Hold on to Sage Sankara’s yardstick and discriminate to realize the real which is hidden by unreal.+

If you are a seeker of truth then you must seek only truth nothing but the truth. You will be distracted and you will find no time for this search after the Advaitic Gnana or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana

People who have any other object in views such as name or fame or prosperity then the Atmic path is not for them. Such people are not attracted to the Atmic path and they are holy beggars ready with begging bowls begging to their belief of God to fulfill their desires and they are unaware of the fact that their God of belief is not God in truth.

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.

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

The Vedas confirm God is Atman (spirit), the  Self.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

All the God and Goddesses people worship are religious beliefs. Whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person within the dualistic illusion (world) is a falsehood.

Thus, whatever belongs to the falsehood has to be discarded in order to realize the truth which is hidden by the dualistic illusion.

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)

The starting point of your spiritual journey is discrimination between the real and unreal.

To discriminate you must know what is unreal to realize what is real. Without knowing what is unreal, you will not have a yardstick to discriminate.

There is no need to search for the truth because Sage Sankara has declared what is real and what is unreal 1400 years back.

Atman is Brahman ~ “The Soul is the ultimate truth

Jagan Mithya ~ “The world is unreal

Hold on to Sage Sankara’s yardstick, and discriminate to realize the real which is hidden by unreal. Mentally hold on to the real and drop the unreal to enter the awareness of the Soul in the midst of the unreality.

If you have the humility to accept the truth patience, sincerity, and seriousness in your quest for truth then you will be able to realize the truth, which is hidden by the unreal world in which you exist.

Your ‘I' know the attitude, your habitual argumentative attitude, your scriptural mastery, and your accumulated knowledge block you from acquiring Self.-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Tripura Rahasya: ~ Second-hand knowledge of the Self-gathered from books or Gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning the mind inward. (18: 89)

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the Soul, the innermost Self from the cage of the dualistic illusion.

Sage Sankara says ~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

People dwelling in ignorance, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round by various blind beliefs and tortuous paths and practices, like the blind led by the blind. :~Santthosh Kumaar