Religion blocks one from realizing God in truth because religion is based on myth whereas 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 whereas Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God) is impersonal,
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 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.
One has to know and realize the 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 the Self.
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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.
Your quest does not begin with the Brahman or God. Brahman or God has to be proved, not assumed. Hence, so-called philosophers who take Brahman or God for granted are not philosophers at all.
Lots of 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. Rational proof is required so that one arrives at knowing the ultimate truth or Brahman or God i.e. Gnana. Theirs is merely a dogma, parrotism, and repetition of what they read in scripture. Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.
Consciousness is that which knows everything, that which sees. Consciousness alone remains after one gets rid of the ignorance. Consciousness is only the witness; it is not Brahman or God that is an error. It becomes Brahman only after Soulcentric reasoning. Where there is no scope for two that is Brahman or God in truth.
The ‘I ‘or mind or universe, waking or dream or duality are one and the same thing. Since ‘I’ is identified as ‘Self’ all the confusion. holding ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as the ‘Self’ is the cause of confusion. Holding the ‘Self’ as the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is blocking you from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman, which is hidden by the ‘I’.
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The ‘I’ is not an individual but the ‘I’ is the whole universe. the ‘I’ is an object to the Soul, the formless subject. Thus, it is necessary to include the universe in the inquiry to realize the unreal nature of the ‘I’, which is present in the form of the universe.
When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be consciousness, which is the Soul, the ‘Self’ and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is the ‘Self’?
Without causing the objective universe to transcend as consciousness and without knowing the truth of the ‘Self’, how is one to achieve the Oneness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
