Sage Sankara's Advaitic wisdom is a spiritual treasure hidden by ignorance that requires removal of ignorance.+

Sage Sankara's Advaitic wisdom is a spiritual treasure hidden by ignorance that requires removal of ignorance.

Advaita encompasses everything. Since Advaita requires heavy-duty intellectualism, it had to be progressively simplified.

Sage Sankara says only through direct knowledge of non-duality that one could be enlightened.

Sage Sankara’s supreme Atman is Attriubuteless (without the Gunas), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without attributes), and Akarta (non-agent). He is above all needs and desires. Sage Sankara says, "This Atman is self-evident. This Atman or Self is not established by proofs of the existence of the Self. It is not possible to deny this Atman, for it is the very essence of he who denies it. The Atman is the basis of all kinds of knowledge. The Self is within, the Self is without, the Self is before and the Self is behind. The Self is on the right hand, the Self is on the left, the Self is above and the Self is below".

Satyam-Jnanam-Anantam-Anandam is not separate attributes. They form the very essence of Atman. Atman cannot be described, because description implies distinction. Atman cannot be distinguished from any other than He.

The objective world-the world of names and forms-has no independent existence. The Atman alone has real existence. The world is only phenomenal.

Sage Sankara was the exponent of the Advaita Wisdom. His Advaitic wisdom  can be summed up in the following words:~

Brahma Satyam Jagat Mithya,

Jeevo Brahmaiva Na Aparah

Meaning- Atman alone is real; this world is unreal; the Jiva is identical with Atman.

Remember:~

The truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya is to be attained through the instructions of a Gnani, followed by reflection and so forth, but not through perverted discussion and arguments.

One has to go beyond Vedas' means to go beyond religion. Going beyond religion means, going beyond Gods based on blind belief. Going beyond the Vedas, religion and the Gods based on blind belief going beyond the dualistic illusion, that is the end of Vedas (Veda –antha).

Advaitic wisdom has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it by mixing religion and yoga. It is not yoga but truth hidden by the dualistic illusion. But nobody knows it. The Gurus, religious believers, philosophers, thinkers, and yogis do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it.

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-65- As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

Therefore, you should personally strive by all means to be free from the bondage of ignorance (I).

The Advaitic wisdom is nothing to do with orthodox preaching and practice because Advaitic orthodoxy is dogmatism. The Advaitic orthodoxy has to be discarded if one wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Advaitic wisdom expounded by Sage Sankara was hidden. Sage Sankara restrained himself from parting the Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to the ignorant populace and parting it with only a selected few.

Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana was hidden from the people who were not qualified and receptive to it. Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana was not written down but was imparted orally to the chosen few. Thus, religion was given to the ignorant populace, and the knowledge of the Spirit, the God is given to only a selected few.

Thus, we find traces of the knowledge of the spirit in the religious books in the form of parables.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Among thousands of men, scarcely one strives for perfection; and of those who strive and succeed, scarcely one knows the ‘Self’ in truth.

The Guru's interpretations of sacred texts, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of the ‘Self’ hidden by ignorance. It is revealed in the clear reflection of the truth, engendered from contact with the good."

Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but the liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

The Advaitic wisdom is nothing to do with orthodox preaching and practice because Advaitic orthodoxy is dogmatism. The Advaitic orthodoxy has to be discarded if one wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Sage Sankara and Sage Gaudapada are independent thinkers other schools of Indian philosophy are mere theologies. Advaitic philosophy is real philosophy. The dualistic philosophy cannot escape the charge of dogmatism.

Sage Sankara was an independent thinker. His wisdom has not been taken seriously by many in India, because, most of the followers of Sage Sankara belong to the orthodox sect.

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is nothing to do orthodox sect.

It is necessary for the seeker to do his homework, and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what orthodox pundits expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is obtained. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar