Ashtavakra:~There is no wisdom whatsoever in the scriptures-just a collection of words.
The seeker should not bother about finding the meaning of what is written in the scriptures.
Unless one drops all his garbage accumulated knowledge it is impossible to realize the ‘Self’ hidden by the dualistic illusion.
The seeker has to think deeply instead of passing the opinion on his own point of view and he has to drop the judgmental attitude, which blocks the realization of the truth, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.
The truth is not custom made stuff to please a different mindset.
What is the use of arguing on the base of the birth entity, which is not the Self?
What is the use of knowing what happens after death when the Self is unborn eternal?
What is the use of thinking of heaven and hell when the ‘Self ‘is not an individual and it is never born and it never dies?
Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.
Intellectual discussion is a great hindrance in the pursuit of truth because intellectual knowledge is egocentric knowledge, which is limited to the domain of form, time, and space.
Remember:~
Sage Sankara said: ~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but the liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.
Truth pursuit does not begin with the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed. Hence, so-called philosophers who take Brahman for granted are not philosophers at all.
Most Advaitin scholars will teach that all is yourself’, but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none can prove it.
The rational proof is required so that one arrives at knowing the ultimate truth or Brahman i.e. Advaitic Gnana. Theirs is mere dogma, parrotism, a repetition of what they read in scripture. Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.
Sage Sankara’s wisdom can be summed up in one sentence, ‘There is nothing else but Brahman. He says that the Absolute Existence, Absolute Knowledge, and Absolute Bliss are real. The universe is not real. He says that Brahma and Atman are one.
The ultimate and the Absolute Truth is the Soul, the ‘Self’, which is one though appearing as many different individuals. The individual has no reality. Only the ‘Self’ is real; the rest, mental and physical are but passing appearances. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
