Everything belongs to the Soul, the Self.+

The Atman is the Sanskrit word for Soul the Self.  The Atman or Soul is present in the form of consciousness.   Thus, Atman or Soul or the Self or consciousness is one and the same thing. 

This universe in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness. 

The experience of birth, life, and death that happens within the universe is merely an illusion.

Form, time, and space are within the universe. Without form, time, and space there is no universe.

The universe is present only when the mind is present. The mind is present when ‘I’ is present.  

From the standpoint of the Soul, the  Self, the universe is merely an illusion. If the universe is merely an illusion then the experience of birth, life, and death happening within the universe is merely an illusion. 

If the universe is merely an illusion then the form, time, and space are merely an illusion. If form, time, and space are merely an illusion then the mind is merely an illusion. If the mind is merely an illusion then the ‘I’ is merely an illusion.  If the ‘I’ is merely an illusion then the substance and the witness of the ‘I’ which is the formless Soul alone is real and eternal.

When the Soul the Self, establishes itself in its own awareness, then you and your experience of the world will become one with it.

When the Self is not you then what is the use of saying ‘I AM THIS’ OR ‘I AM THAT’.  The Self is not physical because the Self is the  Soul which is present in the form of consciousness.  The Soul or Spirit is genderless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. 

The Soul is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. 

The Self cannot be identified as he or she, thus the physical-based inquiry does not hold water. 

To realize the truth beyond form, time, and space the seeker has to drop all the accumulated egocentric knowledge.   Becoming more and more Soulcentric leads the seeker towards Advaitic Self-awareness.

Remember:~

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 Soul that 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 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 single stuff, which is the Soul, the Self.   It is necessary to realize the Self is not within our body (you) but it is hidden within the world in which we exist as its formless substance and the witness.  

Thus, our bodies and our experience of the world are made of the same stuff. Realizing this truth will lead one to Advaitic Self-awareness in the midst of duality.    

Everything belongs to the Soul, the Self.  The three states are unreal and impermanent.  The five elements belong to duality. The duality is not reality. 

There is no such thing as cosmic laws. The laws belong to duality and duality is not reality from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self.  In reality, matter (universe) and the Spirit (Soul) are the same because the matter is a mere illusion created out of the Spirit or Soul.

The matter is spirit. Those who become aware of this truth can realize Brahman right here (in this very birth)   right now (not in the next world). 

The Soul is unborn and the incarnation of God as a human being is an idea based on the false self within the false experience because the Soul is present in the form of consciousness that pervades everything and everywhere in all three states.  When everything is the Self then the question of birth does not arise. The birth implies duality and duality mere illusion created out of the spirit (consciousness).

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the experience of birth, life, death, and the world are one in essence. That essence is the Spirit, which is present in the form of consciousness.  This truth cannot be assimilated by those who view and judge from the stad[point of the false self (waking entity or ego) and false experience (waking)     

The Self is not the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind.  The mind is present in the form of the universe. And universe appears as the waking or the dream and disappears as deep sleep.  

The duality is present only in waking or dream. The duality is absent in deep sleep. That is the duality is present the non-duality is absent. The non-duality is the nature of the soul. Therefore, the Soul becomes the mind. And the mind becomes the Soul. 

The Soul and mind are one in essence. That essence is the Soul that is present in the form of consciousness. The consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.  Whoever constantly contemplates this truth will realize Brahman or God. 

Anyone who has an intense urge to know the truth and is sharp enough to grasp it with humility and politeness will be able to reach the ultimate end of understanding. :~Santthosh Kumaar  

Not everyone becomes Bill Gates if they adopt his life skills. Everyone’s life circumstances are different.+

Everyone has a story of success and failure. Everyone is most interested in sharing their story of success and failure with others.   People think that their success story can be applied to others who are less fortunate in their life to get success. Thus, they try to impose their idea of success on others by propagating their success story.  But they themselves are failures in recognizing the truth, because they are unaware of the fact that, their success story is based on the false self within the false experience.    

Not everyone becomes Bill Gates if they adopt his life skills. Everyone’s life circumstances are different. The circumstances whether they are good or bad come on their own and they disappear on their own.  Positive thinking only helps one to move ahead in time thinking and hallucinating the bright future, but the results may be favorable or unfavorable. Circumstances arise not, because, individual conduct or action.

The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan affected many successful people. Many successful people lost their dear ones and wealth. All these circumstances of life come and go on their own. When the circumstances are favorable life goes on smoothly. But in unfavorable circumstances, life becomes very hard and miserable. And there are also mixed circumstances which make us happy and also miserable. 

If a successful person becomes a failure in his dream and a failure person becomes a successful person in his dream, their dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. In the same way, the waking also becomes unreal when one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity.  

Whatever one sees, knows, believes, and experiences within the waking or dream experience are falsehoods.  Therefore, Self-Realization is necessary to realize “what is truth” and “what is untruth”.

 Favorable circumstances do not arise because of one’s positivity. And because of positive thinking, the circumstances will not change. Painful experiences of the past and fear of the future make one think negatively. 

Thinking positively it helps to keep away the future fear in the present nothing more. Thus, one has to understand and realize the fact that, these positive and negative circumstances do not depend on his doer ship because they arise on their own and they disappear on their own.

In life, everything happens on its own. No one can plan it. We did not plan our birth, it just happened. In the same way, our life is a package of unknown circumstances everything is happening on its own, whether they are good or bad. 

In the past, some saints introduced the concept of God to cast the burden of worldly suffering so that everyone can diver their attention on the imaginary entity by indulging in prayers, worship, and orthodoxy,  and crossing the ocean of this worldly suffering. Thus, the mass followed it and passed it from one generation to the next. So everyone inherited blind beliefs they imposed on their children and they themselves indulge in priestcraft without verifying the validity of their own inherited belief system. 

The truth is hidden by orthodoxy in the name of protecting their God and their religion is meant for those who are incapable of thinking deeply of their own existence and also it helps the people to adopt certain disciplines, morals, and ethics in society with its code of conduct. 

Love was a religious tool it helps society to a certain extent.  Love and co-exist. People talk of love because they are deprived of it. It is impossible to love everyone. It is easy to say but difficult to practice in worldly life because everyone loves their own ego. Thus, this egoic love is temporary because the ego is the false self within the false experience.      

People have the notion that the more and more they gratify their senses for attaining worldly pleasures, the happier they will be is not true at all, because they think the physical self is the real Self, therefore they are unaware of the fact that the Self is not physical but the Self is the formless consciousness. The consciousness can stay with or without waking or dream.   Thus, it is time to realize their pleasure and suffering is limited to the waking experience, which is falsehood.

It is the illusory sense-pleasure that is responsible for the forgetfulness of the Self, which is in the form of consciousness, which results in one’s sorrows and sufferings.

Suffering is the reminder to search for the remedy to overcome the suffering caused by the ignorance of the true self. Pleasure is the cause of ignorance. But if the real self is realized, then, the illusion will not prevail as reality.   

Why do mortals then become attached to worldly pleasures in the first place? 

It is the illusion that allures one to enjoy the mundane objects in a futile effort of satisfying the unceasing demands of his senses within the waking or dream. A person within the illusion becomes intoxicated with lust, greed, anger, attachment, false ego, enviousness, stubborn-mindedness, and numerous variations within the illusion.

 Consequently, the individual self gets caught in the illusory cycle of birth, old age, disease, and death within the illusion. This is an illusion, by which the consciousness is forgotten; emotional attachment and love of duality are born.

The ignorance of the true self is the cause of duality. The duality is the cause of illusion. The illusion is the cause of experiencing unreality as reality. Because of these pluralistic phenomena of illusory -vision, material happiness appears to be followed by sorrow. If there is laughter, there is a cry; if there is a birth, there is a death; if there is a rich, there is a poor; so on and so forth.

Everything in the waking or dream experience is in a state of constant flux; there can be found no everlasting happiness. The ego is in control of evil passions, evil intent, and duality.

Everyone wishes for happiness, pleasures, joy, peace, etc. and none asks for suffering, misery, etc. But in the wake of pleasure, there comes suffering. The pleasure and pain co-exist within the illusion. People do not understand this.  Therefore, there is necessary to realize the fact that the mind, which appears as a waking or dream is a mere illusion.

It is the attachment to the form of separate objects which keeps one from apprehending their unity, not the seeing of them. One has to think of both form and essence, by practice he must get to the stage where he can think of both simultaneously. This is done by knowing that the form is made of consciousness, which is the true self. This requires sharp intelligence and constant repetition of practices of seeing both form and essence at the same time.

False and true knowledge exists only when one talks on the base of ‘ego,  but when one knows the truth, however, such classifications cannot arise,  because everything is then known to be consciousness, and no questions of where and how or why can arise.

One must make an effort to know consciousness as self. Consciousness is there always. One has got it, there is nothing new to be acquired, only have the sharpness to grasp and understand it, when told about it. But there is a difference between understanding and realization.

The effort is required for this understanding only, whereas once understood no special effort is needed to remember one understands.  Until then he only has an idea of the soul, which is in the form of consciousness he only partially understands. But once he thoroughly grasps what it is and that all these things are consciousness, he will then constantly find it present everywhere without further effort. Because he will perceive consciousness by understanding, even in the midst of the waking experience.

There is only one thing (consciousness) known, there is nothing to change, nothing to appear or disappear because there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. When one speaks of remembering or forgetting the consciousness that implies that,  he believes in the existence of something else, i.e. a second thing, which is to be remembered. That would show he has not known that all is one. But knowing it, there is no second, consequently no intermittent perception of the consciousness, but a permanent effortless understanding that it alone is.

When one gets a glimpse of truth mentally try to repeat it several times to establish it. The self must raise itself by the Self."

Beginners and intermediates must indulge in listening, reading, writing, discussing, and constantly reflecting on the subject. Discussing other than the “Self” is a waste of time. Discussion of accumulated knowledge and intellectual speculation satisfies only those who want to exhibit their skills of playing with words.  Thus, it is better to avoid such a discussion who are more interested in exhibiting their accumulated dross and less interested in moving forward in their pursuit of truth.    Only through deeper self–search on his own, one becomes receptive to self-knowledge.

The seeker has to realize the fact that, the imagination is cannot transport him or her to the non-dual destination. He has to attain a state where he can negate all ideas and imagination, which are part of the duality (waking or dream). Therefore, he has to know and grasp mentally the Formless Witness of the three states.

When this new idea of formless witness is formed in the subconscious, it will help to replace the old idea of the physical witness, the same way as ~ One thorn pulling out the other thorn and both thrown away--that is the only way.  and hence seeker of truth has to “think deeply and discriminate between the base of ego and base of the soul to get uncontradictable truth “as a tip against getting misled by others.

One has to differentiate between understanding the spiritual truth and realizing the spiritual truth. The former makes to know with certainty; the latter is ultimate realizing and final with firm conviction.:~Santthosh Kumaar 

Buddha: ~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.+

Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut 1.36-42: ~  Non-duality is taught by some; some others teach duality. They don't understand that the all-pervading Reality is beyond both duality and non-duality. 

Bhagavan Buddha: ~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

Different gurus and teachers are pointing out the understanding of the Advaitic truth from different standpoints. All such understanding of Advaita is on the dualistic perspective accumulated from here and there.

Advaita is not a theory or a philosophy. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self. There is no need for any theory or philosophy or scriptures to acquire Self-knowledge. Only a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.

The citations from scriptures are not proofs.  The ultimate truth has to be proved without the scriptures.  The ultimate truth is the universal truth and it does not belong to any religion.  Religion causes diversity in unity, whereas, the ultimate truth brings unity in diversity. 

It is not that one should pore over the ancient scriptures.  There is no need to study first, then realize. One has to realize first, then only he will know ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. One has to make discoveries through the process of rational thinking.

That is why Sage Sankara says:~ V C-65. 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 Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

I just write what is revealed from the inner core. My main intention is to divert their attention to the source from where the mind (universe) rises and subsides. Reading my blogs gradually they will start assimilation ‘what is truth and what is the untruth. Repeated reading of my blogs makes the seeker, soul-centric,  and the inner dialogue will start and clear all his doubts and confusion.

When there are no doubts and confusion, then they have realized the truth that form, time and space are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness. There is no use in wasting time in questioning and arguing, the same time and effort have to be used to make the seeker more independent and without external spoon-feeding. the seeker can reach the inner core, which is the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness.

The words that mean different things to different people take it or leave it, it matters not to me. It is what's behind the words, between the lines that matters. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is meant for the class, not for the mass. 

A Gnani is one who has realized the ultimate truth or Brahman. In ultimate reality in which there is neither the man nor the world, he is free from experiencing the form, time, and space as a reality. 

Without realizing the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity but the self is the formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession.  Thus, one has to mentally grasp the existence of the formless witness, which is the Soul, the Self. 

The soul is present in the form of consciousness. the soul or the consciousness is within the three states and it is apart from the three states. It is hidden by the three states as their formless substance and it is apart from the three states as their formless witness.

The real Gnani is one who knows reality, beyond form, time, and space.   What exists for others as reality does not exist for him as a reality. What people take for granted, he denies absolutely. He wants everyone to be soul-centric to realize the fact that, their body, their ego, and their experience of the world are merely an illusion created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is consciousness. Thus, consciousness is second to none.

It takes a very long time to understand and assimilate the Nondualistic truth. The seeker must have an urge to know the truth and have the patience, humility, and razor-edge sharpness to grasp the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth will sure to reach their ultimate understanding and realization. 

The path of wisdom is an independent path.  The wisdom will dawn only when the seeker uses his reason and is able to discriminate between ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal.

A Gnani hints about the truth again and again but it is for the seeker to verify by thinking rationally and reasoning and discriminating to find out ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is not the truth.

The Seeker does not need a Guru but what the seeker requires is the discriminating power to discriminate between the witness (Soul) and witnessed (mind) to realize the reality beyond form, time, and space. 

Osho ~ Buddha says:~ Go alone, just remember two things. Don’t carry your mistakes~ that means, don’t carry your past. There is no need even to repent about the past. Your religious people go on teaching you, “Repent!” because it is through repentance that they make you feel guilty, and when you are guilty you can be exploited.

A real master always makes you feel good about yourself, not guilty; respectful towards yourself, not guilty. But the priests live on creating guilt in you. They would not like you to forget your mistakes; they want to remind you again and again. They have not even forgotten the sin that was committed by Adam and Eve; they go on reminding you about the original sin.

You have not committed it, but you are born into the chain in which the first man and woman committed it and you are carrying the load of it. You have to feel guilty even for that, what to say about your own mistakes? The priests have lived in great power for the simple reason that they have reduced you into guilty sinners. 

Where people cannot and do not think, they follow others. A Gnani will see the world and get to know it is the only appearance. He is not blind; he sees three states or objects as it is, but he knows it is the only falsehood. Just as you see a mirage, the Gnani sees the mirage of this universe too; but he is not deceived by it. So long as one is ignorant, he will have the idea that God has created this world because the causal notion will be there. 

Nobody wants to suffer, and while the notion that suffering can be got rid of by appealing to God, these wishes will sway the mind to believe in God. For them, religion will arise, but for the man who wants the truth, religion offers no consolation. :~Santthosh Kumaar 

By a mere utterance of the word ‘I AM THAT', the truth will not be revealed.+

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, whatever you have seen known and believed, and experienced as a person becomes unreal (illusion).

To realize the world in which you exist is an illusion you have to realize the ‘Self is not the ‘I’ but the Self is the Soul, the witness of the ‘I’.

Unless you realize the Self as the Soul, you are all blinded by the dualistic illusion.

The experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality within the waking experience.

The waking experience is a parallel dream and the dream is a parallel waking experience. The waking experience is a dualistic illusion or Maya.

To overcome the dualistic illusion you have to get rid of the ignorance by realizing the Self is not the ‘I’.

Until you hold the’ I’ as ‘Self’, ignorance will not vanish. So, there is a need to realize ‘what is this ‘I’?

You must realize the fact that the Self is not ‘I’, but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

‘I’ is the inborn conditioning or samskara and it will not vanish by inquiring ‘Who AM ‘I’? or just by saying ‘I AM THAT’- ignorance will not vanish.

There is a need for a deeper understanding of the nature of the ‘I’.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that the world in which you exist, is a dualistic illusion created by the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, the existence of the world in which you exist is negated, where is then any room to say that the ‘I’ is the Self?

Without the ‘I’ the world, in which you exist cease to exist.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

The Soul is the substance and witness of the dualistic illusion. The Soul is hidden by the dualistic illusion and it is always apart from the dualistic illusion.

The Soul is hidden within the dualistic illusion as its formless substance and it is without the dualistic illusion as its witness.

In reality, the substance and witness of the illusion are one, in essence. That essence is consciousness. Consciousness alone is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Upanishads: ~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking they wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Upanishads Nikilanada - Ch II-5 P-14)

No one can teach anybody. The Advatic truth is hidden by the illusory universe in which you exist.

A Gnani can only show the way that much is the work of a Gnani. A Gnani only guides the seekers to apply their own reason and realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

When the seeker learns to view and judge and reason the three states on the base of the Soul, the truth will start unfolding on its own.

First, the seeker may find it difficult to use soul-centric reason but gradually it will become easy.

Self-inquiry is finding out the ‘Self’, which is hidden by the illusory world, in which we exist.

By inquiring ‘Who am I?’, the ignorance will not vanish. Without getting rid of the ignorance, the Advaitic wisdom will not dawn.

Without Advaitic wisdom, it is impossible to realize the truth, which is hidden by the illusory world in which we exist.

That is why Sage Sankara Says: ~ VC-63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the ‘Self’ how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

What is the use of saying ‘I AM THAT’- without knowing what the ‘Self’ is in actuality?

Without knowing the truth of the Self, without realizing the truth of the world in which you exist, it is impossible to realize the truth, which is hidden by ignorance.

By a mere utterance of the word ‘I AM THAT', the truth will not be revealed. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara ~ Let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, yet, without the realization of one‘s identity wth the Self.+

Guru, Swami, Yogi, Sadhu, and Avatara belong to religious paths. Religious paths are meant for the ignorant who blindly accept their experience the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality because the universe is the product of ignorance. 

When wisdom dawns, then the unreal nature of the world in which you exist is exposed. Thus, whatever experiences take place within the world in which you exist are bound to be a falsehood.

The Guru, Swami, Yogi, Sadhu, and Avatara s are nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman because they are based on the false self (ego) and false experience (waking). 

The Path of wisdom is only for those who are seriously in search of ultimate truth or Brahman. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana is the mother of all knowledge. 

Sage Sankara:~   VC Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated ~ yet, without the realization of one‘s identity With the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not  even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together (verses-6)

A Gnani being in the illusion he is not of the illusion.  The doer and doing and the world, are present within the dualistic illusion.  With perfect equanimity, even in practical life within the practical world, a Gnani attends to all his worldly activities and duties like any other commoner. It is wrong to think that a Gnani sits quietly without any activities.  Even inaction also is an action.   He may have sorrows,  but he is in perfect equanimity because he is aware of the fact that, physical awareness is merely an illusion created out of the soul, the innermost self. He is fully aware of the fact that physical life started within the illusion and ends within the illusion. In Self-awareness the soul, the innermost self is free from experiencing the form, time, and space in the midst of the duality.

Where is the doer, where is the doing where is the world when the Soul is in awareness of its own nature.  The doership, doing and the world belong to the illusion. Whatever is happening within the illusion will go on happening the soul the witness of the illusion is unaffected by the happening within the illusion because it is ever formless. All dualistic knowledge is limited to the illusion.

Where is the past? Where is the present and where is the future? Where is the form? Where is the time? Where is the space? For the Soul, the Self, which is ever formless? 

A Gnani acts and reacts as a commoner in the practical life within the practical world with perfect equanimity of both illusion and reality.  

On page 482: On Gnani: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior."  When the knower of Brahman wears no signs it means he remains as a commoner and does not identify himself as a wise man and others are less wise. 

The man who claims to be a Gnani but must advertise it by wearing a monk's robe, sitting in a cave, or remaining nude, thereby proving that he is thinking of the body, is attached to it; he is not a  true Gnani. The latter has no need to distinguish himself when he knows all is One. All Those distinctions mentioned are for religious gurus or yogis.

The Gnani will feel that millions are suffering in the world, but simultaneously he will also know that they identify themselves wrongly with their finite selves. He will understand his limitation through being in the realm of form, time, and space and knows that he cannot help them all, so he will do whatever it is possible for him to do. He will make use of his body to whatever extent it is possible in helping others, but admittedly he can relieve only a tiny fraction of humanity.

Both Gnani and the ignorant see the multiplicity, but Gnani does not take the differences which he sees as being real. That is the difference between them. The Gnani sees the unity behind the differences and considers the welfare of all others as his own.  A true Gnani can never renounce anything. It is impossible. He has only renounced the idea of separation.

Gnanis are one in millions for they have ignored the opinions of whole peoples in their independent search for the truth and questioned all beliefs, all scriptures, and all authorities until they could be proved to be true.

Even the arguments that religions have been followed since time immemorial make no difference to them because if people have believed a false thing over thousands of years, the length of time does not prove it true.

The Gnani’s position is that if enjoyment comes, he accepts it; if it does not, he keeps quiet. Even when he is taking pleasures, however, he is not deluded by them and he regards them as a game of life since he knows their unreality: he does not take them seriously. Clouds do not affect the sky, although they appear to; so the pleasures do not change the Gnani.

The Gnani will follow whatever occupation he wishes according to circumstances. There are no prohibitions for him. He may be a barber or a billionaire.:~Santthosh Kumaaar