People, who expound on non-duality or Advaita from the dualistic perspective and try to explain it, are mere scholars, not Gnanis. A perfect understanding and assimilation are required for Self-realization.
Whatever they have read heard and accumulated as truth has to be verified through Soulcentric reasoning. Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification. A Gnani is always Soulcentric there is no contradiction in what he saying.
There is neither guru nor disciple nor teaching because everything is the Soul, the innermost Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.
That is why Sage Sankara said: The Soul, the Self is Brahman ~that is, the Soul is ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.
Until one limits the ‘I’ to individuality, ignorance persists. If ignorance is there then the dualistic illusion (world) prevails as a reality. If the duality is accepted as reality then the illusion is accepted as a reality. If Illusion is accepted as a reality then the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is accepted as a reality.
Thus, accepting ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is the cause of ignorance. Accepting the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as the Self is the cause of accepting individuality as a reality. Individuality is the cause of separation.
The one who accepts the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as the Self is accepting ~ Every living being has this inborn samskara or conditioning that he is an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to him and he is born in this world afterward. Until this conditioning is there, one is stuck to the illusory reality of the experience of form, time, and space.
People think ‘I’ is the Self and the body is an illusion, whereas, the body and world are within the ‘I’. The ‘I’ itself is a dualistic illusion.
They think whatever exists within the waking experience that is, man and his experience of the world is a reality, but they are unaware of the fact that the waking experience is a reality within the dualistic illusion. If waking experience is a reality within the dualistic illusion then the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is a reality within the dualistic illusion.
There are so many obstacles if one tries to reach the non-dual destination through Advaitic wisdom because of orthodox and intellectual adulteration. Advaita wisdom Advaitic orthodoxy or theistic Advaita is not the same. Mixing the orthodoxy Advaita with Advaitic wisdom is mixing oil and water.
Most scholars are sentimentally and emotionally involved with orthodoxy because both Advaitic orthodoxy and Advaitic wisdom are propagated by the same founder (Sage, Sri, and Sankara). They mix up two viewpoints together, therefore, it becomes difficult to get the Advaitic wisdom expounded by Sage Sankara.
It is very difficult to understand and assimilate the ultimate truth or Brahman without bifurcating the religion, scriptures, philosophy, and idea of an individualized God. Ultimate truth or Brahman directly realized without Advaitic philosophy and Buddhism by Soulcentric reasoning.
Upanishads:~Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Ch II-5 P-14)
That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ VC ~58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar but are no good for Liberation.
59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.
60. The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest that merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence, the men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.
61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?
62. A disease does not leave off if one simply utters the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct realization one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.
There is, nothing more rational, more intelligible, and more un-dogmatic insights of Sage Sankara is to drop all the theistic Advaita which is meant for those who are incapable and not receptive to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
If one merely theorizes and tries to understand through his intellect and there contended he cannot become a Gnani, but he becomes a scholar or pundit. Seeker of truth must make what he has understood and assimilated has to be realized, to get a firm conviction of the Advaitic truth or ultimate truth or Brahman, then only it is possible for him to transcend all the limitations of the experience of the form, time, and space.
The existence beyond the limitations of form, time, and space is known as Moksha or Nirvana. Spiritual freedom or Self-realization is the goal of every seeker of truth. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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