To realize the Advaitic truth the seeker has to be free from all superstitions and orthodox contaminations.+

Many are good at acrobatics with words, but their knowledge is limited to the physical self.  The inner work is in progress, and the realization will happen as the conviction of the witness grows.  

Everyone’s individual experiences are not the same.   Some are so immersed in materiality, religion, and duty-bound towards their family and society, and they do not have an inner urge because they have accepted their present experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality. Because of this deep-rooted conviction, they are not attracted to the path of non-dualistic or Advaitic wisdom. Some are interested in intellectually knowing the truth.

Many are interested in arguing on the base of accumulated knowledge, but they do not understand the fact that neither by arguing nor by provoking the wisdom will not dawn. The path of wisdom does not need any support from any scriptures, philosophy, or words of great people of the past because the path of wisdom is the path of verification not the path of argument.  

The seeker has to get all his doubts and confusion cleared by discussing.  The seeker should not hold his accumulated knowledge as a yardstick. The ultimate truth or Brahman cannot be compared with any other knowledge because it is not based on form, time, and space 

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The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. Wisdom dawns when you (waking entity or ego) realize the fact that, the self is not you, but the Self is the  Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.  

Thus, the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is nothing to do with the soul, the innermost self.  Whatever is based on you (ego or the waking entity) is falsehood.

If you say ‘I am God’ within the falsehood you are saying it within the falsehood (illusion). Therefore, experiencing birth, life, death, and the world within the falsehood is bound to be a falsehood.

Advaitic wisdom dawns in the midst of duality (falsehood or waking).  When Advaitic wisdom dawns the universe (waking) will not disappear but its unreal nature is exposed.  And one realizes the unity in diversity in consciousness because consciousness pervades everything and everywhere in the universe. 

Everything is consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.  Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.  Brahman is God in truth. Thus, God in truth is the whole, not the part. 

To get Self-realization or God-realization the seeker has to drop all the accumulated knowledge and start afresh. 

Perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’, leads to nondualistic or Advaitic self-awareness. In Self–awareness, the body and word that confronts one, are one in essence.  That essence is consciousness. In Self-awareness, there is unity in diversity in the midst of duality. 

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The unreal cannot be discarded without realizing ‘what is the real. Playing with words will not lead to Advaitic -awareness.

Scriptures are not needed in the pursuit of truth. Even the Upanishads and the sage of truth declare that the scriptures are needed to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Nothing is needed for acquiring Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, other than perfect understanding, assimilation, and realization of ‘what is what”.

 Religion and its worship of individualized God is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman because religious gods are based on blind belief.   Gods based on blind belief are not God in truth,  The ultimate truth or Brahman is  God in truth.

The Atman, the Self cannot be experienced, because the experience is possible only in the realm of duality. Atman is prior to any experience. In Self-awareness, there is neither experience nor experiencer. 

In Self-awareness, the body, ego, and the world are not considered different from consciousness. 

Thus, the whole universe (form, time, and space) in which we exist is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness. Consciousness alone is real all else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.   

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)

The ultimate truth has to be ascertained without the scriptures, by realizing the self is neither the waking entity (you) nor the dream entity but the self is the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

In the realm of truth form, time and space are created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Realizing the single stuff as the ultimate truth is self-realization or truth realization. To realize this truth there is no need for the scriptures. This I am highlighting again and again in my blogs. 

By saying I know the truth; I know Brahman is not wisdom. The ultimate Truth is found only in the unity of understanding which is the knowledge of both the matter and spirit. That is the matter and the spirit, are one in essence.  And that essence is spirit, which is present in the form of the soul or consciousness.

In India, people think that religion as a stepping stone to higher truth but it is not so because religion is based on the false self (waking entity or ego) within the false experience (waking or world).

One must go beyond form, time, and space. The theistic tradition has been kept alive by orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is the path of ignorance because it is based on ignorance.  Orthodoxy is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. 

Thus it is not the path of ultimate truth or Brahman. People who stuck to orthodoxy never will be able to cross the prison of duality. Without crossing the prison of duality self-awareness is an impossibility.  Thus Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana is necessary to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

In the context of Advaita Vedanta: ~ Jagat (the world) is not different from Brahman; however, Brahman is different from Jagat.

It has not been possible to preach Advaitic Truth entirely free from the settings of dualistic weakness it has not been more operative and useful to mankind at large because only a few will be able to grasp and realize it.

'To realize the Advaitic Truth a freer and fuller scope the seeker has to realize the form, time and space are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness. And the Soul, the  Self is present in the form of consciousness.   

To realize the Advaitic truth the seeker has to be free from all superstitions and orthodox contaminations. The seeker has to be dedicated to acquiring the  Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana   alone.:~Santthosh Kumaar