The thoughts that arise to the false self (ego) within the false experience(waking) are bound to be a falsehood.+

Thoughts like 'I ' and 'I AM ' will not cease until one understands ‘what is this ‘I’.

One has to realize the fact that the thought will not rise without the waking or the dream, therefore, the waking or the dream has to be there prior to the real thought process.

Thus, thoughts have nothing to do with the invisible Sou, the witness of the waking or the dream.

Thoughts are connected to the individual, not to the invisible Soul, the Self. Thus, whatever is part of the mind has to be a falsehood.

The thoughts that arise to the false self (ego) within the false experience(waking) are bound to be a falsehood.

Thus, it is erroneous to trace the source of the thought; instead, one has to first realize the fact that the ‘I’ is not the Self. And ‘I’ is not limited to the physical entity, but ‘I’ is the whole universe, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.

If the ‘I’ is there, then only the mind is present. If the mind is there, then only the universe is present. And the universe is present only when the waking or the dream is present.

One sees differences between things because of ignorance; all these differences would vanish when one gets wisdom, and the various thoughts arise because one considers the ‘I’ as the Self.

Individuality is a reality within the falsehood. All the great sages existed within the illusory duality (universe).

The duality is impermanent because it appears and disappears. The duality is merely an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.

The individuality names and forms are a reality within the unreality (duality).

The unreality (duality) is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness (spirit).

Thus, what is the use of talking about unreality while we are seeking reality?

The seeker's aim is to realize the ultimate truth. It is no use discussing the unimportant subject in the Atmic discussion. :~ Santthosh Kumaar

The mind arises from the invisible Soul, which is in the form of consciousness+

The mind arises from the invisible Soul, which is in the form of consciousness. The sense of ‘I’ rises as the mind.

The mind is in the form of the universe. Thus, ‘I’ is the mind or universe.

The universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep(nonduality). Holding the sense of ‘I’ limited to the ego is the cause of separation.

It makes one feel, he is an individual separate from the world and the world that existed prior to him, and he is born in it afterward. 

Until one has this conviction, it is very difficult to grasp the non-dual truth.

Thus, it is necessary to realize that the invisible  Soul, the Self, is neither the ego nor the world but is the witness of the ego, body, and world together.

The true Self is the  Soul, which is ever nondual. The invisible Soul, the Self, is the witness of the appearing and disappearing of the three states. And it is also the substance of the three states because without the invisible Soul, the Self, the three states are non-existent. 

In reality, the substance and witness are one in essence. The essence is consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman, or God in truth.

The invisible Soul, the Self, is the witness of the three states. And the formless witness is hidden by the three states. And it is without the three states. And also, it is apart from the three states. It is hidden by the three states because it is the cause of the three states. And it is without the three states as their invisible witness. And it is also apart from the three states because it is not an entity or identity within the three states.:~Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara: - One without knowledge does not obtain liberation.+

All these religions have produced a great many saints, prophets, and Sages. If they had been born in Hinduism, in all probability, they would have been deified in the same way as the founders of several Hindu sects.

Upanishad says: ~ The human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge, and they indicate that the belief in the personal Gods, yoga scriptures, worship, and rituals are not the means to Self–Knowledge, then why should anyone indulge in it? The religion, concept of individualized God, and scriptures are the greatest obstacles to realizing non-dual truth or Self-realization because they are based on the false self. The seeker of truth has to search for the ultimate truth without losing himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, through deeper self-search and assimilation, and realize it.

That is why Sage Sankara, indicated in Bhaja Govindam, says: ~ One without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows.

Thus, the path of wisdom is the only means. Then it is no use going a roundabout way, trace the Brahman, which is the formless substance and the witness of the universe (mind). By tracing the source of the mind or the universe, one will be able to realize the Brahman.

Hinduism has an ever-increasing number of Avatars and Gurus installed as God Himself, with the support and sanction of scriptures and teachings of saints and sages.

Those Saints and Sages in the past introduced Glorifying God and Guru and rituals for the masses who have immersed themselves in worldly life and are incapable of inquiring or not ready for the pursuit of truth.

Glorying God and Guru and rituals might also be regarded as harmful, as they might cause doubt and confusion in the minds of some seekers who strive with simple faith and earnestness to practice the discipline for Self-realization.

If one is seeking truth, then this application of the theoretical philosophy is erroneous and improper. It has been instrumental in spreading sophistry and delusion in the guise of philosophy and direct realization and must be abandoned.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~ "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)

Isa Upanishad says: ~ Into blinding darkness enter those who cling to ignorance, but into still deeper darkness go those who flirt with knowledge. It is the promotion of nescience with the help of scholarship to justify the worship of a mortal in lieu of God. It makes no difference whether God is conceived as clothed with attributes (Saguna) or as absolute, attribute-less existence (Nirguna).

Sage Sankara: ~VC Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity With the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together (verses-6)

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 ( 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 Chapter. 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 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.

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.

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, which is God in truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

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