The Upanishad says the person worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the 'Self' does not know the truth. he is like a beast (ignorant).+

The Upanishad says that the person who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the Self does not know the truth. He is like a beast (ignorant)

Till you believe the religious Gods as a real God and religion as finality, you are not qualified to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnan. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnan is the knowledge of the real God.

The study of the Scriptures, rituals, yoga, karma, and love can be called lower knowledge meant for the ignorant populace. The higher knowledge is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, is that which leads to Self-awareness.

The invisible Soul is God in truth. The invisible Soul is the Self. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The invisible unborn Soul, the Self, is the ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The invisible Soul, the Self, is infinite. The invisible Soul, the Self, is everlasting and changeless. The invisible Soul, the Self, is the cause and the source of the universe in which we exist, and the Soul, the Self itself, is uncaused.

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

The Vedas and Upanishads confirm that 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: ~ '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 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.

Vedas reveal ONE GOD, but Hinduism is filled with 33crores of Gods. Vedas reveal God as Spirit (Atman or Brahman) and no form whereas Hindus worship God in the form of various non-Vedic idols of Gods and Goddesses are barred by Vedas.

Yajur Veda says those who worship idols in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness. Therefore, all these add-ons prove that the form and attribute-based concepts are introduced, projecting them as Vedic Gods in the past with a new belief system and code of conduct in the name of Vedas.

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)

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness (Spirit), 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 (Spirit) 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 reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

The dualistic worship of "God” only for the lower minds; Advaita for the more evolved.

Dogmas and beliefs, rituals, and ceremonies are the essences of the religion, not of spirituality. Religion has become merely a matter of external rituals and ceremonies.

Religion hides God in truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. Until the form, time, and space are present, the duality is present. The duality creates the illusory prison to the invisible Soul, the Self.

Religious rites and rigid ceremonies were passed down from one generation to the next as a practice or set customs and tradition, and performed automatically with blind faith. Such worship of God based on blind belief does not reach God in truth.

The invisible Soul is God in truth. Realize God in truth. The invisible Soul is prior to anything that exists. The invisible Soul is the Self. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

The invisible Soul is self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the invisible Soul because it is the very essence of the one who denies it.

The invisible Soul is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and presuppositions, and proofs.:~ Santthosh Kumaar

By meeting Gurus and Yogis visiting Ashrams you will not get Asvaitic Gnana.+

Do not neglect your family and personal life, and spend money on your pursuit of truth, meeting Gurus, and visiting places.

There is no need to neglect practical life within the practical world. There is no need to indulge 24/7 in spirituality, but use your spare time for that.

Be happy like any other human being enjoys life with humility and dignity in the practical world.

Do not neglect your business, work, the profession to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma 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.

Tripura Rahasya: ~ Second-hand knowledge of the Self gathered from books or Gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning the mind inward.

Internally focus your attention on the invisible Soul, the Self, or the consciousness, which is free from form, time, and space. There is no need to renounce and take sanyasa to get ‘Self’-realization.

By meeting Gurus and Yogis visiting Ashrams, you will not get Asvaitic Gnana.

A Gnani is the one who makes the seeker realize that there is no other Guru other than the invisible Soul, the Self.

The invisible Soul, the inner Guru, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

Come ye slow, or come ye fast; it is but the invincible Soul, the Advaita that reveals itself at last.

Millions are seeking the truth but one in million will realize it. If you are a truth seeker then you are, one from that million.

The invisible Soul, the Self, reveals‘ what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is the truth’ and ’what is untruth’.

It takes time for the invisible Soul, the Self, to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one to realize the Self (truth), hidden by ignorance (I).

Slowly but surely you must imbibe the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space by realizing the form, time and space are one in essence.

When you enthrone the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness in your subconscious, you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusory play of consciousness.

Consciousness is ‘One’, and all divisions of form, time, and space are illusory. Be established in this Advaitic Truth, which is eternal.

There is no other teacher but your own invisible Soul.”

Your guide is the invisible Soul, the Self. The invisible Soul will guide you to the core of what you are seeking if you are sincerely seeking truth, nothing but the truth.

Swami Vivekananda said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own Soul.”

Bhagavan Buddha said: ~ “Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you, yourself, test and judge to be true.

You should not neglect your individual and family lives, enjoy life as it comes, and also faces the difficulties as they come.

As your inner conviction grows, you will be able to realize ‘what is the truth?’ and ‘what is the untruth?’ and see the world in which you exist as a passing cloud that hides the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

Atma Gnana or Brahma Gnana is an imperishable and inexhaustible wealth.+

It is very difficult to find out the state of a Gnani by his external actions. Gnana is purely a mental state. It is an internal condition.

A Gnani can only understand another Gnani. Atma Gnana or Brahma Gnana is an imperishable and inexhaustible wealth. The material wealth is nothing when compared to the priceless ‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

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".

Thus, it proves that the religious gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.

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 fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi, or as someone disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

A Gnani is the one who has realized that the matter itself is Spirit and the matter is an illusory expression of the Spirit. A Gnani, there is no further quest. To a Gnani, there is nothing to realize because he has realized that everything is the Spirit.

To a Gnani, the world in which he exists is non-existent as a reality because the world in which he exists is nothing but the Spirit. 

A Gnani is free from experiencing the dualistic illusion as a reality because he is fully aware of the Spirit, which is the cause of the dualistic illusion, and the Spirit is uncaused.

A Gnani continues to drive the point of the source with the fervor of one who knows and with the talent of expression. Only a Gnani who has directly known truly understands the Truth and can have the perseverance and passion for sharing it. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

Sage Sankara was criticized for his views on Maya (illusion) without understanding him.+

Sage Sankara was criticized for his views on Maya (illusion) without understanding him.

Sage Sankara said: ~

(1) Brahman (Atman) is real

(2) The universe is unreal, and

(3) Brahman is the universe.

He did not stop at the second because the third explains the other two. It signifies that the universe is real if perceived as the ‘Self’ and unreal if perceived as apart from the Self. Hence, Maya or illusion and reality are one and the same.

The realists criticize the concept of illusion without understanding it. He said that:~

(1) Consciousness (Atman) is real

(2) The universe or mind is unreal

(3) Consciousness is the universe because the universe is an illusion created out of consciousness.

One need not stop at the second because the third explains the other two. It signifies that the universe is real if perceived as the Self (Atman or consciousness) and unreal if perceived as apart from the Self (consciousness). Hence, illusion and reality are one and the same because both are one in essence. Realizing the essence, which is consciousness as the  Self, is Self-Realization or Truth-Realization of God-Realization. 

Thus, Sage Sankara‘s declaration is the rational truth, scientific truth, and also the ultimate 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 stuck with the reality of the world; they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.

In  Atmic -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.

The invisible  Soul, the Self, is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the witness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things.  It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theater, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

All three states are consciousness because the three states are created out of consciousness. The three states cease to exist without consciousness. The seeker, seeking, and his destination are all one in essence.

There is only a need to realize that the whole universe in which we exist is created out of the Soul or consciousness.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the universe is merely an illusion. Thus, from the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the  Self, no second thing exists other than consciousness. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or  God in truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

Meher Baba says:~GOD, whom we do not see, we say is real; and the world, which we do see, we say is false. +

Meher Baba says:~ UNLESS AND UNTIL ignorance is removed and Knowledge is gained the Knowledge whereby the Divine Life is experienced and lived . . . everything pertaining to the spiritual seems paradoxical . . . GOD, whom we do not see, we say is real; and the world, which we do see, we say is false. Inexperience, what exists for us does not really exist; and what does not exist for us, really exists.

Meher Baba said: - To love God as he ought to be loved, we must love for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of life is to know God and find him as our own Self.

To realize God is to attain liberation from the bondage of illusion.

Live only to find and realize your true identity with your Beloved God.

The energy which is expended in mere thinking, talking, or writing is like steam that escapes through the whistle of a railway engine …

That is why the sages have always insisted on practice rather than theory. This applies particularly to those who want to know and realize God.

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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.

When Meher Baba says God is your innermost self and God alone is real all else is an illusion. It means God, the Self alone is real and all else an illusion. The illusion is the world in which we exist.

Meher Baba says GOD, whom we do not see, we say is real; and the world, which we do see, we say is false. In experience, what exists for us does not really exist; and what does not exist for us, really exists.

Meher Baba: ~ "There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization."

Meher Baba: ~ “When religion has become merely a matter of external rituals and ceremonies, it has become a cage for the Soul.

Meher Baba: ~ “It is absolutely essential for the spiritual aspirant who genuinely longs for union with God, the reality to shun the false practice of yogic posture and exercise, the meditation on other than the God the beloved.

Meher Baba: ~ “It takes time for the runner to gain speed; it takes time for the sleeper to awake, and it takes ages for one who has been spiritually asleep to be spiritually awakened."

Meher Baba: ~ The scriptures are like rotten bones rotted and are as food for worms.

Theosophy and philosophy are like good bones rotted and are as food for vultures.

The writings of inspired poets are like fresh bones and are as food for dogs.

The writings of spiritually advanced saints are like flesh and are as food for tigers.

The writings by living Perfect Masters are like the brain and are as food for men!

Good bones when rotted have some semblance of bone, but rotten bones when rotted are like filth.

So, you may go through the scriptures superficially — only to drive away, the barking dogs when necessary; for instance, when you are called upon to answer the queries of the priests and the orthodox. [Lord Meher 15: 5267]

Meher Baba: ~ “When the reality appears this ignorance which one thinks as reality becomes unreal.

Meher Baba: ~ “It takes time for the runner to gain speed; it takes time for the sleeper to awake, and it takes ages for one who has been spiritually asleep to be spiritually awakened."

Meher Baba: ~ “It is absolutely essential for the spiritual aspirant who genuinely longs for union with God, the reality to shun the false practice of yogic posture and exercise, the meditation on other than the God the beloved. (Letters from Mandali of Meher Baba P-98-100)

Meher Baba: - Spirituality does not need renunciation of worldly activities. It means the internal renunciation of mundane desires. Mere asceticism does not lead to spirituality. The Infinite embraces all expressions of life.

Rest in Spirit by realizing the world in which you exist is nothing but the Spirit.+

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 invisible 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 invisible 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 Kumaar

Consciousness is the creator and also the creation.+

Yoga Vasistha says:~ Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only through inquiry inspired by the company of wise (Gnani). One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.

It is not correct to say that consciousness is limited to the physical body. Consciousness is prior to the world in which you exist. The consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist, and it, itself, is uncaused.

Consciousness is the creator and also the creation. The creator and created are made of a single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul or the Spirit, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar