Mystic experience or Yogic Samadhi is not Advaitic wisdom.+

People who are incapable to inquire and reason are tending to follow some philosophy without verification. Therefore, the more ignorant they are the easier to get them into a religious fold. Religion is so strong and popular because it makes no demand on the intelligent: It simply requires belief in guru and his teachings.

It never strikes believers to doubt whether his inherited belief system is true. They never use their reason because they start and conclude that their belief system alone is true because they never question.

People all over the world in the past and present accepted the idea of the existence of God.  The fear of God injected by the religion was the root cause of worship, superstition, and dogmas.

Theological philosophers say God is a perfect being, but they have never known God, never proved his existence; hence, their ascription of perfection to Him is purely self-imagined or assumed.

The scholastic or mystic argument is endless. If one says "God is formless” another will reply, "No, God has attributes! If one says "his religion is higher" another will reply, "No, it is lower." It is impossible to get anywhere with such talk because both sides are merely imagining because they think on the base of the false self and false experience. When the self is not physical then whatever seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person is bound to be a falsehood.   Therefore, there is a need to know the fact that, the self is formless. 

The paradise or heavens and hell are mere religious injected imagination.  When the self is formless then the experience of birth, life, death, and the universe are merely an illusion.  But where people have got a little thinking capacity, they begin to disbelieve through the contradictions of various contending orthodox claims and descriptions.

           

For the religion one can interpret texts as he likes, in whatever way that pleases him, he simply imagine away.

Mundaka Upanishad:~ The study of the Vedas, linguistics, Rituals, astronomy and all the arts Can be called lower knowledge. The higher is that which leads to Self-realization. The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless 'Self' has neither caste nor race, neither eyes nor ears nor hands nor feet. Sages say this Self is infinite in the great and in the small, everlasting and changeless, the source of life.

In the pursuit of truth, the ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed. Pundits who take scriptures for granted are not Gnanis.

Pundits teach that all is yourself, but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none can prove it. The rational proof is needed so that one arrives at knowing truth i.e. wisdom; punditry is mere dogma, parrotism, and repetition of what they read in scripture. 

The Scripters are not a yardstick and scriptural truth is not proof.   Pundits take scripters as an authority.   Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.

Pundits have to test the truth in this world not in the next world.  There is no proof other than blind belief based on the scriptures, belief is not the truth.  So, doctrines are not the means to realize the truth. There is no need to follow them in order to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana.

Doubts and Confusions arise when the seeker finds the scripters and yoga are inadequate or useless to quench his spiritual thirst.   Disappointments in religion or yoga or even science imply error or ignorance. Seeker reaches a stage whether he is right?" Where is the certainty that he is proceeding on right lines?" 

Thus, doubts arise and the inquiring spirit comes and impels to search elsewhere for truth where it will not be possible even to have doubt. The test is, therefore, in the realization of the Self. And only in non-duality, where there are no two to argue about views or to have a difference of opinion can such doubtlessness be possible.  Belief depends upon unstable bases whereas certainty depends on a proof.

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Seeker of truth has to get rid of his doubts through deeper self-search on his own, to realize the fact that, the self is not the form but the Self is formless. Thus, his analysis and reasoning have to be based on the formless (Soul), not on the form(ego).  

By simply go on believing and accepting whatever said by the punditry will not lead one towards the path of wisdom. All the doubt has to be got rid of "by the sword of Self - Knowledge."  The scriptures, yoga are not necessary if one follows the inner (formless) path.  Religion and yoga are not the means to the path of wisdom. 

There is a controversy as to the meaning of Maya. One Advaitic School says it is a Shakti of Brahman whereby both illusion and creation are brought about.

How do you know that it is the truth? If one bases it on the sayings of Rishis and saints, granting that they honestly believed in their experiences, there is still the query how do they know that these experiences were the truth?

Even in the dream whatever experienced becomes unreal when waking takes place.  Similarly, when wisdom dawns one becomes aware of the fact that the self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity.  

Thus, whatever experienced as waking experience is as real as a dream.  Thus for a Gnani, all three states are merely an illusion created out of the consciousness, because he is fully aware of the fact that, the witness of the three states is not the body but consciousness.  

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A Gnani is fully aware of the fact that his body, ego, and the universe are nothing but consciousness. Thus, he finds the experience of any sort is the play of consciousness and experience is merely an illusion.  The one witnesses the experience, which is in the form of universe or mind is merely an illusion.      

 For even mentally challenged people to believe in what they see and feel and yet their experiences are often quite untrue. What then is it in us, which ascertains the truth of these experiences? 

If one says it is the mystic experience, then everyone’s experience differs from another. Such disagreement does not settle the matter. Thus, these are the two common sources—scriptural authority and Yogic Samadhi--but both are shown untenable because both are based on the false self-(ego).

Mystic experience or Yogic Samadhi is not Advaitic wisdom. Yogis consider the body as self and body as the author of the Samadhi or experience, whereas the Self is not physical but formless. 

Thus, the body and the world are merely an experience.  The witness of the experience is always formless and apart. Thus, the body and the world are an object to the formless witness. 

Thus, any kind of experience is merely an illusion, which comes and goes as the mind or universe.  Thus, whatever an individual experience, experienced as a person, within the universe, is bound to be an illusion.  

Thus, yogi Samadhi or mystic experience is individual experience based on the false self (ego)  within the false experience(waking).  

Thus, there is a need to trace the formless witness of the three states mentally and drop the three states (mirage) mentally in order to bring unity in diversity in the midst of the dualistic illusion or Maya. :~Santthosh Kumaar