To realize the ultimate truth or Brahman, no scriptures are needed. +

I quote scriptures because the scriptures are also saying the same thing that I am saying. We have to bifurcate spiritual quotes from religious books.

To realize the ultimate truth or Brahman, no scriptures are needed. I am highlighting only the rational views of the sages of truth, bifurcating spiritual insights from the religious books

People think that by studying the Vedas, one will be able to get Self-realization, but it is not so.

Vedic studies lead one nowhere. What is the use of studying scriptures when the Upanishads themselves declare:-

Katha Upanishad:~ This Atman cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas, or by intelligence, or by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him alone whom it chooses. To such a one, Atman reveals its own form. (Katha Upanishad Ch-II -23-P-20)

Mundaka Upanishad: ~ This Atman cannot be attained through the study of the Vedas, nor through intelligence, nor through much learning. He who chooses Atman—by him alone is Atman attained. It is the Atman that reveals to the seeker its true nature. (3 page-70 - Mundaka Upanishad- Upanishads by Nikilanada)

When the Upanishad says: the human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge, and they indicate the personal gods, scriptures, worship, and rituals are not the means to Self–Knowledge, then why should anyone indulge in it?

The Upanishads declare:~

Mundaka Upanishad 1:2:8:~ “Remaining in the fold of ignorance and thinking 'we are extremely wise and learned,' the fools with boastful nature ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone.”

Mundaka Upanishad 3:2:3:- “The weak and timid cannot realize the Self. Self-realization is not possible through intellect or hearing spiritual discourse. One who welcomes God in every activity, through a thoroughly controlled and disciplined life, to him also the Soul is revealed

Katha Upanishad 1:2:23:~ The Soul cannot be realized through hearing the scholarly explanation of the discourses, not even by the intellect.

Katha Upanishad 1:3:6:~ “Through the knowledge of the Soul, God, one is pure and clean constantly.” Neither by reading the book nor by taking a bath at a holy place has one become pure. Inner purity is possible when one remains in constant touch with the Soul. Constant Soul Consciousness is the real purity.

Kena Upanishad 2:4:~ When it is known through every state of cognition, it is rightly known, for (by such knowledge) one attains life eternal. Through one's own self, one gains power, and through wisdom, one gains immortality.

Kena Upanishad 2:5:~ If here one knows it, then there is the truth, and if here one knows it not, there is a great loss. Hence, seeing the Real in all beings, wise men become immortal on departing from this world.

The scriptures are being added to from time to time. This process will go on. There is no final authority among them? One contradicts the other: duality reigns supreme.

The Upanishads are self-contradictory. Every pundit even gives conflicting interpretations of them. The final authority, therefore, is using one’s own reason. One should apply their reason to them.

The scriptures are for the ignorant masses, who wholly accept the material world as it presents itself. Gnana is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem. :~Santthosh Kumaar

Advaita is nothing but the nondual nature of God in truth.+

Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is pure Spirituality or Adyathma, do not make it a philosophic sect. Sage Sankara’s path of wisdom is the independent search for truth.

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom deals with the practical bearing of philosophy to remove the initial prejudice that it is remote from life.

Some scriptures have presented fragments of truth imbedded in the covering of stories, histories, and picturesque touches of mysticism.

The seeker should not mix religion, mysticism, and yoga with the path of wisdom. All the Gurus of the East and West touch on mysticism to make it more attractive to feed the crowd.

Remember:~ 

Advaita is nothing but the nondual nature of God in truth.

God in the Vedas is not the God based on the form and attributes people believe in and worship.

God in the Bible is not the God people believe in and worship.

The Bible says: ~  God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24) 

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

Vedas and Upanishad confirm that the invisible Soul, the Self, is the presence in the form of the Spirit or the consciousness.

If God is 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).

The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the invisible Soul, the Self. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness. 

From the Spirit, the universe comes into existence. In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there. 

The Spirit is present in the form of consciousness. Everything is consciousness. 

All the moments are within the dualistic illusion. Whatever happens within the dualistic illusion is bound to be an illusion created out of consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and all else is merely an illusion.

“Spirit is my father, and I and my father are one.”

If the Spirit is the Father, the Son is bound to be the Spirit. The Spirit, the beloved alone, is real and all else is merely an illusion. 

There is no God in truth in the dualistic illusion because the dualistic illusion is created out of God in truth, which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness.  Thus, God in truth alone is real.

Spirit is prior to the universe. The universe implies duality. The universe hides God. When the universe disappears, the invisible  God in truth appears.  Find the Self,  and rest in God in truth, which is the Spirit. 

Search for God in truth. God in truth is not within your body, but it is hidden by the illusory world in which you exist. 

God in truth is not in any mosque, temple, or church. The religious Gods are not God in truth. 

The dualistic worship of "God” only for the ignorant populace and Advaitic wisdom, unfolds the mystery of the real God.:~Santthosh Kumaar 

God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is real and eternal and all else is an illusion.+

Chandogya Upanishad: ~ “Whoever sees the Self in all does not see death, disease, or diversity.

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

Advaita is not a theory.

Advaita is the nature of the truth.

Advaita is the nondual nature of the invisible Soul, the Self.

Advaita is the invisible Soul itself.

Advaita is the nondual nature of God in truth because the Rigveda says the Soul itself is God.

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 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.

Advaita is nothing but God in truth.

Thus, it is time to realize the world in which we exist is created out of the invisible Soul, which is the Self. The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the cause of the world in which we exist, and it itself is uncaused. The invisible Soul alone is real and eternal. The invisible eternal Soul itself is God in truth.

There is no other God other than the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Realize the invisible Soul, which is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God. The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness itself, is God in truth.

Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist. And the consciousness itself is uncaused.

Thus, the truth-realization itself is God-realization because the ultimate truth is Brahman or God. Self-realization is God-realization, and God-realization is real worship.

Nothing has to be accepted as God other than the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Atman is Brahman, meaning the invisible and unborn Soul alone is God. Atman is the Advaitic God. ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Gurus who propagate Samadhi through sexual intercourse are not Gnanis. +

Gurus who propagate Samadhi through sexual intercourse are not Gnanis.

Sexual intercourse has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, which is an ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. Those who indulge in sexual activities to get enlightenment will permanently remain in the prison of the dualistic illusion. They are unfit to acquire Self-knowledge.

Brih Upanishad: page 32. :~ "Yoga does not yield truth or liberation."

One who is in Samadhi will not know that this universe is the consciousness; therefore, yoga is not the means to Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

In Samadhi, the yogi knows nothing, sees no universe; so if there is nothing but blankness. The blankness is not the Advaitic wisdom.

The yogi does not know the nature of the universe. If the universe is not seen in the Samadhi, then there is no need to use the words Atman and Brahman. The yogi is unaware of the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

By shutting his eyes in Samadhi, the yogi does not know the universe that confronts him. Hence, the universe can't be known as the Soul or the consciousness through yoga.

One is in a non-dual condition in deep sleep or Samadhi, one without a second, true, but he did not know it at the time. He says only in the waking experience afterward. Hence, there must be an inquiry so that you find non-duality whilst you are awake, so that you can see nonduality at the time, not afterward. Hence, too a need to inquire into the nature of the universe and know it as the Soul or the consciousness whilst one is awake, and not during sleep or Samadhi.

Advaitic truth is the ultimate truth. Yogis, mystics, and religious teachers do not accept the path of wisdom because it pries into the truth, the source, and the validity of the knowledge they claim. Therefore, it is the most difficult part of the study of the Advaita.

Gnani does not want to think of the ego; therefore, he does not do or say anything to make himself appear superior to others or to pretend to know more than others. If a person spends his time in Samadhi, he is not a Gnani, but he is only a yogi.

The Gnani is as alert and awake to what is happening to him externally as all other people: he is not a yogi in Samadhi. A yogi does not know the ultimate truth or Brahman because he believes his Samadhi as Brahman.

The Gnani has realized the world in which he exists is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. And consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

A Gnani imparts Knowledge to others. A Yogi lies in Samadhi like a wooden log, so he does not know that yogic Samadhi is not wisdom. Gnani is fully aware of all things, either permanent or perishable, and he has realized both permanent and perishable to be consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal; all else is merely an illusion.

That is why Sage Sankara said:~ VC-63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation?

The universe in which we exist will not remain as reality when wisdom dawns. The universe is a mere mirage created out of consciousness, and there is conscious awareness of unity in diversity because there is no second thing exists other than consciousness.

A yogi cannot attain realization because he thinks his body is the body and the world is the world and fails to see them as consciousness and thinks his experience of Samadhi is because of his individual effort. The individual experience is limited to waking experience is merely an illusion.

Thus, even his Samadhi is also limited to the waking experience, which is merely an illusion. He thinks the thoughtlessness is Samadhi, but thoughts are of the individuality. Thoughts disappear even in deep sleep. Therefore, deep sleep is not wisdom.

If one thinks thoughtlessness is Samadhi and Samadhi is Brahman, then anyone can get knowledge of Brahman by taking sleeping pills or hemp.

Tattireya Upanishad: ~ “There are two different samadhis, philosophic and Sahaja Samadhi, which is the highest, in which one is in full wakefulness, and then he inquires what is meant by this world, the world is seen in this Sahaja Samadhi. Whereas Yogic or Nirvikalpa Samadhi is just like swoon or deep sleep, where one is unaware of anything, not even the world. (Page 640,641 and verse 132,133)

Each person sees in his own Samadhi whatever is uppermost in his mind. How does he/she or anyone know that what he/she or anyone sees is the truth? Similarly, each has intuitions agreeable to what is uppermost in his mind.

In Sutra Bashya and Manduka Upanishads:~ Samadhi and sleep are identical.

The Brihad Upanishad does not advocate Samadhi.

Sage Sankara in the commentary to "Brahma Sutras:~ " "The highest beatitude is not to be attained by Yoga." (Sacred Books of the East Series page 298 Vol.1.) And he also says Samadhi is the same as sleep (p.312) ---which indicates that yoga is not the means to Self-realization. And yogic Samadhi is not nondualistic or Advaitic Self-awareness.

Someone posing as a Gnani is not a Gnani. If someone poses himself as a direct disciple of some guru cannot be a Gnani. Those who pose themselves as Gnanis are not Gnanis. A Gnani never poses himself as a Guru, a swami, a sadhu or a yogi, or some Guru’s disciple.  :~Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Goudapad:~Duality is for the unwise, non-duality and undifferentiated reality is for the wise and difficult to grasp.+

The essential message of the Manduka Upanishad is that the whole world, whatever is seen, is only imagined. points out that even though it is harder for them, women can attain Brahman just as men. Page 351

"From their notion": Everybody has their own imagination about facts and starts from that, instead of discarding their personal idea and looking at the fact. Page 333. V. 8

Sage Goudapad:~ Duality is for the unwise, non-duality and undifferentiated reality is for the wise and difficult to grasp.

The illusory universe does not disappear when Advaitic wisdom dawns; it is there, and yet they are non-dual.

Manduka Upanishad:~ The objects do not disappear, they are there, and yet they are non-dual. Disillusionment is not the same as appearance. Page 74. v. 17

It is erroneous to believe the general impression is that the universe disappears to a Gnani, that he sees nothingness. Only deluded persons will have such an impression?

Nothing is destroyed. Only ignorance disappears, and the unreal nature of the universe is exposed. The same way as the unreal nature of the dream is exposed when waking takes place.

The universe, which appears as the waking experience, is a dualistic illusion.

A Gnani has the full and firm conviction that the world in which he exists is nothing but consciousness in the midst of dualistic illusion. The invisible Soul, the Self, being aware of its true nature in the midst of dualistic illusion, is called Self-awareness.

The universe or the waking experience will not disappear. It is there always, but the unreal nature of the waking experience is exposed in the midst of dualistic illusion through Advaitic wisdom.

If one thinks its mere disappearance in the Yogic Samadhi is the ultimate Truth or Brahman, then he would get it in deep sleep. Thus, the Yogic Samadhi is not the Advaitic wisdom. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Only through Self-Knowledge ignorance vanishes, no other way.+

Sage Goudapad:~ Duality is for the unwise, non-duality and undifferentiated reality is for the wise and difficult to grasp.

Only through Self-Knowledge, ignorance vanishes; no other way. To get rid of ignorance is necessary to realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible and unborn Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Without Self-knowledge knowledge it is impossible to realize God in truth.

To get rid of ignorance is necessary to realize that the Self is not you, but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

If you hold the Self within your physical body, then the ignorance will be more and more deeply rooted.

You will always remain in a state of ignorance until you realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

As the seeker's understanding of ‘what is what ‘grows, gradually the seeker gets a glimpse of truth.

Whatever is based on you is an illusion, and whatever is based on the Soul, the Self, is real and eternal.

Thus, the seeker of truth must make sure that you are not the Self but the Self is the invisible Soul, to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

The seeker has to have an inner urge to know the truth,

seriousness, patience, and humility to reach the ultimate end of understanding.

A Gnani will not indulge in the argument; he keeps a distance from such a mindset.

The Truth is one.

The Soul is one.

The Self is one.

Brahman is one.

God is one.

Truth, Soul, Self, Brahman, and Gods are one and the Same.

Mentally hold on to the invisible Soul and drop everything. Do not hold on to the ‘I’, you will be lost in the dualistic illusion if you hold on to the ‘I’ because the ‘I’ itself is ignorance.

As long as you believe the Self is the ‘I’, then the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. But if you realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Sou, then the invisible Soul, the Self, becomes free from the cage of ignorance.

Remember this:

The world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, the Self.

The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Thus, the illusory world in which you exist is nothing but consciousness.

Hold on to consciousness mentally and drop the illusion, and rest in consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

In the path of wisdom, discussion of the unimportant subject matter creates a hindrance. +

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained Self-knowledge, realized Atman, which is the Self, is God in truth. Atman alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman.

Self-knowledge will not arise from the exchange of views and opinions, and arguments. The accumulated knowledge is not a yardstick to realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.

In the path of wisdom, discussion of the unimportant subject matter creates a hindrance. The path of truth is the path of verification. Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification.

The path of wisdom is divided into three parts:~

First: hearing the truth--that the consciousness is the only reality and that the universe, along with you, is merely an illusion or Maya.

Second: reasoning upon the words of wisdom of Sage Sankara from all points of view.

Third: giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth. This realization comes from being certain that consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman, or God in truth.

Only through Self-Knowledge does ignorance vanish; no other way. To get rid of ignorance is necessary to realize that the Self is not you, but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Without Self-Knowledge, it is impossible to realize God in truth.

To get rid of ignorance is necessary to realize that the Self is not you, but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

If you hold the Self within your physical body, then the ignorance will be more and more deeply rooted.

You will always remain in a state of ignorance until you realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

As the seeker's understanding of ‘what is what ‘grows, gradually the seeker gets a glimpse of truth.

Whatever is based on you is an illusion, and whatever is based on the invisible Soul, the Self, is real and eternal.

Thus, the seeker of truth must make sure he is not the Self, but the Self is the invisible Soul to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

The seeker has to have an inner urge to know the truth, seriousness, patience, and humility in order to reach the ultimate end of understanding.

A Gnani will not indulge in the argument; he keeps a distance from such a mindset. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar