Manduka Upanishad: ~ Yoga can no more succeed than the ocean can be emptied with a blade of grass.+

Manduka Upanishad:~ Yoga is in the sphere of duality and is unnecessary to one who knows non-duality.

Patanjali warns against sleep as a hindrance to yoga, he means when it occurs in the early stages of the practice before one has obtained the power of control and consequently to banish the thought. This fact that Samadhi is deep sleep is kept secret because people would not be tempted to take up yoga. Then what is the value of it? Why, to sharpen the mind, to enable it to keep away all extraneous thoughts when one gets out to reason in the practice of the next higher stage, i.e. Gnana.

Manduka Upanishad: ~ Yoga can no more succeed than the ocean can be emptied with a blade of grass.

Yoga is thus simply a sharpening stone for the intellect to enable it to take up Gnana. People think that the yogis can live without thoughts but it is impossible to live without thoughts. How can he walk from one spot to another without thought? He does not know the Gnanic or Advaitic truth if he says thoughtlessness is the nature of the self. Yoga has its place rather than its value and that its value is for a certain type of mindset. Yoga will give steadiness of mind, education of mind, but never Truth because it ignores the external world.

Brihad Upanishads:~Even yoga cannot give perfect concentration and that the only way to gain it is philosophical realization. (Page 133 1st para)

Patanjali takes for granted that there is an Iswara--God, gives it to the students for concentration purposes, and then they naturally find God in their meditations. But it is only their imagined God. Mystics see what they are looking for or that whose existence they presuppose. Therefore Patanjali Yoga belongs to religion, not truth. Belief in Yoga is a self-mesmeric condition out of which it is extremely difficult to escape.

Religion and Yoga are useful from utilitarian viewpoints but from point of view of seeking the truth, they are useless. Religious believers have not proved that there is a God because the religious gods are mere beliefs. Personal experience which is not universally valid is no proof, neither is an ecstatic feeling.

All philosophical, yogic, and cosmological teachings but at the end, it finally says "All is imaginative and based on the false self (ego or waking entity) within the false experience (waking)."

Sage Sankara says:~Yoga is not the means of liberation. (P -132-133 of his commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad)

One need not doubt that mystics saw God or Goddesses in their vision. That they saw visions may be an undeniable fact. But the question is “Was what they saw the Truth? They no doubt had such vision but they never stopped to inquire if their visions are true. One has to take all the facts and then find out which is the truth through deeper self-search. The seeker of truth has to collect as much evidence as possible, even contradictory, and then proceed to examine all of it and analyze, how far is it true.

What happens when thoughts are stilled? It is not the Self that is found. Rubbish. It is only the mind. Patanjali has not reached Gnana and therefore does not know the highest truth. His yoga is good to give peace and concentration, but only in order to start reasoning, i.e. thinking again to find the truth

Thoughts arise to the person within the waking or dream. The thinker is the form. Without the form, thinking is an impossibility. Thus thinker and the thoughts are part of the known. The witness of the knower and the known including the world is the formless Soul.

People think they have taken Diksha or initiation and they are practiced under some guru or yogi and they are experiencing the bliss and now they are capable of transforming that bliss to others and they start hallucinating that what they experienced as bliss is reality without realizing the fact that their own existence within the universe is a mere illusion because the universe is merely an illusion from the ultimate standpoint. It is very difficult for those who are caught up in the understanding based on the false self to realize the fact that, whatever they have experienced as bliss is there hallucination because the ultimate truth or Brahman cannot be experienced because the Self is not an individual because it is formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

Yogi shuts its eyes to the world then he declares that he knows the world to be Brahman because he has not inquired into it, he knows nothing of Brahman. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Consciousness is absolute without a second.+

 

The Soul is not an individual. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The Soul is the cause of the universe which contains the whole of humanity. Thus, limiting the Soul to an individual is erroneous.

Sage Sankara asks his opponents "How do you know there are separate individual Souls? Have you seen the Soul of a man? You can only say that you have seen different bodies. To say more is to misuse language. Therefore I call you liars unless you give proof, which is impossible.

The Soul, the ‘Self’ is in the form of consciousness without the division of form, time, and space. The form, time, and space are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. The Soul, the ‘Self’, is the fullness of consciousness. In the cloud there is nothing other than the water, so too consciousness is nothing other than itself’. Consciousness is absolute without a second.

The moon reflecting on the water and appearing as many, the ‘Self’ is just like the reflection of the moon on the water which increases with the volume of water and decreases with its reduction, which moves when the water moves, and which differs as the water differs. The moon seems to conform to the characteristics of water, but in reality, the moon never has these increasing or decreasing qualities. So also, from the highest point of view, the consciousness always retains its sameness; it seems to conform to such characteristics as an increase and decrease of the limiting adjunct, owing to its entry into such an adjunct as a universe.

The thread is drawn from cotton and is woven into cloth. But the reality of cotton is in both of these forms, viz., thread, and cloth. Similarly, the projections of names and forms of this material universe on consciousness do not alter the nature of consciousness. It remains as it is without any change. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’.+

The seeker of truth has to do his duty in practical life within the practical world. The seeker should not remain idlers like yogis who are no better than a wooden log.

Amid difficulties and busy life of practical life within the practical world, the seeker has to live and yet get on with the inner quest.

There is no alleviation of ignorance except the realization of the ultimate Truth or Brahman. Yoga may alleviate one's mental and physical stress.

The seeker of truth has to live in the world and he must know the ‘‘Self’’ is not of this world because the ‘‘Self’’ is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The advaitic wisdom will not dawn by renouncing the worldly life and shutting yourself in a cave or Ashram or monastery. Too much yoga leads to insanity and fixed ideas or delusions.

The main purpose of analyzing the world that confronts is to discover that it is to realize it is nothing but the illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

People fail to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman because they have stuck with the reality of the world.

Too much religion and false belief drugs the power of reason. To effect this discrimination, we need intelligence much sharper than the average. Weak minds cannot take a comprehensive view and so decry what they cannot understand.

When you realize you and your experience of the world are made of the single stuff and that single stuff is the consciousness with full and firm conviction then there unity in diversity in your understanding. There is no second thing exists other than consciousness.

It is the ignorance that creates illusion and it is the ‘Soul, the innermost ‘Self’’ that gets free of it. Words may aggravate ignorance; words may also help dispel it. There is a need to repeat the same truth again and again until it becomes a reality.

The seeker has to reflect on the nature of the Soul constantly day after day until the conviction of the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space, becomes firm and he gets the firm conviction.

The seeker needs to hear the words of wisdom until he realizes the form, time and space are one in essence.

It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘’what is untruth’. It takes time for the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one realizes the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

The Soul has to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and then only it is possible to realize the form, time and space are one in essence. That essence is the Soul or consciousness.

If the form time and space are one in essence, then there is no division in consciousness.

If there is no division in consciousness, then there no duality, if there is no duality when there is unity in diversity.

Ignorance is the cause of experiencing duality as reality. By realizing Soul as the ‘Self’’, leads to Advaitic Self -awareness. The Soul, the ’Self’ is Absolute Knowledge, which cannot be negated. The nature of the Soul is Advaitic awareness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Manduka Upanishads: ~Yoga is in the sphere of duality and is unnecessary to one who knows non-duality.+

Swami Vivekananda: ~ The idea that you are Mr. So-and-so can never be true; it is a daydream. Know this and be free. This is the non-dualistic conclusion. "Self is neither the body, nor the organs, nor the mind; the Self is Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss absolute; the Self is the Soul." This is true knowledge; all reason and intellect, and everything else is ignorance.

If one carefully examines the experiences of mystics, he finds that they do differ. It is superficial to say that yogis and mystics all have the same experience.

Avadhuta Gita: ~ “The Atman cannot be purified through the practice of the six limbs of the yoga, or through the annihilation of the mind, or through the instruction of Knower of Brahman. The Atman is the Reality Itself and It is Purity Itself."

Whatever idea of God one is familiar with through upbringing conditioning that he sees in his visions i.e. imagination.

Mystics who promise a Garden of Eden, a joyous outlook on life, do not see that this must be duality, an object which is seen and must inevitably vanish. How long can it last? A Gnani regards Self-awareness as higher, because it is apart from joy or sorrow, ecstasy or pain, and because it belongs to the Atman, the innermost self and is therefore unbroken, permanent.

In the dream, one knows that the dream figures are also mind, not different from it; similarly, when he knows that everything is Brahman, there is no need for yogic control of the mind.

Manduka Upanishads: ~ “Control presupposes second, a duality. Hence yoga is in the sphere of duality and is unnecessary to one who knows non-duality. (P.153)

Upanishad says:~ Atman the Self is known by Reason alone, by sharpened and purified intellect. Yet still, people worship Yoga and mysticism as the sole means of attaining Atman.

If one feels ecstatic or exalted peace in the presence Yogi’s or Godmen or Guru is not wisdom. People with disturbed and troubled or unhappy find tranquility in Ashrams or in the presence gurus or yogis, because there are in uneasy disturbance of the mind, probably over their practical life within the practical world.

This is because they do not know what truth is, and they mistake this physicalized peace as Atmic peace. Non-dualistic peace is the nature of the Soul, the innermost self.

Practicing yogic Samadhi up to the limit and extent of getting a strong and concentrative mind, and to be able to think of particular subjects, it is good; beyond that, if they begin to weaken their mind and accept what they imagine as real, they begin to get hallucinated.

Yogi’s limit the mind to the physical entity, thus they fail to realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth. They stick up to their accepted truth and they remain stagnant with their belief.

The individual experience is mere illusion. Thus without first examining them and inquiring into them thoroughly is to delude oneself. The three states common to all; therefore, one must begin his inquiry analysis and reasoning on the true base. It is only after it has inquired into the nature of the three states that he should inquire into who is the knower/witness. If, however, one inquiry into the knower before the analysis of the three states, then it is mere mysticism. What are these three states? Must precede what is this ‘I’? : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic treasure hidden requires mental excavation, the removal of ignorance.+

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic treasure hidden requires mental excavation, the removal of ignorance, and finally grasping, but never come out by merely reading and collecting information.

If you are seeking truth nothing but the truth you must seek the truth independently. If you are sticking up to gurus, yogis and intellectuals then you are sticking up to ignorance. They do not have the truth which you are seeking for. They have plenty of information to seduce you to remain in ignorance forever.

Without discarding the religiously propagated truth it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

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.

All your egocentric accumulated cocktail knowledge is not Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana Soulcentric knowledge is not available in the spiritual supermarket.

All accumulated knowledge is mental Garbage is no use in the quest for truth. The seeker has to discard all the accumulated knowledge and start afresh.

Perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ through deeper thinking and reasoning helps to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

That is why Sage Sankara:~ VC~.61- For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?

Sage Sankara:~ VC- v6~ Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity With the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together

Sage Sankara’ has already declared:~

‘What is the truth?’

~ Atman is Brahman ~ “Atman is the only one ultimate reality.

‘What is untruth?’

~ The universe is an illusion. ~ The universe is false.

Sage Sankara declared this truth centuries back Then why you are struggling to find out the truth.

Sage Sankara: ~ 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 perverted arguments.

Sage Sankara goes on to say: ~ “A sickness of not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take the medicine. Liberation does not come by merely saying the word “Brahman.” Brahman must be experienced. Until you allow this apparent universe to dissolve from your consciousness until you have realized Brahman, how can you find liberation just by saying the word Brahman? The result is merely noise. Until a man has destroyed his enemies and taken possession of the splendor and wealth of the kingdom, he cannot become a king by simply saying “I am a king.”

Advaita means the Soul, the Self, which is second to none. The Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Advaita is the nature of God, the Self. Advaita is God in truth. Advaita is the fullness of consciousness.

Sage Sankara’s wisdom is very much in the tune with the essence of Vedas and Upanishad but Advaitic orthodoxy indulges in non-Vedic beliefs of God and non-Vedic rituals and practices. There is no need to condemn the Advaitic orthodoxy because it is path meant for the ignorant as per Sage Sankara himself. Do not mix up the two and mess up your quest

The Soul, the  Self, is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study the Scriptures, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~ then why you indulge in studying the scriptures.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study philosophy, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why you indulge in studying philosophy.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge rituals, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why you indulge in rituals.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge yoga, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why you indulge in yoga.

Sage Sankara says:~ the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)

~ then why you are sticking a Guru who is not a Gnani.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false leads truth realization.

Atman is Brahman. The Atman is the Self is non-dual because there is no second thing exists other than the Atman. Atman is present in the form of consciousness.

Consciousness is the only true reality, and everything else, which appears as form, time, and space are merely an illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Manduka Upanishad: - Those that want ultimate truth or Brahman will not practice control of the mind.+

The seeker of the truth has to be active in order to examine the world and discriminate. Hence, non-dualistic self-awareness means knowing that the form, time, and space are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. The three states and the formless witness of the three states are one in essence.

The three states and their formless witness is the Atman, is present in the form of consciousness. The Atman is the Self. Realizing the Atman as self, the non-dualistic Self-awareness arises in the midst of the duality. This is different from Patanjali Yogic Nirvikalpa Samadhi, which is only deep sleep.

The Yogis and Mystics want meditation, sitting still, etc. only because it gives them pleasure: the satisfaction is for their own selves only, which are something sought by the ego and cannot get non-dualistic self-awareness in consequence.

There is nothing to drive out. Even the yogi's ecstasies may be retained, provided one does not let himself be deceived about them and accept them like everything else, as part of Brahman.

The yogi wants to do something, some action, even that of sitting still, to control this or concentrate that. This means he is still attached to the body. He wants his body to be quiet. He is still thinking of an illusory body. He does not start with that the body and the world are but an illusion a. On the contrary, he takes them for reality.

To be desireless means to feel that he everything in him; that there is nothing outside him; therefore, what has one to desire? The populace misunderstands and thinks desirelessness means refraining from worldly pleasures. A Gnani has nothing to give up when all is Brahman.

Those who tell one that Brahman is unity, that he can get it only by intuition, that he should not reason, he should inquire, are deluding him. Verification must come by thought.

The world must be seen before one can know its true nature in Gnana. The yogi, who shuts it out, thereby deprives himself of the opportunity to achieve Gnana.

Sage Sankara: -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.

Manduka Upanishad: - Those that want ultimate truth Brahman will not practice control of the mind. (p.231)

If a man gets Moksha after undergoing any discipline, his Moksha is only temporary: it will go again. Atman (consciousness) cannot be got because it is already there. The witness (Atman) has never been in bondage because it is always apart from, untouched by witnessed (three states). This argument cannot be turned against A Gnani by yogis and religious believers, because they regard ignorance as an integral part of the Soul to be got rid of by their practices, whereas a Gnani says the witness ( Atman) is ever pure, ever free from ignorance, being Knowledge itself, and that even all Gnana practice is within the realm of the witnessed (duality), never the witness (Atman).

People talk of liberation. They are forming an idea. The idea is duality. Many thinkers who are so confused as to be unable to separate the witness, talk of gaining liberation. But all such ideas are only within the duality (witnessed) which come and go, the witness (Atman) needs no liberation.

The final state is that God is Everything, the All, there is nothing but God, whereas to say "God is in me" is mysticism.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~ Brahman is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

DVI" means two. DVI" connotes the dual existence and the non-dual. Which of these two is non-existence? People think that there is a God and that the jivas- Souls-like them form the second, other than them. There is no such duality at all.

The "Soul”, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the only reality and there is nothing other than this Soul or consciousness, which is the innermost self. On the standpoint of the formless Soul the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. Because the whole universe, in which we all exist is created out of consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. Hence it is nondual (non-duality). The Soul or consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Non-dualistic Self-awareness is Brahmic bliss. In self-awareness, there is neither enjoyer nor enjoyment, not the world. Self-awareness is possible only in the midst of duality. The mystic revels only in 'bliss' that is experienced i.e. that comes and goes, but he is not Non-dualistic Self-awareness.

The peace will be disturbed only if one recognizes a second. Hence the mystic's peace is temporary: the only enduring peace belongs to the Gnani for it is non-dual.

Mystics claim that their ego disappears in the mystic experience: we say it is not so. It is the ego that sees and enjoys the experience, otherwise, they would not say afterward "I had this great ecstasy, I felt such peace."

When the ultimate truth is rightly known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through Soul, the innermost self he gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.

Not by intellectual speculation but only by an awakening to the reality of his true existence he gets the soul-centric vision. Soul, the Self’s nature is like the state of deep sleep.

Religion, yoga, and intellectualism are not the means to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Without getting rid of the ignorance and trying to get Self-awareness through religion and yoga, is like a sleeping man trying to know what he is about, without waking up. As sleep is to waking, so is ordinary life to the state of realization. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

You have appeared along with the world and you will be disappearing along with the world exist.+

You and the world in which you exist are a reality within the dualistic illusion or Maya. Your individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. The happiness and suffering belong to you.

You have to die one day but you are death happens within the dualistic illusion or Maya. You have appeared along with the world in which you exist and you will be disappearing along with the world in which you exist. It is impossible to separate the world in which you exist from you.

This world in which you exist will disappear along with your death sooner or later. Why not then think that the world in which you exist does not exist in reality because the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Mentally reduce the world in which you exist as consciousness and rest in consciousness.

On the dualistic perspective, the world is real. On the non-dualistic perspective, the world is non-existent as a reality.

Those who see the world on the dualistic perspective see the world as reality and their knowledge is limited to form, time, and space.

On the non-dualistic perspective, the form, time, and space are one in essence.

The Advaitic path is not meant for those who see the world as a reality but for those who want to realize the truth hidden by the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Advaitic wisdom exposed the unreality of the universe. The universe is nothing but an illusion created out of single clay. That single clay is the Spirit or Soul or consciousness.

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, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, you and your experience birth, life, death, and the world merely an illusion created out of the consciousness, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

The world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

People's approach is more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the world, they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.

In Self-awareness, the witness and witnessed are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. There is no second thing exists other than consciousness.

Thus, whatever seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person is a reality within the waking experience (duality) but waking experience (duality) itself is merely an illusion.

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the world, observed, and experienced. The commoner viewing the world will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, experiences the birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing exists other than the Soul or consciousness.:~Santthosh Kumaar

Brihad Upanishad says: ~ “Every man says “I know.” What does he know?+

In the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness in and upon which the universe appears. Superimposed like the snake on a rope. The whole universe is reduced as the Soul in deep sleep.

All the success or failure one experiences in this world, whatever suffering and pleasure one experiences in this world are nothing but an illusory play played by the Soul, the ‘Self’.

The Soul, the ‘Self’ is the witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theatre, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

On the dualistic perspective, the world in which we are born, live, and die is a reality. The pain and pleasure we experience as an individual is a reality within the world in which we exist but we are unaware of the fact that the world in which we exist is an illusion created out of single clay and that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. The knowledge of the single clay is the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

One may be poor or wealthy but he focuses on becoming more and wealthier in order to enjoy his life and look after master his family. Those who fail to become wealthy accept their life how it comes. Non-stop pursuing of wealth and immersing in worldly enjoyment will not give him lasting satisfaction. Human life is a time-bound package. The journey starts at birth and ends at death.

People never bother to inquire about the nature of the world to realize their individual experience of birth, life and death is a reality within the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Brihad Upanishad says: ~ “Every man says “I know.” What does he know?

Those who try to know the truth of their true existence ended up with ‘WHO AM ‘I’? without reaching anywhere. They thought ‘WHO AM ‘I? as inquiry is final.

When one is unable to quench his spiritual thirst from his Guru or teaching, he has to look elsewhere to clear the cobwebs of his understanding and to move forward in his spiritual quest.

It is no use in arguing with someone who has faith in his belief system because for him there can be no possible refutation of what he believes, so rational argument is entirely useless. He clings to his belief, so strongly that he makes no distinction between the truth and his belief. One has to know the fact that God cannot exist without his existence. The truth does not depend on Gods’ existence, but it entirely depends on man’s existence. Thus it is foolish to venture into knowing the truth of God's existence without verifying the facts about his own existence.

It is difficult for tradition-bound people to accept, anything as truth, other than what they inherited from them inborn and the inherited conditioning, and parental grooming, and their accumulated knowledge. The only intense urge to know the truth and courage to accept the truth after verification with better understanding one will be able to drop all his accumulated dross, which is the main obstacle in Self-Realization.

As one moves deeper and deeper in his inner (mental) journey than he realizes what is written in my blogs and postings are true and he will become more receptive to Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

What is the use of dying without realizing the truth of his true existence? People never give importance to realize the truth which is real God hidden by the world in which they exist.

A person lying on the death bed and recalling his whole life, he realizes that all the power, recognition, and wealth that he took so much pride in, have paled and become meaningless in the face of impending death.

Bhad Upanishad ~ 8-p ~-211: ~ “This Self is dearer than a son, dearer than wealth, dearer than everything else because It is innermost. If one holding the Self dear were to say to a person who speaks of anything other than the Self as dear, that he, the latter, will lose what he holds dear—and the former is certainly competent to do so—it will indeed come true. One should meditate upon the Self alone as dear. He who meditates upon the Self alone as dear—what he holds dear will not perish.

Wealth is only a fact of life that people are accustomed to but they are unaware of the fact that their own existence as an individual their wealth, their power their family and friends, and the world in which they exist is an illusion created out of the Soul, which the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Whatever your individual experience of birth appeared on its own and it disappears on its own in death. Individuality is a reality within the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Until one thinks he is an individual separate from the world and world that existed prior to you are born in it, later on, it is impossible for one to accept the truth, which is hidden by the form, time, and space. :~Santthosh Kumaar

The seekers of truth have to follow the Atmic path to realize the Athma the ‘Self’ is God in truth.+

The seekers of truth have to follow the Atmic path to realize the Athma the ‘Self’ is real God. Atmic path is the Vedic path because Vedic God is Athma.

The Vedic religion or Santana Dharma emphasizes Self-realization. Self-realization is God-realization. God-realization itself is real worship.

The Vedas do not talk about idol worship; the followers of Vedic Religion or Santana Dharma never worshipped idols. Thus all the Puranic Gods which are of the form and attributes are not Vedic Gods.

Max Müller says: ~ "The religion of the Veda knows no idols; the worship of idols in India is a secondary formation, a degradation of the more primitive worship of idol gods."

Hinduism is not Vedic religion or Santana Dharma. Hindus do idol-worship, while Vedas bars idol worship.

The Vedas do not talk about idol worship. In fact, till about 2000 years ago followers of Vedism never worshipped idols. Idol worship was started by the followers of Buddhism and Jainism.

There is logic to idol worship. Vedas speak of one God that is the supreme ‘Self’ in i.e. Atman or Soul but Hinduism indulges in worshiping 60 million Gods. All these 60 million Gods are non-Vedic Gods based on the beliefs.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1.4.10)

The Vedas confirms God is Atman (Spirit), the ‘Self’.

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)

Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.

Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship in place of real God.

Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth."

When Upanishad itself says: ~ ‘Sarvam khalvidam Brahma’ ~ all this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality (Chandogya Upanishad).

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.

Bhagavad Gita:~ “All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many gods. (7- Verse -20)

Lord Krishna Says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the Self 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.

So, on the Vedic perspective, Lord Krishna is not a Vedic God because Rig Veda says: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?"

All Hindus indulge in non-Vedic practice barred by the Vedas introduced by the different founders of the different sects of Hinduism at aa different times, whereas the Vedic religion or Santana Dharma is ancient and has no founder.

Hinduism is not Vedic religion or Santana Dharma. Hindus do idol-worship, while Vedas bars idol worship.

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 prakrti, 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.)

Then why worship and glorify the non-~Vedic Gods in place of Vedic God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge in such activities 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.

Sage Sankara: ~"That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman (God)."

One must remember that for all periods the Vedas are the final goal and authority, and if the Puranas differ in any respect from the Vedas, the Puranas are to be rejected without mercy.

If you feel Puranas says something and the Vedas say something else, reject the Puranas and believe in the Vedas. The Puranas are just a myth.

Even Sage Sankara says: ~ Supreme Brahman (God) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). It is above all needs and desires. It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as it is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other beside it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described, because description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not a distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman, and not just its attributes. The nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

God is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. Thus, according to the Vedas God neither has any image nor God resides in any particular idol or statue. God cannot be seen directly by anyone.

On the Vedic perspective, Lord Krishna has been just a Mahan yogi and not God himself’. Because in the Bhagavad Gita it says: Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar