The ultimate truth is not found in the domain of the illusory form, time, and space. The ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.
Truth means never taking anything to be true without proper proof. It does not mean an accumulation of certain external observations of objects.
The truth is not an attitude, an outlook, or a method. The truth must be based on verification through deeper Self-search. The seeker has to cultivate the attitude of getting proof by using Soulcentric reason.
To stick to what one considers is real, and not because it is true, is perversity. Unless it is proved to be true, one should not accept it. He who knows that ultimate truth which can be grasped by Soulcentric reason, study, he moves not from truth. Soulcentric Reason is the only means to reality.
Some conceited intellectuals say reason cannot grasp the Self: it is formless. True it is unattainable to those who are not receptive, who have not inquired analyzed, and reasoned, but it possible for those who are receptive and courageous to accept the truth and reject the untruth after verification of the facts. The seeker has to reflect on it all again and again until his conviction of the Soul, the 'Self' becomes firm.
Only through Soul centric discrimination, it is possible to attain the perfection of Self-knowledge. Yoga does not give the truth. Only reason based on the Soul as the 'Self' takes the mind towards the source from where it has erupted.
Upanishad says: ~ Atman the Self is known by Reason alone, by the sharpened and purified intellect. Yet still, people worship Yoga and mysticism as the sole means of attaining Atman.
The seeker must have enough patience, humility, and an intense urge to know the truth. Arguments and provocation will not yield truth. Perfect understanding of ‘what is what ‘leads to the realization of Nondualistic or Advaitic truth.
Accumulated knowledge gathered from here and there from reading books or scriptures are of no use in the path of wisdom.
The truth has to be ascertained by the seeker by silently thinking deeply not by indulging in passing views and opinion and trying to exhibit the wealth of his intellectual knowledge. Such a mindset is unfit for the inner (mental) journey.
As the seeker's understanding of ‘what is what ‘grows, gradually the seeker gets a glimpse of truth. Whatever is based on the waking entity is falsehood and whatever is based on the formless Soul, the Self is real and eternal.
Thus, it is necessary for the seeker of truth to make sure the waking entity (ego) is not the Self but the Self is the Soul in order to acquire Self-knowledge.
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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.
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:~ VC63- "Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.
Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.
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.
Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world that existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward the ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.:~
Santthosh Kumaar
