If 'I' vanishes then the universe also vanishes. If the universe vanishes then you also vanish along with the universe.+

If 'I' vanishes then the universe also vanishes. If the universe vanishes then you also vanish along with the universe.

Without your existence how does one know 'I' vanishes?

You must first know what is this 'I' suppose to be in actuality. If you cannot know that, what else can you know or understand?

When you finally realize the ‘‘Self’ ‘is not you but the ‘‘Self’’ is the Soul then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Firstly, we have to realize the fact that, the mind is not within the body, but the body and world are within the mind because the mind itself is the whole universe.

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The Self is not 'I'. ‘I’ is the dualistic illusion or Maya. I Am is the ego. The ego is the false entity within the dualistic illusion or Maya.

There is a need to know “What is ‘I’? before proceeding in pursuit of truth.

The deeper self-search reveals the fact that ‘I’ is not limited to you alone because the 'I' is the whole universe.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is nothing to do with the ‘I-centric' or You-centric’ Gurus and their teachings.

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The ‘I’ is not an individual because the ‘I’ is the whole universe. Limiting the ‘I’ to individuality is the cause of experiencing the dualistic illusion of reality?

The nature of the ‘I’ is the nature of the mind.

The nature of the mind is the nature of the universe.

The nature of the universe is the nature of the waking.

The nature of the waking is the nature of the illusion.

Thus, it is necessary to study the nature of the ‘I’ to unfold the mystery of the universe.

All the teachings limit the ‘I’ to an individual and glorify the ‘I’ without knowing what this ‘I’ is supped to be in actuality. All ‘I’ based teachings are inadequate and useless for the serious seeker of truth.

If you are seeking truth nothing but the truth must discard without mercy such teaching to progress in your spiritual quest.

The seeker must know the ‘I’ is not limited to individuality. The seeker has to see the ‘I’ as the universe, to overcome ignorance. When the Advaitic wisdom dawns, then the ignorance vanishes.

When ignorance vanishes and the dualistic illusion (world) you used to think as reality becomes unreal.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC--"All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

If the seeker gives up the universe in his inquiry, he cannot get the whole truth.

What is accepted without a deeper inquiry will not lead a seeker to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in wrong, something which is detrimental to his spiritual progress. :~Santthosh Kumaar

With Sage Sankara, the seeker enters into a mature age to realize the truth hidden by ignorance.+

Seekers of truth love Sage Sankara because he represents the essential core of Spirituality or Adyathma.

With Sage Sankara, the seeker enters into a mature age to realize the truth hidden by ignorance.

It is impossible to speak on Ataman or Brahman without bringing Sage Sankara in.

Sage Sankara is one of the most important Sages who has ever existed on the planet earth — incomparable, unique. And if you can have a taste of his Advaitic wisdom, you will be infinitely benefited, and blessed.

Sage Sankara is like the highest peak of the Himalayas … one of the purest beings, one of the most virgin souls, and one of the very rare phenomena on this earth. The rarity is that Sage Sankara is the scientist who unfolded the mystery of the universe and the mystery of God.

Founders of religions have compromised with the truth. Advaitic truth is uncontradictable truth.

Sage Sankara does not care what people can understand, he cares only about what the truth is. Sage Sankara says it without being worried whether people understand it or not. In a way this looks hard; in another way, this is very simple.

Sage Sankara the founder of Advaitic wisdom. Sage Sankara has propounded Spirituality or Adyathma. His Advaitic wisdom is a great radical change in the history of human consciousness.

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Sage Sankara is the only Sage, who has final authority on the Advaitic wisdom. The Advaitic truth is rational truth and scientific truth without dogma.

Sage Sankara' gave religious, ritual, or dogmatic instruction to the mass, but pure philosophy only to the few who could rise to it. Hence, the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

Sage Sankara says: ~ What is accepted without a proper enquiry 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.

Seekers of truth should not believe blindly in traditional orthodox nonduality without verifying all the facts from every angle. One has to reflect through reasoning over and over again without getting tired of the process. (Commentary on Vedanta-sutra).

Advaitic orthodoxy is a path meant for ignorant people. The Advaitic orthodoxy is not a means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Advaitic orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant mass that is unfit to grasp the highest truth.

The Advaitic orthodoxy is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman.

According to Advaita Vedanta, the Veda addresses itself to two kinds of audiences - the ignorant people who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, thus, the Purva mimam. sa, with its emphasis on the karma kanda of the Vedas, is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way.  All the theistic Advaita is meant for the ignorant populace.

The serious seeker who is seeking the truth is nothing but the truth or Brahman or God the Vedanta, with its emphasis on the jnana kanda, is meant for those who wish to go beyond the form, time, and space to realize their true existence is formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

All the theistic Advaita belongs to religion it is nothing to do with Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom

Sage Sankara Advaitic wisdom is purely based on soulcentric reason and independent without the support of any scriptures.

Sage Sankara:~ “This (the unreality of duality) is borne out by the Srutis ... But it is possible also to show the unreality of the objective world even from pure reasoning. (Commentary on the Manduka Upanishad, II, 1)

Sage Sankara himself had often said that his Advaitic wisdom was based on Shruti or revealed scripture. This may be because Sage Sankara addressed the ordinary man, who finds security in the idea of causality and thus in the idea of God—and Revelation is indispensable to prove the latter. He believed that those of superior intelligence, have no need of this idea of divine causality, and can, therefore, dispense with Shruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason. :~Santthosh Kumaar

The Vedas bar polytheism thus proves that Hinduism believes in polytheism, not ancient Santana Dharma.+

In Reality, Hinduism is not ancient Vedic Religion or Sanatana Dharma. Hindus do not follow the Vedas. People of Inda think Hinduism is Santana Dharma or Vedic Religion but it is not so.

As one peep into the annals of religious history, he finds that Hinduism which exists today is not a continuation of the Vedic religion or Santana Dharma, and it has no real historical foundation. Hinduism is of a much later origin.

As per the researchers, the two faiths the Hindu belief system has drifted miles away from the Vedic faith so the two seem to be two distinct faiths. It is not difficult to discover that there is no noticeable continuity of Hinduism from the Vedic Religion or Santana Dharma.

The distinctive characteristics of the Hindu belief system cannot be traced in Vedic literature. Besides, although the Vedas are revered as sacred texts, many people in India do not know what ‘belief in the Vedas’ means. In most cases, the acquaintance of the Hindus with the Vedas is limited to the few hymns that are recited in temples and household liturgies.

As per the researchers, the two faiths the Hindu belief system has drifted miles away from the Vedic faith so the two seem to be two distinct faiths. It is not difficult to discover that there is no noticeable continuity of Hinduism from the Vedic religion or Santana Dharma.

God and Goddesses worshipped in India today are non-Vedic Gods. Such Gods and Goddesses cease to exist without the dualistic illusion. Whatever belongs to the dualistic illusion is bound to be a falsehood.

Hinduism is based on myths and thus, the people of India are unaware of the facts of their inherited religious history. The Vedic Culture and Vedas are complete in themselves but Hinduism which is a non-Vedic belief system with all rituals and conduct-oriented practices has been contributed largely by the orthodox priests to suit their convenience!

To be considered an orthodox Hindu one need only accept the authority of Shruti, however, there is no universal agreement among Hindus on what constitutes Shruti. Vedantins consider the Vedanta, i.e., the Upanishads as Shruti but also include the Bhagavad-Gita and Brahma Sutras as authoritative. For some Vaishnavas, the Bhagavata Purana is to be considered Veda. Some consider the Tantras are considered Veda. Thus, we find that there is ample scope for different philosophies and practices under the very broad umbrella of Hinduism.

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People are being conditioned by religious myths, which have made them non-thinker. Come out of the religious myth by realizing God in truth. 

The people in India believed in polytheism, believing all of their Gods to be separate individuals, which were introduced much later by the founders of Hinduism which contains diverse beliefs caste, and creed.

The Vedas bar polytheism, so it proves that Hinduism believes in polytheism is not ancient Vedic Religion or Santana Dharma.

Bhagavad Gita Chapter: ~ “All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)

Rig-Veda 1.164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

God in truth is the Atman, the Self. Atman is present in the form of consciousness.

Do not accept any other God other than Atman not worship other than Atman.

Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

Nothing is real but God. Nothing Matters but love for God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything.

God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is and all else is an illusion.

Rig Veda: 1.164.46: ~ Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti” -” The Reality (Truth or God) is One.

Rig Veda 1/164/46: ~ “They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni, or the heavenly sunbird Garutmat. The seers call in many ways that which is One; they speak of Agni, Yama, and Matarishvan.

Rig Veda 8/58/2:~ Only One is the Fire, enkindled in numerous ways; only One is the Sun, pervading this whole universe; only One is the Dawn, illuminating all things. In very truth, the One has become the whole world.

Upanishads say in effect that: ~ if you believe that you are one and God is another you cannot understand Truth.

Religious Gods are based on blind faith or blind belief. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because, the Soul, the ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists. Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence.

Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity whether man or God there is no truth."

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship in place of the real God.

Maitreyi Upanishad 2:26 says: ~ All those who desire to have salvation without taking several births, should worship God in spirit and truth.

ISH Upanishads: - By Worshiping Gods and Goddesses you will go after death to the world of Gods and Goddesses. But will that help you? The time you spent there is wasted because if you were not there you could have spent that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is your goal. In the world of Gods and Goddesses, you cannot do that, and thus you go deeper and deeper into darkness.

It clearly indicates that if the human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Athma Gnana then why one has to indulge in rituals and glorifying the conceptual Gods, Goddesses, and gurus to go into deeper darkness. Instead spend that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is one’s prime goal.

Upanishads: ~ They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Atman. The ordinary man does not understand their way. (Chapter IV — Alatasanti Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada)

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). It is above all needs and desires. It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as It is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other besides it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal.

Brahman cannot be described because description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman and not just Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says:~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)”. (1.4.10)

That is why Sage Sankara:~ VC-61- For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?

Sickness is not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take the medicine. Ignorance will not vanish does not come by merely saying the word “God nor by worshiping God of belief. First one must know what God is supposed to be. God must be realized. One must know God in truth.

Perfect undemanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’ leads to truth realization, truth realization itself is Self-realization. Self-realization itself is God-realization. God- realization itself is real worship.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Holding on to some guru or teaching is holding on to ignorance.+

When one is unable to quench his spiritual thirst from his guru or teaching he has to look elsewhere to clear the cobwebs of his understanding and to move forward in his spiritual quest. Holding on to some guru or teaching is holding on to ignorance. 

It takes time to become receptive to receiving Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because it is soul-centric knowledge whereas all accumulated knowledge is egocentric.

All accumulated knowledge is of no use in the path of wisdom. Without realizing “What is the truth it is impossible to realize “What is untruth?” Without realizing what is truth and what is untruth it is impossible to assimilate the Self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Thus one must know with full and firm conviction what truth is.

Advaitic Wisdom consists in knowing the truth, that everything (mind or physical existence) is consciousness. Freedom (ultimate truth) is always there yet one does not know it. But those whose reason is turned away from physicality and who have attained the serenity of the Soul the Self, are quite near to realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

To think one's own body and experience of the world is an illusion is a difficult matter, unless one realizes the self is not physical but it is formless soul it is difficult to have a glimpse of truth.

When you realize that, the Self is not you but the Self is the Soul, which is the cause of the illusory universe then you will realize what is truth and what is untruth.  

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It is no use in arguing with someone who has faith in his religion because for him there can be no possible refutation of what he believes, so rational argument is entirely useless. He clings to his belief so strongly that he makes no distinction between the truth and his belief. 

One has to realize that god cannot exist without his existence. The truth does not depend on God’s existence but it entirely depends on man’s existence. Thus it is foolish to venture into knowing the truth of god's existence without verifying the facts about his own existence.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that the Self is neither the body nor the ego. If the Self is not the body nor the ego then it proves the fact that whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced on the base of the self as the body or ego is bound to be a falsehood. 

Thus arguing from the standpoint of the body or ego, which is not the Self, is erroneous. Thus the whole argument has to be based on the true Self, which is not the body or ego. Thus it is necessary to realize that, the Self is not the form but the Self is formless to realize the Advaitic truth.

You will always remain in a state of ignorance until you realize the Self is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

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Common people and primitive minds fall into faulty thinking through their inherited conditioning, such faulty thinking and reasoning make them accept the experience of birth, life, and death as reality; taking what one sees through the senses as real, taking what is apparently as obvious, and superficial as true because it is less troublesome.

Many people adopt the attitude that what they know is the truth. And what others say is false. This attitude makes them not verify anything other than what they know. One needs to be rational, not merely logical. Logic has its value only in the physical plane.

As one advances towards the spiritual plane, he sees the logic underlying experience and becomes more rational. His reasoning is two-fold--implicit and explicit. 

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The universe will not vanish, when Advaitic wisdom dawns, only ignorance disappears and the unreal nature of the universe is exposed, in the same way as the unreal nature of the dream exposed when waking takes place.

The Advaitic wisdom dawns in the midst of duality (universe) because in reality there is no duality.:~Santthosh Kumaar

The one who identifies himself as a swami, guru, or yogi is not a Gnani.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a swami, guru, pundit, or yogi. Swami, guru, pundit, or yogi belongs to the religious and yogic path, not to the path of wisdom.

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If someone has acquired Self-knowledge and shares his acquired knowledge with others, they cannot say that there is nothing for them to do.

Everyone has to discover a fresh for himself by verifying all the facts. Each one has to grasp assimilate and realize it until he gets a firm conviction of the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Mind appears due to ignorance. Without ignorance, the mind ceases to exist.

The mind is present in the form of the universe and the universe appears as a waking or dream. The waking or dream is a state of duality.

Thus seeker has to hold wherever there is duality there is ignorance.

If duality is considered reality then the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is considered reality.

If the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is considered reality then the form, time and space is becomes a reality.

If form, time, and space is becomes reality as reality then there is diversity in unity.

To bring back unity in diversity, one has to put the ego in reverse gear until it reaches the ultimate end or source from where the mind rises and subsides.

Seeker has to grow from the inside out by soul-centric reasoning. None can teach him none can make him reach the ultimate end. There is no other guru but Soul, the Self.:~Santthosh Kumaar 

Until one thinks the mind is within the body, all the doubts and confusion will prevail.+

All your understanding and opinion 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 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, which is present in the form of 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 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 Self. When you are not the Self, you cannot relate the Self with your experience of birth, life, death, and the world. The Soul, the Self is birthless and deathless because it is unborn and eternal.

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Until one thinks the mind is within the body, all the doubts and confusion will prevail. When one indulges in deeper self-search he becomes aware of the fact that the body and the world are within the mind. It is necessary to realize that the body and the world together are the mind. (I).

Thus, it is necessary to investigate ‘What is this mind (I)?’, ‘What is the substance of the mind?” and ‘What is the source of the mind?’”

The seeker has to know what is real by realizing our body, ego and our experience of the world is merely an illusion created out of the Soul or consciousness.

The nature of the Self is emptiness. And it is identified by different masters with different names, such as Brahman, Buddha’s nature, Christ-consciousness, the Self, and ultimate truth.

When the Soul, the ‘Self’, becomes aware of its formless non-dual nature, it becomes empty of ignorance, illusion, duality, or experience of waking or dream. Thus, whatever remains empty of duality or ignorance or illusion is the non-dual reality. Only through wisdom one becomes aware of the truth in the midst of duality.

That is why Sage Sankara said: ~ “VC-63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the ‘Self’, how is one to achieve Liberation.

The universe will not remain as reality when wisdom dawns. The universe is a mere illusion created out of consciousness and there is conscious awareness of the unity in diversity because there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

One thinks the mind is within this body; whereas the body and his experience of the world are within the mind. Consciousness is hidden within the three states, but it is without the three states.

The one, which has the awareness of the three states, is not the body but the Soul which is in the form of consciousness. Thus, consciousness is not limited to waking experience alone because it pervades all three states.

Till one view and judge the world-view on the base of ego or waking entity, he is in the grip of individuality or intellectuality. The Self is not an individual because it is universal. And it pervades everything and everywhere in all three states. Thus, individualized judgment will not lead to one non-dual destination.

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.

66. Therefore, the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.

Thus, one has to know what is real by realizing our body and our experience of the world is merely an illusion created out of the Soul or consciousness. The Soul is the Self. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

It takes time for people to understand the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara. Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is the deepest ever.+

With Sage Sankara humanity enters into a mature age. All human beings have not yet entered into that, that’s true, but Sage Sankara has heralded the path; Sage Sankara has opened the doorless door to nonduality or Advaitic.

It takes time for people to understand the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara. Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is the deepest ever. Nobody has done the work that Sage Sankara has done, the way he has done it. Nobody else represents the pure fragrance of his Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

Sage Sankara does not care what people can understand, he cares only about what the truth is. Sage Sankara says it without being worried whether people understand it or not. In a way this looks hard; in another way, this is great compassion.

Sage Sankara is the profounder of Advaitic wisdom. Sage Sankara has propounded not only religion but Spirituality or Adyathma. And this is a great radical change in the history of human consciousness.

The main hurdle in his way of thinking is the fact that Sage Sankara did not claim to be an original thinker at all, and his philosophy took the form of commentaries on the generality of the scriptures, particularly the Upanishads and the Gita.

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 are religious orthodox.

It is that philosophy in India was for centuries more an exposition of the ancient classics than the independent thought of individual thinkers as in ancient Greece or modern Europe and America.

Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada are independent thinkers other schools of Indian philosophy are mere theologies. Advaitic wisdom is the only tool to unfold the mystery of the ‘I'. The dualistic philosophy cannot escape the charge of dogmatism.

Intelligence and thoughts are do not apply to Advaitism, intelligence and thought are based on a false self (waking entity) within the false experience (waking). The whole Advaitic philosophy is an attempt to transcend the limitations of intelligence and thought.

The two points of view A Gnani is not cut off from the experience of practical life within the practical world because Advaitic truth is neither realism nor idealism; it is beyond both these.

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.

Advaitic wisdom does not begin with the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed. Hence, so-called philosophers who take Brahman for granted are not philosophers at all.

Lots of Advaitin scholars will teach that all is yourself, but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none can prove it.

Rational proof is required so that one arrives at knowing the ultimate truth or Brahman i.e. Gnana.

Theirs is mere dogma, parrotism, and repetition of what they read in scripture. Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.

Sage Sankara endeavored towards establishing the Vedic religion overthrowing Buddhism. But even he was not able to avoid the influence of Buddhism. The influence of the revolutionary atmosphere of Buddhism has reappeared in the Advaita of Sage Sankara. His inability to revive the Vedic religion that flourished before the Buddhist revolution in its pure form is discernible.

Sage Sankara gave out what was of most use to the greatest number of people. Therefore, in the commentaries on the Upanishads, such as the famous Mandukya, he gave the highest non-dual message of the identity of Atman and Brahman, revitalizing the philosophy and practice of Advaita, while in the commentaries on the Brahmasūtra he gave lesser teaching, positing both higher and lower Maya and higher and lower Brahman (Ishvara) to explain creation for those of lesser intellects until they were ready for the highest truth.

Only through Self -knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana negation of duality is possible. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Consciousness is the cause of the origin, maintenance, and withdrawal of the universe is Advaita (i.e. non-dual), which means that consciousness transcends all conceptions, positive and negative. Nothing positive can ever be imagined or said about it. Consciousness is existence absolute, awareness absolute. The existence of absolute means that consciousness is not unreal or non-existent. And it is not unconsciousness. Nothing positive can be stated about consciousness.

The nature of the Soul, the ‘Self’ is the non-dualistic silence. Non-dualistic silence is like a deep sleep state. The silence indicates that the nature of the Soul, the ‘Self’ is inexplicable, indescribable, and unimaginable.:~Santthosh Kumaar

Physical awareness is not Self-awareness. Physical awareness is present in the form of 'I'.+

You, the world in which you exist belong to physical awareness. Physical awareness is not Self-awareness. Physical awareness is present in the form of 'I'. 'I' is present in the form of the universe. 'I'-awareness is illusory awareness.

Realize you, the universe in which you exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of single stuff is Self-knowledge.

When a firm conviction of Self-knowledge becomes firmer in the subconscious then Self-awareness arises on its own.

When the Soul, the Self remains in its awareness: ~

What is this body?

What is the ego?

What is this universe?

What is the 'I'?

What is duality?

What is existence, nonexistence, unity, or duality?

What needs us there to say more?

Noting from the Soul because whatever seems to emanate from it, is non-different from itself.

There is no second thing other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. One should not mistake the Self (Soul) for the ‘I’.

Those who assert the world is a reality, are still in the elementary stages of the preliminary analysis.

The universe is a reality within the waking experience, but the waking experience itself is the dualistic illusion or Maya. In the same way, the dream world was a reality within the dream experience. The dream became unreal when the waking took place. In the same way, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns.

Remember:~

Awareness is the non-dual nature of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness because there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, the Self.

Thus, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Self–awareness is not physical awareness. Physical awareness is present as the waking or dream experience. And physical awareness disappears as deep sleep, which is also the state of ignorance.

Self-awareness or Brahmic awareness arises when wisdom dawns. Wisdom dawns when Soul the 'Self' becomes aware of itself in the midst of the form, time, and space (duality or waking) by realizing the form, time, and space are one in essence.

How can you see God without knowing what God is in actuality? When the ‘Self is not you how can you find God within you?

God is not within you. Those who say God is within you just propagating half-baked knowledge.

First, realize the ‘Self is not within you. You are bound by the experience of birth, life, death, and the world whereas the ‘Self is birthless and deathless because it is an ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist and it, itself is uncaused.

Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. From the standpoint of the Soul, Self the world in which you exist is merely an illusion. Thus, the world in which exists hides the Soul, which is God in truth.

Till you think the Soul, the 'Self’ is within you, you will never be able to realize God. God is not limited to you but it pervades everything and everywhere in the world in which you exist. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar