When the Advaitic truth is revealed then there is neither the duality nor the non-duality, only reality.+

The unreal is created out of real, and when one views and judges from the standpoint unreal (ego), then there is duality.

When one is able to view and judge from the standpoint of real (Soul, the Self), then there is only non-duality.

When the Advaitic truth is revealed, then there is neither duality nor non-duality, only reality.

All this confusion will go on until the man thinks, he is an individual and apart from the world, and the world existed prior to him, and he is born in it afterwards. Therefore, it is necessary to know the fact the true Self is not ego, but the true Self is the invisible Soul, and stop viewing and judging the world-view on the standpoint of the physical Self (ego), and one has to view and judge on the invisible Soul, the Self to realize that, the world along with the man, is an illusion.

The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the cause of the illusion. The invisible Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, there is no second thing that exists; there is neither experience nor the experiencer in non-dual reality, but only the Self-awareness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Holding the religious God based on blind belief keeps the invisible Soul, the Self, permanently in ignorance.+

Holding the religious God based on blind belief keeps the invisible Soul, the Self, permanently in ignorance.

Ignorance keeps the Soul permanently in the prison of dualistic illusion. Illusion makes the invisible Soul remain in the domain of form, time, and space. In the domain of form, time, and space, the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is experienced as a reality.

If the seeker wants to realize the truth, then he has to discard all religious beliefs and yogic practices, and scriptural studies. Nothing is needed in pursuit of truth other than an intense urge and receptivity to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

That is why Sage Sankara: ~ VC 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 (verses-6)

Sage Sankara said:~ -Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) Vivekachoodamani v 56, pg~25

Sage Sankara’s wisdom has nothing to do with religion and yoga. 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 most 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.

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom, with its emphasis on the Advaitic wisdom, is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.

First, you must know what God is supposed to be.

There is a clear-cut idea in the scriptures, what is supposed to be God. And what not to worship in place of God, then why worship the belief of God, which is not God?

Religious Gods are based on blind belief. Belief is not God. The religious God cannot be considered as the center because the invisible Soul, the Self, is the center of all that exists.

Without the invisible Soul, the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence.

God in truth is only the Soul, 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)

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says: "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)

People are unaware that their belief in God is not God in truth. From the Vedic perspective, their blind belief based God itself is superstition.

The populace is not bothered to find out the truth of their own God, which they believe and worship.: :~Santthosh Kumaar

The ups and downs of the practical life within the practical world have nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self.+

People feel it is difficult to accept the world as an illusion because they hold the false self as the real Self; therefore, they think of the world in which they exist as a reality.

If the Self is not ‘you’, then the world in which you exist will not remain as a reality.

A person who stamped his foot on the ground to refute, to show the world that, is real, ignores that in a dream, he would do exactly the same-stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real.

It is erroneous to mix practical life and the practical world in the Atmic path.

The ups and downs of the practical life within the practical world have nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self.

In the beginning, the inner journey one feels is a difficult path to tread on because everyone is so immersed and intoxicated in the dualistic illusion.

In Self-awareness, nothing disappears on the dawn of wisdom, but the unreal nature of the waking is exposed in the midst of the duality.

One sees his body as the consciousness, his ego as consciousness, and the world as consciousness.

Thus, there is a unity in diversity in his understanding. In Self-awareness, the unknown restlessness has disappeared. Self-awareness brings stillness of the mind in the midst of action or duality.

Thus, searching the truth within illusion with the illusory Self, within the illusory world, is bound to be an illusion. The illusion is created and sustained, and finally dissolves as the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Since there is no second thing other than the Soul or consciousness, consciousness itself is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth.

Really, no time is required if the seeker is sharp enough to grasp the Advaitic truth. All the accumulated knowledge and religious conditions block the realization.

The seeker's need is an intense urge to realize the truth. If the seeker is serious and sincere, he has it. After all, it is a matter of attitude.

Nothing stops you from being a Gnani, right in this very life, not in the next life or next world. Fear of losing your physical identity people are afraid to inquire.

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Advaitin sages and Maya

A King who believed the dualistic doctrine and was greatly incensed at the doctrine taught Advaita sage that everything here below is an illusion. He wanted to teach the exponent of this doctrine a lesson. So he invited the then Advaitin sage to his palace. That Advaitin sage went there and stoutly maintained that everything in this world was an illusion. The king had arranged to let loose an infuriated elephant against, Advaitin sage. The beast rushed at Advaitin Sage, who took to a precipitate flight to save himself.

