Self -Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana cannot destroy the universe but it eliminates the ignorance and exposes the unreal nature of the mind or universe.+

Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is only true knowledge, not the absence of duality.  Self -Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana cannot destroy the world but it eliminates ignorance and exposes the unreal nature of the mind or universe.

Sage Sankara: - 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.

Sage Sankara:~ VC- 61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?

How does one get knowledge? What is meant for knowledge? What is true knowledge? –all this of which must be dealt with by the seeker of truth in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Self-knowledge does not destroy the world but it exposes the unreal nature of the world which appears as waking and is experienced as reality by the person within the waking.  In the same way, the unreality of the dream was exposed when waking took place.

People talk of liberation. They are only forming an idea. The idea is mere imagination; imagination is possible only in ignorance. People, who are so confused as to be unable mentally separate the formless witness from the three states, speak of gaining liberation. But all such ideas are only possible in waking experience, which come and go, the witness or Soul needs no liberation.

The destruction of the world and man within the world does not mean that they should become imperceptible to the senses but there should arise a determination of their unreal nature; for if that were not the case, people may find emancipation without any effort on their part as during dreamless sleep and fainting.

That consciousness remains as the sole real factor, means that there should be a realization of ultimate truth or Brahman as the sole unity and not a mere absence of the cognition of the world; otherwise, there would be no such thing as emancipation in this very life not in next world and next life

Emancipation can occur without yoga. What can be done by yoga can be done by Gnana. Yoga alone leads to Samadhi, but Gnana also liberates the Soul, the  Self from experiencing the illusion as reality.

Man and his experience of the universe appear together and disappear together.  The universe is present in the form of ‘I’. When ‘I’ is there the universe is there.  Without the ‘I’ there is no universe. The universe appears as a waking or dream and it disappears as deep sleep.  

Thus the ‘I’ appears as a waking or dream and disappears and remains ‘I-less in deep sleep. ‘I-lessness is the nature of the soul, the innermost self. ‘I’ is the duality. And ‘I-lessness is non-duality.  Thus it is very much necessary to drop all the ‘I’ and ‘I am’ based teaching in order to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Man and his practical life and the practical world are a reality within the waking experience, but a waking experience is merely an object to the formless subject.

One cannot get away from waking experience. It has appeared on its own and disappears on its own.  Man is born, lives, and dies within the waking experience.  Therefore the seeker ought to know, understand and grasp its meaning. The yogi or mystic and orthodoxy who refuses to do so is refusing to face the whole of reality.

Those who say they have come into contact with God” merely imagine or assume.   They do not know the ultimate meaning of God. All the idea of God is created by men of the past there is no such religious propagated god that exists in the realm of reality.  The ultimate truth is God or Brahman or Christ or Buddha.

Deeper self-search requires the seeker to be sharp and active in order to examine the world and discriminate. The non-dualistic Nirvikalpa Samadhi means knowing that man, the universe and its contents are not different from consciousness, as the dream mountain is not different from consciousness, knowing which they automatically come to realize everything is consciousness. This is different from Yogic Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which is only deep sleep or thoughtlessness.

If a man gets Moksha after undergoing any discipline, his Moksha is only temporary: it will go again. Consciousness cannot be got because it is already there. The witness has never been in bondage because it is always apart from, untouched by the mind or universe waking or dream which is merely an object because consciousness is the formless subject.

Yogis and religionists regard ignorance as an integral part of the soul to be got rid of by their practices, whereas formless witness is ever pure, ever free from ignorance, being Knowledge itself, and that even all practices are within the realm of object or universe or waking, never formless witness.

The final realization is that consciousness is everything, the All; there is nothing but consciousness, whereas to say "God is in me" is mysticism.

Non-dualistic bliss is non-dual; there is no enjoyer present to enjoy it or to distinguish it from misery. The mystic revels only in 'bliss' that is experienced i.e. that comes and goes, but he is not non-dualist. 

A man of truth never indulges in discussion and arguments with the people who talk of god and yoga and scriptures or atheist ideology and intellectuality since they all are based on the base of the waking entity or ego, which is the false self within the false experience. He just listens to them with all humility and respects their views and wisdom as fellow human beings.  That is how a man of truth behaves in the company of the people who think their accepted truth is the ultimate truth.:~Santthosh Kumaar