Mixing Path of Karma, Bhakti, Raj yoga with the path of wisdom and trying to assimilate Advaitic truth is an impossibility.+

All these experiences as a father, son, guru, and pupil were one and the same consciousness appearing differently. All these distinctions disappear when one realizes the ultimate truth.

Religions are based on  Gods based on blind faith or blind belief. The belief-based Gods are not God in truth.  Without Gods based on blind belief, there is no religion. Belief implies duality. From the standpoint of the Soul, the  Self the duality is merely an illusion. Thus, whatever one sees, knows and believes, and experiences within the illusion (waking) is bound to be an illusion. 

God cannot be brought down to the domain of duality. There is only one being in reality and it is the Soul, the innermost self.  The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in all three states. Thus, the Soul or consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.  

When one realizes the form, time and space are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness, then he realizes there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. Thus, everything is consciousness. Thus,  consciousness (Soul) is God in truth.

The  Gods based on blind belief are not God in truth. Holding Gods based on blind belief is holding an illusion as a reality because the belief is possible only within the realm of duality. Duality is merely an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.  

Without Gods based on blind faith, the belief system holds no water.   Gods based on blind belief are not God in truth. Belief needs a believer.  The believer needs to be born in this illusory world. 

If the believer is born then he is part of the illusion.   Without the believer, there is no belief.  The believer and his world and his belief-based Gods are part of the illusion because the self is birth-less. 

After all, the Self is ever nondual. The one, which is born, lives, and dies, is not the Self.    The Soul, the Self is formless substance and witness of the illusory universe or  Maya. The Soul, the Self is present in the form of consciousness.  Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Remember:~

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Do not accept any other God other than the Soul. The Soul is God in truth,  Nothing is real but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Nothing matters but realize  God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is real and eternal and all else is an illusion.

Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth.  The ultimate truth itself is God in truth. 

Bhagavad Gita:~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (Gita 14.27) 

Karma, Bhakti, Raj yoga are not the means to acquire Advaitic wisdom because they are based on the ego whereas the Advaitic Gnana is based on the Soul, the Self. And mixing them up with the path of wisdom and trying to assimilate Advaitic truth is an impossibility. 

In Gita Chap.IV where Lord Krishna says: ~ "This yoga has been lost for ages" the word yoga refers to Gnana yoga, not other yogas: the force of the word this is to point this out.

Lord Krishna describes some of the other yogas but devotes this chapter separately to Gnana Yoga. So one sees even in those ancient days people did not care for Advaita; they wanted religion; hence Gnana got lost. That is why Krishna calls it "the supreme secret."

Karma, Bhakti, Raj yoga are not the means to acquire Advaitic wisdom. And mixing them up with the path of wisdom and trying to assimilate Advaitic truth is an impossibility.

What is the use of practicing Samadhi within the dualistic illusion? Samadhi belongs to the yogic path.

Sage Sankara says: ~ Yoga is not the means of liberation (page 132-133 - Commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad.

In Sutra Bashya and Manduka:~ The Samadhi and sleep are identical.

Brihad Upanishad:~ does not advocate Samadhi.

Sage Sankara in the commentary to "Brahma Sutras:~ " "The highest beatitude is not to be attained by Yoga." (Sacred Books of East Series page 298 Vol.1.) And he also says Samadhi is the same as sleep (p.312)

~ this indicates that yoga is not the means to ‘Self’-realization. And yogic Samadhi is not nondualistic Self-awareness.

Panchadasi shows the impossibility of yoga arriving at a successful end to its practices.- P.509 v, 109,

The notions of ‘Self’-realization through yoga are not philosophic. Every yogi who shuts himself in a cave is not thereby freed from thinking.

Yoga can lead only to temporary peace because the world is subject to change. Only Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana can yield Advaitic awareness in the midst of the form, time, and space.:~Santthosh Kumaar