Manduka Upanishads: - Those who want Brahman will not practice control of the mind. That is Yoga for duffers.+

Manduka Upanishads: - Those who want Brahman will not practice control of the mind. That is Yoga for duffers.

Yogis say they control the Mind. They think the mind is an organ within the body. Thus, yoga is limited to form, time, and space, whereas the truth is beyond form, time, and space.

It is high time for them to realize the mind is not within the body, but their body and the world are within the mind (Maya).

Without knowing what is this mind, it is impossible to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The ‘I’ is present only when the mind is present. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as the waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality). The one that becomes dual and nondual is consciousness. Thus, all three states are nothing but consciousness.

Consciousness alone is real and all the three states are merely an illusion. When the conviction about the consciousness becomes firm, then it leads to Advaitic awareness in the midst of the duality.

Thus, it is necessary to have a perfect understanding of ‘what is ‘what’ to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.:~Santthosh Kumaar  

Advaita has nothing to do with the emotions and sentiments of the populace.+

The Atmic path is a rare journey to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

If there is no form, then there is no time and space.

The populace has no interest in the Atmic oath. All the saints, all the Gurus all the religious heads, all the Godmen, none of them has any interest because, with the Advaitic wisdom, they cannot go on playing their dualistic games.

All the Gurus and Saints' interest was to inspire the populace. They wanted the whole country to get involved in religion and the mythology was helpful.

Advaita has nothing to do with the emotions and sentiments of the populace.

The Gurus are not interested, the politicians are not interested, and the yogis have nothing to do with the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space because they cannot impose anything. There is no room for the duality in Advaitic reality.  

The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is crystal clear. You won't be able to add even a small bit of your own interpretation to it.

The ultimate truth cannot be found in the book. Only one can indicate the Advaitic truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

There is no way to distort or twist the ultimate truth and also there is no chance to add anything. Sage Sankara has given such an expression that no one has been able to add or take anything from the Advaitic truth, even though centuries have passed.

It is not easy to give such a perfect expression. Such skill with words to indicate the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space, is very difficult to come by.:~Santthosh Kumaar

Real Satsanga.+

Real Satsanga

What is the use of hearing the sermons in the name of the Satsanga of mythical Gods as real Gods, when the real God is Atman? Satsanga has to be based on the truth, not on the myth. Attachment to non-Vedic Gods is an attachment to the myth.

Real Satsanga is realizing the truth, the truth of truth our existence. Satsanga is not hearing the mythological stories of mythical Gods. The mythical Gods were introduced in the past to the ignorant populace. From the Vedic perspective, they have no value. Veda bars worshipping of such non-Vedic Gods.

Those who want Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana have to stick to the truth and discard all that is untruth.

All the mythical Gods are non-Vedic Gods. God in truth is Athma the Vedic God. The Vedic God is Advaita the one without the second.

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

Even The Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

When Bhagavad Gita says, that God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.

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

Even 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)

SageSankara declaration: ~ “Atman is Brahman. ~ The Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God is the Vedic truth, the rational truth, the scientific truth, and the ultimate truth.

The World is Unreal everything is Truly Brahman (consciousness) and nothing else has any value.

Thus, the Advaitic orthodoxy has nothing to do with the Advaitic truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Lecture consisting of a shower of ornamental words, the skill in expounding the accumulated bookish knowledge, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar, but it is not Gnana or the Advaitic wisdom.

The accumulated scriptural and bookish knowledge is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known. Hence, men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the ‘Self’.

To get rid of ignorance, the only remedy is the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. There is no need to study the scriptures to get rid of ignorance. The scriptures themselves declare this valuable truth.

Without direct realization, one cannot be liberated from experiencing duality as a reality. :~Santthosh Kumaar

There is no need to search for the truth. Sage Sankara already declared ‘what is truth and what is untruth 1200 years back.+

Mentally discriminate between the real and unreal.

Remember this:~

You are born, live, and die in this world in which you exist. Your individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is the dualistic illusion or Maya because the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Mentally hold on to the Soul and drop the dualistic illusion or Maya by realizing the dualistic illusion is nothing but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

When your conviction about the Soul becomes firm you will realize the world in which you exist is nothing but consciousness.

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

People need to read and hear the words of wisdom to think reason reflect deeply and reach the ultimate end.

