Sage Sankara was an independent thinker. Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom has not been taken seriously by many in India because most of the followers of Sage Sankara are religious orthodox.
Sunday 13 October 2024
Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom has not been taken seriously because of people’s orthodox attitude.+
Atman, the Spirit is the universal God. All religious propagated Gods are based on blind belief Gods are not God in truth.+
The Soul, the Self is not Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist”, because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
In religion, there is no freedom to believe other than what it preaches. Religious people consider mythological stories as truth and not believing in mythological Gods is irreligious.
The mythological God can exist within the domain of duality. From the Advaitic perspective, duality is merely an illusion. Thus, whatever belongs to the illusion is bound to be a falsehood.
Religion says one must believe that there is no other God but God propagated by the particular belief system.
The seeker has to deny the existence of such God based on the belief because first, one must realize what God really is.
People find some of the religious doctrines very illuminating. People who renounce the world and become monk or sanyas leave it all behind to find the truth of their true existence.
People think the events that happened in the mythological stories really happened the way they are described and hallucinate about these stories.
Swami Vivekananda: ~The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these gods?
Swami Vivekananda: ~ If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them, we can get all the truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ The Self is indeed Brahman (God), but through ignorance, people identify it with intellect, mind, senses, passions, and the elements of earth, water, air, space, and fire. This is why the ‘Self’ is said to consist of this and that and appears to be everything.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘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, 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.
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 Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.
The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.
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)
Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.
Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship in place of the real God. Atman, the Spirit is a universal God. All religious propagated Gods based on blind belief are not God in truth.
Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth."
Chandogya Upanishad: ~ Sarvam khalvidam brahma ~ all this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality (The Soul, the Self is not Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist”, because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
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). 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 distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not a 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.
Sage Sankara: ~"That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman (God in truth)."
Thus, truth realization is Self-realization. Self-realization is God-realization because the Soul, the Self itself is God. God- realization itself is real worship. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
By converting people from one religion to another one will not be able to realize God in truth. God in truth is universal.+
By converting people from one religion to another one will not be able to realize God because God in truth does not belong to any religion. God is universal.
All the religious Gods are not God in truth. You must realize what God is supposed to be in truth in this very life.
What is the use of indulging in wars, violence, terrorism in the name of protecting religion, and the religious idea of God? God is not a Hindu or Christian. God is not a Jew, Muslim, or Buddhist.
All of those Gods in humans are imaginarily meant for the ignorant people, who are not capable of grasping the real God hidden by ignorance (I).
The Advaitic path is not for the religious-minded people. The Advaitic path is pure spirituality. The Advaitic path is to help the seeker to unfold the mystery of God.
From the perspective of the Spirit, which is God the world in which we exist is merely an illusion.
Thus, whatever happens within the illusion is bound to be an illusion created out of the Spirit. The Spirit the God alone is real and all else is an illusion.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.
Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.
The Bible says: ~ God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)
God is not physical. God is the Spirit. God is the Self. God is birthless and deathless because God is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
Birth, life, and death happen within the illusory world, which is created out of Christ, and is present in the form of the Spirit.
Jesus said:~ "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find it, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all." (Gospel of Thomas 2)
Jesus said: ~ ”Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. (The Gospel of Thomas- Saying 5)
The Soul is the Self, the Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the root element of the universe. From consciousness, the universe comes into existence. In consciousness, the universe resides. And into consciousness, the universe is dissolved. Consciousness is the parent of all that is there.
The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman Christ or God. Thus, everything is God nothing but God.
Gospel Thomas Logian 22:- Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, “These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.”
They said to him, “Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?”
Jesus said to them, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same so that the male not be male nor the female is female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom.”
Santthosh Kumaar: ~ When one realizes mind (matter) and Soul (spirit), the Self is one in essence then there is no place for the duality. Without duality, the universe ceases to exist as a reality. Without the universe, your existence within the universe is merely an illusion because there is scope for two because the universe itself is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness or Spirit. The Spirit or consciousness is the real God
Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “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 (Gita 14.27)
When Bhagavad Gita says, 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, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse)
Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita Bible confirm the Soul, the innermost Self, which is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness is God in truth.
It is for every seeker who is seeking truth must first know what God is supposed to be in actuality according to Vedas and Upanishads and reject all non-Vedic Gods to realize the Atman is real God. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
There is neither Shiva nor Shakti but only consciousness. Rig Veda says, Consciousness is God in truth.+
There is neither Shiva nor Shakti but only consciousness. Rig Veda says, Consciousness is God in truth. All Gods based on blind belief are not God in truth.
Santana Dharma has not retained its original form, but has been influenced by other religions that have undergone a sea change.+
The Hindus indulge in non-Vedic practices barred by the Vedas introduced by the different founders of the different sects of Hinduism at different times, whereas the Vedic Religion or Santana Dharma is ancient and has no founder.
To acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the seeker has to realize his inherited religion is adulterated in the past and it becomes a great obstacle is realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Saturday 12 October 2024
How can one recognize the true Gnani?+
R.K- Q: How can one recognize the true Gnani?
Nearly all orthodox hold views of Maya which are entirely incorrect and untenable.+
As one indulges in deeper self-search he becomes aware: - As per the religious archaeologists' view: the date of Sage Sankara may be taken most correctly as that of the 9th century.
Some claims are made in India that he lived two thousand years ago, but there is absolutely no proof for this claim. They do not go back further than the 12th century A.D. and all so-called evidence for Sage Sankara having lived two centuries before Christ is either conjectures or orthodox fabrication.
There is a need to bifurcate Advaitic wisdom from Advaitic ortodoxy to grasp the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.+
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