Adyathma is nothing to do with religious sect or creed and religious belief. Adyathma means spirituality. Knowledge of Atma is Adyathma. Advaita is Adyathma.
Adyathma is the knowledge of the truth beyond the form, time, and space. Bifurcate religion, yoga, and theoretical philosophy and based the truth on the Athma it is Adyathma.
Adyathma is based on the ultimate truth which is based on the Atman or Spirit, which is the Self.
Sage
Sankara's Advaitic wisdom is pure spirituality or Adyathma.
Adyathma means knowledge of Brahman or God in truth,
which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is
Adyathma.
Adyathma is nothing to do with any religious sect or
creed and religious belief.
Adyathma is pure spirituality.
Knowledge of Atma is Adyathma.
Advaita is Adyathma.
Adyatma is the knowledge of the truth beyond
the form, time, and space.
Bifurcate the religion, yoga, rituals, personal Gods, and theoretical
philosophy and based the truth on the Atma then only it can be called Adyathma.
Adyatma is based on the ultimate truth which is based on the Atma or Spirit,
which is the Self.
Vedas are of the Adyatma because Vedas are
based on the Atma the supreme Spirit.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit.
Vedas confirm the Atma (Soul), the Self, is present in the form of
the Spirit or the consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in
truth.
Rig Veda: ~ The
Atman (Soul or Spirit) is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in
this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman the innermost self. May ye
never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the
Atman?" (10:48, 5)
The Spirit is the root element of the universe.
The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul, the innermost Self. The Soul is
present in the form of consciousness. From the Spirit, the universe comes into
existence. In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the
universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there is.
In Yajurveda says: ~
Translation 1.
They enter darkness, those who worship natural
things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc).
They sink deeper in darkness those who worship
sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol,
etc.) (Yajurveda 40:9)
Translation 2.
"Deep into the shade of blinding gloom
fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti
is intent." (Yajurveda
Samhita by Ralph T. H. Giffith pg 538)
Translation 3.
"They are enveloped in darkness, in other
words are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who
worship the uncreated, eternal prakriti -- the material cause of the world --
in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of
the prakriti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of
God is enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely
foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow and suffer terribly for a
long time." (Yajur Veda 40:9.)
So, Yajur Veda indicates that: ~
They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means
created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc (Yajurveda 40:9)
Those who worship visible things born of the prakriti, such as the earth,
trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still
greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an
awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time." (Yajur Veda 40:9.)
Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is present in the form of the Athma, and
it is indeed Athma itself.
There is a clear-cut idea of God in the Vedas,
Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita. And also, there is a clear-cut idea of what not
to worship as God in place of God in truth.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading
consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and
material. (14.27).
When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the
all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate
entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than
consciousness.
Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know me in truth.". The last two words
(tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference
between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.
That is why 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.
The religion of the Veda knows no idols, then
why so many Gods and Goddesses with different forms and names are being
propagated as Vedic Gods. Why these conceptual Gods are introduced when the
Vedic concept of God is free from form and attributes.
As one peeps into the annals of the Indian
religious history he finds that some saints in the past introduced the concept
of God with attributes.
Remember:~
Yajur Veda says: - those who worship visible things, born of the
prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like), in place of God
are enveloped in still greater darkness. Therefore, all these adulterated
add-ons prove that the form and attribute-based concepts are introduced by some
sages of the past with a new belief system and code of conducts in the name of
Vedas.
Shruti is made the final or exclusive authority
in apara Vidya and that for supporting the tenet of the causal relation or
creatorship of Brahman, Nirguna Brahman = the "Absolute beyond
qualities," which can be defined only in a negative way.
For the Sankarian school = Ultimate
Reality, higher than the Lord. i.e. of Saguna or apara Brahman ... The support
of Scriptural Revelation is, therefore, absolutely necessary for this the hypothesis of cosmology, this Saguna or apara inferior) Brahman, but not
for the absolute truth of Nirguna Brahman.
Shruti itself says:~ "This Atma is not to be attained by a study of the
Vedas. (Katha Upanishad I, 2, 23.)
Therefore, all the adulterated add-ons and
attribute-based knowledge, which are inferior, have to be bifurcated and
excluded to know the ultimate truth. The seeker of truth has to drop all the
inferior knowledge based on the attributes and go beyond the Vedas to
understand assimilate and realize the ultimate truth or Brahman God in truth.
One has to go beyond Vedas means to go beyond
the religion. Go beyond the religion means, go beyond the blind belief-based
Gods. Going beyond the Vedas, the Religion, and the belief God is going beyond
the illusion. That is the end of the Vedas (Veda-antha). The realization
of the ultimate truth or God in truth is Adyatma. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