There is no need to search for the truth. Sage Sankara already declared ‘what is truth and what is untruth 1200 years back.

Sage Sankara said ~ “Atman is Brahman ~ “That is the Soul is the ultimate reality.

Sage Sankara said ~ “The world is an illusion ~ that is the world in which you exist is an illusion.

Mentally hold on to the real and discard the unreal by realizing the world in which you exist is nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the ultimate reality. Whatever existed as an illusion is nothing but consciousness.

Remember this, the ‘‘Self’’ is not you but the ‘‘Self’’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

If the ‘Self’ is not you then the world in which you exist has nothing to do with the ‘Self’. The world in which you exist is a reality till you hold the ‘‘Self’’ as the ‘I’.

From the standpoint of the Soul, the ‘Self’, the world in which you exist is an illusion.

You have to mentally discard the ‘I’, which is an illusion.

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

To get Advaitic Gnana: ~

The seeker must First: Realize the truth ~ that the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness is the only reality and the world in which he exists is an illusion.

Second: Soulcentric reasoning upon from all points of view.

Third: giving up all further argumentation based on the ‘I’ and realizing the truth, which is hidden by the ‘I’.

This realization comes from being certain that the Soul alone is real and the ‘I’ is unreal.

Stick to the truth.

If one wants to acquire Atma Gnana or Brahma Gnana or Self’- Knowledge or knowledge of consciousness, one has to drop all ritualistic and orthodox baggage to move forward in their pursuit of truth.

We have to grow from the inside out. None can teach us, and none can make us spiritual. There is no other guru but our own Soul.”

Self-knowledge or Atma Gnana or Brahma Gnana cannot be attained by one who is without strength or earnestness or without the receptiveness and courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth.

If a serious seeker strives sincerely by means of inquiry, analysis, and Soul-centric reasoning, he will be able to realize it.

It is only the seeker's sincerity and earnestness in his spiritual pursuit, that the knowledge starts revealing on its own. Anyone who has humility and patience and is sincere and ready to drop their accumulated dross and receptive to accept the truth will enter non-dual Self-Awareness when his conviction becomes firm. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The Advaitic orthodoxy is based on a personal God whereas Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God in truth) is impersonal+

The Advaitic orthodoxy is based on a personal God whereas Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God in truth) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). God in truth is above all needs and desires. God in truth is always the Witnessing Subject. God can never become an object as God in truth is beyond the reach of the senses. God in truth in truth is non-dual, one without a second. God in truth has no other besides it. God in truth is destitute of difference, either external or internal. God in truth cannot be described because description implies a distinction. God in truth cannot be distinguished from any other than God in truth. In God in truth, there is no distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constituted the very essence or Swaroopa of God in truth, and not just God's attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

Advaitic orthodoxy accepts the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality, whereas Sage Sankara declares the world is unreal Brahman alone is real.

Thus, the experience of birth, life, and death happening within the unreal world is bound to be a falsehood. 

Thus, the religion and religious belief and its ritual based on the birth entity are bound to be a falsehood. Thus, the seeker has to realize ‘what is that is real and eternal?

Sage Sankara: ~ ‘Reality can be realized only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar. What the moon is like must be seen with one's own eyes. How can others do it for you?"~Vivekachoodamani

Advaitic Orthodoxy misinterpreted Sage Sankara and presented only the religious side of his teaching as the highest doctrine. Thus, people are misled.  

The orthodoxy is based on rituals mythical Gods and Karma. Advaitic wisdom of Sage  Sankara has nothing to do with Advaitic orthodoxy.

Let Advaitic wisdom annihilate ignorance (I) and reveal Soul, the Self the God in truth.  Let your ears become deaf to the untruth propagated by the religion as a reality; enable you to realize the truth hidden by the ignorance (I).  Let your eyes become blind to the illusion of receiving the Soul as the Self as it is in the midst of the dualistic illusion. 

All the orthodox ideas were rejected by Sage Sankara. There is no need to indulge in rituals, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman. There is no need to study philosophy, to realize the ultimate truth, or Brahman then why indulge in studying philosophy.

Sage Sankara pokes fun at ascetics and points out that all their austerities do not cause desires to go (Altar Flowers" Page 205, v.2 P.207 v.4)

Sage Sankara pointed out that those rituals could in no way bring about wisdom, much less moksha.

Sage Sankara says the rewards of the rituals were not a matter of direct realization. The Advaitic wisdom is based on personal realization.

The orthodox Advaitin believes that rituals alone would lead one to higher levels of attainment. Further, the deities would reward only those entitled to perform the rituals alone. The entitlement involved caste, creed, and other parameters.

The scriptural authority and value of rituals are part of the Advaitic orthodoxy, which is meant for ignorant people.

The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara has nothing to do with religion, caste, rituals, worship, yoga, and other practices. Therefore, an obvious disparity between Sage Sankara‘s path of Gnana and the path of Karma. 

The path of Gnana is meant for the advanced seeker of truth and the path of Karma is meant for the ignorant populace.

Even Sage Sankara appears and tells the orthodox people the path of orthodoxy is the path of ignorance they will not be able to drop their inherited samskara or conditioning, which they think is the only way to reach heaven and reap a happy life in the next life. 

As regards the rituals, Sage Sankara says, that 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, and 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 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.-  (11- Adhyasa Bhashya)

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (10) - Ignorant fools, regarding sacrifices and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know any higher good. Having enjoyed their reward on the heights of heaven, gained by good works, they still remain in ignorance of the Atman the real God. 

As a person, one performs rituals throughout his life.  The person who performs rituals and aspires for rewards will view the world in which he exists as a reality. However, the Soul, the Self unborn eternal hidden by the world in which he exists.  From the standpoint of the Soul, the world in which he exists is merely an illusion.  The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are therefore addressed to an ignorant person.  

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (9) - Children, immersed in ignorance in various ways, flatter themselves, saying: We have accomplished life's purpose. Because these performers of karma do not know the Truth owing to their attachment, they fall from heaven, misery-stricken, when the fruit of their work is exhausted.

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (8) - Fools, dwelling in darkness, but wise in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind men led by the blind.

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

The religious orthodox people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge 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 Soul is unborn eternal, because, it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.:~Santthosh Kumaar

Chandogya Upanishad: ~”ekam evaditiyam- God is only one without a second. +

You will find your own way when you realize that the ‘Self’ is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Unless you find it on your own, you will not be able to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Without a perfect understanding of ‘what is what?’ it will take the seeker nowhere.

Chandogya Upanishad: ~”ekam evaditiyam- God is only one without a second. (6- Section- 2- Verse- 1)

Swethaswethara Upanishad:~ “Na casya kasuj janita na cadhipah, which means of him of Almighty God, there are no parents they have got no lord. Almighty God has no true father, he has no true mother, he has no true superior. (Chapter-6- Verse -9)

Swethaswethara Upanishad: ~ “Na Tasya Pratima Asti- of that God there is no Pratima, there is no likeness, there is no image, there is no picture, there is no photograph, there is no sculpture, there is no statue. (Chapter -4- Verse- 19)

Swethaswethara Upanishad:~ “No one can see the Almighty God (Chapter -4, Verse -20)

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit.

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

There is a clear-cut idea of God in the Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita. And also there is a clear-cut idea of what not to worship as God in place of real God.

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

Vedas and Upanishads confirm the Soul, the Self, is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul or Spirit) 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)

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

When Bhagavad Gita says, that God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.

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

Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the Self in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost ‘Self’. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

Thus, by sticking up to the Gods, which are not God in truth, you are sticking up to the illusion.

Sticking up to illusion means sticking up to ignorance. sticking up to ignorance means you are not qualified to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

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

Only through deeper self-search do beginners and intermediates gradually become aware of ‘what is what’.

Only after they have realized that the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, they are ready for the inner journey towards reality, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Upanishad:~ 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)

If you are seeking truth you have to know the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. :: ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material.+

Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the Self in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

When Bhagavad Gita says, that God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.

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

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit.

If God is the formless spirit, then how does man know God created the world? There is no proof. If man had seen God creating the world, he could admit it, but how could he have seen God before he came into existence? (i.e. were created).

The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.

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 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.

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

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

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

People who are saying ‘I Am GOD’ are hallucinating that they become God. First, you must know what is God.

Thus, truth realization is self-realization. Self-realization is God-realization. God- realization is real worship. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar