The Religion gives satisfaction to the ignorant populace, but the Advaitic wisdom is for the whole humanity to free them from ignorance.+

Religion gives satisfaction to the ignorant populace,  but the Advaitic wisdom is for the whole of humanity to free them from ignorance. 

When one knows the truth then he knows that the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, is everything that exists." A child learns to count, by seeing and counting material objects. When the child is mature it says directly "one plus one equals two." without having to count tangible objects.

One must distinguish between pantheism and Advaita. Pantheism means all ~ God. It is quite different from the Advaitic truth. What does God mean? If it means something different from the Soul, the innermost Self, then there are two beings.

Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (our true Advaita philosophy) has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga,  but the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into the truth and have no time for it. (Gita ~Chap- IV-v.2)

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." Krishna points out that yoga must-see "Brahman in action."

Gita Chap.IV: ~ "He who achieves perfection in Yoga finds the Self in time." This means that after his yoga is finished, he begins the inquiry into ultimate truth, and in due course, this inquiry produces the realization of the universal spirit as the result.

Lord Krishna says Ch. V:~ “Those who know the Self in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.

Gita Chap.VII. Verse 4: ~"Earth etc" Thus he begins his analysis with the world, with the solid earth, not with remote Atman. In all these things earth, water, etc. I am the finality." "Vasudeva sees the All." But to know this they must be examined and studied. There is a wide gulf between the yogi's "I do not care to know about the world" and the Gnani's "Nothing remains to be known for him."

Page 329:~ "Objection" and "Answer" explain why the Pundits do not know the true meaning of our Sastras.

Scriptures deal only with the Objects, the Seen, not with the Seer. If one starts with the idea that Samsara (universe) exists, he can never see Atman because Samsara is an illusion and only ignorant people read it as a reality. Hence in Vivekachoodamani, V.63 says ~ -"Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

The purpose of the whole Gita is to point out that nobody is able to live without action, even though seemingly inactive, that even the Gnani must work and not keep idle, and that the only difference between his action and the ignorant man's is that the latter works for his own Self-interest or for that of a section connected with him whereas former works for the welfare of all, the world at large, for all beings without egoism because he regards them as one. Gita lays down principles applicable not only to battlefields but to daily life. Lord Krishna wants to correct the wrong idea that the Gnani spends his life sitting in meditation as a sanyasi.

Religion is not final. It only gives satisfaction to the populace. The Self - knowledge is for the whole of humanity to free them from experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as reality.:~Santthosh Kumaar