Manduka Upanishad shows how one opinion may be used to contradict another, so that both may be thrown away.+

Manduka Upanishad shows how one opinion may be used to contradict another, so that both may be thrown away. Opinions are not for philosophy; they are as Ashtavakra says, merely thoughts; it wants the truth.

The path of wisdom is not for the exchange of views and opinions. One opinion may be used to contradict another, so both may be thrown away. Opinions are only thoughts. Thoughts are not the truth we are seeking because the ultimate truth is nondual. 

Error in your understanding of non-duality will not yield the ultimate truth. 

The seeker should not mix religion, mysticism, and yoga with the path of wisdom. All the Gurus of the east and west touch on mysticism to make it more attractive to feed the crowd.

It is necessary to reach larger numbers of serious seekers who care for truth alone. All your understanding and opinions are based on the dualistic perspective. The duality is based on the false Self (ego or you) within the false experience(waking).

Gnanis judgment is based on the non-dualistic perspective based on the Soul, the innermost Self.

Whatever one sees in this world is not real. When you realize the ‘Self’ is not 'you', but the ‘Self is the Soul, then you realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, is present in the form of the consciousness.

The Self is not 'you' because you are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world. From the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost Self, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

The experience of birth, life, death, and the world is nothing to do with the Soul the innermost Self. When you are not the Self, you cannot relate the Self with your experience of birth, life, death, and the world because, the Soul, the innermost Self is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless.

When the Soul wakes up with its own awareness, then you and your experience of the world become unreal the same way as the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place.

If you imagine within the dream it becomes unreal when waking takes place. Your imagination within the dream remains a reality till waking takes place. In the same way, your imagination within the waking remains a reality till Advaitic wisdom dawns. 

Advaitic Wisdom dawns when you realize you are not the Self but the Self is the formless Soul. If you are not the Self then your imagination has no value because you are the false Self within the illusion (waking).

When the Self is not you then what is the use of dropping the opinion? It is not you who has to drop the opinion but the Soul, the 'Self' has to wake up from the sleep of ignorance. When The Soul, the 'Self' wakes up then the world in which you exist ceases to exist as a reality.

Just by saying you are already that the wisdom will not dawn. A perfect understanding of ‘'what is what' is needed, if one wants to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar