From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, there is neither bondage nor liberation.+

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, there is neither bondage nor liberation. There is but the fullness of consciousness without the illusory divisions of form, time, and space.

The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, is the only reality in which everything exists, to which everything belongs, from which everything has emerged, which is the cause of everything, and which everything is.

Thus, there is a need to realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness. The world in which we exist is nothing but the Spirit or consciousness.

When the matter is an illusion created out of the Spirit, then Spirit alone is real.

When the object is created out of the subject, then the subject alone is real.

When the world in which you exist is created out of consciousness, then consciousness alone is real.

Reality and unreality are created out of a single stuff because unreality (the world in which we exist) is experienced as a reality, we are unaware of the reality hidden by the unreality.

There is no second thing that exists other than the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The dualistic illusion, which is present in the form of the ‘I’, hides the invisible Soul, the Self, which is the cause of the 'I'.

Stick to reality by mentally dropping the unreality. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

A person who has realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will never declare he is Self-realized. +

A person who declares himself as Self-realized is not Self-realized, because he is unaware that he is not the Self, but the Self is the invisible and unborn Soul.

A person who has realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will never declare he is Self-realized. If a person says he is Self-realized, he is still ignorant.

If you think you are Self-realized, but you still say 'I', and if you feel the Self is the ‘I’, you are not a Gnani. You are simply ignorant with your accumulated dualistic intellectual knowledge, accumulated from here and there.

Upanishad says:~ "He who thinks he knows, does not know." This means that to know anything implies a second, an object of knowledge, hence duality, i.e., no Gnana.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him, and only those like him understand his state.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and live like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani, nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with his fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or some guru's disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or some guru's s disciple is not a Gnani.

There is no liberation for a person of mere bookish knowledge, however well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

Even friends and family members of a Gnani will not know him as the Gnani. Due to ignorance, people will not be able to recognize a Gnani. Outwardly, the Gnani behaves as an ordinary person behaves.

A Gnani talks and jokes like others, but he is not understood as he really is. People may regard him as an exceptional person, but only a few can recognize him as a Gnani.

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Thus, it proves that the intellectual who declares himself to be Self-realized, the religious Gurus and yogis, are not Gnanis because they identify themselves as holy people. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

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