All the Advaitic Gurus of the East and West are based on the ego, not on the invisible Soul, the Self.+

All the Advaitic Gurus of the East and West are based on the ego, not on the invisible Soul, the Self, because they do not know the difference between the ego and the Self. They hold the individual self or ego as the Self.

They say be yourself. Such Gurus have not crossed the threshold of ignorance.

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Without realizing the difference between the Self and ‘yourself’, Self-realization is an impossibility.

By being yourself, you will remain ignorant because ‘yourself’ is not the Self. ‘Yourself’ is the ego. Holding yourself as the Self is a great error.

You are the ego. Without the ego, you and the world in which you exist cease to exist.

The invisible Soul, the Self, has nothing to do with you and the world in which you exist because you and the world in which you exist is nothing but a dualistic illusion or Maya.

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People talk of getting rid of the ego, but it is impossible to get rid of the ego. The ego is the very basis of form, time, and space.

Without the ego, form, time, and space cease to exist. Without the form, time, and space, the world in which we exist ceases to exist.

Thus, a perfect understanding of ‘what is required to get rid of ignorance.

Without getting rid of ignorance, the form, time, and space prevail as a reality.

One has to get rid of ignorance, not the ego, because the ego is the product of ignorance.

Just by saying let there be ‘oneness, ’ the diversity will not vanish. Without the Advaitic wisdom, ignorance will not vanish.

Without getting rid of ignorance, the dualistic illusion (the world in which you exist) prevails as a reality.

Trying to get rid of the ‘ego’ is like trying to get mangoes from a coconut tree. The truth is not imagination.

Ornamental words may give satisfaction to a certain mindset but it block one from realizing the ‘Self’ hidden by ignorance.

The ultimate truth is the fullness of consciousness. There is nothing apart from consciousness, because the whole universe is nothing but consciousness. :: ~Santthosh Kumaar 

The Advaitic orthodoxy is dualistic, and it is based on ignorance.+

The Advaitic orthodoxy is dualistic, and it is based on ignorance. The Advaitic orthodoxy accepts the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality, whereas Sage Sankara declares the world is unreal; Brahman alone is real.

Thus, the experience of birth, life, and death happening within the unreal world is bound to be a falsehood. Thus, religion and religious belief and its ritual based on the birth entity are bound to be a falsehood. Thus, the seeker has to realize ‘what is that is real and eternal?

Mythological stories are a myth. Whatever is based on myth is merely a superstition.

Mythology was introduced in the past for the ignorant masses. It has to be discarded as one progresses in his spiritual advancement.

Mythology breeds superstition, blind belief, senseless rituals, and the most irrational, and gives them a divine outlook. Religious Gods are not God. One must know God in truth.

Idol worship and the rituals are, therefore, he says, addressed to the ignorant populace.

Sage Sankara:~ (11) As regards the rituals, Sage Sankara says, the person who performs rituals and aspires for rewards will view himself in terms of the caste into which he is born, his age, the stage of his life, his standing in society, etc. In addition, he is required to perform rituals throughout his life. However, the 'Self' has none of those attributes or tags. Hence, the person who superimposes all those attributes on the changeless, eternal Self and identifies Self with the body is confusing one for the other, and is, therefore, an ignorant person. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc., are therefore addressed to an ignorant person. Adhyasa Bhashya

Sage Sankara:~ (11.1) This ignorance (mistaking the body for Self) brings in its wake a desire for the well-being of the body, aversion for its disease or discomfort, fear of its destruction, and thus a host of miseries(anartha). This anartha is caused by projecting karthvya(“doer” sense) and bhokthavya (object) on the Atman. Sankara calls this adhyasa. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc., are, therefore, he says, addressed to an ignorant person. Adhyasa Bhashya

Sage Sankara:~ (11.2) In short, a person who engages in rituals with the notion “I am an agent, doer, thinker”, according to Sage Sankara, is ignorant, as his behavior implies a distinct, separate doer/agent/knower; and an object that is to be done/achieved/known. That duality is avidya, an error that can be removed by Vidya. Adhyasa Bhashya

Sage Sankara: ~ (12) Sage Sankara affirming his belief in one eternal unchanging reality (Brahman) and the illusion of plurality, drives home the point that Upanishads deal not with rituals but with the knowledge of the Absolute (Brahma vidya) and the Upanishads give us an insight into the essential nature of the Self which is identical with the Absolute, the Brahman. Adhyasa Bhashya

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Sage Sankara: ~ Atman, the Self, is verily Brahman (God in truth), being equanimous, quiescent, and by nature absolute Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss. Atman is not the body that is non-existence itself. This is called true Knowledge by the wise.

Kena Upanishad 2-5:~ God can be realized in one life. If you do not realize in one life, you are a great loser.

To know what God is, we must know what the self is. In deeper self-search, we become aware of the fact that our body, ego, and our experience of the universe are created out of a single stuff, which is the soul or the consciousness.

Due to ignorance, we identify the soul with the body, and we become egocentric. When we become aware of the fact that the self is not the form, but the self is formless, then we become soulcentric and realize the fact that all three states are merely an illusion created out of the consciousness. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth. Consciousness is our innermost self. The ultimate truth is God or Brahman.

Thus, the seekers move ahead and reach the nondual destination through this mental (inner) journey. :~Santthosh Kumaar 

It is impossible to know God in truth without the knowledge of nonduality.+

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).

If people have believed false Gods propagated by religion over millions of years, the length of time does not prove it is God in truth.

Sage Sankara says:~ How can the talk of diversity, dvaita, apply to the Supreme Reality which is one and homogeneous, Advaita? Who has ever observed diversity, dvaita, in the unmixed bliss of the state of profound sleep?

It is impossible to know God in truth without the knowledge of nonduality.

A religious God based on blind belief ceases to exist without duality. In non-dual reality, no man, no world, and no Gods are based on blind faith or belief.

God with forms and names has no meaning in the realm of truth. It is a mere imagination or assumption. It is high time to realize that all the Gods based on blind faith or blind belief are not God in truth, according to your own scriptures.

People stuck to their religious beliefs and think scriptural authorities as the ultimate truth will not be able to assimilate Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

The invisible Soul, the Self, has nothing to do with religion and its code of conduct.

Observing and following the religious code of conduct is accepting the false Self as the true Self.

How can you worship the Absolute? That implies two ~ the worshiper and the worshiped, 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 that: ~ If you believe that the ‘the Soul, the Self is one and God (Brahman) is another, you cannot understand Truth.

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.

In Advaitic reality, there is neither God nor Goddess but only consciousness. Consciousness is God in truth.

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 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.

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.

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the Self.

In Atmic reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

Every seeker seeking truth must first know what God is supposed to be in actuality according to the Vedas and Upanishads, and reject all non-Vedic Gods to realize the Atman is God in truth.

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

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

Thus, it refers to a formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman (Soul), the innermost ‘Self’ within the false experience.

Thus, it indicates clearly that all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false self. Thus, Atman, the Self, is God in truth..

The Vedas do not talk about idol worship. In fact, till about 2000 years ago, followers of the Vedic religion or Sanatana Dharma never worshiped idols. Idol worship was started by the followers of Buddhism and Jainism.

There is logic to idol worship. Vedas speak of one God that is the supreme ‘Self’ in i.e., Atman or Soul, but Hinduism indulges in worshiping 60 million Gods.

It indicates clearly that all Gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false self.

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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad declares: "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the Self does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)

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A great majority of Hindus are not in contact with their religious history; therefore, they believe their inherited beliefs to be as ultimate truth.

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

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)

Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.

Rig Veda says God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship in place of the real God?

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.

Meher Baba said: ~ God is your innermost Self. Do not search for God outside of you. Let these words be inscribed in your heart. Nothing is real but God. Nothing Matters but love for God. God is everywhere and does everything. God is beyond us and is everything. God alone is, and all else is an illusion.

People who are saying ‘I AM GOD’ are hallucinating that they have become God. First, you must know what God is supposed to be in actuality.

Sage Sankara declares Atman is Brahman. That is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth, and the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

The nature of God is Advaita. Advaita is the fullness of consciousness. God is the form of the Atman; therefore, never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship anything other than the Atman.

Thus, truth-realization is Self-realization. Self-realization is God-realization. God-realization is real worship.

Jesus said:~ Do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. (Matthew 7:6)

~Jesus meant Knowledge of Spirit (God) or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana (pearls) should not be given to the ignorant populace (pigs).

Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God 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 Soul, the Self. The 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.

There is no God but God. There is no God because the world in which we exist is merely an illusion created out of God, the Spirit. Call it by any name, God is universal. God belongs to the whole of humanity.

Religion creates separation. God is unity in diversity. God is one which the cause of the whole world in which humanity exists.

There is no God but God means- the world in which we exist is an illusion, God is the cause of the world is real and eternal. God alone is real, and all else is an illusion. There is no second thing that exists other than the Spirit, the God; thus, God is Advaita.

Religion belongs to you. The religious God belongs to you. All religious code of conduct belongs to you. Religion belongs to you. But remember, you belong to the illusory universe.

The illusory universe in which you exist is created out of the Spirit. The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

God is divine, only held in the bondage of ignorance (matter); perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from ignorance.

Many believe spirituality and religion are interconnected, but it is not so.

Religion is based on the false self (ego) and it is limited to the false experience (universe), while spirituality transcends race, religion, gender, language, and nationality, and the universe.

Spirituality is based on the Soul, the Self. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the universe in which we exist is merely an illusion.

A Gnani is not opposed to God; he is not an atheist, but he wants God to be free from the imagination.

A Gnani is fully aware of what God is in actuality. God exists apart from human imaginations.

Religiously imagined Gods and worshiped are not God in truth.

Gnani does not say God is not there; God is, but not as one imagines God. God is above all imaginations. God exists as truth. Hence, in the path of wisdom, the ultimate truth or Brahman is God. Thus, Brahman means that the ultimate truth is God. : :~Santthosh Kumaar

Are we praying or worshipping the real God?+

Are we praying or worshipping the real God?

Katha Upanishad says:~ Fools dwelling in darkness but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Ch II-5 P-14)

Religious truth is individual truth. Religious truth has nothing to do with Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Even the scriptures also direct to the Self alone. There are lots of add-ons and adulterations to the scriptures by different founders of the sects in the past, and the real spiritual essence is lost.

People are not aware that there is no God can exist, apart from the invisible Soul, the Self.

The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness. If there is no consciousness, then the world in which you exist ceases to exist. The world in which you exist is dependent on consciousness for its existence.

People think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one thinks the Self is an individual, then there is a creator, but if one thinks of the invisible Soul as the Self, then there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is in the form of consciousness.

If one objectifies and sees a universe, then he is bound to see many things besides himself and postulate a God, the creator.

The world in which he exists rises together and is set together from and into the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

If God is apart from consciousness, then God would be Selfless, that is, outside existence, that is, non-existent.

Blind devotion to God based on blind belief does not lead to Moksha. First, realize what God is supposed to be according to the Vedas and the Upanishads.

If one claims that God is doing this or that, or has such and such qualities, he is hallucinating with his inherited belief. He did not see God doing it? He is simply assuming.

God is only a settled fact for believers, but for others, God’s existence is problematic. Without the belief, the God based on blind belief ceases to exist.

When the world in which we exist is an illusion, then whatever we have seen, known, believed, and experienced within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion.

If Vedas and Upanishads, even Bhagavad Gita, say what is supposed to be God, then it is time for you to realize the truth about God.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ 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. (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.

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.

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

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Do not accept any other God other than the invisible Soul. The invisible Soul is God in truth. Nothing is real but the invisible 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)

Even the Holy Bible says: ~ God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God 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 and unborn 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.

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. God in truth is only Atman, the Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

Meher Baba said: ~ God is your innermost Self. Do not search for God outside of you. Let these words be inscribed in your heart. Nothing is real but God. Nothing Matters but love for God. God is everywhere and does everything. God is beyond us and is everything. God alone is, and all else is an illusion.

The truth-seeker has to reject the devotional path and the path of Karma if they want to realize the truth beyond form, time, and space. The path of Bhakti, the path of Karma, is for the ignorant populace.

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 Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

The invisible and unborn Soul, the Self, has nothing to do with your birth, life, death, and the world.+

The invisible and unborn Soul, the Self, has nothing to do with your birth, life, death, and the world.

Whether you enjoy life or suffer in this world in which you exist has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

If the world is an illusion, the birth, life, and death that take place within the illusory world are bound to be an illusion.

If the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is an illusion, then enjoyment and suffering are bound to be an illusion.

Thus, Self-realization is necessary to realize that our pleasure and pain within this world are merely an illusion.

When the Self is not you but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, then it is foolish to relate your experience of birth, life, death, and the world to the Soul, the Self, which is ever nondual.

The world in which we exist is reality only in the domain of the illusory form, time, and space, whereas the invisible Soul, the Self, is unborn, eternal.

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Self-realization makes the invisible Soul wake up from its sleep of ignorance and remain in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion or Maya.

It is not you who has ignorance, it is the invisible Soul that has the ignorance, and it is the Soul that has to wake up to reality.

Till you think the Soul is within your body, you will never be able to realize the Advaitic truth, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

If you hold the Self within your physical body, then ignorance will be more and more deep-rooted.+

If you compare the Self with you and the world in which you exist, which keeps the Soul, the Self is the prison of the dualistic illusion or Maya.

If you hold the Self within your physical body, then ignorance will be more and more deep-rooted.

You will always remain in a state of ignorance until you realize the Self is not you, but the ‘Self’ is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

When the Self is not ‘you’ but the Self is invisible and unborn Soul, which is the cause of you and the world in which you exist then what is the use of discussing of the body and the world, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya is created out of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The invisible Soul is the Self. The invisible Soul is all-pervading. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness, is not within any particular body, and it pervades the whole universe.

Consciousness pervades form, time, and space.

Without consciousness, form, time, and space cease to exist.

Only in ignorance is duality present. In Atmic reality, there is no duality. ‘I’ is illusory in its nature.

Holding the ‘I’ as the Self is holding on to ignorance. Ignorance will not buzz till you hold on to the ‘I’ because ‘I’ itself is ignorance.

The invisible and unborn Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman, or God in truth. God in truth neither comes nor goes, but God in truth exists eternally

The form, time, and space, which appear and disappear, are merely an illusion.

All the form and attribute-based Gods are merely an illusion. The invisible and unborn Soul, the Self, is God in truth. God in truth is the cause of the form, time, and space, and God in truth is causeless: ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara.inability to revive the Vedic religion that flourished before the Buddhist revolution in its pure form is discernible.+

Sage Sankara was an independent thinker. His wisdom has not been taken seriously by many in India because most of his followers 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 invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Consciousness is the cause of the origin, maintenance, and withdrawal of the universe. It 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.

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