'Oh, Venerable Sir,' shouted the king, 'why do you run so fast, seeing that the elephant is only an illusion?'

'Oh, king,' said Advaitin Sage in the course of his flight, 'my running too is an illusion. Everything in this world is an illusion.’

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Similarly, the practical life within the practical world is a mere illusion. All our hopes and desires or pleasure and pain are a reality within the illusion.

We are all searching for truth within the illusion, not being aware of the fact that the illusion is created out of a single stuff, which is the Soul or consciousness.

The invisible Soul is the Self. When the waking entity realizes it is not the Self in the midst of the waking experience, then it enters nondual awareness, which is free from the illusory form, time, and space.

A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. A Gnani is fully aware of the fact that the experiences the pleasure and pain within the waking experience are merely an illusion because the waking experience itself is an illusion.

Thus, life within the waking experience will go on, on its own. It is nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self. The waking or dream is merely an object to the formless witness. The invisible Soul is the Self.

The invisible Soul is the witness. The invisible Soul, the witness, has nothing to do with the three states because it is the witness of the coming and going of the three states or illusion. : m : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

To attain Self-realization, the study of the Advaita Vedanta is not necessary.+

Sage Sankara says ~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

Sage Sankara himself had often said that his philosophy was based on Sruti or revealed scripture. This may be because Sage Sankara addressed the ordinary man, who finds security in the idea of causality and thus, in the idea of God ~ and Revelation is indispensable to prove the latter. He believed that those of superior intelligence have no need for this idea of divine causality and can, therefore, dispense with Sruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason.

Sage Sankara is the only sage who has final authority on the Advaitic truth. The Advaitic truth is rational truth and scientific truth without dogma.

Sage Sankara himself has warned us not to use ambiguous words and to practice semantic analysis in his book "Definition of one's own Self. (Page 199, v.24 of "Sankara's Selected Works)

Sage Sankara founded his Advaita Vedanta either on reason independent of Sruti or on Sruti confirmed by reason."

Sage Sankara, in debates with Buddhists and others who did not recognize the authority of the Vedas, had been obliged to prove the truth of Advaita by means of reason alone.

Sage Sankara, in debates with Buddhists and others who did not recognize the authority of the Vedas, had been obliged to prove the truth of Advaita by means of reason alone.

Remember:~

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Reason as a means to reality. (Chap. 18 verse 37)

In chap. 10 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says: ~ I cannot save you, but I can give you Buddhi (reason). (chap. 10)

In chap. 10 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says: ~ "I have given you the most secret teaching, now reflect over it all." Krishna plainly says Reflect, think. (Verse 63 of Chap. 18)

Mundaka Upanishad says: ~ Both states are harmful and take you away from the path of inquiry into truth. (Page 234)

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ It is not the absence of Buddhi (Reason) that can grasp Advaita, but the man who possesses the highest intellect. Brains are necessary. Such a man, by merely hearing the truth mentioned, will know it. (Page~ 224).

Remember:~

To attain Self-realization, the study of the Advaita Vedanta is not necessary. You want fresh water to drink, but you do not require all the water of the river to quench your thirst.

The intellectual wealth of accumulated knowledge is of no use in the quest for truth. Each Guru spins his own imagination and calls it wisdom.

My blogs and posts are useful in explaining doubts and difficulties the seeker encounters in the course of thinking.

Sage Sankara's wisdom (Advaita) ~ Without a Parallel. Sage Sankara's wisdom is lofty, sublime, and unique. It is highly interesting, inspiring, and elevating. No other wisdom can stand before it in boldness, depth, and subtle thinking. Sage Sankara’s wisdom is complete and perfect.

Advaitic wisdom is independent of religion, as in Sage Sankara himself, the Saguna Brahman or a personal God is only a part of the phenomenal (if not illusory) world, and the Nirguna Brahman is the only reality and has nothing to do with religion.

Sage Sankara’s whole teaching can be summed up in one sentence: ‘There is nothing else but Brahman. He says that the Absolute Existence, Absolute Knowledge, and Absolute Bliss are real. The universe is not real. He says that Brahma and Atman are one. The ultimate and the Absolute Truth is the Self, which is one though appearing as many different individuals. The individual has no reality. Only the Self is real; the rest, mental and physical, are but passing appearances.

There is no need to study Vedanta. The seeker has to find out: - ‘What is mind or ‘I’?’, ‘What is the substance of the mind (I)?’ And what is the source of the mind? (I), to realize the nature of the mind (I).

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

The non-duality has to be grasped in the midst of the duality (waking experience).

When one is Soul-centric, then he will realize ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’ and ‘what is reality’ and what is unreality’ and be able to establish himself in the truth and be able to view and judge the three states, based on the invisible Soul, the Self. The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Unfortunately, people are stuck with their accumulated ideas based on the false self, and imagine nonduality and say nothing exists other than the source. But a Gnani says everything exists (illusion), but everything is created out of a single stuff and that single stuff is the consciousness.

Everything arises from the consciousness and subsides as consciousness. Thus, the whole diversity (three states) has no relevance from the standpoint of the consciousness as the Self.

Everything (illusion) is nothingness (consciousness), realizing the three states are created out of nothingness (Consciousness). Nothingness is the nature of consciousness because there is no second thing that exists other than itself.

Religion, mysticism, and yoga are meant for the mass mindset, which is incapable of investigating and verifying their inherited beliefs. The path of wisdom or truth is to get the pure essence of non-duality or Advaita.

The ultimate truth is based on the invisible Soul, the Self. Soul-centric reasoning leads one to non-dual Self-awareness. Therefore, there is a need to rectify the reasoning base from ego base to invisible Soul base to understand, assimilate, and realize the Non-dualistic or Advaitic truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The invisible Soul, the Self, is not within your body because the invisible Soul, the Self, is hidden by the illusory world in which you exist.+

Q:~ Dear Pure Soul, Is it not true that when the Eternal Cosmic Laws get fulfilled, Subtle Truth becomes one's Subjective Experience in 72000 Subtle Meridian Channels in the body as All-Pervading Presence! But could it ever be accessed with the limited 5 Senses as Objective Reality? The Sacred Substratum ever exists as [All Pervading Total Awareness] and was never formed to ever disappear! sincerely

Suresh

A:~ Santthosh Kumaar: ~

Dearest brother

As per my conviction

‘Suppose if you are discussing the same subject in a dream, the dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. Similarly, you are discussing the same subject now in waking than waking becomes unreal when you realize the Self is not you but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. The invisible Soul, the Self, is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

If the world in which you exist is merely an illusion, then “your idea of The Eternal Cosmic Laws gets fulfilled, Subtle Truth becomes one's Subjective Experience in 72000 Subtle Meridian Channels in the body as All-Pervading Presence! But could it ever be accessed with the limited 5 Senses as Objective Reality? The Sacred Substratum, ever exists as [All Pervading Total Awareness] was never formed to ever disappear.” ~ is bound to be an illusion.

Remember this:

The Self is not within the body, so why do you think the Self is within your body?

If you think the Self is within your body, then you will never be able to realize the Self, which is hidden by the world in which you exist.

Remember this:

The invisible Soul, the Self, is not within your body because the invisible Soul, the Self, is hidden by the illusory world in which you exist.

It is hidden by the illusory world in which you exist because the illusory world in which you exist is created out of the invisble Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real, and all else is an illusion.

Remember: ~

The invisible Soul is the Self. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world in which you exist ceases to exist.

Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it.

Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is real and eternal. The world in which we exist is an illusion created out of consciousness.

The ignorant populace is being caught up in the dualistic illusion, searching for God (truth) in all the wrong places, always seeking it in various rituals, temples, forests, and mountaintops, not realizing that what we seek is already hidden within the universe in which we exist.

The ultimate truth or Brahman (God in truth) dwells within the three states like fragrance in the flower; Musk lies within the Musk-deer yet seeks it afar." Until one traces the truth within the three states, the illusion of birth, life, death, and the world is experienced as a reality.

The religion is based on a personal God. And the religion accepts the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas Sage Sankara declares the world is unreal, and Brahman alone is real. Thus, the experience of birth, life, and death happening within the unreal world is bound to be a falsehood.

Thus, the religious and religious belief and their rituals based on the birth entity are bound to be a falsehood. The seeker has to realize ‘what is that which is real and eternal?

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.

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

People’s one part of the mind is perfectly sane, with worldly duties, but in the other part, generally dealing with religious beliefs, they are ignorant. This is the condition of the followers of the belief system.

• Belief is not proof. Thus, whatever is propagated by the belief system is not proof.

• How is one to know that what he believes as God is true?

This question must prick the seeker of truth.

The seeker must hold his judgment in suspense, and say meanwhile he can’t accept any claims without verification.

People are not aware that there is no God that can exist, apart from the invisible Soul. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

If there is no consciousness, then there is no physical body, no world, and no belief in a religious God. They think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one thinks body or as the Self, then there is a creator, but if one thinks of the invisible Soul as the true Self, then there is nothing that exists other than the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the cause of the illusory universe.+

The invisible Soul, the Self, is hidden by the illusory universe. The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the cause of the illusory universe.

The invisible Soul is the Self. From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the universe is an illusion created out of consciousness.

Realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul right now and right here, and rest in consciousness.

Sage Sankara says: - VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the not-Self.

Sage Sankara says - VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book-knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

Without knowing ‘what is this mind?’, people talk of destroying the mind. People are stuck thinking the mind is within their body, and they theorize and write books speculating and creating their own theories.

A deeper self-search reveals that the ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind. And the mind is in the form of the universe. And the universe appears as the waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

Self-realization is necessary to realize that the mind, which is present in the form of the universe, is merely an illusion. The mind cannot be destroyed because it is merely an illusion.

When Advaitic wisdom dawns, the unreal nature of the mind is exposed, in the same way the unreal nature of the dream was exposed when the waking takes place.

When the source has been reached, then the mind (I) gets merged into it. The result of Self-knowledge is a cure for getting rid of ignorance. It is the highest of all the results. There is nothing greater than it.

Upanishads: - 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. (Chapter IV — Alatasanti Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada)

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

What is the use of saying ‘I AM THAT’- without knowing what the ‘Self’ is in actuality? Without knowing the truth of the Self, without realizing the truth of the world in which you exist, it is impossible to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. By a mere utterance of the word ‘I AM THAT', the truth will not be revealed. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

No one can claim that he was the first Knower of the creation.+

Q: Why does Brahma create this illusion?

A:~ Santthosh Kumaar:~ Brahman is not the religious idea of Brahma, the creator. In Spirituality, Bahman means the ultimate truth. The invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

There is neither the creator nor creation in Advaitic reality. The creator and the creation theory are a religious fable.

You are asking the question within the dualistic illusion or Maya. The question is also based on the dualistic perspective. In reality, the illusion is nothing but the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The illusory reality has no value when its unreal nature is exposed.

Only when you inquire into the nature of the universe, the unreal nature of the illusion (universe) is exposed, and the non-existence of the illusion as reality. The illusion is the state of ignorance.

Without ignorance, the illusion ceases to exist. The illusion is nothing but the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

A Gnani knows that there's neither unity nor plurality - the world is neither one nor many. Just as a piece of rope is mistaken for a snake, the invisible Soul is mistaken for this diverse world. The duality is an illusory appearance, and the non-dual Atman is the real truth.

Suppose you had asked the same question in a dream; the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns.

The Advaitic wisdom dawns when you realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, the Self, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion. Thus, all the happenings within the illusion are bound to be an illusion. Until ignorance is there, the world in which you exist prevails as a reality.

When ignorance vanishes through Advaitic wisdom, then the world in which you exist, which you think as reality, becomes an illusion.

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the world, our observations, and experienced. The commoner viewing the world will see it differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego; therefore, he experiences birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness, and he is fully aware of the fact that there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul or consciousness.

Thus, all the egocentric knowledge has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The world in which we exist is nothing but an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The whole universe is nothing but the invisible Soul. Therefore, there is no second thing that exists other than the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

It is not as if something that was not consciousness suddenly becomes consciousness. Rather, "knowing the truth” means the removal of ignorance about one's own existence as consciousness. Thus, to "know the truth” is to "be consciousness."

Egocentric knowledge must be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth.

Consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world in which you exist ceases to exist. Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it.

Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar