Sage Sankara declared Advaitic truth 1200 years back but it was hidden. Only seirious seekers will be able to realze it.+

Sage Sankara’s Advaita as the fairest flower of wisdom that the world in any age has produced.

Learn yourself, make everyone aware of the truth of their true existence, call upon the sleeping Soul and see how it awakes.

Power will come on its own, glory will come on its own, grace will come, purity will come on its own, and the truth hidden by the ‘I' will be revealed when the Soul, the Self wakes up from its sleep of ignorance. This sleeping Soul is roused only through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is universal. The whole of humanity owns it because it is the knowledge of their true existence.

Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. There is no higher truth other than consciousness. To realize this truth there is no need to follow any path. There is no need to follow anyone. There is no need to become a wandering monk. There is no need to renounce worldly life.

Realizing consciousness or Spirit is ultimate is spirituality. There is nothing else to realize other than realizing there no second thing exists other than consciousness.

Realizing consciousness is second to none is truth realization. Even if you search for million years you will only come to a final conclusion and realization that the world in which you exist is nothing but consciousness.

If the world, in which you exist is nothing but consciousness, then what else is there to realize other than realizing consciousness alone is real and the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

If the world in which you exist is merely an illusion the experience of the birth, life, and death that happens in the illusory world is bound to be an illusion or Maya.

If the world, in which you exist is an illusion then the division of the form, time, and space is merely an illusion because the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the innermost Self. the Soul, the Self is the fullness of consciousness.

Mentally Reducing the world, in which you exist to consciousness leads to Self-awareness. Realizing consciousness as the ultimate truth is Advaita. Mentally reducing the dualistic illusion into non-dualistic reality is Advaita.

Sage Sankara declared Advaitic truth 1200 years back but it was hidden. Only serious seekers will be able to realize it. The seeker who is sharp enough to grasp the Advaitic truth will be able to discover the hidden treasure.

Even scientists declare in the future the world is nothing but consciousness Sage Sankara alone is qualified for the Nobel Prize, not the scientists because Sage Sankara declared it 1200 years back. Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it. Advaita is not a theory but Advaita is the rational truth, the scientific truth, and the ultimate truth. But nobody knows it.

The teachers of philosophy and the Gurus or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it.

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is nothing to do with religion. Thus, all his religious teaching which is meant for the ignorant populace has to be bifurcated from his wisdom. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Without reading my posts and blogs trying to argue on your own yardstick, is not of any use.+

The seeker must have the patience to open the blogs and posting and read. It will not only help you to clear all your cobweb of doubts and confusion. Without reading my posts and the blogs trying to argue on your own yardstick, but it also is not of any use.

Advaitic Gnana removes ignorance. It all depends on the seeker's sincerity, patience, and seriousness to realize the Advaitic truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Whatever you have read, whatever you have heard and accumulated from different sources becomes a hindrance in realizing the truth, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.

All your egocentric accumulated cocktail knowledge is not Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is soul-centric knowledge, which 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.

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

Reading and reflecting on my blogs and postings gradually, the seekers will start assimilating and realizing ‘what is the truth and what is untruth.

Repeated reading of my blogs and postings makes the seeker, Soulcentric, and the inner dialogue will start and clear all the doubts and confusion.

When there are no doubts and confusion, then they have realized the truth that form, time, and space are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness.

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There is no use in wasting time in questioning and arguing at the same time and effort has to be used to make the seeker more independent and without external spoon-feeding, he can reach the inner core, which is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

In the Atmic path discussion of the unimportant subject matter is a great hindrance. The path of truth is the path of verification.

Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification. Agreeing to disagree causes unnecessary friction.

The truth is very simple but it is very difficult to grasp because of ignorance. You have to only realize the world in which you exist is created out of single clay. And that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, you and your body and the world in which you exist are nothing but consciousness because they are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. A perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.

A Gnani watches the seeker's steps until he or she is mature enough to be on their own. A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and live like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with fellow seekers.

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A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state.

A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.

Katha Upanishads: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one Atman reveals its own form. ( II -23-P-20)

All the chosen ones will get freedom from experiencing the illusion (duality) as a reality. You are the chosen one.

Millions are searching for truth, but one in million will realize it. If you are the truth seeker then you are one from that million.

It is necessary to reflect on the same truth again and again till it becomes a reality. One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what. Words of wisdom are needed until one gets a firm conviction of ‘what is what’.

People need to read and hear the words think reason and reflect deeply and reach the ultimate end. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Spiritual truth is universal whereas the religious truth is the individualized truth.+

Spiritual truth is universal whereas religious truth is the individualized truth. Religion is based on the dualistic perspective whereas spirituality is based on the nondualistic perspective.

The realization of the ultimate truth is not dependent on any books or any religion or religious  Gods based on belief  or religious rituals.

All religions are dependent on their religious scriptures or holy books and their Gods are based on blind belief.

Without their religious scriptures, holy books, and belief in God, religion ceases to exist.

Religion holds its scriptures and holy books as proof. The truth is hidden by the universe in which we exist. No books or Guru can help us to find the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Religious truth is limited by form, time, and space whereas the ultimate truth is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. Thus, religious truth is nothing to do with the ultimate truth.

Even without the scriptures and holy books, we can get the truth of the whole, which is beyond form, time, and space. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is not had by resorting to a Guru nor by the study of scripture, nor by good deeds: it is attained only by means of inquiry and reasoning inspired by words of wisdom of Gnanis.

The religious truth is based on blind belief. But in pursuit of truth, doubt is the main ingredient.

Most people have the desire to know the truth but the capacity to understand and grasp the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space is limited. The result is that people resolve the conflict by jumping to the first and simplest and easiest conclusion as the correct one, and smugly but unjustifiably thinking “I know”: Thus, they commit the fallacy of primitivity.

Gurus or pundits or yogis' statements shouldn’t be accepted blindly as the ultimate truth because they are based on the dualistic perspective and are not proof. The truth based on the dualistic belongs to the dualistic illusion therefore not the truth.

All the claims have to be verified before accepting them as truth. Because all the religious and yogic and mystic truth is based on form, time, and space. From the ultimate standpoint form, time, and space are an illusion. Thus, whatever is based on form, time and space is a dualistic illusion. Whatever is based on the dualistic illusion is bound to be an untruth.

The Soul, the Spirit is the highest truth. The Soul is the cause of the universe and it itself is uncaused.

The ultimate truth cannot be known by intuition but it can be grasped from Soulcentric reason by discriminating between the Soul and the ego. Whatever is based on the Soul is the ultimate truth and whatever is based on the ego is the untruth.

Therefore, there is a need to know first the ‘Self’ is not you but the Self is the Soul, the Spirit.

You learn to start reasoning on the base of the Soul, then all your clouds of confusion start clearing on their own. And you will finally realize that form, time and space are nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, there is no confusion left because everything is consciousness. There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

Thus, the Soul alone is real and all else is an illusion. The Soul is one without the second therefore, the Soul is Advaita. The Advaita is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

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Religious truth is not the ultimate truth because it always shows a contradiction. A contradiction arises because a different person's interpretations may disagree with others.

Religion is “believers' Truth” and  spirituality is “the universal truth.” This means a believer takes his feeling of truth whereas the seeker of truth takes his reasoned judgment, which will be the same under test everywhere in the universe.

Religion can never make you know God. Only an intense urge to know what God is supposed to be in truth can make you realize God. The Soul, the ‘Self is the Infinite God.

People who argue that truth is only in their religion are vain logicians based on mere ideas, and imaginations. Religions that say- "If one follows the religion they will go to heaven while others “go to hell," are stories invented on the base of a false self within the false experience.

The man himself suggests that there must be a God. It is autosuggestion. To say that one knows God exists always implies, that he must also exist always. It would be correct to say at this point, he does not know about the existence of God because God's existence depends on individualized belief.:~Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara Says:~ The religion is meant for ignorant people. Advaitic wisdom is meant for serious truth seekers.+

Sage Sankara Says:~ The religion is meant for ignorant people. And Advaitic wisdom is meant for the serious seekers of truth.

Sage Sankara says:~ the scriptures dealing with rituals are addressed to an ignorant person.

