Sage Sankara says liberation comes, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) Vivekachoodamani v 56, pg 25:~Santthosh Kumaar
The religion blocks one
from realizing God in truth because religion is based on myth whereas the
Spirituality is based on the truth.
God in truth is not based on your inherited blind faith or belief. The Religions are based on personal God based on blind faith or belief whereas 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 beside
it. God is destitute of difference, either external or internal. God cannot be
described because description implies a distinction. God cannot be distinguished
from any other than God. In God, there is not a distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constituted
the very essence or Svarupa of God, and not just God attributes. The Nirguna
Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.
Religious people do not doubt their inherited beliefs. They blindly believe what they inherited from their forefathers. They do not accept anything as truth other than their accepted truth because they feel it is blasphemous to think other than what they have inherited.
Religious people's truth is based on the moral values ethics prescribed by the religious code of conduct, which qualifies them for their moksha.
Very few people doubt their accumulated knowledge and refuse to question their validity. Yet, the process of doubt is the first step on the spiritual path.
People are stuck up with the idea of Guru and Guru's teaching as final. But in the Advaitic or Atmic path, nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification.
Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal. (Commentary on Vedanta Sutra)
The garbage of the religious beliefs dogmas superstition is confounded with the human imagination. The great reality of the glory of the religious Gods hyped and obscured by so much tinsel and commercialism.
Spirituality is not theology. Advaita is not a philosophy but Advaita is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. Advaitic wisdom itself is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana or knowledge of the Spirit or God in truth.
The word “Advaita” is one without the second. Advaita essentially refers to the Atman and the whole existence. Advaita is the fullness of the consciousness without the division of the form, time, and space.
Theology is nothing to do with spirituality. Advaita is pure spirituality. The theological Advaita is nothing to do with the Advaitic wisdom, which is based on the Spirit the Atman.
Theological Advaita is conceptual having its own doctrine is nothing to do with the Gnanic Advaita because Gnanic Advaita is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Both approaches are not workable together because the theological Advaita is based on the birth entity (ego) Gnanic Advaita is based on the Atman (Soul).
Thus, the theological Advaita has to be discarded without mercy to get Advaitic Gnana.
“Advaita” is a term used variously to express the unity of reality. Advaita is unity in diversity.
The seeker has to begin by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal? to establish in Advaitic reality by sheer reasoning alone. The reasoning is the right way to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space. People must first know what is the truth? and what is untruth’.
Sage Sankara’s wisdom is not teaching or philosophy but Advaita is the universal wisdom. Advaitic wisdom is neither a teaching nor a theory but it is mere 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 is blocking one from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman. 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.
One has to know and realize his innermost Self is Soul and identify it as his true identity to find liberation from the bondage of the illusion of birth, life, death, and the world(duality). The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with our Soul, which is our innermost Self.
Sage Sankara said:~ Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way. (1) Vivekachoodamani v 56, pg. 25
Unlearn whatever is based on the ‘I’ to discard ‘I’ based knowledge and conditioning
Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Among thousands of men, scarcely one strives for perfection; and of those who strive and succeed, scarcely one knows the ‘Self’ in truth.
The path of wisdom attracts only those who are in search of truth and they appreciate it greatly. The ignorant are not spiritually matured the receive Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The ignorant indulge in argument and provocation and personal attack, which hinder their own realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in 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 Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Bhagavad Gita says ~ “Don't unsettle the minds of ignorant by revealing the esoteric truth."
When you can see your body not as the body but as the consciousness, when you see the world in which you exist not as the world but as consciousness, then you will enter the awareness of the Soul, the Self. : ~Santthosh Kumaar
