self–knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Remember:~

Meditation is not the means to Advaitic Self-awareness. Realizing that form, time and space are one, in essence, leads to Self-awareness.

Meditation is not imitation. people are trying to imitate the formless Soul by stilling their thoughts. Such meditation is not a means to Self-awareness.

The meditator, meditation, and the world are created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness (Spirit).

The knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana.

For the wise who realize everything as consciousness, what is there to meditate or not to meditate, what to speak or not to speak, what to do or not to do?

Only the Soul or consciousness is Real, and all else is an illusion. Only your constant remembrance will allow you, one day, to realize what truth really is, and, in so doing realize the Self.

Sage Sankara says ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara's wisdom has not been taken seriously by many in India because most of the followers of Sage Sankara are religious orthodox.+

Sage Sankara was an independent thinker. Sage Sankara's wisdom has not been taken seriously by many in India because most of the followers of Sage Sankara are religious orthodox.

It is that philosophy in India was for centuries more an exposition of the ancient classics than the independent thought of individual thinkers, as in ancient Greece or modern Europe and America.

Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada are independent thinkers; other schools of Indian philosophy are mere theologies. Advaitic wisdom is the only tool to unfold the mystery of the ‘I'. The dualistic philosophy cannot escape the charge of dogmatism.

Intelligence and thought do not apply to Advaitism; intelligence and thought are based on a false ‘Self’ (waking entity) within the false experience (waking).

The whole Advaitic philosophy is an attempt to transcend the limitations of intelligence and thought.

The two points of view, A Gnani is not cut off from the experience of practical life within the practical world because Advaitic truth is neither realism nor idealism; it is beyond both of these.

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.

The Advaitic wisdom 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. 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 endeavored to establish 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 the Vedic religion that flourished before the Buddhist revolution in its pure form is discernible.

Sage Sankara gave out what was of most use to the greatest number of people. Therefore, in the commentaries on the Upanishads, such as the famous Manduka Upanishad, he gave the highest non-dual message of the identity of Atman and Brahman, revitalizing the philosophy and practice of Advaita, while in the commentaries on the Brahmasūtra he gave lesser teaching, positing both higher and lower Maya and higher and lower Brahman (Ishvara) to explain creation for those of lesser intellects until they were ready for the highest truth.

Only through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, negation of duality is possible. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth.

Consciousness is the cause of the origin, maintenance, and withdrawal of the universe is Advaita (i.e., non-dual), which means that consciousness transcends all conceptions, positive and negative. Nothing positive can ever be imagined or said about it.

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Consciousness is the existence absolute, awareness absolute. The existence of absolute means that consciousness is not unreal or non-existent. And it is not unconsciousness. Nothing positive can be stated about consciousness.

The nature of the invisible Soul, the Self, is the non-dualistic silence. Non-dualistic silence is like a deep sleep state. The silence indicates that the nature of the invisible Soul, the Self, is inexplicable, indescribable, and unimaginable. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Advaitic wisdom is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem.+

The seeker must have the courage of Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Since Buddha rejected religion, the idea of God, and scriptures, therefore, it is evident that he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.

Even Buddhism is mixed up with regional culture and traditions of the local religion, wherever it exists. Thus, getting the full essence of Buddhism is very difficult.

The scriptures are for the ignorant masses, who wholly accept the material world as it presents itself. Advaitic wisdom is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem.

The seeker should take to Soul-centric reasoning and discriminate between dual and non-dual experiences to realize ‘what the truth?’ is and ‘what is untruth?’.

The seeker who has an intense urge to know the truth and sharp grasping, skills in understanding and assimilating without the scriptures, the one who has got these characteristics, is the fit recipient of the ‘Self’- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

A Gnani is certain; he does not need any authority to support or confirm. A Gnani does not require scripture. Gnanis quote the verified citation of scriptures or Sages of the past just to inspire the seekers who hold scriptures are the ultimate authority to show that the scriptures or Sages are saying the same thing.

People who have not become firm in their power of reason quote someone else as authority to support their reasoning because they do not have the fullest confidence in their own powers. To appeal to others' views indicates his reasoning is incomplete. Thus, the seeker has to do his homework independently.

The first requirement in the pursuit of truth is that the seeker must not tell a lie.” What he likes in practical life is not concerned with. The seeker must keep his intuitions and instincts at a distance and stick to known facts.

Sharpness to grasp the truth is necessary for the pursuit of truth. By merely hearing the truth mentioned, they will grasp it. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

'I' is present in the form of the mind. The mind appears as the universe.+

Chandogya Upanishad: - One who meditates upon and realizes the 'Self' discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantram and meditation--all come from the Self.

The ‘I’ hides the truth of the whole. The realization of ultimate truth or Brahman is possible only when the seeker inquiries into the nature of the ‘I’.

 'I' is present in the form of the mind. The mind appears as the universe.

There was no mind in deep sleep. As soon as waking takes place the mind appears. The mind is present in the form of the universe. 

The universe appears as the waking or dream. The waking is a parallel dream, and the dream is a parallel dream.

The man – confronts the universe in the waking or in a dream. The waking or the dream appears as a whole and disappears as a whole. 

To examine it closely, one has to analyze the three states and mentally trace the witness of the three states. The witness of the three states is formless and apart. The witness is hidden within the three states as their formless substance and it is apart from the three states as their formless witness.

The witness is the invisible Soul, the  Self. The invisible Soul, the  Self is present in the form of consciousness. In the realm of truth, the formless substance and witness are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. 

Thus, there is no second thing other than consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and the universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

The universe (mind), which appears and disappears, is only form and shape is created out of consciousness and nothing else. Consciousness alone is positive proof.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, one becomes aware of the falsity of this mind (universe), which is a mere appearance. 

The one which appears as the mind (universe) and disappears as no mind (Soul) is consciousness alone. Therefore, the mind and Soul are one in essence.

The mental analysis shows that, the existence of the formless witness, which witnesses the coming and going, of the three states without a break. 

On deeper analysis, is found to be that changeless, Soul or consciousness itself. : ~Santthosh Kumaar