The one who tasted the nectar of Advaita will realize all the dualistic knowledge is nothing but mental garbage.+

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.

To imagine the ultimate truth is not enough, one must know the ultimate truth from the core as it is. You and the world in which you exist is nothing to do with the ultimate truth. Know the Self in truth.

The seeker must be desirous of knowing the ultimate truth, consider the ultimate truth as nectar. The Advaita is the most distasteful at first but once one gets all the dualistic knowledge becomes tasteless.

The one who tasted the nectar of Advaita will realize all the dualistic knowledge is nothing but mental garbage.

One cannot find satisfaction in any other knowledge other than the Self-knowledge of Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana

The Path of wisdom is only for those who have an intense urge to know the truth. The ultimate truth is hidden within the experience of the form, time, and space, but it is without the form, time and space.

It is hidden by the form, time and space as its formless substance and it is without the form, time and space as their formless witness.

In the realm of the ultimate truth, the form, time and space are one in essence. That essence is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal and the form, time and space are unreal and impermanent. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Karma and Upasana, yoga and orthodoxy have to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth. or Brahman.+

Bhagavan Buddha: ~ No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant populace. Even highly educated people are caught up in orthodoxy just because they have inherited it from their forefathers.

Bhagavan Buddha, Sage Sankara, and Sage Goudpada have declared non-dual truth centuries back, but one has to reach the destination with the scientific (rational) investigation, not through punditry and intellectuality.

One has to mentally reach the final conclusion, then only the conviction becomes firm.

Without the firm conviction, the Advaitic wisdom will not dawn. Therefore, there is a need to realize that consciousness is real, all else is a myth, which Sage Sankara declared as the world is a myth, Brahman alone is real.

Sage Sankara says Atman is Brahman, and everything that is Brahman is a scientific declaration, not religious or yogic.

Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada are more scientific than anyone else in the world. Since the real Advaitic essence is hidden, it cannot be obtained without the inner (mental) journey.

Sage Goudpada says that: - The merciful Veda teaches Karma and Upasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

Gnana here is Advaitic truth, or rational truth, or scientific truth. Thus, their scientific truth of the whole, not the part, was declared by Sage Sankara 1400 years back and taught only to those of higher intellect.

Thus, Karma and Upasana, yoga and orthodoxy, have to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth. or Brahman.

Advaitic Wisdom is for those who are capable of inquiring into their own existence to know and realize the ultimate Truth or Brahman. –Santthosh Kumaar

Buddhism did not graduate its teaching to suit people of varying grades; hence its failure to affect society in Asia.+

The distinction between Sage Sankara’s Advaita and Vijnanavadins Buddhism is that the former is mentalism i.e. mind is the real, whereas the latter is idealism, i.e. ideas are real. We follow the former.

Buddhism did not graduate its teaching to suit people of varying grades; hence its failure to affect society in Asia.

Buddha's teachings: ~ All life is misery belongs to the relative standpoint only. For you cannot form any idea of misery without contrasting it with its opposite, happiness. The two will always go together.

Buddha taught the goal of cessation of misery, i.e. peace, but took care not to discuss the ultimate standpoint, for then he would have had to go above the heads of the people and tell them that misery itself was only an idea, that peace even was an idea (for it contrasted with peacelessness). That the doctrine he gave out was a limited one, is evident because he inculcated compassion. Why should a Buddhist sage practice pity? There is no reason for it.

Advaita is the next step higher than Buddhism because it gives the missing reason, viz. unity, non-difference from others, and because it explains that it used the concept of removing the sufferings of others, of lifting them up to happiness, only as we use one thorn to pick out another, afterwards throw both away. Similarly, Advaita discards both concepts of misery and happiness in the ultimate standpoint of non-duality, which is indescribable.

Buddhists say that a thing exists only for a moment, and if that thing has still got some of the substance from which it was produced, how then can they deny that its cause is continuing in the effect; hence its existence is more than a moment. Vedanta is concerned with whether it is one and the same thing which has come into being, or has it come out of nothing. : Ssntthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara says:~ “He who knows the Brahman (God in truth) is one and the Self is another, does not know Brahman.”+

Sage Sankara says:~ “He who knows the Brahman (God in truth) is one and the Self is another, does not know Brahman.”

Sage Sri, Sankara also asserts that the Self is realized when All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of Self-knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Sage Sankara’s Gnanic path can help the seekers draw and prepare them for the journey to the reality hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya. 

Remember:~ 

 The seeker has to realize the fact that ‘I’ is not the Self, but the invisible Soul, and the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self.

People speak of getting rid of conditioning or the samskara, but they themselves are unaware that the universe in which they exist is a product of the inborn samskara or conditioning.

Ignorance is the cause of the inborn samskara or conditioning, which is present as ‘I’ or ‘I AM’.

The Self is not the 'I '. The 'I ' is bound by form, time, and space. Without the form, time, and space, 'I' cease to exist. Holding 'I’ as Self, one remains in the clutches of the dualistic illusion.

When there is duality, then there is ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of experiencing the dualistic illusion as a reality.

The one who identifies the Self as 'I' will not be able to cross the threshold of dualistic illusion. There is no point in saying the 'I AM THIS ' this or 'I AM THAT' because the Self is not ‘I’ or ‘I AM’. The Self is that which witnesses the 'I’.

The real Moksha or freedom is to realize the fact that ‘I’ consciousness is mere physical awareness.

Physical awareness is not Self-awareness. Self–awareness is when the formless Soul or consciousness remains aware of its own non-dual true nature. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The Breath, the body and the world are one in essence.+

Thich Nhat Hanh:~ "Breath is the bridge, which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts."

Sage Sankara ~ VC ~ 165-166 The vital-air Sheath cannot be the Self because it is the modification of air (Vayu). Like air, it enters the body and goes out of it, never knowing the joy and sorrow like others. It is ever dependent on the Self.

Santthosh Kumaar:~ The Breath, the body, and the world are one in essence. That essence is the formless consciousness. Consciousness (Soul) is the Self. The Breath, the body, and the world are part and parcel of the illusion.

By holding the breath (vital force) as the Self, one cannot get rid of the ignorance.

Without dispelling ignorance, the wisdom of Advaita will not dawn. Advaitic Wisdom dawns only when one realizes that form, time, and space are one in essence. :~Santthosh Kumar

The dream world, with all its contents, is created out of the consciousness, not different from it.+

Katha Upanishad says: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. (II -23-P-20)

Thus, those who have taken the path of wisdom are chosen ones. The chosen one will get the grace of the Soul, the inner Guru. The path of wisdom is the Soulcentric path, whereas all other paths are egocentric. All egocentric paths lead to hallucination.

Swami Vivekananda, “The wicked are always looking for defects. Flies come and seek the ulcer, and bees come only for the honey in the flower. Do not follow the way of the fly but that of the bee.

Gurus belong to religion or yoga. Spirituality has nothing to do with religion and yoga. Self-knowledge, Atma Gnana or Brahma Gnana, is not for those who are followers of religion and yoga. And Advaita is not the cocktail knowledge. Move on in your chosen path and help those who are following you and your teaching.

There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the more advanced seeker who seeks to know the truth beyond form, time, and space. Religion and Yoga are meant for the first audience, to help lead their followers along the way. Spirituality emphasis on the Advaitic wisdom, is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.

What is the use of arguing based on the birth entity, which is not the Self?

What is the use of knowing what happens after death when the Self is birthless?

What is the use of thinking of heaven and hell when the ‘Self ‘is not an individual and it is never born and never dies?

The path of wisdom is not for the Orthodox populace. It is difficult for orthodox people to accept the truth because they have already accepted something else as truth because of their samskara or conditioning. It is difficult for them to accept anything other than their inherited conditioning.

Even Sage Sankara appears personally and tells them that what they have accepted as truth is not truth; they will never be able to accept anything other than their accepted truth.

Remember:~

One must be soul-centric to drop all 'I' centric knowledge. 'I' is the cause of ignorance.

The dream world, with all its contents, is created out of the consciousness, not different from it.

Similarly, everything that exists in waking experience is consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

There is no need for the yogic control of the mind; the control presupposes a second thing, the duality. Hence, yoga is in the sphere of duality and is unnecessary in the Atmic path.

Until a man is ripe to receive Self-knowledge, it is fatal to ask him to give up meditation.

The novice seekers must understand that yoga is all right in its place and that it is good in the beginning of the pursuit of truth, but when yoga is made an end in itself and not a means to acquire the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Yoga and meditation are not useless; they are useful to bring the restless ego under control. Yoga and meditation are not final.

By indulging in yoga and meditation, it will lead not lead to the ultimate end of understanding. Yoga cannot remove ignorance. It is only a step. It removes obstructions.

Sage Sankara definitely says that yoga is not the means of liberation (page 132-133 of his commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad). : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

All that God with form and attributes propagated by religion is based on blind belief.+

All that God with form and attributes propagated by religion is based on blind belief. There is nothing so absurd that men have not worshipped in religion; every imaginable face has been given to God.

If God is the creator, then it is foolish to worship anything as God from his creation because the creation is apart from God.

Every Religion has its own idea of God. Thus, every religion is based on the false ‘Self’. Therefore, whatever is based on the false ‘Self’ has to be a falsehood. Thus, the idea of God of any religion is an imagination based on the false 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.

God is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. According to the Vedas, God neither has any image nor does God reside in any particular idol or statue. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.

Mythological Gods and Goddesses are based on the belief. The belief is not in God. The belief implies duality. From the ultimate standpoint, duality is merely an illusion. Thus, whatever one sees, knows, believes, and experiences within the dualistic illusion is bound to be an illusion.

Mythological stories are a myth. Whatever is based on myth is merely a superstition. Mythology was introduced in the past for the ignorant masses. It has to be discarded as one progresses in his spiritual advancement.

All the mythological Gods are worshipped in the form of idols. The belief system that propagated ideas of many Gods and Goddesses, Bhakti is the only way to God, is simply trying to lead the people to darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the ‘Self’.

Mythology breeds superstition, blind belief, and senseless rituals, and is most irrational and giving them a divine outlook. Mythological stories are a myth. Whatever is based on myth is merely a superstition.

Mythology was introduced in the past for the ignorant masses. It has to be discarded if one has to realize the ultimate truth, or Brahman, or the real God.

Through deeper self-search, one gains a new understanding of certain dogmas.

Ideas injected by religion about the literal heaven where people are immersed in pleasure, in a literal hell where people suffer, are fables.

God is not up there to judge and decides our good and bad deeds. All the mythological stories and mythological Gods are religiously injected fables.

Hell is merely a metaphor for the isolated soul, which, like all souls, ultimately will be united in love with God.”

The seeker of truth must remember the fact that religion is not spirituality. The religion is based on the ego, which is the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking). Spirituality has nothing to do with religion.

Spirituality is based on the Spirit, which is present in the form of the Soul, the innermost Self.

The Vedas are based on the Spirit because they hold God as the Spirit.

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

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul or Spirit) 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 Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the invisible Soul, the Self.

The invisble 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.

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

There is a clear-cut idea of God in the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita. And also, there is a clear-cut idea of what not to worship as God in place of the real God. Thus, it proves from a Vedic perspective that the Puranic Gods are not Vedic Gods.

Vedas says never accept another God in place of the Atman, nor worship other than the Atman.

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One must remember that for all periods the Vedas are the final goal and authority, and if the Puranas differ in any respect from the Vedas, the Puranas are to be rejected without mercy.

If you feel the Puranas say something and the Vedas say something else, reject the Puranas and believe in the Vedas. The Puranas are just a myth.

India takes pride in being the descendants of the Sages of truth who gave the Advaita the ultimate truth. The Advaitic truth is the truth beyond form, time, and space.

All the mythological Gods' existence is a myth. Such Gods can exist only within the dualistic illusion. Thus, the existence of such Gods is illusory.

Mythological Gods and Goddesses are based on the belief. The belief is not in God. The belief implies duality.

From the ultimate standpoint, the duality is merely an illusion. Thus, whatever one sees, knows, believes, and experiences within the dualistic illusion is bound to be an illusion.

Mythological stories are a myth. Whatever is based on myth is merely a superstition. Mythology was introduced in the past for the ignorant masses. It has to be discarded as one progresses in his spiritual advancement.

Swami Vivekananda: This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind, does not befit you, the invisible Soul. The self is infinite, deathless, and birthless. Because the Self is infinite Spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. ... Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must. There is one to help you. Self is the entire world. Who can help you?

Mythology breeds superstition, blind belief, and senseless rituals, and is most irrational and giving them a divine outlook.

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

Mythological stories and religious fables, yet are taken seriously by pundits. All these stories are a reality within the dualistic illusion. The waking experience is a dualistic illusion. Thus, whatever belongs to the dualistic illusion is bound to be a falsehood. In reality, there is no duality because there is only Oneness.

That the ancient sages had miraculous occult power and books relate stories of their feats, are fairy tales meant for children and those whose minds had not developed.

That is why 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.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar