Sage Vasistha:~ We contemplate that reality in which everything
exists, to which everything belongs, from which everything has emerged, which
is the cause of everything and which is everything.
Sage Vasistha: ~This world-appearance is confusion, even as
the blueness of the sky is an optical illusion. I think it is better not to let
the mind dwell on it, but to ignore it.
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’s wisdom is not a teaching or philosophy but it is universal wisdom. Advaitic wisdom is neither a teaching nor a theory but it is merely guidance to those who are seriously seeking the ultimate truth or Brahman. Grasp the ultimate truth anytime, any age, if the seeker has the spiritual maturity and capacity to grasp it.
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.
It really depends on his inborn natural capacity to understand and assimilate it. Sage Sankara’s wisdom is a Self-examiner, to test oneself to discover how near to Gnana he has approached and what progress has already been made on the path, and what still remains to be done. It sets up a criterion for Self-judgement. There are millions in search of truth but one in million will be able to grasp it.
Without Sage Sankara, there is no Advaita (nonduality). Since it was mixed up with orthodoxy there is a lot of confusion. I am highlighting all the obstacles, which are blocking one from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. There are so many non-dualistic masters of the east and also from the west who expound Advaitic or non-dualistic knowledge but none of them are helpful to reach the ultimate end.
People, who have not become firm in their power of reason, quote someone else as authority to support their reasoning because they have not got the fullest confidence in their own powers.
When one is certain, he does not need any authority to support or confirm himself. There is no need for it. To appeal to other's views indicates his own reasoning is incomplete.
The seeker must not tell a lie is the first requirement in the pursuit of truth.” What he like for practical life it is not concerned with. The Seeker has to keep his intuitions and instincts at a distance and he has to stick to known facts. To inquire, analyze and reason means to go to the very end of things.
Sharpness to grasp the truth is necessary for the path of wisdom. The seekers who are sharp in grasping, by merely hearing the truth mentioned they will grasp it.
The seeker has to analyze the three states, and he has to think consistently about it. Exercise his thinking faculty and inquire continually; discrimination is essential; this practice is the only way to understand, assimilate and realize the non-dual truth.
Modern science is based on physical-based facts, whereas the truth is based on facts of the true existence.
The pursuit of truth starts with the physical facts but carries its inquiry deeper. The seeker has to go more deeply into investigating his own existence facts he becomes a Gnani, automatically, merely by deeper reflection. Mind merges into Soul ultimately and there is no other way to it. :~Santthosh Kumaar
