Inner longing to know the truth, sharpness to grasp and courage to accept the truth leads self-awareness***

As we keep digging deeper and deeper, the truth will shine as pure awareness in the midst of the duality (waking).

The soul, the innermost self is our ultimate teacher. It is only our inner teacher that will walk with us to the goal, for the soul is the goal. Millions are searching form truth but one in million will realize it.

Deliberate daily exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real renunciation. 

Truth is One; It is called by different names. All people are seeking the same Truth..... Everyone is going toward the ultimate goal. They will all realize the ultimate truth or Brahman if they have sincerity and longing to realize it.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. ~ Buddha

Inner longing to know the truth, sharpness to grasp and courage to accept the truth leads one to self-awareness. People are immersed in ignorance and remain experiencing the illusion as reality, and they do not exert themselves to know the reality of their true existence.  By clinging to things unreal they think their experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality. 

 By quoting the Scriptures and sacrifice to the gods, by performing rituals and worship the deities, but there is no freedom without the realization of one’s identity with the soul or consciousness, which is the real Self.

There is no hope of immortality by means of riches.  Action or inaction cannot be the cause of freedom because inaction also is action and action and inaction are part of the duality. People think by using lesser words or by keeping silence the truth emerges on its own, but they keep hoping and remain in the prison of duality.

Seeker of truth has to strive his best for freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality and fixing his attention on the formless substance and witness of the three states. The formless substance and witness are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. The consciousness alone is real and eternal,  and it is the source of the mind, which rises as the universe and subsides back as consciousness.

Having grasped, understood the ultimate truth intellectually, one should recover oneself, immersed in the illusory experience of ocean of birth, life, death, and the world by means of devotion to the right discrimination.

Seeker of truth, having commenced the path of the Self- realization has to give up all physical-based theoretical practices and try to realize the fact that, the waking experience in which the individual experiences birth, life, death, and the world as reality is also is as unreal as the dream. By realizing the formless substance and witness of the three states as consciousness one becomes free from experiencing the duality as reality.

Blinded with the illusion very few grasp the nondualistic or Advaitic truth. Only a few escapes from the web of illusion, only a few will be able to acquire nondualistic or Advaitic wisdom.

The non-duality has to be grasped in the midst of the waking experience (duality or mind or universe).  That is, being aware of the truth and untruth, reality and unreality. And able to establish himself in the truth and able to view and judge, the three states, on the base of the soul, which is ultimate truth or Brahman.

It is unfortunate people are stuck with their accumulated ideas based on the false self, and imagine about nonduality and say nothing exists other than the source. But a Gnani says everything exists (illusion) but everything is created out of the soul (spirit or consciousness).  Everything rises from the Soul and subsides as the Soul (spirit or consciousness). Thus, the whole diversity has no relevance, on the standpoint of the soul as self.

Everything (illusion or matter) is nothingness (spirit or consciousness) realizing the three states are created out nothingness. Nothingness is the nature of the Soul because there is no second thing exists other than the Soul (Spirit or consciousness), the Self.   Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Advaita is neither a philosophy nor a theory.+

A Gnani will easily appreciate the high flights of Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom, which is one of the 'most majestic structures and valuable products of the Genius of man in his search for Truth. :~Santthosh Kumaar

 

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  Natesh Mahadevan:~  what exactly is advaitic wisdom...

   

   
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  Rajesh Sachdeva :~  and what exactly it is not..

    
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  Santthosh Kumaar :~  Advaita is neither a philosophy nor a theory.   Advaita is an independent path. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self.  The duality is mere an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  There is no duality in the essence.

   

  There is no need to study scripters or philosophy to acquire the knowledge of the Soul, the Self. To realize the truth beyond form, time and space the seeker has to drop all the accumulated egocentric knowledge.   

  
  

  Sage Sankara varied his practical advice and doctrinal teaching according to the people he was amongst. He never advised them to give up their particular religion or beliefs or metaphysics completely; he only told them to give up the worst features of abuse: at the same time he showed just one step forward towards the truth. 

  
  

  Sage Sankara was extremely precise and careful in his choice of words.  Sage  Sankara' gave religious, ritual or dogmatic instruction to the mass, but pure philosophy only to the few who could rise to it. Hence, the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.  Sage Sankara founded his Advaita Vedanta either on reason independent of Sruti or on Sruti confirmed by reason."  

  
  

  Sage Sankara indicates: ~   The transparent truth of the soul, the innermost self, which is hidden within the illusion, requires (for its extraction) excavation, the removal of ignorance.

  
  

  The illusory form, time and space hides the truth without getting rid of the truth will never reveal.  Thus, deeper self-search is very much necessary in order to grasp and realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time and space.

  
  

  That is why Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

   

  People’s observation is based on dualistic (matter or body or ego) perspective, whereas a Gnanis judgment is based on the nondualistic (soul or spirit or consciousness) perspective. There is neither the projection (the world in we all exist), nor the projector exist as a reality, when the soul, the innermost self remains its own awareness.
  
  The Soul remains in its own awareness when wisdom dawns. The purpose of the spiritual pursuit is to realize the whole universe in, which we exist is created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the Self.
  
  The knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The single stuff is the soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness
  
  On the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the three states are mere an illusion. Thus, the three states (witnessed) and the soul (witness) are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. 

   
• Sage Sankara himself had often said that his philosophy was based on Sruti, or revealed scripture.  This may be because Sage Sri, 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 of this idea of divine causality, and can therefore dispense with Sruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason.  
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• Thus the whole universe in, which we exist, created out of consciousness. Thus, there is no second thing exists other than consciousness. Hence, it is nondual. Thus, the knowledge of the single stuff is nondualistic or Advaitic wisdom. Becoming more and more soulcentric leads the seeker towards Advaitic self-awareness.
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  Q:~Natesh Mahadevan:~  what am asking is - how does a person transcend that dualistic observation... how does one enter that knowledge of the single stuff... and is that a kind of knowledge which can be taught... what is that consciousness which creates worlds and yet doesn't want you to perceive it...

  
  
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  Santthosh Kumaar:~  First one has to know ‘what is the mind” What is the substance of the mind? and ‘what is the source of the mind? in order to realize ‘what is what’? 

   

  Realize the fact that, You are not the self.  You and your experience of the world are part of the illusion. The Self is not you.  If the self is not you, then the question of your body, your ego, your memories and your experience of the world and your karma is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self. 

   

  The self is the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.   The Soul, the Self, witnesses you and your experience of the world together.   It is the Soul that has to get rid of the illusion, by realizing, you along with the world and the innermost self are one in essence. That essence is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

   

  Thus, you and your experience of the world are made of a single stuff, which is the soul, the innermost self.  Thus, it is necessary to realize the Self is not within our body (you) but it is hidden within the world in which we exists as its formless substance and the witness.  
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• The ego is the physical mind, whereas the mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream (duality), and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).  A perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is necessary to realize that form, time, and space are merely an illusion created out of single stuff.
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The belief of God is not God.****

People are not aware of the fact that, there is no individual God can exist, apart from  the soul, the innermost self. The soul is  present in the form of  the consciousness.

Thus, the consciousness is the consciousness.  Consciousness is the true self.   If there is no consciousness, then there is no body, no ego, no universe, no religion and no conceptual God.  

People think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one thinks  ‘I’ as the self, then there is a creator, but if one thinks, the soul as the self, then there is nothing exists other than the soul,which is present in the form of the consciousness.

If one objectifies and sees a universe, then he is bound to see many things beside himself and postulate a God, the creator. Body, God and world rise and set together from, and into, the soul, the innermost  self. If God is apart from the  soul, the innermost self, then He would be selfless, that is, outside existence, that is, non-existent.

The belief of God is not God. Holding belief as God is holding illusion as reality, because the belief is possible only within the realm of duality. Duality is mere illusion from the ultimate standpoint.  Without the belief of God the belief system holds no water.  Belief is not God. Belief needs the believer.  The believer needs to be born in this world. If the  believer is born than he is part of the illusion.   Without the believer there is no belief.  The believer and his world and his belief of GOD are the part of the illusion because the self is birth-less because the self is formless. The one, which is born, lives and dies, is not the self.    The innermost self is formless substance and witness of the falsehood (universe or waking or illusion), which is soul or consciousness, consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman or Christ.  ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Ish Upanishads:~ Vidya and Avidya both are hindrances to Self-knowledge, but Vidya is even worse than Avidya. The word Vidya is used here in a special sense; here it means worshipping Gods and Goddesses.

 By worshipping Gods and Goddesses you will go after death to the world of Gods and Goddesses. But will that help you? The time you spend there is wasted, because if you were not there you could have spent that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is your goal. Inthe world of Gods and Goddesses you cannot do that, and thus you go deeper and deeper into the darkness.

Avidya is Karma and therefore a hindrance. You perform Avidya - i.e., you perform Agnihotra and other sacrifices. This is a roundabout way of purifying the mind, and it is also groping in the dark. But it may not have as heavy a toll on your time and energy as the other. 

Ishopanishad "They are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worships the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God and those who worship things born of matter like trees, animals, man, etc. are sunk deeper in misery." 

Getting rid of the ignorance is necessary  in order to know and realize  what is truth and what is untruth. 

Katha Upanishad says:-

(Upanishads Nikhilananda)

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)

It indicates that the one who is ignorant (darkness) of the true self (Atman) searches truth by accumulating knowledge of every path and practice and uncertain about the truth, and thinks every path leads towards reality. The ignorance of the true self leads one towards unreality or hallucination.

Whenever one talks of God, he refers it to his belief. Hence, any idea of God, he forms is entirely based on his belief. The belief is not God.  The soul, the innermost self is God.   And God has no reality apart from the soul, the innermost self. Hence,    the religious believers are unable to give proof of their God and are merely hallucinating based on their inherited belief.  The truth is hidden within the universe. Thus,  one must know the whole universe is created out of the soul, which present in the form of the spirit. And the spirit is God.

The Upanishads say in effect that: ~ if you believe that you are one and God is another you cannot understand Truth.

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No conceptual God can exist, apart from consciousness. People are not aware of the fact that, there is no individual God can exist, apart from the soul, which is in the form of the consciousness. Thus, the soul or   the consciousness is the true self.   If there is no consciousness, then there is no body, no ego, no universe, no religion and no conceptual God.

Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man or God,  there is no truth."

People think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one thinks physical entity or ego  as self, then there is a creator, but if one thinks the soul  as the Self, then there is nothing exists other than the consciousness, which is the innermost  self.

If one objectifies and sees a universe, then he is bound to see many things beside himself and postulate a God, the creator. The Body, the idea of the God and world rise and set together from, and into, the soul or consciousness, the innermost self. If God is apart from the ‘Self ‘, then He would be Selfless, that is, outside existence, that is, non-existent.

The Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (brahmano hi pratisthaham, ( 14.27)

In Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~   It has been said that God Supreme or Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. He cannot be seen directly by anyone. He pervades all beings and all directions. Thus,   Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

The Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24)”,

Mythreyi Upanishad 2:26 says: ~ All those who desire to have salvation without taking several births, should worship God in spirit and truth.  

In Vedas the God has been described as: ~

v  Sakshi (Witness)

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v  Chetan (conscious)

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v  Nirguna (Without form and properties).

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v  Nitya (eternal)

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v  Shuddha (pure)

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v  Buddha (omniscient)

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v  Mukta (unattached).

So, it clearly indicates that God is formless thus there is no scope for form based God. The religion and its ideas of gods, and its theories of karma, heaven, hell, papa, Punya, rebirth, reincarnation are based on the false self (ego), within the false experience (waking). Therefore, they are meant for lower mind-sets, they are of no use for those who are seeking higher truth as indicated in the scriptures.   : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

All kosha are mere imagined theory based on the ego, which is false self, within the false experience.+

Q:~Mr, C:- The consciousness is a different faculty, the consciousness is Ananda-moy cosa whereas, the mind is a very different enigma. To know mind one should dive deep in the realm of mano-moy cosa. The mind is the 50% of reverberatory boyancy of atoned dispelled charge from Ananda-moy cosa and the balance is the logic and rand charge boyancy dispelled from prana-moy cosa and Anna-moy cosa which is dispelled by the quantum relevance of karmatic logic. The idiom of the human mind is the most enigmatic causal science, which next to impossible to comprehend until soul realization is attained.

Pranamas, 

Santthosh Kumaar:~  Thank you. I respect your views but when the one goes in deeper self-search he becomes aware of the fact that:-

All kosha are mere imagined theory based on the ego, which is false self, within the false experience. Because everyone thinks the mind is within the body whereas the body is within the mind, which is present in the form of the universe.

If the mind is present then only the universe is present.  If the universe is present then only the all its contents are present. Absent of the mind is the absence of the universe and its contents. 

Absent of universe is absent of individual experience of birth, life, and death.  The universe appears as waking or dream (duality)  and disappears as deep sleep(nonduality)  The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness is the witness of the appearance of waking or dream. 

On the base of consciousness as the Self, the universe is merely an illusion. The consciousness is the witness and the substance of the mind.

 Thus the universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.  The mind, which is in the form of the universe, is erupted from consciousness.  

Thus, everything within the universe is created out of consciousness. Thus, everything is consciousness. There is no scope for second thing other than consciousness.

Therefore, the koshas are mere divisions imagined and assumed because, when the Self is not the body [form] but the Self is consciousness (formless)   there is no scope for the division.  Only when one thinks the physical body as the Self then only there is scope for division within consciousness.

One has to stay totally in the awareness of the soul, which is in the form of consciousness within the waking experience. The world, the body, relationships – all are external to the Soul, the Self.  

Thus, all these scriptural theories hold no water when one becomes aware of the fact that,  the body is not the 'Self'. Thus, all the theories based on the body as the Self-hold no water.

When the Vedas and Upanishads declare that,  consciousness or Atman is actually nothing but Brahman, Then why go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. 

One has to realize the fact that, the mind is in the form of the universe.  Trace the source of the universe and realize that source is consciousness. The universe arises from consciousness as waking or dream (duality) and subsides as deep sleep (nonduality).:~Santthosh Kumaar   

When the Soul, the Self stabilizes in its own nondual awareness, then it will transcend the illusion of the form, time and space.+

Sage  Sankara:~ 'Like a servant who carries a lamp in front of you to find your way, and you have found it, so becomes the Veda to that person. What is the Veda? -- utterances of those who have known the Truth. Here is one who has known the Truth; why should he or she depend upon the Veda further? Actual realization takes you beyond books. At a certain stage, books become a botheration. The Upanishad itself says that the 'words are only so much of distraction for such minds'

The soul is the innermost self. The innermost self is God. The soul remains in its own awareness which we identify as deep sleep in the waking experience. The waking is the state of ignorance.  When ignorance vanishes, then the soul remains in its own awareness in the midst of duality (waking).

Man cannot see God (Spirit) because man and the world in which he exists, are the product of ignorance. Man cannot see God because God is prior to anything that exists.

When God is present, then   man and his world are absent. When the man and his world are present then the God is absent.  

All reality has its source in Brahman. All reality has its grounding sustenance in Brahman. It is in Brahman that all reality has its ultimate repose. Vedas specifically, is consciously and exclusively aiming toward this reality termed Brahman.  

When the soul, the innermost self stabilizes in its own awareness,  then it will transcend the illusory ‘I’ and reveal its formless, timeless, and spaceless true nature. 

The seeker's aim is the search for the ultimate truth or Brahman, the search to find the non-dualistic truth that in actuality never was lost, only hidden.

As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it, and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent truth of the Soul, the Self, which is hidden by illusion and its effects, is to be attained through Self-knowledge followed by reflection, and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

Therefore, the seekers of truth have to personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world (duality).

Thus,  one has to know what is real by realizing our body and our experience of the world is mere illusion created out of the soul or consciousness. The Soul is the Self.  

The nature of the Soul, the Self is emptiness. And it is identified by different masters with a different name, such as God or Brahman or Self or God.

The Soul, the Self is beyond form, time, and space.  The Soul is present in the form of the Spirit (consciousness). The form, time, and space are created out of a single stuff.  And that single stuff is the Soul or the Spirit.  

The knowledge of the single stuff is the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The  Formless Path is a path to realizing that the Self is not the form (mind) but the invisible Soul.

When the soul, the Self stabilizes in its own awareness,  then it will transcend the illusion of form, time, and space, revealing its formless, timeless, and spaceless true nature.

Thus, Self-knowledge makes one realize the Soul or the Spirit alone is real and the form, time and space are merely an illusion.

The Soul (spirit)   is self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the soul, because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. 

The Soul is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. The Soul is the Self.  The Soul is within, the Soul is without; the Soul is before, the Soul is behind; the Soul is on the right, the Soul is on the left; the Soul is above and the Soul is below.  

Until one thinks of his body as the body, ego as the ego the universe as the universe,  he remains in ignorance,  because he is still in ignorance and he is unaware of that,  they too are the Soul, which is present in the form of Spirit.:~Santthosh Kumaar 

There is no such thing as an individual soul.***

Santthosh Kumaar

Thus, one has to analyse the three states to realize, what is it that appears as the waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (Nonduality). one has to investigate: ‘what is it that appears as the duality’ and disappears as Nonduality when the self is neither the waking entity (you) nor the dream entity but the self is the formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states. In the realm of truth the three states are one in essence. Thus, the three states are created out of single stuff. That single stuff the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. ~ Santthosh Kumaar

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  Santthosh Kumaar:~  There is no such thing as an  individual soul. The individuality is  a reality  within the duality. The duality is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality). The one which witnesses the coming and going of the three states is the soul. In the realm of truth the witness and the three states are one in essence that essence is the soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Thus, there is no second thing exists other than soul (consciousness) the question of the individual soul does not arise because the soul(consciousness) pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. 
  
  In a dream if we have an idea of the individual soul, the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking experience (the world in, which we exist) becomes unreal when the wisdom dawns. The wisdom dawns when the waking entity (you or the ego) realizes it itself is not the self but the self is the soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states. Thus the individual soul is a reality within the illusion. 
  
  Thus ‘I’ you, others and the world along with all its contents are made of a single stuff. That single stuff is soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Thus realizing this truth of the single stuff is self-realization.

   

   
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