The path of wisdom is nothing to do with yoga and religion. The path of religion, the theory of karma, the yogic path, and the path of wisdom were intended for different classes of people.
Advaitic wisdom is for the advanced seekers of truth. It deals with the nature of the ultimate Truth and Reality. Advaitic wisdom is meant for superior aspirants who have an inner urge to know the truth and it is not for those who are immersed in earthly desires.
As per the scriptures, the three "Ashrams" or stages in life were originally intended for three grades of intelligence thus:~
Religion:~ low intellects had to do 'karmas' works, ritual actions, chanting of mantras and indulging in Bajans and prayers, etc.
Middle intellects: Yoga:~ taking yellow robes, going to mountains, ashrams, etc.
High intellects: wisdom who wanted the truth is concerned with no external rites or sanyasa but depends solely on the intelligent inquiry for their path.
The real Moksha or freedom is to realize the fact that the ‘I’ consciousness is mere physical awareness. Physical awareness is not self-awareness. The Self –awareness is when the formless Soul remains in its own awareness.
Moksha is freedom. Freedom is becoming free from experiencing the dualistic illusion or Maya as reality by realizing the fact that, the Self is not the form, but the Self is formless.
It is possible to realize this without realizing the fact that, the individual self or ego is a reality within the false experience. Thus, all the knowledge accumulated by judging on the base of the false self is false knowledge.
People believe in old myths propagated by their religion. Every religion has propagated its own myth. Every religious belief contradicts other beliefs. It is merely a blind belief accepted as the truth without verification and evidence. This causes division.
Modern science has exposed many Religious dogmas as a myth. All these dogmas were introduced in the primitive era before people had the benefit of modern science. Science attempts to objectively discover how life works, and religion makes one blindly believe and cast his burden on the blind belief without verification, to live in peace and harmony in THE practical life within the practical world.
Orthodox and pundits have an “I know” attitude, therefore, they think others know nothing. They pretend to be listening, but they think others are primitive people who could not possibly have anything to share with them.” This type of outlook is a great obstacle in the pursuit of truth. The orthodoxy is the greatest hindrance to realizing the Advaitic truth.
The seeker's main aim is to investigate both the dual and the non-dual experiences to find and define the underlying truth in everything, thereby realizing what the ultimate truth is. Because of so many beliefs propagated by the belief system, people think seekers of truth are atheists because they do not accept the belief blindly. The seekers of truth believe the religious believers and atheists both are believers because religious believers believe in the belief of God and atheists believe in the belief of no God.
The Pursuit of truth is all about accepting uncertainty and open questions and seeking the things that are a certainty. The believers and the nonbelievers will not accept anything other than their inherited belief system or accepted truth. Atheists feel there is no proof of God's existence. So, atheist chooses to just believe there is no such thing called God. And religious believers just believe in the existence of their conceptual God.
A Gnani is one who is fully aware of the fact that the existence or non-existence of God cannot be proven on the base of the physical self. Therefore deeper understanding is necessary to understand and assimilate the truth about God's existence to know what is supposed to be God in truth.
In Vedas, God has been described as:~
Sakshi (Witness)
Chetan (conscious)
Nirguna (Without form and properties).
Nitya (eternal)
Shuddha (pure)
Buddha (omniscient)
Mukta (unattached).
All this the above is the nature of the Soul, the Self. Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of Consciousness is God in truth. That is Atman is Brahman.
Rig Veda:~ Prajnanam Brahma: - Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
When Vedas itself says consciousness itself is Brahman or God in truth then all other Gods you believe and worship are not Gods in truth.
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 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.
In Advaita Vedanta:~ Brahman(God in truth) is without attributes and strictly impersonal. It can be best described as infinite Being, infinite Consciousness, and infinite Bliss. It is pure knowledge itself, similar to a source of infinite radiance. Since the Advaitins regard Brahman to be the Ultimate Truth, so, in comparison to Brahman, every other thing, including the material world, its distinctness, the individuality of the living creatures, and even Ishvara (the Supreme Lord) itself are all untrue. Brahman is the effulgent cause of everything that exists and can possibly exist. Since it is beyond human comprehension, it is without any attributes, for assigning attributes to it would be distorting the true nature of Brahman. Advaitins believe in the existence of both Saguna Brahman and Nirguna Brahman; however, they consider Nirguna Brahman to be the absolute supreme truth.
The Atman is the real self. The Atman is present in the form of the consciousness is the ultimate truth and it is God.
The Atman is within the mind (universe) and the mind (universe) is within the soul. The universe) is within the self and the Self is within the universe. The chicken is in the egg and the egg is in the chicken. The tree is in the seed and the seed is in the tree. The same thing that was told by the Vedas was repeated by Saint John (10-38)? Father is in me and I am in Father. Thus the father (Soul, the Self) is our immediate, neighbor- love thy neighbor.
Therefore, one has to love the Soul in order to become one with the Spirit (God in truth), which is the creator, sustainer, and dissolver of the world (duality).
Self-realization is necessary in order to realize the ultimate truth or god. Self-realization is the real God-realization.
People are ignorant and they are unaware of the reality of their true existence. Man and his experience of the universe is simply an illusion created out of consciousness. the Soul or the consciousness is the real Self. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
Mundaka Upanishad:~ The rituals and the sacrifices described in the Vedas deal with lower knowledge. The sages ignored these rituals and went in search of higher knowledge. ... Such rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing The sea of samsara, of birth and death. Doomed to shipwreck are those who try to cross The sea of samsara on these poor rafts. Ignorant of their own ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men Proud of their vain learning go round and round Like the blind led by the blind.
All the scriptures indicate that the Atman is Brahman, and Brahman is the ultimate truth. Therefore the soul, which is in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth. Realizing the ultimate truth is the prime goal. A well-directed inquiry, analysis, and reasoning will lead one to his non-dual destination.
Self-Realization is a direct realization of the ultimate truth or the real God, in contrast with the traditional paths, which are indirect. And the other paths cannot lead to the ultimate destination, because they are based on the false self (ego), which they hold as the real Self, and the false experience (waking) as a reality. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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