Sage Goudpada: ~ To establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone.+

Sage Goudpada: ~ To establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. He begins by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the right way to understand and assimilate. People must first know what they are talking about. (Manduka Karika)

If you hold the Self is within your physical body, then 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.

Remember:~

Imparting the Advaitic wisdom to the unprepared mind would be equivalent to giving sermons to the stone statues.

Everyone is not ripe enough to understand, assimilate the Nondualistic or Advaitic truth. Some people want to exhibit their intellectual wealth, but it has no value in the pursuit of truth.

The seeker must have enough patience, humility, and an intense urge to know the truth. Arguments and provocation will not yield truth. 

Perfect understanding of ‘what is what ‘leads to the realization of Nondualistic or Advaitic truth.

As the seeker's understanding of ‘what is what ‘grows, gradually the seeker gets a glimpse of truth. Whatever is based on the waking entity is falsehood, and whatever is based on the invisible  Soul, the   Self, is real and eternal. 

Thus, the seeker of truth must make sure the waking entity (ego) 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 man of truth will not indulge in the argument; he keeps a distance from such a mindset. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

All these appearances are an illusion, which comes and goes; hence, meaningless to the invisible Soul, the Self.+

For a Gnani: ~

Where is the body, where is the mind, where is the world, the void, or despair in the true Self, which is the taintless Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. They are or have become consciousness.

One thinks there is a mind when he has thoughts, but when thoughts are not considered different from consciousness, which is the true Self, then where is the division into waking, dream, and deep sleep, etc?

Void implies duality: the universe may not exist, but the thought of the second is there. If one knows there is a Void (emptiness/nothingness), then there is something there to be known and known. They are or have become consciousness.

What are the scriptures, what is Self-knowledge, what is the mind without the objects, what is contentment, and where is desirelessness for the invisible Soul, the Self, which is ever devoid of the sense of duality?

What is knowledge? What is ignorance? What is the ego? What is duality? What is the mind? What is bondage? What is liberation? What is definableness to the invisible Soul, the Self, which is in the form of consciousness?

All these appearances are an illusion, which comes and goes; hence, meaningless to the invisible  Soul, the  Self.

Egocentric knowledge is not the ultimate knowledge because ego-based knowledge is dualistic, knowledge based on the object (body) as the subject. But in non-dualistic Knowledge, whatever seems to exist also is consciousness; therefore, there is no scope for the existence of the second thing.

What are the past karmas? What is liberation –in this life? And what is that liberation at death? For the birthless Soul, which is ever formless.

The nearest state to understand the Soul by itself is to eliminate mental waking and dreaming, as in deep sleep. Once this is grasped, one has to understand that everything is consciousness, which is the real Self.

What is the doer or the enjoyer? What is the cessation of thoughts or the rising of thoughts? What is immediate perception and its result on the invisible Soul, which is ever impersonal?  

A Gnani is the one who is never afraid of thinking and knowing all his individual experience and the world to be consciousness.

What is the world, and what is meant by the aspirant for liberation; what is contemplative and what is the man of knowledge; what the Self is and what liberated Self is to the invisible  Soul, which is the non-dual essence.

When we analyze the dream experience, we find the dream entity, the dream world with all people in it, appeared as a whole, and the dream reality lasted until the waking experience appeared. 

When one tries to know the truth of his true existence in the waking through inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, one becomes aware that the Self is not physical, but it is an invisible Soul, which is in the form of consciousness, which is the essence of the three states from which the three states are made.

Thus, the illusions of the three states are made of one single substance, which is consciousness. 

By realizing the formless substance, which is consciousness as the Self,  ignorance vanishes, and one becomes aware that the three states are an illusion from the standpoint of the formless substance, which is also the witness of the three states. :~ Santthosh Kumaar 

Swami Vivekananda: ~ Oneness (Advaita) is the Secret of Everything.+

Swami Vivekananda: ~ Oneness (Advaita) is the Secret of Everything.

Oneness means Advaita. Identifying the Soul hidden by the universe as it is, through Advaitic wisdom, the oneness arises.

Lord Krishna: People did not care for Advaita; they wanted religion; hence, Advaitic wisdom got lost. That is why Lord Krishna calls it "the supreme secret.

Sage Sankara said: ~ Liberation will never come without realizing the Oneness.

Oneness is the nature of the invisible Soul, the Self. Oneness means Advaita or nonduality.

When the universe appears, the duality appears. When there is duality, then there is no Oneness. When there is Oneness, there is no duality.

By saying I and you are one the Oneness will not arise.

There is no Oneness in the realm of ignorance.

There is no Oneness when ‘I’ is present.

There is no Oneness when the mind is present.

There is no Oneness when the dualistic illusion is present.

There is no Oneness when the universe is present.

There is no Oneness when the waking or dream is present.

There is no Oneness when the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is present.

There is consciousness Oneness in the midst of the dualistic illusion when Advaitic wisdom dawns. : :~Santthosh Kumaar 

Without consciousness, the world in which you exist ceases to exist.+

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.

To the invisible Soul, the Self: ~

What are projection and retraction, what are the end and means; what are the failure and success, to the invisible Soul, which is formless, timeless, and spaceless in its nature.

The illusory world appears and merges back into its essence is not an appearance at all.

What is the knower, the means of knowledge, the object of knowledge; what is anything or nothing to the invisible Soul which is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless?

Knower, knowledge, object, thing, nothing, or any word one may utter is, after all, they are the word and words have meaning only within the illusion.

Consciousness is ever-present in all three states, but as a person, one is unconscious of consciousness because they think the Self is their body.

When all knowing, known, and knower are simultaneously mental as in the dream, what else is there to trouble about understanding them? Because one considers the waking experience as reality, one is incapable of understanding and assimilating the Advaitic truth.

What is the distraction? What is the concentration, dullness, and delusion, happiness, and sorrow to the Soul, which is ever actionless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless?

As a person, one may be drawn to observe his body and the world, but the Gnani is not disturbed by it because he has realized his body and his experience of the world are made of consciousness.

The physical attributes have nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self wrongly; all the attributes belong to the ego, not the invisible Soul. Identifying the physical attribute with the invisible Soul is the cause of ignorance. ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The Self is not you but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.+

You are thinking that the Self is you. Remember, the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Until you hold the Self, as you will remain in ignorance. You are the false self (ego) within the dualistic illusion (Maya).

The invisible Soul, the Self, is hidden by the dualistic illusion (I). It is hidden by the dualistic illusion because the dualistic illusion is created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

You and your experience of the world are nothing but an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. The nature of the invisible Soul is nondual awareness (bliss).

In Self-awareness, there is no difference between you and your experience of the world because they are nothing but consciousness. Consciousness itself is God in truth.

Self-awareness is God-awareness. God-awareness itself is Advaitic Bliss. Advaitic Bliss is not yogic bliss. The yogic bliss is an individual experience, whereas the Advaitic bliss is not an experience but reality.

In Advaitic bliss, the invisible Soul, the Self, remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion.

Meher Baba said: ~ God is your innermost Self. Do not search for God outside of you. Let these words be inscribed in your heart.

Nothing is real but God. Nothing matters but love for God. God is everywhere and does everything. God is beyond us and is everything. God alone is, and all else is an illusion.

Thus, the seeker must realize what God is supposed to be in actuality, then only you will realize the universe is merely an illusion created out of God in truth.

Meher Baba: ~ "There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization."

Meher Baba: ~ “When the reality appears, this ignorance which one thinks as reality becomes unreal.:~Santthosh Kumaar

All the gurus of east and west propagate their own theory and call it Advaita.+

All the Advaitic teachings of the Gurus of the East and West have nothing to do with the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

Remember:~Without Sage Sankara, there is no Advaita because he is the profounder of the Advaitic wisdom.

Advaita is universal. Advaita is not for Sale. Do not buy Advaita from the spiritual supermarket. Advaita is the nature of the invisible Soul, the Self. The world in which you exist is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom.

Advaitic truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to realize because you have accumulated mental garbage from different sources in the name of Advaita. Until you discard all the accumulated knowledge, you will never be able to realize the Advaitic truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The Advaita is the nature of the invisible Soul, the Self shines on its own awareness when wisdom dawns.

Advaita is the nondual nature of the invisible Soul, the Self, which is the cause and support of all that exists as the world in which we exist. Advaita is the nondual nature of God, the Self.

Advaita is present in the form of consciousness. Advaita is the root element of the universe.

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

Remember:~

All the gurus of East and West propagate their own theory and call it Advaita.

Only in religion and the yogic path, one have to follow and practice. Everyone thinks he has to follow some Guru or Godman. But all these methods are full of frustrations and give no real satisfaction. Reality has no method. Illusion has many methods, many problems, and many concepts.

To overcome illusion or concepts, one should know the source of the mind and from where this mind arises. “When the mind is there, then only the universe is present.

The absence of the mind is absent from the universe. The absence of the universe is absent of duality. The absence of duality is the absence of thoughts.

Thus, until one becomes aware of what the mind is and what the substance of the mind is, it is impossible to assimilate the nondualistic or Advaitic truth.

Advaitic wisdom does not come just by sitting quietly, observing silence, and meditating, indulging in repeating mantras, reading books, hearing sermons, meeting Gurus or yogis, and doing pranayama, but wisdom dawns only when you realize that the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul.

Some Gurus give speeches telling people to surrender to the Guru unconditionally, and then only they get self-realization. All such claims are empty words. Their falsity speaks louder than words.

If you are seeking truth, then you should disregard such claims. Not by listening to the sermons of the Gurus, nor by the study of books, nor by meritorious deeds, nor by any other means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

That is why Swami Vivekananda said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own Soul.”

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

That is why Buddha said: ~ “Believe nothing because a wise man said it, Believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be divine. Believe nothing because someone else said it. But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.

Upanishads:~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking they are wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Upanishads Nikilanada - Ch II-5 P-14)

The wisdom consists in knowing the truth, that everything (mind or physical existence) is consciousness. The freedom (ultimate truth) is always there, yet one does not know it. But to those whose reason is turned away from physicality and who have attained the serenity of the invisible Soul, the Self, are quite near to realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

You, the world in which you exist, belong to physical awareness. Physical awareness is not Atmic-awareness.+

You, the world in which you exist, belong to physical awareness. Physical awareness is not Atmic-awareness.

Realize, the world in which you exist is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge.

When firm conviction of Self-knowledge becomes firmer in the subconscious, then Self-awareness arises on its own.

When the invisible Soul, the Self, remains in its own awareness: ~

What is this body?

What is the ego?

What is this world?

What is the 'I'?

What is duality?

What is existence, nonexistence, unity, or duality?

What needs us there to say more?

Noting from the invisible Soul, the Self, because whatever seems to emanate from it is non-different from itself.

There is no second thing other than the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. One should not mistake the Self (Soul) for the ‘I’.

Those who assert the world is a reality are still in the elementary stages of the preliminary analysis.

The world is a reality within the waking experience, but the waking experience is merely an illusion. In the same way, the dream world was a reality within the dream experience.

The dream became unreal when the waking took place. In the same way, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar