The ‘I’ is inborn samskara or conditioning.+

The ‘I’ is inborn samskara or conditioning, because of this inborn samskara or conditioning, one has accepted the ‘I’ as the Self; he is ignorant of the fact that he has accepted illusion as a reality.

The ‘I’ itself is an illusion. And whatever is connected to the ‘I’ is bound to be an illusion.

The invisible and unborn Self is not an individual because it is birthless. After all, it is formless.

The invisible Soul, the Self, is not limited to waking experience alone because it pervades all three states.

Thus, identifying the Self without the form alone is erroneous. The Self is without form, without time, and without space.

The illusory universe is not created by the ‘I’ because the ‘I’ itself is an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Holding the Self as the ‘I’ is the greatest blunder caused by the Gurus of the past.

The seeking world got stuck with the ‘I’ based teaching and got stuck with the half-baked knowledge.

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

All those whose intelligence has been stolen by the ‘I know attitude’ become stagnant in the pond of ignorance.

Fools dwelling in darkness but thinking they are wise and erudite refuse to accept anything other than their accepted truth, and they mislead others. People who accepted the ‘I’ based Gurus are like the blind led by the blind. : : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Ignorance is present in the form of the ‘I’. Ignorance appears and disappears.+

The invisible Soul, the Self, does not disappear; only the ‘I’ appears and disappears.

Ignorance is present in the form of the ‘I’. Ignorance appears and disappears.

Ignorance is a dualistic illusion. The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the mind.

The mind is present in the form of the form, time, and space; the form, time, and space are present in the form of the universe.

The universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

Without ignorance, the ‘I’ ceases to exist. If the ‘I’ ceases, then the mind, the form, time and space, the universe, and the waking cease together.

Ignorance is the cause of the forgetfulness of the reality hidden by the ‘I’.

Realize, ‘what is this ‘I’ supposed to be in actuality, and what is hidden by the ‘I’ will be revealed.

If you realize the Self is not the ‘I’ but the invisible Soul, then whatever is hidden by the ‘I’ will be revealed.

If there is no ignorance, then there is no ‘I’. If there is no ‘I’, then there is a bondage of the dualistic illusion.

If there is no dualistic illusion, there is the experience of birth, life, death, and world.

If there is no experience of birth, life, death, and the world, it is the fullness of consciousness.

The Fullness of consciousness means the Soul the eternal existence.

The seeker has to make sure what this ‘I’ is supposed to be. The seeker has to make sure of the unreal nature of the ‘I’, which comes and goes, to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

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

The ‘I’ hides the invisible Soul, the Self, which is the cause of 'I'.

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

Remember, the ‘Self is not ‘I’ or ‘I AM’. The ‘I’ or ‘IAM is an object to the invisible Soul, which is an ‘I-LESS’ subject.

People think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The seeker has to understand the fact that ‘I’ is not the Self, but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which is eternal.

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.

Realizing the invisible Soul is not the ‘I’ but the Soul is the Self, is Self–realization.

That is why the Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “Among thousands of men, scarcely one strives for perfection; and of those who strive and succeed, scarcely one knows the ‘Self’ in truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The invisible Soul is not an individual. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.+

The invisible Soul is not an individual. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

The Soul is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The invisible Soul is the cause of the universe, which contains the whole of humanity. Thus, limiting the invisible Soul to an individual is erroneous.

Sage Sankara asks his opponents, "How do you know there are separate individual Souls? Have you seen the Soul of a man? You can only say that you have seen different bodies. To say more is to misuse language. Therefore I call you liars unless you give proof, which is impossible.

The invisible Soul, the Self, is in the form of consciousness without the division of form, time, and space. The form, time, and space are mere an illusion created out of consciousness.

The Soul, the Self, is the fullness of consciousness. In the cloud there is nothing other than the water, so too consciousness is nothing other than itself. Consciousness is absolute without a second.

The moon reflecting on the water and appearing as many, the ‘Self’ is just like the reflection of the moon on the water which increases with the volume of water and decreases with its reduction, which moves when the water moves, and which differs as the water differs. The moon seems to conform to the characteristics of water, but in reality, the moon never has these increasing or decreasing qualities. So also, from the highest point of view, consciousness always retains its sameness; it seems to conform to such characteristics as increase and decrease of the limiting adjunct, owing to its entry into such an adjunct as a universe.

The thread is drawn from cotton and is woven into cloth. But the reality of cotton is in both of these forms, viz., thread and cloth. Similarly, the projections of names and forms of this material universe on consciousness do not alter the nature of consciousness. It remains as it is without any change. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara says: - Yoga is not the means of liberation.+

All philosophical, yogic, and cosmological teachings, but at the end, it finally says, "All is imaginative and based on the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking)."

Sage Sankara says: - Yoga is not the means of liberation. (P-132-133 of his commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad)

One need not doubt that mystics saw God or Goddesses in their vision. That they saw visions may he an undeniable fact. But the question is “Was what they saw the Truth? They no doubt had such a vision, but they never stopped to inquire if their visions were true.

One has to take all the facts and then find out which is the truth through deeper self-search.

The seeker of truth has to collect as much evidence as possible, even contradictory, and then proceed to examine all of it and analyze how far it is true.

What happens when thoughts are stilled? It is not the Self that is found. Rubbish. It is only the mind.

Patanjali has not reached Gnana and therefore does not know the highest truth. His yoga is good to give peace and concentration, but only in order to start reasoning, i.e., thinking again to find the truth.

Thoughts arise to the person within the waking or dream state. The thinker is the form. Without the form, the thinking is an impossibility.

Thus, thinker and thoughts are part of the known. The witness of the knower and the known, including the world, is the Soul. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Manduka Upanishad: - Yoga can no more succeed than the ocean can be emptied with a blade of grass.+

 

Patanjali warns against sleep as a hindrance to yoga; he means that when it occurs in the early stages of the practice before one has obtained the power of control, and consequently to banish the thought. The fact that Samadhi is deep sleep is kept secret because people would not be tempted to take up yoga. Then what is the value of it? Why, to sharpen the mind, to enable it to keep away all extraneous thoughts when one gets out to reason in the practice of the next higher stage, i.e., Gnana.

Manduka Upanishad: - Yoga can no more succeed than the ocean can be emptied with a blade of grass.

Yoga is thus simply a sharpening stone for the intellect to enable it to take up Gnana.

People think that the yogis can live without thoughts, but it is impossible to live without thoughts. How can he walk from one spot to another without thought? He does not know the Gnanic or Advaitic truth if he says thoughtlessness is the nature of the Self.

Yoga has its place rather than its value, and its value is for a certain type of mindset. Yoga will give steadiness of mind, education of mind, but never Truth because it ignores the external world.

Brihad Upanishads: -Even yoga cannot give perfect concentration, and the only way to gain it is through philosophical realization. (Page 133 1st para)

Patanjali takes for granted that there is an Iswara--God-- gives it to the students for concentration purposes, and then they naturally find God in their meditations. But it is only their imagined God.

Mystics see what they are looking for or whose existence they presuppose. Therefore, Patanjali Yoga belongs to religion, not truth.

Belief in Yoga is a self-hypnotic condition out of which it is extremely difficult to escape. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Brihad Upanishads: ~Even yoga cannot give perfect concentration, and the only way to gain it is philosophical realization.+

Manduka Upanishad:~ Yoga is in the sphere of duality and is unnecessary to one who knows non-duality.

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

Yoga and Samadhi are not the goals but a means to an end, i.e. Gnana. Samadhi in itself is useless because the mind is withdrawn, and there is no memory of it until after it is over and one returns to waking state.

Yogi who attains mind control: it is only sleep. The world must be seen before you can know its true nature in Gnana. The yogi who shuts it out thereby deprives himself of the opportunity to achieve Gnana.

BRIH. Upanishad: ~ "Yoga does not yield truth or liberation."(page 32).

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 has not the full Gnana. There was no permanent cure however without Gnana, and Yoga does not yield Gnana.

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

~this indicates that yoga is not the means to self-realization. And yogic Samadhi is not nondual awareness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which is identical to deep sleep.+

Manduka Upanisad:~ Those who want the ultimate truth or Brahman will not practice control of the mind. (p.231) 

Manduka Upanishad:~ Yoga is in the sphere of duality and is unnecessary to one who knows non-duality.The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self has neither caste nor race, neither eyes not ears nor hands nor feet. Sages say this Self is infinite in the great and in the small, everlasting and changeless, the source of life. 

It is impossible to stop thought for more than a second whilst in the waking experience. If one succeeds in controlling thought and then banishes it, one passes into Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which is identical to deep sleep.

The only difference between ordinary deep sleep and Samadhi, therefore, is that the ordinary man falls asleep involuntarily, whereas the yogi has the satisfaction of knowing that he has passed into sleep by his own effort of will in banishing thoughts.

Yoga can yield the only duality, because, everything that one can do or practice becomes a vanishing 'known.' It yields relative truth based on imagination, which is true from a physical viewpoint of view, not the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth, which is the ultimate reality.

The yogic truth is the individual truth, not universal. The "Religions place God as the unknown reality.” Every religious believer has a different idea of God. Every man has a different idea of reality. Hence, the need for a definition before the study.

The yogic teachings about the six chakras and the seven chakras of Raja yoga are based on fact and fiction. It was noted that there were nervous plexuses and nodules at intervals in the spine and other parts of the body. Upon this basis, the yogis started imagining that if the ego is concentrated on each one, a different mystic result would be obtained. But that is mere fancy.

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) : ~ Santthosh Kumaar