Those who lack the intelligence to discriminate between the witness (subject) and three states (object) will not be able to grasp what is real and what is unreal. Both subject and object are the consciousness, not the subject alone.

Ish Upanishad:~ Those people who have neglected the attainment of ‘Self’-knowledge and have thus committed suicide ~10/11/12

Those people who have neglected the attainment of ‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds after death.

This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain ‘Self’-knowledge. They are, in a real sense, committing suicide, for what can be worse than being a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life, which is to be one’s, own master?

The Brahma Sutras together with Sage Sankara's commentary thereon do not contain higher Vedanta. They are intended for duffers.

Sage Sankara's commentary on Brahma Sutras is not on a philosophical basis, but on a religio-mystic one, with an appeal to Vedas as the final authority.

In Brahma Sutra Sage Sankara takes the position that there is another entity outside us, i.e. the wall really exists separately from the mind. This was because Sage Sankara explains in Manduka that those who study the Sutras are religious minds, and intellectual children, hence his popular viewpoint to assist them. These people are afraid to go deeper because it means being heroic enough to refuse to accept Shruti, and God's authority, in case they mean punishment by God.

Sage Sankara says:~ Keep the scriptures for children but throw them on the fire for wise seekers.

In Brahma Sutras Sage Sankara takes for granted, and assumes that a world was created: He there mixes dogmatic theology with philosophy.

That God created the world is an absolute lie; nevertheless, you will find Sage Sri, Sankara (in his commentary on Vedanta Sutras) clearly says this! He has to adapt his teachings to his audience, reserving the highest for philosophical minds.

The text of Brahma Sutras is based on religion and dogmatism, but in the commentary Sankara cleverly introduced some philosophy. If it is objected that a number of Upanishads are equally dogmatic because they also begin by assuming Brahman, but a few Upanishads do not but prove Brahman at the end of a train of proof.

The causality and creation, but are for religious people only. Religion is only for those who are unable to understand truth beyond form, time, and space. Religion is not final. It only gives satisfaction to the populace. Self-knowledge is for the whole of humanity to free them from experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as reality.

People of small intelligence follow religion and believe that the world was created by God. But how do they know that He did so? When a pot is created, one can see both pot and its maker, but not in the case of the world.

This is following the prescription prescribed by orthodoxy in the name of Sage Sankara. The orthodoxy has listed down in 5 verses, 40 steps of Sadhanas (discipline) to be followed to achieve the (only meaningful) goal of human life Moksha, liberation. Use it every day as contemplative prayer.

1. Study the scriptures (Vedas) daily.

2. Perform diligently the duties (sva dharma) ordered by the scriptures.

3. Predicate all the actions thus performed (as above) to Ishvara (IshvarArpanna Buddhi).

4. Gradually give up the performance of ‘Selfish actions.

5. Filter sinful/adharmic likes and dislikes.

6. Recognize the inherent defects of material pursuits.

7. Seek moksha with consistent endeavor.

8. Get out from the bondage of activity (specified to the ones which end up entangling us).

9. Seek companionship with men of wisdom.

10. Be established in firm devotion to Ishvara and perform Upasana.

11. Gain mind control, sense control, withdrawal, forbearance, faith and focus.

12. Give up karma and Upasana when they are not required any longer for spiritual growth.

13. Seek Knowledge from a SadGuru.

14. Serve his lotus feet.

15. Ask for brahma vidya.

16. Listen in depth, to the Upanishadic declarations.

17. Analyze the meanings of the Upanishadic commandments.

18. Perform such analyses by sticking to scriptures.

19. Get away from logic based system (logic is good when it corroborates scripture, in the sense, don't try to substitute it),

20. Dwell upon the discriminative rationale of Shruti (basically, develop Viveka).

21. Constantly remain steeped in the fact that you are Brahman.

22. Renounce pride/vanity/arrogance.

23. Give up the delusionary misconception- "I am the body."

24. Do not argue with wise men

25. Consider hunger as a disease.

26. Treat hunger, the disease, by taking bhiksha food.

27. Beg no delicious food.

28. Live contentedly with whatever comes your way as prasadam.

29. Endure all pains of opposites- heat/cold, likes/dislikes, pleasure/pain.

30. Avoid wasteful talk.

31. Be indifferent and avoid groupism.

32. Don't get attached to either someone's love or criticism.

33. In solitude also, live joyously.

34. Quieten your mind in Ishvara.

35. Realize and see the ‘Self’ in everything, everywhere.

36. Recognize the universe as a finite projection of the ‘Self’.

37. Destroy the effects of deeds done in earlier lives (sanchit karma) through the strength of knowledge.

38. Through wisdom, become detached from AgAmi karma (give up doership/enjoyership).

39. Experience and exhaust the prarabdh, fruits of past actions.

40. Thereafter, live eternally as Brahman.

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Sage Sankara says:~ The orthodoxy is meant for ignorant people.

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

~ This shows he was wearing the religious robe only for the sake of bread."

All the rituals based on the false belief of Gods will not yield any fruits and they are meant for the ignorant populace who are unable to grasp the God beyond the form, time and space.

One of Sage Sankara’s missions was to wean people away from a ritualistic approach advocated by Mimamsakas and to project wisdom (jnana) as the means of liberation in the light of Upanishad teachings.

Sage Sankara criticized severely the ritualistic attitude and those who advocated such practices. However, the orthodox texts that combined rituals with wisdom (jnana_karma_samucchaya) more in favor of the Mimamsaka position came into vogue, projecting Sage Sankara as the rallying force of the doctrine.

That is why Sage Sankara:~ (11) As regards the rituals, Sage Sankara says, the person who performs rituals and aspires for rewards will view himself in terms of the caste into which he is born, his age, the stage of his life, his standing in society etc. In addition, he is required to perform rituals all through his life. However, the ‘Self’ has none of those attributes or tags. Hence, the person who superimposes all those attributes on the changeless, eternal ‘Self’ and identifies the ‘Self’ with the body is a confusing one for the other; and is, therefore, an ignorant person. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards etc. are therefore addressed to an ignorant person.- Adhyasa Bhashya

Sage Sankara:~ (11.1) This ignorance (mistaking the body for ‘Self’) brings in its wake a desire for the well-being of the body, aversion for its disease or discomfort, fear of its destruction and thus a host of miseries(anartha).This anartha is caused by projecting karthvya(“doer” sense) and bhokthavya (object) on the Atman. Sankara calls this adhyasa. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards etc. are, therefore, he says, addressed to an ignorant person.-Adhyasa Bhashya

Sage Sankara:~ (11.2) In short, person who engages in rituals with the notion “I am an agent, doer, thinker”, according to Sage Sankara, is ignorant, as his behavior implies a distinct, separate doer/agent/knower ; and an object that is to be done/achieved/known. That duality is Avidya, an error that can be removed by vidya. -Adhyasa Bhashya

Sage Sankara: ~ (12) Sage Sankara affirming his belief in one eternal unchanging reality (Brahman) and the illusion of plurality, drives home the point that Upanishads deal not with rituals but with the knowledge of the Absolute (Brahma vidya) and the Upanishads give us an insight into the essential nature of the ‘Self’ which is identical with the Absolute, the Brahman.-Adhyasa Bhashya

No conceptual God can exist, apart from consciousness. People are not aware of the fact that, there is no individual God can exist, apart from Soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Thus, the Soul or consciousness is the true ‘Self’. If there is no consciousness, then there is no body, no ego, no universe, no religion and no conceptual God. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara‘s declaration - Atman is Brahman is rational truth, scientific truth, and also the ultimate truth.+

Sage Sankara was the first Sage scientist who unfolded the mystery of the universe 1200 years back. Sage Sankara's Advaitic wisdom is more rational and scientific and has nothing to do with religion and its dogmas.

Sage Sankara says this entire universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

In the scientific field, the knowledge one can bank on the discoveries of different scientists. Newton discovered the law of gravity and Einstein formulated the principle of relativity. In addition, scientists take it for granted that these principles are valid. It is not so in pursuit of truth. If one sage discovers the ultimate truth then the seeker without verification cannot accept it as truth blindly.

Newton discovered the law of gravity, which is applicable only to the waking experience, which is only a half-truth. Nobody has discovered there is no gravity in deep sleep. All three states have taken into account to get the whole truth.

Only Sage Sankara discovered the whole truth 1200 years back. Scientific inventions are limited to form, time, and space. The mystery of the universe is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara: ~VC~ if the universe is true, let it then be perceived in the state of deep sleep also. As it is not at all perceived, it must be unreal and false like dreams.

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.

Chandogya Upanishad:~ One who meditates upon and realizes the Self discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantrams and meditation--all come from the Self.

Sage Sankara says: ~ ‘Whatever thing remains eternal is true, and whatever is non-eternal is untrue. Since the world is created and destroyed, it is not true.

Truth is the thing that is unchanging. Since the world is changing, it is not true.

Whatever is independent of space and time is true, and whatever has space and time in itself is untrue.

Just as one sees dreams in sleep, he sees a kind of super-dream when he is waking. The world is compared to this conscious dream.

The world is believed to be a superimposition of the Brahman. Superimposition cannot be true.

On the other hand, Sage Sankara claims that the world is not absolutely false. It appears false only when compared to Brahman. In the pragmatic state, the world is completely true—which occurs as long as we are under the influence of ignorance.

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.

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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.

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 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 that exists other than the Soul or the consciousness.

Thus, all the egocentric (religious) adulteration has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

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).

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First, know ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’ for sure. Without realizing what untruth truth is, it is difficult to know what truth is.

Sage Sankara was criticized for his views on Maya (illusion) without understanding him.

Sage Sankara said: ~

(1) Brahman (Atman) is real

(2) The universe is unreal.

(3) Brahman is the universe.

He did not stop at the second because the third explains the other two. It signifies that the universe is real if perceived as the ‘Self’ and unreal if perceived as apart from the Self. Hence Maya or illusion and reality are one and the same.

Realists criticize the concept of illusion without understanding it.

Sage Sankara said that:~

(1) Consciousness (Atman) is real

(2) The universe or mind is unreal

(3) Consciousness is the universe because the universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

One need not stop at the second because the third explains the other two. It signifies that the universe is real if perceived as the Self (Atman or consciousness) and unreal if perceived as apart from the Self (consciousness). Hence illusion and reality are one and the same because both are one in essence. Realizing the essence, which is consciousness as the innermost Self, is Self-Realization or Truth-Realization of God-Realization.

Sage Sankara‘s declaration Atman is Brahman is rational truth, scientific truth, and also the ultimate truth.

Sage Sankara: ~ “The world, filled with attachments and aversions, and the rest, is like a dream: it appears to be real as long as one is ignorant, but becomes unreal when one is awake.

Sage Sankara:~ “As fire is the direct cause of cooking, so Self-knowledge, and not any other form of discipline, is the direct cause of Liberation; for Liberation cannot be attained without Self-Knowledge.

Sage Sankara:~ As the moon appears to be moving when the clouds move in the sky, so also to the non-discriminating. Atman appears to be active when in reality the senses are active.

Sage Sankara said: ~ Just as the snake is superimposed on the rope, this world and this body are superimposed on Brahman or the Soul, the Self. If one gets knowledge of the rope, the illusion of the snake will vanish. Even so, if he gets knowledge of Brahman, the illusion of the body and the world will vanish.

The snake is only an idea: it disappears on inquiry but deeper Self-search reveals the fact that the rope is also an idea and its reality will be exposed when wisdom dawns. There is neither a snake nor a rope in reality because from the ultimate standpoint the duality is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

The Soul which is present in the form of consciousness is the root element of the universe. From consciousness, the universe comes into existence. In consciousness, the universe resides. And into the consciousness, the universe is dissolved.

Consciousness is the parent of all that is there. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Brahman is God in truth.

Consciousness is the only reality, and the universe to but an illusory manifestation.

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.

Sage Sankara says in a commentary in Vedanta-sutra that 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, something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.

Sage Sankara not only proved the existence of God from the Vedic perspective but also proved the existence of God rationally by pure reason.

The seeker has to discover a fresh by dropping all the egocentric dualistic knowledge to realize’ what is truth’ and ‘what is not truth’ and accept only the truth and mentally drop the untruth. Thus, constant reflection on the subject is very much necessary in pursuit of truth. ~ Santthosh Kumaar