It is very difficult for people to understand and assimilate and realize the Advaitic truth for those who adopted ‘I-centric’ teaching.

It is very difficult for people to understand and assimilate and realize the Advaitic truth for those who adopted ‘I-centric’ teaching.

All those whose intelligence has been stolen by ignorance hold the Self as the ‘I’ and refuse to accept the ‘I’ is an illusion, which appears and disappears.

You are the false Self (ego) within the false experience (waking). The one which is inquiring and trying to find an answer about the truth of the true existence is you within the dualistic illusion (waking).

The Self is not you because you are bound by the experience of birth, life and death, and the world. The Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The invisible and unborn Soul is birthless and deathless because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the experience of birth, life, and death, and the world are merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

You are not the Self because you are the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking state). Thus, what is the use of saying ‘I AM THIS’ or ‘I AM THAT’ when ‘I’ itself is an illusion?

If the ‘I’ is an illusion then what is the use of inquiring ‘WHO AM I?’. One must realize ‘what is this ‘I’ first. If the ‘I’ is not the Self then it is time to realize the Self is not ‘I’ but the Self is the witness of the ‘I.:~ Santthosh Kumaar

Chandogya Upanishad - 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.+

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

Remember, the religious God worshipped by you is not the real God 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.

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

Religious Gods are based on blind beliefs. God, based on blind belief, is not God in truth. Religious God cannot be considered as the cause of the universwe because the invisible Soul thw Self is the cause of the universe.

Without the invisible Soul, the Self, the universe in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious Gods are dependent on the universe for their existence. The universe is dependent on the invisible Soul, the Self for its existence. God in truth is only the invisib;le Soul, the Self which is present in the form of consciousness.

Even the Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

When the 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 the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

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)

The 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 know as Brahman and not that which people here worship.

Kena Upanishad (8) Chapter I:~ That which cannot be heard by the ear, but by which the hearing is perceived-That alone know 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.

No use in 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

On the other hand, Sage Sankara claims that the world is not absolutely false. It appears false only when compared to Brahman.+

Never confuse Advaitic Gnana with dualistic knowledge, you may be dualistically genius but, nondualistic you are ignorant.

Sage Sankara says: ~Whatever thing remains eternal is true, and whatever is non-eternal is untrue. Since the world is created and destroyed, it is not true.

The invisible Soul,  the Self is the ultimate truth is the unchanging thing. Since the world is changing, it is not true.

Whatever is independent of form, time and space is true, and whatever has form, time, and space in itself is untrue.

Just as one sees dreams in sleep, he sees a super-dream when he is wakingstate. The world is compared to this conscious dream.

The world is believed to be a superimposition on consciousness, which is  Brahman. Superimposition cannot be true.

On the other hand, Sage Sankara claims that the world is not absolutely false. It appears false only when compared to Brahman. In the pragmatic state, the world is completely true—which occurs as long as we are under the influence of Maya. 

The world cannot be both true and false at the same time; hence Sage Sankara has classified the world as indescribable. 

The following points suggest that according to Sage Sankara, the world is not false (Sage  Sankara himself gave most of the arguments)

• If the world were false, then with the liberation of the first human being, the world would have been annihilated. However, the world continues to exist even if a human attains liberation.

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• Sage Sankara believes in Karma or good actions. This is a feature of this world. So the world cannot be false.

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• The Supreme Reality Brahman is the basis of this world. The world is like its reflection. Hence, the world cannot be totally false.

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• False is something that is ascribed to non-existent things, like Sky-lotus. The world is a logical thing that is perceived by our senses.

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Consider scientific logic. A pen is placed in front of a mirror. One can see its reflection. To our eyes, the image of the pen is perceived. Now, what should the image be called? It cannot be true because it is an image. The truth is the pen. It cannot be false because it is seen by our eyes.

Brahman— The One Without A Second

The Atman is self-evident (Svatah-Siddha). It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the Atman because It is the very essence of the one who denies It. The Atman is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Self is within, Self is without; Self is before, Self is behind; Self is on the right, Self is on the left; Self is above and Self is below. Brahman is not an object, as it is Adrisya, beyond the reach of the eyes. Hence the Upanishads declare: “Neti Neti—not this, not this....” This does not mean that Brahman is a negative concept, or a metaphysical abstraction, or a nonentity, or avoid. It is not another. It is all-full, infinite, changeless, self-existent, self-delight, self-knowledge, and self-bliss. It is Svarupa, essence. It is the essence of the witness. It is the Seer (Drashta), Transcendent (Turiya), and Silent Witness (Sakshi).

Sage  Sankara’s Supreme Brahman is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). It is above all needs and desires. It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as it is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other beside it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described because the description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is no distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman and not just Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of  Sage Sankara is impersonal.

Sage Sankara's commentary to Brahma Sutras: ~ A Gnani "should pass through life", not run away from life, and should take a middle course between seeking worldly honor and worldly abasement. (ch-3.4.50)

Sage Sankara varied his practical advice and doctrinal teaching according to the people he was amongst. He never advised them to give up their particular religion or beliefs or metaphysics completely; he only told them to give up the worst features of abuse: at the same time, he showed just one step forward towards the truth. Sri, Sankara was extremely precise and careful in his choice of words.

Sage  Sankara gave religious, rituals, and dogmatic instruction to the mass but pure philosophy only to the few who could rise to it. Hence the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

Sage Sankara believed that those of superior intelligence, have no need of this idea of divine causality, and can, therefore, dispense with Sruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

God in truth becomes the universe in the waking state(duality), and the universe becomes God in truth in deep sleep (nonduality). +

God in truth becomes the universe in the waking state(duality), and the universe becomes God in truth in deep sleep (nonduality).

Realize the God as the invisible Soul, the Self. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, consciousness itself is God in truth. The universe in which we exist is created out of consciousness. Thus, consciousness (God in truth) alone is real and all else is merely an illusion.

Remember:~

God is the Supreme Being, the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness, and intelligence, which is beyond form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.

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

Only the path of wisdom leads the seeker of truth on his journey to the ultimate realization of the true nature of the Universal Essence, which is the invisible Soul. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Atman, worships ‘Self’ as~ Atman (God) alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare."

The Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

When the 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.

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 innermost Self. In reality, there are no dualities, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV-13:~ ‘As a mass of salt has neither inside nor outside, but is entirely a mass of taste, thus indeed, has that Self neither inside nor outside but is altogether a mass of Knowledge. Just as a lump of salt has inside as well as outside one and the same saltish taste, not any other taste, so also that Brahman (consciousness) has inside as well as outside one and the same intelligence. Inside and outside are mental creations only. When the mind melts in silence, ideas of inside and outside vanish. The sages cognize one illimitable, homogeneous mass of consciousness only.

Causality taught in the Upanishads is only to enable us to understand the supreme truth of no-origination. The world is not different from the consciousness, and consciousness is not different from the invisible Soul, the Self, and the Soul is not different from the ultimate truth or Brahman. That consciousness appears as the diverse world is only an illusion. If it really became diverse then the immortal would become mortal.

The dualists who seek to prove the origination of the unborn, by that very enterprise, try to make the immortal mortal. The ultimate nature can never change - the immortal can never become mortal and vice versa.

Sage Goudapada quotes from the Upanishads: ~ "There's no plurality here"; "The Soul through its powers appears to be many"; "those who are attached to the creation or production or origination go to utter darkness"; "the unborn is never reborn, for what can produce it?”. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

When one realizes mind (matter) and Soul (spirit), the Self is one in essence then there is no place for the duality. +

When one realizes the mind (matter) and invisible Soul (Spirit), the Self is one in essence then there is no place for the duality. Without duality, the universe ceases to exist as a reality.

Without the universe, your existence within the universe is merely an illusion because there is no scope for two. After all, the universe itself is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness or Spirit. The Spirit or consciousness is God in truth.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ ​“Brahmano hi pratisthaham Brahman”- (Godm in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material (Gita 14.27)

When the 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.

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

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

It is for every seeker who is seeking truth must first know what God is supposed to be in actuality according to Vedas and Upanishads and reject all non-Vedic Gods, to realize the Atman is real God. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

People are being conditioned by the religious myth which has made then a non-thinker. People need to Come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth.+

People all over the world, in the past and present, have accepted the idea of the existence of God. The fear of God injected by the religion was the root cause of worship, superstitions, and dogmas.

The real God is stolen by ignorance, and people worship ignorance as God because the religion propagated a false God as real God.

The religious belief is passed on to the populace from one generation to the next generation.

People are being conditioned by the religious myth which has made them a non-thinker. People need to Come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth.

If people have believed in religiously propagated myth over thousands of years, the length of time does not prove it true. 

Sage Sankara’s Brahman or God in truth is impersonal. Worshipping personal Gods is meant for the common people who are ignorant and refuse to accept the truth.  

Mantras can do nothing. If they really had any power, why did not Lord Krishna use one to stop the war between the cousins? All mantras are based on non-Vedic Gods. Religion breeds superstition because religion is based on blind belief.

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

Religion preaches that God is one and the ways to God are many. It simply tries to lead them to darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the Self.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ If superstition enters, the brain is gone. Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.

The seeker of truth should not believe all the mythological stories about the magical power of mantras because they are a myth.

The myth is the duality. Whatever belongs to the duality is a myth. All the mantras are based on the attributed Gods, keeping one in the prison of the dualistic illusion. The mantras never help to cross the trash hold of the form, time, and space.

The attributed Gods belong to the dualistic illusion. The real God is without attributes.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit.

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 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. No mantras help to get rid of ignorance. All the mantras and rituals are meant for the ignorant populace, which strongly believes, the world in which he exists as a reality.

For one who wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the mantras will not help to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

In the Isa Upanishad says: ~Worshipping Gods and Goddesses is hindrances to ‘Self’-knowledge.

MANTRA 10

Vidya and Avidya both are hindrances to Self-knowledge, but Vidya is even worse than Avidya. The word Vidya is used here in a special sense; here it means worshipping Gods and Goddesses. By worshipping Gods and Goddesses you will go after death to the world of Gods and Goddesses. But will that help you? The time you spend there is wasted because if you were not there, you could have spent that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is your goal. In the world of Gods and Goddesses, you cannot do that, and thus you go deeper and deeper into darkness.

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?

That is why Sage Sankara VC~.61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?

VC- v6~ 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

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.

If God is the formless Spirit, then how does man know God created the world? There is no proof. If man had seen God creating the world, he could admit it, but how could he have seen God before he came into existence? (i.e. were created). : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

God ceases to exist within the domain of form, time, and space. The form, time, and space belong to the dualistic illusion or Maya. God is the cause of the dualistic illusion and God is uncaused.+

God ceases to exist within the domain of form, time, and space. The form, time, and space belong to the dualistic illusion or Maya. God is the cause of the dualistic illusion and God is uncaused.+

God cannot be seen directly by anyone because God is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

God cannot be brought down to the domain of duality. There is only one being in reality, and it is the Universal Soul. The existence of the finite or the limited is only apparent or imaginary.

The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~  God is the Supreme Spirit, has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

Vedas themselves say:- May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman? Thus, to know the real God Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God-realization. Self-realization itself is real worship.

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):~Santthosh Kumaar