A donkey with a load of holy books is still a donkey. A person who mastered scriptural knowledge is still a scholar, not a Gnani.+

A donkey with a load of holy books is still a donkey. A person who mastered scriptural knowledge is still a scholar, not a Gnani.

By studying the holy books and sacrifices to the gods, performing rituals, and worshiping the deities, there is no freedom without the realization of one’s identity with the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

There is no hope of immortality through riches. Action or inaction cannot be the cause of freedom because inaction also is action and action and inaction are part of the duality.

People think by using lesser words or by keeping silent the truth emerges on its own, but they keep hoping and remain in the prison of dualistic illusion or Maya.

The seeker of truth has to strive his best for freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality and fix his attention on the Soul, the Self, which is the cause of the illusory universe.

The Soul is present in the form of consciousness and is the cause of the illusory universe.

Consciousness alone is real and eternal, and it is the source of the illusory universe from where it rises and subsides.

The seeker of truth has to give up all physical-based theoretical practices.

The seeker will realize the waking experience in which the individual experiences birth, life, death, and the world as reality are also as unreal as the dream.

By realizing the formless substance and witness of the three states as consciousness one becomes free from experiencing the duality as reality.

Remember:~

All the religious scriptures and holy books are irrelevant -- God's greatest book is just in front of you.

That is why Sage Sankara says you must first know what is before you. If you cannot know that, what else can you know or understand? If you give up the external world in your inquiry, you cannot get the whole truth.

You have to study the book of the universe carefully and find and realize God hidden in it.

All religions claim that their books are not man-made? Hindus claim that the Vedas are Aporsheya: not made by man but revealed by God himself; and Sanskrit is the divine language, not human.

All religions have the same type of claim. Muslims say the Koran has descended from God, and so with Jews and Christians.

Everybody is trying to claim that their book is the sacred book and nobody bothers to look at the real divine book.

This is what the real Veda, the real Koran, the real Bible is. This is the book, and all other books are man-made. Only this universe is the book that is authored by God because God is hidden by the universe.

The universe is the real Veda, the real Koran, the real Bible is. The universe is the book, and all other books are man-made.

Only when you open the book of the universe the God hidden in the book will be revealed. When you finish reading the book of the universe then the universe will become an illusion and God alone prevails as the ultimate reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something detrimental to our spiritual progress.

You are also part of the divine book of the universe! And whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced as an individual is part of it. :~Santthosh Kumaar