Religion propagates Gods based on blind faith or belief as real God whereas scriptures says God in truth is not religious.+

People are misled by their inherited religion which propagates Gods based on blind faith or belief as real God whereas their own sacred scriptures prove that what people believe and worship as Gods are not God in truth.

Upanishads say in effect that: ~ If you believe that the ‘the Soul, the Self is one and God (Brahman) is another you cannot understand Truth.

The religion preaches that God is one and the ways to God are many. It simply tries to lead them to darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the Self.

People all over the world in the past and present accepted the idea of the existence of God. The fear of God injected by religion was the root cause of worship, superstitions, and dogmas. The religious belief is passed on to the populace from one generation to the next generation.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32: ~:~ God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.

Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

It is for the seeker to realize what God is supposed to be in actuality. God is hidden by the universe because the universe is merely an illusion created out of God. God is in the form of Athma.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is present in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

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)

How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshiper and the worshiped, whereas the God is nondual. One can worship his idea of God only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.

When Upanishads and Vedas declare that, “God is the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself” then why accept another God in place of the Atman or worship other than the Atman.

People, who worship the belief-based God, are hallucinating that they become one with such God. Veda and Upanishads condemn worshiping God other than Athma.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says: ~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)

Even Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “Brahmano hi pratisthaham Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (Gita 14.27)

When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter: ~ “All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse)

Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita Bible confirm the Soul, the Self, which is the present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness is God in truth.

It is for every seeker who is seeking truth must first know what God is supposed to be in actuality according to Vedas and Upanishads and reject all non-Vedic Gods to realize the Atman is God in truth.

Remember: ~

Vedic, Quaranic, and Biblical versions of Advaita.

Advaita is the universal truth. Advaita is the universal God. All dualistic Gods of belief belong to the dualistic illusion. Realize God right now and right here ~ means right in this very life, not in the next birth or next world.

You may be a Hindu, you may be a Christian, you may be a Buddhist, you may be a Muslim, you may be a Jew but God in truth does not belong to any particular religion because God in truth is universal.

Remember, the ‘Self’ is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit or the consciousness. The Soul, the ‘Self’ is neither a Hindu nor a Christian, nor a Buddhist, nor a Muslim because it is the formless timeless, and spaceless existence.

Remember the Soul; the Spirit is God in truth. Religious Gods are based on the beinef of mythical Gods. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists.

Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Advaita is not a religion. Advaita is not philosophy. Advaita is not yoga. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Advaita is the Soul itself. Advaita is the ultimate truth. Advaita is Brahman. Advaita is God, the one without the second.

The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with God, which is the Soul, the Self.

Realize God in truth.

Religious Gods are based on blind belief. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because the Soul the innermost ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists. Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exwhicht, it means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit and they that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth.- (John 4:24)

The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul, the innermost Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. From the Spirit, the universe comes into existence. In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there.

There is no God but God. There is no God because the world in which we exist is merely an illusion created out of God, the Spirit. Call it by any name God is universal. God belongs to the whole of humanity.

Religion creates separation God is unity in diversity. God is one which the cause of the whole world in which humans exist. There is no God but God means the world in which we exist is an illusion GOD is the cause of the world is real and eternal. God alone is real and all else is an illusion. There is no second thing that exists other than the Spirit, God thus, God is Advaita.

The Quranic version of Oneness or Advaita.

La illah illa Allah -- No God but Allah.

The meaning of La illaha illallah is simple, it means (La) No (illaha) God (illallah) but Allah.

The meaning of the word Allah is unique unlike English, it is purely singular in the Arabic language and cannot be made female or male despite it being a name that means Allah is free from being HE or SHE. But why scripture uses “he” is another topic up for debate. But La Illaha Illallah means (There is) No God but Allah.

This means there is no God worthy of worship in the universe but the God which is hidden by the universe and is the cause of the universe. Allah is God- second to none. Allah is Advaita.

Realize yourself by realizing the Self is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit. The Spirit is God, which is nondual or Advaita.

Religion is regarded as sacred and real by the common people, by the wise as f,alse, and by the rulers as useful.

Religious fanatics never understood the Spiritualistic interpretation of Anal Hak- they thought he is referring to himself as God but it is not so he was referring to the infinite existence hidden by the finite ‘I’ (Universe).

The Soul is the innermost Self. The innermost Self is God. It is not “I AM GOD, but it’s correct to say ‘the SELF IS GOD.

Before saying ‘I AM GOD’ one must realize what ‘God’ is supposed to be in actuality. Only the ignorant say ‘I AM GOD’ without knowing what it means.

People say I AM GOD but when God is, how can "I" remain? Only God prevails not I. The ‘I’ exists only in the domain of the illusory form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The Soul, the ‘Self is God in truth

There is no God in the domain of the ‘I’ because the ‘I’ is merely an illusory expression of God.

It is erroneous to use the word ‘I’ for the Self, because ‘I’ represents the illusory form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Some people say: "I AM GOD." This presupposes that they have the same miraculous and creative powers of God. They do not, however, display possession of such power. Such is the fallacy of their logic.

People who say “I AM GOD’ are merely repeating like a parrot word, which they have read in their holy books or heard from a wandering monk or fakir. It does not prove that they have realized the ultimate truth or God in truth.

With bookish or hearsay knowledge it is unable to prove that everything is God, which is present in the form of the Spirit. One has to do lots of homework to realize God, the Self.

Jesus’s version of Nonduality or Advaita.

Jesus said: ~ Seek and ye shall find. Knock the doors shall open to you.

Why did Jesus say different things? Owing to the time and the persons, according to their readiness to listen and understand. What Jesus meant was to leave all and follow the ‘Self’; that means to know the ‘Self’ and realize the ‘Self’, which is the Spirit, the God.

The teachings that are being followed by Christians are not the real teachings that Christ gave. The priests have altered his words, added to his teachings, and spoiled them.

Jesus said: ~ Seek and ye shall find. Knock the doors shall open to you.

Gospel Thomas Logian 22: ~ Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, “These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.”

They said to him, “Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?”

Jesus said to them, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female is female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom.”

Santthosh Kumaar: ~ “This above passage is Jesus’s version of Nonduality or Advaita. When one realizes the mind (matter) and the Soul (Spirit), the Self, are one, in essence, there is no place for duality. Without duality, the universe ceases to exist. Without the universe, your existence within the universe is merely an illu. Therehere is scope for two because everything is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the consciousness or Spirit, the God in truth.

Vedic God is Atman is Advaita.

In Vedas, God has been described as: ~

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Do not accept any other God other than the Soul. The Soul is God in truth,  Nothing is real but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Nothing matters but realizing God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is real and eternal and all else is an illusion.

Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth.  The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.  

Yajur Veda – chapter- 32: ~ God is 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.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul or Spirit) 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)

The Vedas as a body of scripture contains many contradictions and they are fragmentary in nature. For Hindus, scriptures like the Bhagavad-Gita, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Puranas are more attractive and appealing than the Vedas. And also, the Gods and Goddesses they worship differ considerably from the Vedic ones. The collection of hymns called Vedas are written in praise of certain deities by poets over several centuries and does not seem to have much significance for the Hindus.

Yajur Veda says: ~

Translation 1

They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc.).

They sink deeper into darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc.) (Yajurveda 40:9)

Translation 2

"Deep into the shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent." (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Griffith pg. 538)

Translation 3

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." (Yajur Veda 40:9)

So, Yajur Veda indicates that: ~

They sink deeper into darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc (Yajurveda 40:9)

Those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, and bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." (Yajur Veda 40:9.)

Then why worship and glorify the non-~Vedic Gods in place of Vedic God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge in such activities are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.

God exists prior to form, time, and space. The form, time, and space cease to exist as a reality when wisdom dawns. Thus, the Gods and Gurus have no place in the domain of the Advaitic reality. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, which is the real God. Thus, Self-realization is the only way to God-realization.

By worshipping the religious Gods and Gurus one will not get Self-realization or God-realization.

The Soul, the inner Guru reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

The Upanishad says: ~ 'The human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana and they indicate the personal gods, scriptures, worship, and rituals are not the means to Self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, then why anyone should indulge in it. Religion, the concept of an individualized god, and scriptures are the greatest obstacle to realizing non-dual truth or Self-realization because they are based on a false self. The seeker of truth has to search for the ultimate truth without losing himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, through deeper, inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, and assimilate and realize it.

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). God is above all needs and desires. God is always the Witnessing Subject. God can never become an object as God is beyond the reach of the senses. God is non-dual, one without a second. God has no other besides it. God is destitute of difference, either external or internal. God cannot be described because the description implies a distinction. God cannot be distinguished from any other than God. In God, there is not distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constituted the very essence or Svarupa of God, and not just God's attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

God is neither male nor female because God is nondual. God is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself. Athma is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

All Gods with forms and names are a reality within the dualistic illusion or Maya. the real God is hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya. the dualistic illusion is present in the form of the universe (I).

There is neither Shiva nor Shakti but only consciousness. Consciousness is God in truth. All blind belief-based Gods are not God in truth.

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

When Bhagavad Gita says God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.

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.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV-13:~ ‘As a mass of salt has neither inside nor outside, but is entirely a mass of taste, thus indeed, has that Self neither inside nor outside but is altogether a mass of Knowledge. Just as a lump of salt has inside as well as outside one and the same saltish taste, not any other taste, so also that Brahman (consciousness) has inside as well as outside one and the same intelligence. Inside and outside are mental creations only. When the mind melts in silence, ideas of inside and outside vanish. Sages cognize one illimitable, homogeneous mass of consciousness only.

Causality taught in the Upanishads is only to enable us to understand the supreme truth of no-origination. The world is not different from consciousness and consciousness is not different from the Soul, the Self, and the Soul is not different from the ultimate truth or Brahman. That consciousness appears as a diverse world is only an illusion. If it really became diverse then the immortal would become mortal.

The dualists who seek to prove the origination of the unborn, by that very enterprise try to make the immortal, mortal. Ultimate nature can never change - the immortal can never become mortal and vice versa

Sage Goudapada quotes from the Upanishads: ~ "There's no plurality here"; "The Soul through its powers appear to be many"; "those who are attached to the creation or production or origination go to utter darkness"; "the unborn is never reborn, for what can produce it?”. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara says, "This Atman is Self-evident. This Atman or Self is not established by proofs of the existence of the Self.+

Centuries have passed since Sage Sankara appeared, yet it is very hard to find his wisdom understood anywhere in the world today. It is because so few could rise to his level. Hence dualistic cults and devotional sects came into existence and prospered.

The Advaita wisdom of Sage Sankara is a rigorous, absolute one. According to Sage Sankara, whatever is, is Brahman. Brahman, itself is absolutely homogeneous.

All differences and plurality are illusory.

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.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the not-Self.

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. Select Works of Sage Sri, Sankara (also his commentary on Brihad): "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539). Thus, it proves that the religious gurus and yogis who identify themselves as holy people have nothing to do with Advaitic Gnana.

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.

Keeping Sage Sankara's words in when one goes into the deeper self-search through a mental microscope he finds Advaitic wisdom is nothing to with Advaitic orthodoxy. And the truth will not reveal by studying the philosophy of Vedanta.

Some thinkers hold views of Maya which are entirely incorrect and untenable. They do not know Sage Sankara's Upanishad Bashyas, but only the Brahma Sutra Bashya. The followers of Sage Sankara have constituted a religious sect. Thus all movements ultimately degenerate.

Sage Sankara gave religious, rituals, and dogmatic instruction to the ignorant populace but Advaitic wisdom only to the few who could rise to it. Sage Sri, Sankara 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.

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God in truth) is Nirguna (without the Gunas), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without attributes), and Akarta (non-agent). God is above all needs and desires.

Sage Sankara says, "This Atman is Self-evident. This Atman or Self is not established by proofs of the existence of the Self. It is not possible to deny this Atman, for it is the very essence of he who denies it. Atman is the basis of all kinds of knowledge. The Self is within, the Self is without, the Self is before and the Self is behind. The Self is on the right hand, the Self is on the left, the Self is above and the Self is below".

Satyam-Jnanam-Anantam-Anandam- are not separate attributes. They form the very essence of Brahman. Brahman cannot be described because the description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than Brahman. The objective world-the world of names and forms-has no independent existence. The Atman alone has real existence. The world is only phenomenal.

Sage Sankara said:~Just as the snake is superimposed on the rope, this world and this body are superimposed on Brahman or the Soul, the innermost Self. If one gets knowledge of the rope, the illusion of the snake will vanish. Even so, if he gets knowledge of Brahman, the illusion of the body and the world will vanish. The snake is only an idea: it disappears on inquiry but deeper Self-search reveals the fact that the rope is also an idea and its reality will be exposed when wisdom dawns. There is neither snake nor the rope in reality because from the ultimate standpoint the duality is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self. The Soul is Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Consciousness is the root element of the universe. From consciousness, the universe comes into existence. In consciousness, the universe resides. And into consciousness, the universe is dissolved. Consciousness is the parent of all that is there is. Consciousness is the only reality, and the universe to but an illusory manifestation. The Veda serves only at the starting point.

What one has to learn from Veda must be understood through the exercise of reason, as far as reason might go. And what one has understood must be realized in one’s life. It is not that one should pore over the ancient scriptures. There is no need to study first and then realize. One has to realize first then only he will know ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Ish Upanishad declares:~ Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide.+

The Advaitic Truth is simple, but it is very difficult to grasp because people are stuck up with their accumulated knowledge, which blocks their realization.

People don’t realize the Gnana is already there but they have buried it under their accumulated knowledge and they don't want to check that is why they miss it. They refuse to accept anything other than their mental Garbage.

All accumulated knowledge from different Gurus and different sources and different ideologies and different philosophies have buried the truth under mental Garbage. People are stuck with their religion and religious doctrine and Gurus and their Gurus teachings and refuse to accept anything as the truth other than their accepted truth.

That is why Sage Sankara says:~ A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it, your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya, can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by subtle arguments.

Sage Sankara goes on to say: ~A sickness of not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take the medicine. Liberation does not come by merely saying the word “Brahman.” Brahman must be realized. Until you allow this apparent universe to dissolve from your consciousness until you have realized Brahman, how can you find liberation just by saying the word Brahman? The result is merely noise. Until a man has destroyed his enemies and taken possession of the splendor and wealth of the kingdom, he cannot become a king by simply saying “I am a king.”

That is why Sage Sankara:~ VC- v6~ 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.

Fortunate are those who do not lose themselves in the labyrinths of accumulated knowledge. They are conceptual divisions invented by the Gurus in the past by their excessive analysis. All these concepts create so much of doubts and confusion. 

Adhyasa Bhashya of Sage Sankara:~ (11.2) In short, a person who engages in rituals with the notion “I am an agent, doer, thinker”, according to Sage Sankara, is ignorant, as his behavior implies a distinct, separate doer/agent/knower; and an object that is to be done/achieved/known. That duality is avidya, an error that can be removed by Vidya.  

Adhyasa Bhashya of Sage Sankara: ~ (12) Sage Sankara affirming his belief in one eternal unchanging reality (Brahman) and the illusion of plurality, drives home the point that Upanishads deal not with rituals but with the knowledge of the Absolute (Brahma Vidya) and the Upanishads give us an insight into the essential nature of the Self which is identical with the Absolute, the Brahman. 

Sage Sankara: ~ Atman, the innermost self is verily Brahman (God), being equanimous, quiescent, and by nature absolute Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss. Atman is not the body that is non-existence itself. This is called true Knowledge by the wise. 

Sage Sankara says:~  Yoga is not the means of liberation. (p-132`133  commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad).

Brihad Upanishad:~ Even yoga cannot give perfect concentration and the only way to gain it is through philosophical realization. This confirms the Manduka Upanishads' statement that yoga can no more succeed than the ocean can be emptied with a blade of grass. (p~133~Ist par) 

In Sutra Bashya and Manduka:~  Samadhi and sleep are identical. 

Brihad Upanishad does not advocate Samadhi. People are going down, down, and down.

The mantra-yoga consists of repeating the name of God, or even the AUM; thousands of times yield nothing. It can appeal only to the ignorant, to those who cannot think deeper. It is a mere religious fable. The real exercise is to think of the meaning of the name or the AUM and then only do you get something.

Mantras can do nothing. If they really had any power why did not Krishna use one to stop the Mahabharata war? All the magical power of mantras are a religious fable because religion is based on the false self(waking or ego) and false experience(waking or the world)  Visions and Samadhi are illusions from the standpoint of the Soul, the  Self.

That is why Sage Sankara:~ 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.

Ish Upanishad declares ~ Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide.

Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds after death.

This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain Self-knowledge.  In a real sense, they are committing suicide, for what can be worse than being a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life, which is to be one’s, own master?

Mundaka Upanishad:~  The study of the Vedas, linguistics, Rituals, astronomy, and all the arts Can be called lower knowledge. The higher Is that which leads to Self-realization. The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes nor ears nor hands nor feet. Sages say this Self is infinite in the great And in the small, everlasting and changeless, The source of life.

Manduka Upanishads:~  Those that want ultimate truth Brahman will not practice control of the mind. ( p.231)

In the pursuit of truth discussion of the unimportant subject matter is a great hindrance. Personal attacks and perverted arguments are a hindrance to realizing the truth beyond form, time, and space.

The path of truth is the path of verification. Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification. Agreeing to disagree causes unnecessary friction, everyone has a point of view and everyone must respect others' views wisdom just to maintain harmony irregardless of whether the point made was acceptable or not.

There are millions in search of truth, but one in million will be able to grasp it.  I am just posting what revels from the inner core. I just share with like-minded fellow seekers.   I am just highlighting the obstacle in the pursuit of truth.  Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is not based on any teaching or teacher. The pursuit of truth is the pursuit of verification not the pursuit of an argument.   Intellectual discussion is a great hindrance in the pursuit of truth.

Sharing is giving info for the sake of goodness. As with all things, achieving a balance of peaceful communications is established with respect, humility, understanding, and patience. Balancing an achievement is harder.:~Santthosh Kumaar 

Awakening means the Soul, the Self waking up from its sleep of ignorance, and remaining in its own awareness.+

Kabir views humanity as being caught up in the illusion, searching for Ultimate Reality in all the wrong places, always seeking It outside of ourselves in various rituals, temples, forests, and mountaintops, not realizing That for which we seek is already hidden within us. 

God dwells within the mind  like fragrance in the flower; Musk lies within the Musk-deer yet seeks it afar."

The Atman is the Sanskrit word for the Soul, the Self.  The Atman or Soul is present in the form of consciousness.    

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, death which happens within the universe is merely an illusion.

The 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 happen 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 the form, time and space is 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. 

Awakening is the Soul waking up from its sleep of ignorance, and remaining in its own awareness of its nondual truth nature in the midst of diversity. There is unity in diversity when the Soul, the Self remains in its own awareness of its non-dual true nature.  

Awakening is freedom from experiencing the dualistic illusion as a reality.

Awakening is soulcentric Gnana.

Awakening happens when the soul, the innermost self, witnesses the whole universe in which you exist on non-dualistic or Advaitic perspective. 

On the nondualistic perspective, you and your experience of the universe are made of the same stuff. That stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  Thus, the Soul or consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or  God in truth. Thus, Self-realization is God realization. 

Only in religion and yogic path, one has to follow and practice. Everyone thinks he has to follow some Guru or Godmen.  But all these methods are full of frustrations and give no real satisfaction. 

Reality has no method. The illusion has many methods, many problems, and many concepts. To overcome illusion or concepts, one should know the source of the mind and from where does this mind arise? 

“When the mind is present then only the universe is present. Absent of mind absent of universe.  Absent of universe is absent of duality. 

The absence of duality is the absence of thoughts.  Until one realizes  'What is the mind?' and 'What is the substance of the mind?' and 'What is the source of the mind?' it is impossible to assimilate Advaitic truth.

To know the Advaitic  Reality, deeper thinking is required. The thinking faculty ceases and becomes still when it reaches the source of the mind. One has to realize the waking entity is false self within the false experience from the ultimate standpoint.

Where there is no experience then there is no duality where there is no duality then there is no second thing that exists other than nondualistic  Self-awareness.  

The seeker has to go deeply in and trace and overcome the obstacles. For the sincere and serious seekers the inner guide will guide until the ignorance vanishes and he becomes aware of the fact that the diversity (universe or Illusion) is merely an illusion created out of consciousness (Atman). :~Santthosh Kumaar    

When one is unable to quench his spiritual thirst from his guru or teaching, he has to look elsewhere to clear the cobwebs of his understanding.+

The Advaita propagated by the Gurus of the east and the west is not the Advatic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

Religion is a prison of ignorance. People who follow religion locked up in ignorance. God in truth is not what people believe and worship. The belief or faith-based Gods are not God in truth.

Religion belongs to the world of feeling emotions. That is why people like it. Religion changes as it appeals to different feelings and emotions. On one pole the nude saint is admired; at the other, the gorgeously dressed Godmen is revered.

There is no use in quarreling with anyone in matters of religion. There is no need to convince people, let them hold any belief, any imagination they like in that realm. In religion, the question of truth does not arise, only the question of what they believe.

The craving for religion, the fear that not to follow its rites and dogmas will bring punishment, the inability to give up the notion of its truth even when your reason demonstrates its fallacies and absurdities are merely forms of mild obsessions, i.e. a thought constantly repeating itself’ automatically; hence it is a mental disease.

Unless you give up the ideas of heaven and hell, it is impossible to realize the Advaitic truth which is beyond form, time, and space. The ultimate Truth must be realized here and now, in this very life. Without realizing the ultimate truth, it is not possible to consider the existence of heaven and hell as untrue.

Remember:~

Sage Sankara says:~  Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?

For one who wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the mantas will not help to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

For one who has been bitten by the serpent of ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman.  there is no use in studying the Vedas and other Scriptures and reciting mantras (sacred formulae)  to realize God in truth. 

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

A sickness of not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take the medicine. Liberation does not come by merely saying the word “Brahman.” Brahman must be experienced. 

Until you allow this apparent universe to dissolve from your consciousness until you have realized Brahman, how can you find liberation just by saying the word Brahman? The result is merely noise. Until a man has destroyed his enemies and taken possession of the splendor and wealth of the kingdom, he cannot become a king by simply saying “I am a king.”

A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya, can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by subtle arguments.

The world in which you and guru exist is the product of ignorance. If there is no ignorance, then the world in which you and your guru exist cease to exist as a reality.

When reality appears this ignorance that one thinks as reality becomes unreal. The ultimate truth has to be realized first without any philosophy, then only it is possible to know what the scriptures are saying.

Reality is simply the loss of ignorance. Till ignorance is there the body, ego and the world exist as a reality. When ignorance vanishes,  then the Soul, the Self remains in its own awareness. In Self - awareness there is unity in diversity, thus there is only oneness.  

When one is unable to quench his spiritual thirst from his guru or guru's teaching he has to look elsewhere to clear the cobwebs of his understanding and move forward in his spiritual quest.

It is difficult for tradition-bound people to accept anything as truth other than what they inherited from their parental grooming. Only with an intense urge to know the truth and the courage to accept the truth after verification with better understanding one will be able to drop all his accumulated dross, which is the main obstacle to Self-realization.

People are making unlimited sacrifices and enduring unlimited suffering in the name of protecting their religion and god. They are therefore ignorant about the truth and incapable of understanding the ultimate truth, which is the universal God. 

Remember:~

All organized religions have unequivocally claimed man for life in the truth; thus, it is sheer folly to fight in the name of religion and god. 

It is time that humanity had a fresh vision of that truth that is beyond form, time, and space. the form, time and space are one in essence.  That essence is the Soul or consciousness. and consciousness is the only thing that is real and that matters.  

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the practical life is a vain and empty pursuit of illusory values. 

Parental grooming is the main cause of religious influence upon the mass mindset and it cannot be wiped out without knowing the truth of one’s own existence. Thus, teaching children to view and judge everything from the religious point of view of their parents, warps the minds and destroys the capacity to think beyond the belief system of their grooming.

Remember:~

People who are yearning for spiritual truth will not find it what they are seeking. Religious truth is an individual truth, and it is not the universal truth because religion is based on individuality. 

As one goes into the deeper investigation find nothing satisfying in any religion.  The more he investigates any religious doctrine he becomes aware of the fact that religion is not the means for Self-realization. 

Religion is based on the false self (ego) and false experience (universe). Religion takes the false self as real Self and false experience as reality. Thus, whatever is based on the false self and false experience is bound to be a falsehood.     

The obsession with "our sins" having been "washed away by the water of river would be regarded as evidence of a serious mental illness in an individual within any sane society, but when this is an obsession of millions of people it becomes "religious faith", held by many others to be something that should never be criticized.

It was desperately important for the believers of their belief system for some reason that others shared their beliefs because they assume that their religious doctrine is literally true, and then justify their beliefs because "God says so in their doctrine ".

It is no use of arguing with someone who has faith in his belief system because for him there can be no possible refutation of what he believes, so rational argument is entirely useless. He clings to his belief so strongly that he makes no distinction between the truth and his belief. One has to know the fact that God cannot exist without his existence. 

The truth does not depend on God’s existence, but it entirely depends on the existence of the universe.   Thus, it is foolish to venture into knowing the truth of God's existence without verifying the facts about the existence of the universe. 

A deeper inquiry reveals the fact that the Self is neither the body nor the ego.  If the Self is not the body then it proves the fact that, whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced on the base of the body as the Self,  is bound to be a falsehood. 

Arguing from the standpoint of the body or ego, which is not the Self, is erroneous.  Thus, the whole argument has to be based on the  Soul, the Self, which is not the body or ego.   Thus,  it is necessary to realize the fact that, the Self is not the form but the Self is formless in order to realize the Advaitic truth. :~Santthosh Kumaar  

The Upanishad has spoken of the deep sleep state at length.+

It is erroneous to judge and reason the Advaitic truth from the dualistic perspective. Advaitic truth is the soulcentric truth, whereas dualistic truth is egocentric.  The ego (you) is the false self within the false experience (duality). The Soul is the real Self.  Thus, whatever is based on the ego is bound to be a falsehood, and whatever is based on the soul is real and eternal. 

Every minute the waking experience is changing.  The waking experience becomes deep sleep and deep sleep becomes the dream. Thus, continuous change is going on and on in consciousness.  

The one which becomes waking, that one that becomes a dream and that becomes the deep sleep is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

Thus, all three states are created out of single stuff and that stuff is consciousness.  Thus, one, which becomes the duality (waking or dream) and the one which becomes the nonduality (deep sleep) is the same consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and all three states are merely an illusion. 

The ego is present only in the waking or dream. The dream ego is limited to the dream. Similarly, the waking ego is limited to the waking experience alone.  The ego, body, and the world of the dream appear together and disappear together. Similarly, the ego, body, and the world of the waking experience appear together and disappear together. 

 The Self is neither the dream entity nor the Self is the waking entity (you) but the Self is the  Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.   The Soul, the   Self is nothing to do with the three states because it is not an entity or identity within the three states. 

Sage Goudpada: ~ To establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. He begins by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the right way to discuss or teach. People must first know what they are talking about. (Mandukya Karika)

How does one see various objects, scenes, and persons during dreams? If the dream is experienced without the physical body, then what is it that experiences the dream? Therefore, there must be a formless witness of the dream world. This formless witness is the same witness that is witnessed this Waking experience also. Therefore the Waking experience and dream both are witnessed by one and only formless witness of which the seeker is not aware. Since he considers the physical body (I) as the self or witness and views and judges the world-view from the standpoint of the false self, within the false experience. The formless witness can exist with or without waking or dream. But the waking/dream ceases to exist, without the formless witness.

The gross Waking experience is merged into the mental experience in the sense that, when it is analyzed, it is found to exist inseparably in and as the mind alone. All "spiritual" planes are really mental: those who regard them as different or higher are deceiving themselves. The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place; similarly, the waking becomes unreal when the wisdom dawns. Therefore, everything has to be grasped mentally, not argued from an intellectual point of view, which is limited to the false physical entity within the false experience.

The waking experience is a state of ignorance. In the state of ignorance, the self (soul) remains to experience the illusion as a reality.  

Till illusion remains a reality, he will remain ignorant of the fact that the cycle of birth, life, and death is merely an illusion.  Therefore, it is not possible for one to accept the fact that the world is an illusion, till he becomes aware of the fact that, the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is dream entity but the Self the formless soul or consciousness, which is substance and witness of the three states.  Therefore, those who believe the waking entity as the Self, and refuse to accept the Soul as the Self and they think by getting rid of the ego or by surrendering to their Guru is the means to Self-realization. 

All three states and their substance and witness are one in essence. That essence is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness (Spirit). Thus,  the experience of duality is made of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. That single stuff becomes many and many (duality) become the single stuff (non-duality). Thus,  it is necessary to realize what is it that becomes duality and what is it that becomes non-duality.

In the dream, the mountain which is apparently insentient and material is nevertheless still your mind alone. Whether living or dead, conscious or unconscious thought or matter; all things are appearances of one and the same consciousness. All these distinctions are seen by Gnani as only the consciousness. 

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the three states, observed and experienced.  The commoner viewing the three states will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same three states. Each one interprets the three states that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, experiences birth, life, karma,  death, and the world as reality,  whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

The Sleep State:~

The Upanishad has spoken of the deep sleep state at length.  This has several purposes.

   1. To reiterate that the objective world does not have a permanent reality

   2. To demonstrate that the subject alone remains as the non-dual reality in the sleep state and therefore in all the states.

   3. To prove that the sleep state, being non-dual, gives the greatest bliss to the subject consciousness.

   4. To prove to the subject-enquirer that bliss is obtained not from objects but on the contrary, in the absence of objects.

   5. To prove that duality is samsara, misery and non-duality are liberations, and bliss.

   6. To give to the sAdhaka a? preview? a foretaste,  of the liberated state.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.3.22 alludes to this experience:-  (In this state a father is no father, a mother no mother, gods no gods, the Vedas no Vedas.  In this state, a thief is no thief, the killer of a noble brahmaNa no killer? a monk no monk, a hermit no hermit. This form of his is untouched by good work and untouched by evil work, for he is then beyond all the woes of his intellect.)

Sage Sankara says:  VC- How can the talk of diversity, dvaita (duality), apply to the Supreme Reality which is one and homogeneous, Advaita (Nonduality)? Who has ever observed diversity, dvaita, in the unmixed bliss of the state of profound sleep?

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Q:~ If one goes under anesthesia. Totally blank state. There’s no witness even.pls, explain. 

(“Dear Santthosh Kumaarji one doubt I have to get clarified, last week one of my friends go thru surgery. After the seduction injection what he experienced was nothingness .free from body and mind .and felt totally blank'.pls, explain that state. Is that state is the sushupthi?”)

 Santthosh Kumaar:~Suppose if you had asked the  same question to me in a dream: ~ 

 (“Dear Santthosh Kumaarji one doubt I have to get clarified, last week one of my friends go thru surgery. After the seduction injection what he experienced was nothingness .free from body and mind .and felt totally blank'.please explain that state. Is that state is the sushupthi?”)

 Suppose Anastasia is given in a dream then the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. The wisdom dawns when one realizes the existence of the witness of the three states. The soul is the witness of the coming and going of the three states.  From the standpoint of the soul, the three states are non-existent as reality. Thus, our individual experiences within the waking are as real as a dream. 

Sushupthi is still the state of ignorance because we become aware of the sushupthi in the waking experience. The waking experience is a state of ignorance.  Thus, just getting blankness is not self-awareness.

Self-awareness arises in the midst of waking when one realizes, that his body and his experience of the world (form, time, and space)   are made of single stuff. That single stuff is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  Thus, realizing our body and our experience of the world are made out of single stuff leads to Advaitic self-awareness in the midst of diversity (duality).   

One has to imagine by holding the deep sleep state as the Soul, the Self, then view and judge the waking or dream just to realize there is no form, time and space have become one in essence in the state of deep sleep. That is,  there is no duality of any sort.:~Santthosh Kumaar