The novice seekers must realize that yoga is all right in its place and that it is good, at the beginning of the pursuit of truth, but when yoga is made ends in itself and it is not a means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Yoga and meditation are not useless, they are helpful to bring the restless ego under control.
Yoga and meditation are not final. By indulging in yoga and meditation, it will lead not lead to the ultimate end of understanding.
Yoga cannot remove ignorance. It is only a step. It removes obstructions.
Sage Sankara definitely says that yoga is not the means of liberation (pages 132-133 of his commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad).
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 a teacher. The Atman is the Reality Itself and It is Purity Itself."
Brihad. Upanishad page 32:~ "Yoga does not yield truth or liberation."
One may read the Mahabharata for all philosophical, yogic, and cosmological teachings but at the end, it finally says "All is imaginative."
Brihad Upanishad:~ It too declares Yoga cannot give you the truth.
Sage Sankara says: - Yoga is not the means of liberation. (page 132-133 - Commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad.
In Sutra Bashya and Manduka: - The Samadhi and sleep are identical.
Brihad Upanishad: does not advocate Samadhi.
Sage Sankara in the commentary to "Brahma Sutras:- "The highest beatitude is not to be attained by Yoga." (Sacred Books of East Series page 298 Vol.1.) he also says Samadhi is the same as sleep (p.312) - this indicates that yoga is not the means to Self-realization. And yogic Samadhi is not nondual Self-awareness.
Panchadesi: - The impossibility of yoga arrives at a successful end to its practices. (P.509 v, 109)
Remember:~
You are not the ‘Self’. You are bound by birth, life, death, and the world.
Without realizing ‘what the ‘Self’ is supposed to be, simply saying ‘I AM THAT’ shows are mere imagining of the ‘Self’. Your knowledge based on imagination is not Self-knowledge, Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.
The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)
The form, time, and space are connected to the ‘I’.
The experience of birth, life, death, and the world is connected to the ‘I’.
The waking experience is connected to the ‘I’
The dream is connected to the ‘I’
The universe in which you exist is connected to the ‘I'.
The mind is connected to the ‘I’
The Self is not the ‘I’.
The ‘I’ hides the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The ‘I-LESS' Soul is permanent because it is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
Why are you struggling to find out who you are? You will never find the answer if you get stuck to the ‘I’. Find out ‘what is this ‘I’, which appears and disappears. What is that is aware of the coming and going, of the ‘I’?
Without realizing ‘What is this ‘I’? you will never be able to realize the mystery of the ‘I’.
The ‘I’ is the most intoxicating stuff. Those who use the word ‘I’ for the ‘Self ‘will never be able to cross the threshold of the dualistic illusion.
The ‘I’ based teachings will not transport the seeker to the ultimate end of understanding.
The ‘I’ is the cage for the Soul. ‘I’ is the cause of ignorance. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the only weapon to eliminate ignorance.
The ‘I’ based teachings will not transport the seeker to the ultimate end of understanding.
A perfect understanding of ‘what is this ‘I’ leads to the realization of the truth beyond form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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