Yoga is a holistic approach to well-being. It helps to free us from physical, emotional stress but it is not a tool to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Athma Gnana.+

Yoga is a holistic approach to well-being. It helps to free us from physical, emotional stress, but it is not a tool to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Athma Gnana.

Manduka Upanishads:- Those who want Brahman will not practice control of the mind. That is Yoga for duffers. The others will inquire and practice discrimination. (p.231)

Sage Sankara in the commentary to "Brahma Sutras" "The highest beatitude is not to be attained by Yoga." (Sacred Books of the East Series page 298 Vol. 1.) And he also says Samadhi is the same as sleep (p.312)-- which indicates that yoga is not the means to Self-realization. And yogic Samadhi is not Advaitic -awareness.

Panchadasi: - ‘The impossibility of yoga arrives at a successful end to its practices. (P.509 v, 109)

Brih Upanishad: page 32:~ "Yoga does not yield truth or liberation."

One may read all philosophical, yogic, and cosmological teachings, but in the end, it finally says, "All is imaginative."

Brihad Upanishad: ~ It too declares Yoga cannot give you the truth.

Sage Sankara says: - Yoga is not the means of liberation. (one thirty-two and thirty-three of his commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad).

Brihad Upanishad. (Page one thirty-three- first para):- Even yoga cannot give perfect concentration, and the only way to gain it is through philosophical realization. This confirms the Manduka Upanishads' statement that yoga can no more succeed than the ocean can be emptied with a blade of grass. (Page 133 – first para)

In Sutra Bashya and Manduka: ~ Samadhi and sleep are identical.

Brihad Upanishad does not advocate Samadhi.

Avadhuta Gita:-“The Atman cannot be purified through the practice of the six limbs of the yoga, or through the annihilation of the mind, or through the instruction of a teacher. The Atman is the Reality Itself and It is Purity Itself."

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ The fool tries to control the mind with the mind - what folly! The wise one delights in Self alone. There is no mind to master.

Upanishad and one will see that it says Atman, the Self is known by Reason alone, by the sharpened and Soulcentric intellect. Yet still, people worship Yoga and mysticism as the sole means of attaining Atman. The illuminations gained by yoga or by trance states are always temporary ones.

The essence of Mundaka is: Do not be satisfied with rituals, yoga, etc., which are good in their own way, but inquire. Into what? Brahman and Atman are things you can never see. So do not inquire into them. Inquire into the world around you, which you can see. Science tells you it is passing away every second. Everything is dying repeatedly. Where is it going? Thus, you follow up your inquiry into what you can lay your hands on. How can you inquire into Atma, which you cannot see? So, first we deal with the known and seen; this inquiry leads up to the unknown in the end.

Ish Upanishad declares: ~ “Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide.

Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds after death. This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain Self-knowledge. They are, in a real sense, committing suicide, for what can be worse than being a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life, which is to be one’s own master? ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Nothing is destroyed when Advaitic wisdom dawns. Only ignorance disappears and the unreal nature of the universe is exposed.+

The greatest mistake is to think that a Gnani sees nothing. This blind reverence for Samadhi is as valuable as revering a man who has taken a dose of chloroform.

The Gnani sees the essential universal unity and the multiplicity of objects simultaneously. The person in deep sleep or Samadhi leaves out the objects and sees the essence; hence, he does not have the full Gnana.

One must be soul-centric to give up all knowledge based on egocentrism, which is the cause of ignorance.

One knows of the dream that the dream figures are also created out of the consciousness, not different from it. Similarly, when he knows that everything that exists in waking experience is consciousness and consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman, there is no need for the yogic control of the mind; the control presupposes a second thing, the duality. Hence, yoga is in the sphere of duality and is unnecessary to one who knows non-duality.

It is erroneous to believe the general impression is that the universe disappears to a Gnani, that he sees nothing. Only deluded persons will have such an impression?

Nothing is destroyed when Advaitic wisdom dawns. Only ignorance disappears, and the unreal nature of the universe is exposed.

A Gnani is fully aware that with a firm conviction that everything is consciousness in the midst of duality. Being aware of the reality in the midst of duality is called wisdom.

The universe or waking experience will not disappear. It is there always, but its unreal nature is exposed in the midst of duality or waking experience through wisdom?

If one thinks that its mere disappearance in yogic Samadhi is the ultimate truth or Brahman, then he would get it in deep sleep. Thus, the yogic Samadhi is not wisdom. :~Santthosh Kumaar

Realize ~ your body and the world in which you exist are made of the same stuff.+

Sage Sankara says: ~ “When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman (Spirit), and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Atman?” 

Realize ~ your body and the world in which you exist are made of the same stuff.

Realize ~ the three states are made of the same stuff.

Realize ~ duality is created out of nondual stuff.

Realize ~ there is no inside and outside.

Realize ~ matter is nothing but Spirit.

Realize ~ there is no above or below.

Realize ~ the form, time, and space are one in essence.

Realize ~ the ‘Soul' is neither the male nor the female.

Realize ~ the world in which you exist is not the world, but it is the Spirit.

Realize ~ the Soul, the Self, is not human but the Spirit.

Rest in Spirit by realizing the world in which you exist is nothing but the Spirit. : ~ Santthosh Kumaaar

Lord Krishna :~ It is not yoga but the philosophic truth.+

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

Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (our true Advaitic wisdom) has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita –Chap- IV-v.2)

In the Gita Chap.IV where Lord Krishna says: ~ "This yoga has been lost for ages." the word yoga refers to Gnana yoga, not other yogas: the force of the word this is to point this out.

Lord Krishna describes some of the other yogas, but devotes this chapter separately to Gnana Yoga. So, one sees even in those ancient days, people did not care for Advaita; they wanted religion; hence, Gnana got lost.

That is why Krishna calls it "the supreme secret." Krishna points out that the yoga must-see is "Brahman in action."

Gita Chap.IV: "He who achieves perfection in Yoga finds the Self in time." This means that after his yoga is finished, he begins the inquiry into the ultimate truth, and in due course, this inquiry produces the realization of the universal Spirit as the result.

When a yogi finds yoga inadequate and useless to realize the Self, he must drop yoga and take up the path of Gnana.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ ‘Jñāna Yoga is divided into three parts. First: hearing the truth--that the Atman is the only reality and that everything else is Maya. Second: reasoning upon this philosophy from all points of view. Third: giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth.

This realization comes from being certain that Brahman is real and everything else is unreal.

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.

Sage Sankara says: - Yoga is not the means of liberation (page 132-133 - Commentary on Brhadaranyakopanishad.

In Sutra Bashya and Manduka: - The Samadhi and sleep are identical.

Brihad Upanishad does not advocate Samadhi.

Sage Sankara in the commentary to "Brahma Sutras: "The highest beatitude is not to be attained by Yoga." (Sacred Books of the East Series page 298 Vol. 1.) And he also says Samadhi is the same as sleep (p.312)-- which indicates that yoga is not the means to Self-realization. And yogic Samadhi is not nondual Self-awareness.

Panchadasi: - The impossibility of yoga arrives at a successful end to its practices. (P.509 v, 109)

Bhagavan Buddha gave up his austerities of yoga as impossible and useless. (Page.70/71 "Buddhism in Translation” by Warren)

Bhagavan Buddha got enlightenment only after he gave up Yoga. Unless one exercises their reason--there is no chance of getting the truth.

There is no need for any practice to realize the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth. Perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’ is very much necessary to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman, or God in truth. :~  Santthosh Kumaar

People's approach is more practical, and they are stuck with the reality of the illusory world, they take it as real.+

Q:- “If everything is consciousness, what will happen after death?

Santthosh Kumaar:~ If you had asked the same question to me in a dream, the dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. In the same way, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns.

You are the waking entity. You are not the Self. The world in which birth, life, and death take place is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

The world in which you exist appears as the waking experience (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality). The one that appears as waking or dream (duality) and the one that disappears as deep sleep (nonduality) is consciousness.

Wisdom dawns when you realize the ‘Self’ is not you, but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The one, which is born, lives, and dies in the world, is not the ‘Self. The ‘Self is the invisible Soul is birthless and deathless because it is the ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

If the Self is not you but the invisible Soul, then why do you worry about what happens after death, because your present experience of birth, life, death, and the world itself is merely an illusion.

If you think this world is real, then:~

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.

When you finally realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, you, your experience of birth, life, death, and the world merely an illusion created out of consciousness; consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

The world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but it is unreal, in the sense that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

People's approach is more practical, and they are stuck with the reality of the illusory world; they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.

In Self-awareness, the witness and the witnessed are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

Thus, whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person is a reality within the waking experience (duality), but waking experience (duality) itself is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Without the waking state, consciousness will prevail as consciousness, which is nondualistic existence. : : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

First find out how this world, in which you exist, has come into existence. If you know the answer then all your doubts will vanish.+

First, find out how this world, in which you exist, has come into existence. If you know the answer, then all your doubts will vanish.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe, which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

When you finally realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the invisible Soul. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

The whole universe is nothing but the invisible Soul in its essence. Therefore, there is no second thing that exists other than the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

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

Even 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. (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. Consciousness is God in truth.

There is no God but God in truth because the universe is merely an illusion created out of God in truth. Thus, nothing that is not God in truth. God in truth is the whole, not the part. The part is an illusion.

Stick to God in truth by mentally reducing the illusion into God in truth.

For a Gnani sees the world in which he exists as consciousness, just as the goldsmiths view the ornaments as nothing but the gold.

All seekers must dig into my old posts and blogs, and also keep reading the new posts and blogs they will find answers to all their doubts.

Sage Sankara says ~ VC- 65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman.

In Atmic reality, there is no scope for two. Advaita means one without the second. Advaita means the nondual nature of the invisible Soul, the Self.

The Soul, the Self which is present in the form of consciousness, is one without a second.

Consciousness is one without the second because the world in which you exist is created out of consciousness. Thus, everything is consciousness. No second thing exists other than consciousness. Consciousness alone is real and eternal.

Advaitic truth has to be grasped mentally by realizing that form, time, and space are one, in essence.

Advaitic wisdom will not dawn by questioning. The questions, answers, questioner and answerer, and the world in which they exist are created out of a single stuff. Knowledge of this single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

To acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed. One will not be able to attain Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana by accumulating dualistic knowledge.

There is nothing to discuss or argue in the Atmic path. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is knowledge of one without the second. Where there is no second thing, then what is there to argue and discuss?  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

No second thing existed other than invisible consciousness prior to the appearance of the ‘I’.

No second thing existed other than invisible consciousness prior to the appearance of the ‘I’. 

In Atmic reality, ‘I’ never exists now, and also ‘I’ never exists in the future. Whatever appeared as ‘I’ is merely an illusion.

Let you be clear on one thing. The ‘I’ is merely a dualistic illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. But in Atmic reality, ‘I’ neither exists in the past nor exists now, nor is going to exist in the future. 

Whatever existed in the past, and whatever exists now, and whatever is going to exist in the future is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Whatever has appeared as ‘I’ is nothing but consciousness? The ‘I’ has no value because it is merely an illusion.

If you search for the truth and you will find only the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. If you search for the invisible Soul, the Self, then you will find only the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The ‘I’ is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

Some Gurus used the word ‘I’ to indicate the Self. And they think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The ‘I’ is not the Self, but the invisible  Soul; the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which is real and eternal.

When the invisible Soul is the real Self, then how 'I' remain? Only the invisible Soul, the Self which is present in the form of consciousness, prevails, not the ‘I’.

The world in which you exist is a falsehood. Thus, you are the false Self within the falsehood. 

The falsehood appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as the invisible Soul, the Self in deep sleep (nonduality). 

Realize ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal’ to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ helps to get rid of ignorance, which is the cause of experiencing the dualistic illusion (world) as a reality.

People's approach is more practical, and they are stuck with the reality of the illusory world; they take it as real. That is why all the confusion. :~Santthosh Kumaar