The Advaitic wisdom as the true source of light +

Sage Sankara’s thought gave a new dimension to philosophy. He established the Advaitic wisdom as the true source of light. Sage Sankara put reason and discretion at the center stage and he pushed the orthodoxy away from the path of wisdom.

Sage  Sankara is therefore relevant even today. He values reason, encourages the Spirit of inquiry, and gives credence to subjective experience and therefore to freedom of one's thought and expression.

 Sage Sankara ushered in a new way of looking at the universe in which we exist. By soulcentric and egocentric view and judgment of the universe, one has the yardstick to realize ‘what is the truth? And ‘what is untruth?’.

He implores the seeker to recognize the essential unity of all beings and their oneness with the infinite space-time continuum. He explained the Universe is the manifestation of the Supreme Being.

Sage Sankara talked about the infinite and formless timeless and spaceless nature of the Soul, the Self, it was not in the sense of endless duration, but in the sense of completeness, requiring neither a before nor an after. 

When he referred to the unity of the Self he was not talking of putting two things together, but he used the term to mean the utter absence of all plurality in the Soul, the Self.

Sage Sankara gave credence to an individual’s subjective realization. He placed the personal realization of the truth beyond form, time, and space above all the other means of cognition.

A person’s individual experience could not be disputed.  Reality is the realization of the truth beyond form, time, and space. Realizing the Soul, the Self as the Supreme Being is within one’s realization.”

The seeker has to recognize the underlying oneness and the infinite nature of the universe. The Soul, the  Self is not the universe in which ‘one’ exists.  The Soul, the  Self is the ultimate truth or Brahman. 

The nature of the Soul, the Self, is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  The relation between man and the universe is a reality within the dualistic illusion or Maya.  

From the ultimate standpoint, the duality is merely an illusion. The duality is an error in perception.

Sage Sankara’s wisdom comes as a remedy to get rid of ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of experiencing duality as a reality.

Sanyasa is not a condition precedent to the attainment of Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. There is no need to embrace sanyasa to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Any householder who has an intense urge, receptiveness, and humility and is ready to drop all the accumulated knowledge and start afresh will be able to grasp, understand, assimilate, and realize the nondualistic or Advaitic truth.

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Until the seekers, attention is fixed on the formless substance and witness of the three states the nondualistic or Advaitic truth will not be revealed.  

The seeker has to realize the fact that, the form, time, and space are one in essence, and that essence is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

Thus, the form is consciousness, the time is the consciousness and space is also consciousness.  Thus, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

The individual experiences of birth, life, death, and the world are unimportant because they are part of the illusion.   Without the Soul, the illusion ceases to exist. 

The individual experience of burden and bondage is a reality within the illusion, but they are unimportant subjects to discuss in Atmic discussion because from the standpoint of the Atman, birth, life, death, and the world are merely an illusion. 

Discussing the illusion within the illusion with the illusory identity will not reveal the nondualistic or Advaitic truth.    

All the individual experiences of riches and poverty, success and failure, pain and pleasure, and desires have nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self because they are merely an illusion created out of consciousness.  Due to ignorance, a person within the illusion experiences it as reality.   

Self–knowledge is necessary to realize the individual experience within the universe is a mere illusion created out of consciousness.   Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal.

The Soul is the ocean of consciousness. People who ought to know better, people who seemed to be generally wise are hunting for pleasure without trying to know the Soul, which is the Self.

The Soul or consciousness is the formless substance and witness of the universe or Mind, which appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). 

Thus, all three states are nothing but consciousness because consciousness pervades everything and everywhere in all three states.     

No God can exist without the Soul, the  Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.  And the ultimate truth or Brahman itself is God in truth.

One has to renounce the three states mentally by realizing the three states and their substance and witness are one in essence. 

The seeker has to cling to the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  Consciousness is real and eternal.   The seeker has to realize the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

The seeker has to strengthen his conviction about the Soul, the Self, and by realizing the illusory nature of the three states is real renunciation. 

Reflecting constantly on the formless witness of the three states leads one to nondualistic self-awareness in the midst of the duality.

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In Self-awareness, there is unity in diversity. In the unity or the oneness, there is neither the day nor the night nor the Sun,  nor the Moon,  nor the sky, nor the stars, nor darkness, nor light nor the air, nor the water, nor the animate, and the inanimate remains as reality; only those who have reached that realm,  realizes the fact that the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness.

The Earth and the sky, that land is inhabited by people are a reality within the illusion. 

One who has accomplished Self-Realisation realizes that there is no truth in their physical existence within the universe.

Form, time, and space have no access there, nor do the sunshine and moonlight exist there but only formless nondualistic Self-awareness.

Self-awareness is not attainable through "hath-yoga" by hath-yogis nor by ascetics or performers of austere devotion who burn their bodies in the fire ascetic practices or self-mortification. Those who recognize the Soul, as true Self will be able to enter the nondualistic Self-awareness.

A Gnani clearly has realized the true nature of the three states. A Gnani is fully aware that all three states are mere an illusion created out of consciousness because the formless substance and witness of the three states is the Soul or consciousness.   

The consciousness alone is real, and all three states are a falsehood. By mentally clinging to the Soul, the Self,  and mentally dropping the three states, one enters   Self-awareness.:~Santthosh Kumaar