Just as you see a mirage, the Gnani sees the mirage of this universe too; but he is not deceived by it.+

Dualist Gurus say God cannot exist without attributes. Then they are making God as an object, whereas God is the subject. Attributes can only be seen in the objective world. Causality appears in the duality, but when one goes deeper into the matter, even there, the causality disappears.

Who else but the Self could have imagined the objective world? Ramanuja and Madva see God as the imaginer, but where is the proof? Nobody has seen God creating.

You have seen no other creator, whether God or an angel. The only self is left. Therefore Self is the creator because imagining means creating.

The Dualists talk nonsense. Has God have any meaning to you? Yes. It is an idea. What is an idea? The idea is imagination. So, God has no proven existence beyond that of the idea.

Where people cannot and do not think, they follow others. A Gnani will see the world and get to know that it is the only appearance. He is not blind; he sees three states or objects as it is, but he knows it is only a falsehood.

Just as you see a mirage, the Gnani sees the mirage of this universe too; but he is not deceived by it.

So long as one is ignorant, they will have the idea that God has created this world because the causal notion will be there. Nobody wants to suffer, and while the notion that suffering can be gotten rid of by appealing to God, these wishes will sway the mind to believe in God. For them, religion will arise, but for the man who wants the truth, religion offers no consolation.

Anybody can write a commentary on the Upanishads, other scriptures; all they need to do to pour out words. It is quite easy to do this even by those who have never understood the Upanishads but think they have.

The dualists and their disciples have written commentaries on scriptures, but all these have been written to satisfy themselves, not to get the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Religion is regarded as sacred and real by the common people, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful:~Santthosh Kumaar

In Atmic discussion, the practical life within the practical world is an unimportant subject matter.+

In Atmic discussion, the practical life within the practical world is an unimportant subject matter because it is to find and realize the mystery of the universe in which we exist. 

The practical life within the practical world has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the  Self, because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. 

A person and the experience of the world are within the illusion. He is the false self within the false experience (waking). 

The waking experience is a parallel dream, and the dream is a parallel waking experience. 

The Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity, but the Self is the invisible  Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states. 

The invisible Soul, the  Self, has nothing to do with the person and his experience of the world, because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. 

The world in which the person exists is merely an illusion created out of the invisible  Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

If one says 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. :~Santthosh Kumaar

First, realize what God is supposed to be in truth. Being ignorant of the truth is being ignorant of God in truth.+

Worshipping God without knowing what God is supposed to be in actuality is not of any use.

Remember, the religious God worshiped by you is not God in truth, according to your own scriptures.

First, realize what God is supposed to be in truth. Being ignorant of the truth is being ignorant of God in truth.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter:~ All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)

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.

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

Religious Gods are mere beliefs. The religious God cannot be considered as the cause of the universe because the invisible Soul, the Self, is the cause of the universe.

Without the invisible Soul, the universe in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious Gods are dependent on the invisible Soul, the Self, for their existence.

Even 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)

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)

Kena Upanishad (6) Chapter I: ~ “That which cannot be apprehended by the mind, but by which, they say, the mind is apprehended-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (7) Chapter I:~ That which cannot be perceived by the eye, but by which the eye is perceived-That alone is known as Brahman and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (Chapter I:~ That which cannot be heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived-That alone is known as Brahman and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (9)- Chapter I:~ That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an object-That alone know as Brahman, and not that which people here worship.

Chandogya Upanishad:~“sarvam khalvidam brahma - All this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality.

Then it is no use going a roundabout way, trace the Brahman (God in truth), which is the formless substance and witness of the universe, which is in the form of mind.

By tracing the source of the mind or universe, one will be able to realize the Brahman (God in truth). : : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita confirm God is the Soul, the Self, which is the present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness.+

Religion propagates God based on blind belief. Whatever is propagated as God by religion is not God in truth, according to its own religious scriptures.

The Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita confirm that God is, in truth, the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness.

God in truth should not be worshipped but realized right in this life, not in the next life or world.

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 invisible 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. No religious God can exist apart from consciousness.

Do not believe in God as a separate entity. Realize God in truth is the cause of the illusory universe in which we exist.

Every sect and creed concocts a God to suit its own purposes. Belief in such concocted Gods is a great hindrance in the pursuit of truth.

The man himself suggests that there must be a God. It is an autosuggestion. Belief in religion weakens as the man pays more attention to the facts of his practical life within the practical world.

Spirituality is a new replacement for religion. Advaita is pure Spirituality. Advaitic truth is beyond form, time, and space. Advaita is the Spirit. The Spirit is the universal God and God of the whole of humanity.

Religious Gods are not God in truth. The Bible says, “God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Rig Veda says May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman (Spirit) nor worship other than the Atman.

What is the use of arguing with religious believers? They think what they know as the ultimate truth.

Whatever is real in the world in which we exist is God. All that is real in the world in which we exist is the invisible Soul, the Self.

Thus, by realizing the Self, which is the invisible Soul, we discover the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness itself, is God in truth, which is hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion.:~Santthosh Kumaar

Godmen say: I AM GOD, whereas Gnanis say the invisible and unborn Soul, the Self, is God in truth.+

How can one know that what he believes and worships as God is true?

People who are saying ‘I AM GOD’ are hallucinating that they have become God. First, you must know what God is supposed to be in truth.

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.

Godmen say: I AM GOD, whereas Gnanis say the invisible and unborn Soul, the Self, is God in truth.

Godmen's claims of marvelous, miraculous power: Ask for the list of failures, and refuse to be guided by success only.

All predictions as to what these Godmen will do in the future are unacceptable because verification is not immediately possible. Who can take them as having any worth? Therefore, they belong to the world of imagination.

What is the value of mystic experience, what is the value of the words of the great men? In pursuit of truth, the seeker has to examine and evaluate them all to find the ultimate truth or Brahman.

People are perfectly sane, regarding worldly duties of the practical life within the practical world, but on the other hand, generally dealing with religious beliefs, they are insane. This is the condition of all religious believers.

Thus, you can only get to the stage of truth? If you say it may be true, then you are only imagining. Go as far as you can, never stop at a doubt, do not get disheartened by it.

Have doubts, but try to overcome them. Do not kill it by keeping quiet. Let the doubts come, but try to overcome them fearlessly until you reach the truth.

You have not seen God, but you only believe in the existence of God. If you say that God did this or went there, it will only be your imagination.  :~ Santthosh Kumaar 

The individual experience within the dream is a reality within the dream. The reality of the waking experience is also a reality within the waking state.+

The individual experience within the dream is a reality within the dream. The reality of the waking experience is also a reality within the waking state.

The waking experience is a parallel dream, and the dream is a parallel waking experience. When the waking takes place, the dream becomes unreal.

When the invisible Soul, the Self, consciously wakes up in its formless nondual true nature in the midst of the waking experience, then all the three states are merely an illusion created out of its formless nondual true nature.

The form, time, and space within the dream are falsehood when the waking takes place. Similarly, the form, time, and space of the waking are also falsehoods when Advaitic wisdom dawns.

The Advaitic wisdom dawns only when one realizes the Self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, it is erroneous to judge and reason and conclude the ultimate truth on the basis of the waking entity and the waking world, because the waking experience itself is an illusion.

Suppose you were holding some view in the dream; all your experiences and views are reality within the dream.

The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when you become aware that the Self is not an individual because it is the ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Thus, whatever individual experiences are experienced within the waking state are as unreal as a dream.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

Upanishad:~ “They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Atman.+

There is no Advaitic wisdom without Sage Sankara. All the 'I-centric' Gurus and their teachings are not the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

When Advaitic Sage Sankara has given the clear-cut instruction to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, then why waste time with other Gurus teaching and their instruction?

The seeker need not follow any religion or study the scriptures or glorify the Gods and the Gurus, or by practicing yoga or by losing himself in the labyrinths of philosophy to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Upanishad:~ “They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Atman. The ordinary man does not understand their way.

Upanishad says: ~ The human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge, and they indicate that 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 assimilate, and realize it.

That is why Sage Sankara, indicated in Bhaja Govindam, says: ~ (Jnana Viheena Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena) ~ one without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows.

Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

Only through deeper self-search, beginners and intermediates gradually become aware of ‘what is what’. Only after they have realized the fact that the Self is not ‘I’ but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, they are ready for the inner journey towards reality, which is beyond form, time, and space.

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study the Scriptures, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

~ then why indulge in studying the scriptures?

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study philosophy, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

~then why indulge in studying philosophy?

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge in rituals, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why indulge in rituals?

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge in yoga, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why indulge in yoga?

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman (Gnani)

~ then why stick to a Guru who is not a Gnani?

Sage Sankara: ~ VC Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even Hundreds of pranayamas* can give us the knowledge about our own Self. The firm experience of the nature of the Self is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advice of the wise. (13)

Sage Sankara says ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why are you indulging in other types of meditation.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC~ "All this universe, which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahma, which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

Sage Sankara says you must first know what is before you. If you cannot know that, what else can you know or understand? If you give up the external world in your inquiry, you cannot get the whole truth.

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.

People refuse to accept anything other than their Guru's words. For them, their Guru's words are the ultimate truth. They do not accept anything other than their accepted truth. There is no need to convince such a mindset.

Such mindsets are not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana. The seekers of truth accept only the truth, nothing but the uncontradictable truth.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar