Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of the universe.+

Max Planck ~Father of quantum physics says: ~ Science has no answer to it. Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we are part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

The truth of the universe cannot be got under the microscope. When all their invention fails to yield the truth they have to use their reason to reach the ultimate core of their existence.

Mundaka Upanishad 1.3:~ Complete knowledge includes knowledge of the phenomenal world, the spirit behind it, and the source of both of them. When the cause of all causes becomes known, then everything knowable becomes known, and nothing remains unknown is Gnana.”

Both modern science and religion offer hypotheses and theories, but there is one vital difference--science begins with facts which it collects; religion begins with fancies. Science evolves its hypotheses from such facts, religion from fancies.

Science declares that oxygen combines with hydrogen to give water. And it also declares oxygen is protons or electrons. But in pursuit of truth, the whole physical existence (universe or mind) is considered as an illusion, and science and its inventions, which are based on physical existence are limited to physical existence. The truth is within, but it is beyond physical existence. Science demands physical proof. But the physical proof is part of the illusion. Hence, science cannot go beyond physicality because the truth cannot be traced in laboratory conditions. Deeper self-search is required if one wants to push its quest deeply enough.

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 the 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.

Dualists Gurus believed in a plurality of minds or selves and also in Prakriti matter. The Dualist Gurus thought ultimately existed in the form of particles similar to our atomic theory. But recent science has killed the atomic theory and matter has vanished with it. Hence modern dualists fear science and try to avoid it.

The scientists say they do not know the mysteries beyond. In the future, they may discover something new.” The mystics say: That mystery unknown to science is known to them. the Mystic truth is the individual truth, not universal.

How do the mystics know they have experienced the whole? There is no proof they have seen it because the truth of the whole is beyond any experience. The experience implies duality. The duality is not a reality.

When mystics say: “I know from experience” they merely mean I think so.” If mystics experience joy, they cannot be egoless, for who is having the joy? And if they are egocentric they cannot know the Universal truth or Brahman, the whole.

Mystics may say that the Spirit is the source of all good, but the question of questions is how do they know that it is the source? That is mere scholastic dogma until an attempt to show, analyze, and prove that it is the source, is made when it becomes spirituality.

When one does not know the truth, he can only guess, imagine, hence doubts and questions and urge to realize the ultimate truth arises.

Disappointments in religion or mysticism or yoga or even science imply error or ignorance. And it creates doubts and confusion. The seeker is unsure whether he is treading on the right path? There is no certainty that he is proceeding on the right path. The doubts arise and the inquiring spirit comes and impels us to search elsewhere for the truth.

The seeker searches for the path, where it will not be possible even to have any doubts and confusion. The test is therefore in realization. And only in the non-dualistic perspective, where there are no two to argue about views or to have the difference of opinion can such doubtlessness be possible. Belief depends on the ego, which is unreal and impermanent, whereas certainty depends on the Soul, the ‘Self’, which is real and eternal.

People must indulge in deeper ‘Self’-search, everybody will not be able to grasp the Advaitic truth. The Advaitic truth cannot be assumed, it has to be realized. “What the majority believes as truth cannot be accepted as truth without deeper verification." People stop with their imaginations about God, Reality, Truth, and do not go to the bitter end.

One cannot get rid of ignorance. It is only by deeper self-search, he knows what is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

The seeker has to get rid of all his doubts. The seeker should not simply go on believing everything he is been told or heard or read. The seeker of the truth the doubt is to be got rid of "by the sword of ‘Self’- knowledge or Brahma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara does not believe in the book. Sage Sankara denies the authority of any book over any other book.+

Sage Sankara does not believe in the book. Sage Sankara denies the authority of any book over any other book. 

Sage Sankara denies emphatically any one book containing all the truths about God, Soul, and the ultimate reality.

Those of you who have studied Upanishads remember that again and again, “Not by studying scriptures  can we realize the Self”

Second, it finds veneration for some particular person still more difficult to uphold. If you are seeking the truth then you should not cling to any particular scripture or  Guru or Godmen or their teachings. Not one man or woman has become object worship. 

No man has to worship as God because he is part of the Maya. by worshipping holy books, or holy man Self-realization or   God-realization is an impossibility.

Sage Sankara strongly advocated the study of Upanishads, and at the same time cautioned that the study of Upanishads alone would not lead to moksha. In matters such as spiritual attainment, one’s own realization was the sole authority and it cannot be disputed

Sage Sankara also said the study of Upanishad was neither indispensable nor a necessary prerequisite for attaining the human goal, the moksha.

Sage Sankara pointed out; that even those who were outside the Upanishad fold were as eligible to moksha as those within the fold were. He declared that all beings are Brahman, and therefore the question of discrimination did not arise. All that one was required to do was to get rid of ignorance (Avidya or duality).

That is why Sag Sankara says: ~ VC 56- Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by good work, nor by learning, but by the realization of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means.

There has never been a single scripture, which has the whole wisdom in it.

Scriptures are being added from time to time. This process will go on. There is the final authority among the scriptures. One contradicts the other: duality reigns supreme.

The Upanishads are self-contradictory. Every pundit even gives conflicting interpretations of them. The final authority, therefore, is using one’s own reason. One should apply his reason to them.

The scriptures are for ignorant masses, who wholly accept the material world as it presents itself. Gnana is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem.

The Scriptures are of value only when dealing with persons who are incapable of understanding truth. They have no value as authority for those who use reason.

I quote only verified citations from the scriptures. I need no scriptures but I quote them to help the seekers to realize that religion, scriptures, and  Gods based on blind faith or blind belief is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

The Upanishads are the only scriptures in the world that declare:~

It is impossible to find and realize the truth via religion and scriptural study.

That is why Sage Sankara says in Vivekachudamani:~

58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar but are no good for Liberation.

59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

60. The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest that merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.

61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?

62. A disease does not leave off if one simply utters the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct realization one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.

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.

64. Without killing one’s enemies, and possessing oneself of the splendor of the entire surrounding region, one cannot claim to be an emperor by merely saying, ‘I am an emperor’.

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.

Religion is based on the body (form) as the Self since it is based on birth. Spirituality is based on the soul (formless). Thus,  there is a need to bifurcate religion from spirituality.

Religion views and judges from the standpoint of the physical self/ego, whereas in the path of wisdom,   everything is viewed, judged, and concluded,  on the base of the Soul, the  Self.  

Whatever is based on the physical entity (ego or you)  is not spirituality,  because the soul, the  Self has no form, so it has no religion.  Therefore, the seeker of truth has to rectify the reasoning base, from form to formless, to understand and assimilate the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.   :~ Santthosh Kumaar 

My postings and blogs are meant only for those who are in the quest of the truth of their true existence. It is not suited for religious believers.+

My postings and blogs are meant only for those who are in the quest of the truth of their true existence. It is not suited for religious believers.

Religious Gods are nothing to do with the Spiritual God. Religious God is belief whereas spiritual God is the Spirit. Spirituality is nothing to do with religion. If you want to realize God, then you have to discard all religious propagated beliefs, dogmas.

Religious Gods are not God in truth. Bible says “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in Spirit and in Truth. Rig Veda says may ye never accept another God in place of the Atman (Spirit) nor worship other than the Atman.

Thus, by realizing the Self, which is the Soul, we discover the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness itself is God which is hidden by the ‘I’, which is the dualistic illusion.

What is the use of arguing with religious believers? They think what they know as the ultimate truth.

Whatever is real in the world in which we exist is God. All that is real in the world in which we exist is the Soul, the Self.

Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman or God is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

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. (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 the material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.

Those who indulge in a perverted argument from their own standpoint and opinion are not seeking the truth, which is beyond form, time and space. They just want to exhibit their accumulated knowledge accumulated from here and there. They think what they know is the ultimate truth.

Even 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 innermost self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

They think whatever they propagate is the ultimate truth. The question never occurs to them, “Is what I know is really the truth?

That is why Jesus said: ~ Do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. (Matthew -7:6)

~ Jesus meant knowledge of Spirit or God or Self-knowledge or Advaitic wisdom.

The birth, life, and death happen within the illusory world, which is created out of Christ, which is present in the form of the Spirit.

Spirituality is nothing to do with religion. Spirituality is based on the Spirit, the real God whereas the religion is based on the false self within the false experience.

Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in Spirit and in Truth. (John 4:24)”,

God is not physical. God is the Spirit. God the Self. God is birthless and deathless because God is the formless, timeless and spaceless existence. 

Remember:~ Vedic God is the Spirit or the Athma.

People say God is everywhere, but they do not know because they are holding their religious propagated belief of God. The religious propagated God is limited to a particular religion, community sect and creed cannot be universal. The believers of the other religion, community sect and creed will not accept any other God as their own other than their inherited accepted idea of God.

Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman or God is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

There is a clear-cut idea of God in the Vedas, Upanishad and Bhagavad Gita. And also there is a clear-cut ideas of what not to worship as God in place of real God.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter: ~ “All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)

What is God in actuality? “Where is God?”

The world in which you exist is not separate from God because the world in which you exist is created out of God. God is not imagination whatever you think of God is imagination based on the false self within the false experience.

Perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ unfolds the mystery of God. Religious Gods are mere beliefs. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the center, because, the Soul and the Self is the center of all that exists. Without the Soul the world in which you exist cases to exists, 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.:~Santthosh Kumaar

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

       
         The Guru is the Soul, the Self is hidden by dualistic illusion or Maya.

Even Swami Vivekananda was Ramakrishna Paramahansa's disciple.  Swami Vivekananda himself said: ~   “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your own Soul.”

The ‘Self-inquiry’ is finding out the ‘Self’ which is hidden by the world, in which we exist. By inquiring ‘Who am I?’, the ignorance will not vanish. Without getting rid of ignorance, the Advaitic wisdom will not dawn. Without the Advaitic wisdom, it is not possible to realize the truth, which is hidden within the 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 beyond the form, time, and space. By a mere utterance of the word ‘I AM THAT', the truth will not be revealed. 

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path.  There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

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

The Guru who pretends to be Self- realized and plays with the emotions and sentiments of the seeker is a fraud, not a Gnani.

Remember:~

All the Guru Parampara is for religious people.  There is no need for a Guru who wants to tread the Atmic path.

There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the more advanced seeker who seeks to know the ultimate truth or Brahman.  The Guru and Guru paramparas are meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. However, there is no need to follow any parampara and follow any Guru those who wish to realize the truth which is beyond the form, time, and space. We should not mix religion with spirituality because religion is based on the ego and spirituality is based on the Soul.   Religion is concerned with its paramparas, not truth whereas spirituality is concerned only with the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. Religion is not spirituality.

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

Thus, the above passage proves that all those who were the sanyasin robes are wearing it for the sake of bread belongs to the religion; they are nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. There is no need to criticize and condemn the Gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

Sage Sankara in Viveka Chudamani (2), states that the Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

It means the Gurus, Swamis, and Yogis who identify themselves as holy people are not Gnanis. Those who are seeking truth need not follow any Guru or any teaching.

The one who thinks of himself as a Guru and the one who thinks of himself as a chela (disciple) will not be able to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because both of them accepted themselves as the body. And all their understanding, practices, knowledge are based on the false self (ego or you).  Therefore, the Guru –Shisya concept is a great obstacle in pursuit of truth.  A Gnani never accepts himself as a Guru or accepts anyone as his disciple.

Consciousness is like the ocean. Love is like a wave. When waves love each other then they become one with the ocean.

Remember:~

Many people are stuck to the idea that without a Guru, Truth -realization is impossible. Guru is only a religious fable. They do not even know that the Guru teaches, is the truth.

Gurus themselves dwelling in darkness preach their way is the only way and the followers of the gurus follow the dualistic path like the blind led by the blind.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and live like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state.

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

So he wore a Guru's robe only for the sake of the ignorant. So he was identified as Guru with parampara by religious people. For the truth seekers, Sage Sankara is a Brahma Gnani.

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 are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.

All those who were the sanyasin robes are wearing it for the sake of bread belongs to the religion; they are nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. There is no need to criticize and condemn the gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of ignorant masses in the dualistic world.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Without the ' 'Now' you and the universe in which you exist cease to exist. 'Now' is present in the domain of the dualistic illusion or Maya.+

Amazingly an honest introspection will reveal that all fault lies with " you " and " your "own perceptions and attitudes. If there is an error in understanding what 'Self' is in actuality it is in " you".  Correcting this and changing to soul centric attitude will change your perception and then the Soul, the 'Self' will reveal its formless, timeless and spaceless true nature. 

The ignorant intellectual people of their own ignorance, yet wise in their own esteem, these deluded men proud of their vain learning and accumulated knowledge go around and round like the blind led by the blind.

Remember:~

'Now' means the universe. without the universe, you cease to exist. Without the ' 'Now' you and the universe in which you exist cease to exist. 'Now' is present in the domain of the dualistic illusion or Maya. Whatever knowledge based on dualistic illusion or Maya is dualistic knowledge. the dualistic knowledge is knowledge of ignorance. 

The one who says about the present moment is you. You are the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking). 

You exist only in the domain of the form, time and space. From the standpoint of the Soul the innermost Self, the form time and space are merely an illusion. 

If the form, time and space are merely an illusion then the present moment is bound to be an illusion.

Thus, all the claims made about the present moment is part and parcel of that illusion. The illusion is created out of the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness. 

Thus, the Soul or the consciousness alone is real and all else is merely an illusion. Thus, to realize this truth, you have to realize Self is not you, but the Self is the witness of you and the world together. 

Whatever is based on you is bound to be an illusion

Remember:~ 

The present moment is possible only in the domain of the form, time and space. Without the form, time, and space, there is no present moment.

The present moment is the time. Without the past, the present will not appear. Every moment, the present becomes past. The present moves towards the future. The time appears along with form and space. 

The form, time and space are merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Thus one cannot remain in the present moment. The time is the product of ignorance, therefore, every moment is the product of ignorance.

The theory of the present moment is based on the false Self (waking entity) within the false experience (waking).

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the form, time and space are merely an illusion thus the theory of the present moment belongs to the illusion. :~Santthosh Kumaar

What is Maya? The universe itself is Maya. Maya is the dualistic illusion.+

What is Maya?

The universe itself is Maya. Maya is a dualistic illusion. You are part and parcel of the Maya.

Without realizing you are a false self within the dualistic illusion or Maya you will not be able to realize the Self hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya.   

To say the universe is an illusion without first examining it and inquiring into its nature thoroughly is to delude oneself. This world is common to every one of us; therefore, the seeker of truth must begin his inquiry with it. It is only after he has inquired into the nature of the objective world, he realizes the universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is absolutely free from all the limitations of form, time and space.

The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the consciousness is hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya.

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 perverse arguments.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe, which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

When you finally realize the ‘‘Self’ ‘is not you but the ‘‘Self’’ is the Soul then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

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 non-Self.

All is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears, consciousness still remains without form, time, and space.

Remember: ~

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ “The universe rises from the Soul, the innermost Self like bubbles from the sea. Thus, know the ‘Self’ to be One and in this way enter into the state of dissolution."

Sage Sankara said: ~A. A~ 88- When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman (consciousness), and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Atman?

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 beyond the form, time, and space. By a mere utterance of the word ‘I AM THAT', the truth will not be revealed.

Sage  Sankara: ~VC~ if the universe is true, let it then be perceived in the state of deep sleep also. As it is not at all perceived, it must be unreal and false like dreams.

That is why Sankara says: ~ “Brahman is the truth The World is Unreal everything is Truly Brahman and nothing else has any value.

Sage Sankara says: ~ ‘What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal. (Commentary on Vedanta Sutra)

Those who tell you that Brahman is unity, that you can get it only by intuition, that you should not reason, you should not question or inquire, are deluding you. Verification must come by thought. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar