Unless one realizes the Soul as the Self as it really is” it is impossible to realize the Advaitic truth.+

Unless one realizes the Soul as the Self as it really is” it is impossible to realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth.

Until one thinks of the body as body and the world as the world, it is impossible to grasp nondualistic or Advaitic truth, because his views and judgments are based on the physical Self (ego or the waking entity or you) within the physical existence (waking).  

Individuality is a reality within the waking experience, but the waking experience itself is a falsehood. Thus, holding the view as an individual within the false experience is erroneous from the ultimate point of view. The waking is a parallel dream, and the dream is a parallel waking experience.

Perfect understanding removes all sorts of obstacles in the pursuit of truth. Only through constant repetition of words of wisdom in my posts will make one think differently, but it also creates more doubts and confusion in his subconscious and his inner urge to know the truth even more intense. And it also helps to overcome some of our conditioning, which we have inherited from parental grooming and circumstances. 

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When the Self is not the body (‘ego or waking entity’) then whatever one sees, knows, believes, experiences, and feels on the base of the body (‘ego or waking entity’) as Self is bound to be an illusion.  Thus, karma performed in illusion is bound to be an illusion. The birth, life, and death are happening within the illusion, therefore it is bound to be an illusion. 

Thus, rebirth and reincarnation theories based on the false self within the false experience are bound to be an illusion on the base of the true Self. Only the witness of the illusion is real (Brahman).  Therefore, everything has to be viewed and judged, on the base of the Formless Witness (Soul or the consciousness) in order to overcome the illusion/duality.

A seeker of truth has to know somewhere he is going wrong, and it is for the seeker to go on his own and remove the obstacle.  The greatest hindrance is mixing religion, God, scriptures, and yogic theories. Moreover, attachment to scriptures, personal God, and religious code of conduct keep one permanently in the grip of duality.

 The seeker has to have the courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth because most people will not be able to subscribe to the path of truth because they are sentimentally and emotionally involved with their inherited belief system and even if one does he has to overcome all his doubts, confusion and despair.  These are problems for the seekers who are from a  religious background because of their conditioning and they are made to accept their blind belief as truth and their interest or insight is not deep.  

Thus,  all my blogs are useful  in analyzing  these problems because they highlight what is not the truth according to their own religious scriptures  and make  them accept the truth and reject all the false conditioning and move ahead in pursuit of the truth

It becomes difficult for the orthodox people,  to accept anything else as truth other than their accepted belief, which they hold as truth. Although all religious followers are participants alike in the spiritual endeavor of the world, overzealous followers of each religion are not prepared to accord equal status to other faiths and assert the superiority of their own. Thus, the universal brotherhood is a total impossibility because it is difficult to accept anything other than their inherited belief system.    

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Most the pundits are egoic and they try to snub others who question them.  They think they are unquestionable authority.  They quote the citation from the scriptures as proof without verifying the validity.  All punditry is a great obstacle in realizing the Advaitic truth expounded by the Sage  Sankara, and Sage Goudpada.

One finds lots of differences between Advaita preaching and practice. There is a need to bifurcate religion, the concept of God, and scriptures from Adavaitic wisdom to assimilate the essence of Advaita.   

Sage Sankara says in Brahma Sutras: that Brahman is the cause of the world, whereas in Mandukya he denies it. This is because he says that at the lower stage of understanding, the former teaching must be given, for people will get frightened as they cannot understand how the world can be without a cause, but to those in a higher stage, the truth of non-causality can be revealed. 

Sage Sankara himself has warned us not to use ambiguous words and to practice semantic analysis in his book "Definition of one's own Self. (" Page 199, v.24 of "Sankara's Selected Works)

Sage Sankara founded his Advaita Vedanta either on reason independent of Sruti or on Sruti confirmed by reason." 

Sage Sankara's commentary on the Manduka Upanishad, II, 1:  This (the unreality of duality) is borne out by the Srutis ... But it is possible also to show the unreality of the object world even from pure reasoning, and this second chapter is undertaken for that purpose.

Sage Sankara himself had often said that his philosophy was based on Sruti, or revealed scripture.  This may be, because, Sage Sankara addressed the ordinary man, who finds security in the idea of causality and thus in the idea of God—and Revelation is indispensable to prove the latter.  He believed that those of superior intelligence, have no need for this idea of divine causality, and can, therefore, dispense with Sruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason. 

Sage Sankara in debates with Buddhists and others who did not recognize the authority of the Vedas, had been obliged to prove the truth of Advaita by means of reason alone.  Mandukya Upanishad, a scripture that appealed to reason to the exclusion of Revelation. ~ Santthosh Kumaar