Buddha: ~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.+

Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut 1.36-42: ~  Non-duality is taught by some; some others teach duality. They don't understand that the all-pervading Reality is beyond both duality and non-duality. 

Bhagavan Buddha: ~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Different gurus and teachers are pointing out the understanding of the Advaitic truth from different standpoints. All such understanding of Advaita is on the dualistic perspective accumulated from here and there.

Advaita is not a theory or a philosophy. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self. There is no need for any theory or philosophy or scriptures to acquire Self-knowledge. Only a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.

The citations from scriptures are not proofs.  The ultimate truth has to be proved without the scriptures.  The ultimate truth is the universal truth and it does not belong to any religion.  Religion causes diversity in unity, whereas, the ultimate truth brings unity in diversity. 

It is not that one should pore over the ancient scriptures.  There is no need to study first, then realize. One has to realize first, then only he will know ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. One has to make discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

That is why Sage Sankara says:~ V C-65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it, and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

I just write what is revealed from the inner core. My main intention is to divert their attention to the source from where the mind (universe) rises and subsides. Reading my blogs gradually they will start assimilation ‘what is truth and what is the untruth. Repeated reading of my blogs makes the seeker, soul-centric,  and the inner dialogue will start and clear all his doubts and confusion.

When there are no doubts and confusion, then they have realized the truth that form, time and space are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness. There is no use in wasting time in questioning and arguing, the same time and effort have to be used to make the seeker more independent and without external spoon-feeding. the seeker can reach the inner core, which is the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness.

The words that mean different things to different people take it or leave it, it matters not to me. It is what's behind the words, between the lines that matters. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is meant for the class, not for the mass. 

A Gnani is one who has realized the ultimate truth or Brahman. In ultimate reality in which there is neither the man nor the world, he is free from experiencing the form, time, and space as a reality. 

Without realizing the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity but the self is the formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession.  Thus, one has to mentally grasp the existence of the formless witness, which is the Soul, the Self. 

The soul is present in the form of consciousness. the soul or the consciousness is within the three states and it is apart from the three states. It is hidden by the three states as their formless substance and it is apart from the three states as their formless witness.

The real Gnani is one who knows reality, beyond form, time, and space.   What exists for others as reality does not exist for him as a reality. What people take for granted, he denies absolutely. He wants everyone to be soul-centric to realize the fact that, their body, their ego, and their experience of the world are merely an illusion created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is consciousness. Thus, consciousness is second to none.

It takes a very long time to understand and assimilate the Nondualistic truth. The seeker must have an urge to know the truth and have the patience, humility, and razor-edge sharpness to grasp the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth will sure to reach their ultimate understanding and realization. 

The path of wisdom is an independent path.  The wisdom will dawn only when the seeker uses his reason and is able to discriminate between ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal.

A Gnani hints about the truth again and again but it is for the seeker to verify by thinking rationally and reasoning and discriminating to find out ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is not the truth.

The Seeker does not need a Guru but what the seeker requires is the discriminating power to discriminate between the witness (Soul) and witnessed (mind) to realize the reality beyond form, time, and space. 

Osho ~ Buddha says:~ Go alone, just remember two things. Don’t carry your mistakes~ that means, don’t carry your past. There is no need even to repent about the past. Your religious people go on teaching you, “Repent!” because it is through repentance that they make you feel guilty, and when you are guilty you can be exploited.

A real master always makes you feel good about yourself, not guilty; respectful towards yourself, not guilty. But the priests live on creating guilt in you. They would not like you to forget your mistakes; they want to remind you again and again. They have not even forgotten the sin that was committed by Adam and Eve; they go on reminding you about the original sin.

You have not committed it, but you are born into the chain in which the first man and woman committed it and you are carrying the load of it. You have to feel guilty even for that, what to say about your own mistakes? The priests have lived in great power for the simple reason that they have reduced you into guilty sinners. 

Where people cannot and do not think, they follow others. A Gnani will see the world and get to know it is the only appearance. He is not blind; he sees three states or objects as it is, but he knows it is the only falsehood. Just as you see a mirage, the Gnani sees the mirage of this universe too; but he is not deceived by it. So long as one is ignorant, he will have the idea that God has created this world because the causal notion will be there. 

Nobody wants to suffer, and while the notion that suffering can be got rid of by appealing to God, these wishes will sway the mind to believe in God. For them, religion will arise, but for the man who wants the truth, religion offers no consolation. :~Santthosh Kumaar