In India, people think that religion as a stepping stone to a higher truth but it is not so because religion is based on the false Self (waking entity or ego) within the false experience (waking or world).
Religion is not spirituality. Spirituality is based on the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit.
One must go beyond form, time, and space. The theistic tradition has been kept alive by the orthodoxy.
The orthodoxy has nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. Thus, it is not the path of ultimate truth or Brahman.
People who stick to orthodoxy never will be able to cross the prison of duality. Without crossing the prison of duality, Self-awareness does not rise.
Thus, Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana is necessary to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the highest wisdom. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the Advaitic Gnana.
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to self-awareness. In self-awareness, there is no second other than the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Ish Upanishad says: ~ 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?
Advaitic Gnana here is knowledge uncontradictable truth or scientific truth. This scientific truth of the whole, not the part is declared by Sage Sankara, and Sage Goudpada 1200 years ago and thought only to those of higher intellect who are receptive.
Thus, karma and Upasana, yoga, and orthodoxy have to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Sage Sankara:~ VC "All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms are nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.
Consciousness which alone is real since there is nothing else but the world in which we exist is nothing but the dualistic illusion created out of consciousness.
There remains no second thing exists other than consciousness in reality because the dualistic illusion is created out of consciousness.
The battle is between scientific attitude and religious faith.
The scientific spirit requires that one has to accept nothing as the truth unless it can be verified by experiment. Scientific inquiry is to disprove the hypothesis not buttress it. Science rewrites its textbooks all the time.
In stark contrast, religious texts are sacred; they are untenable. Science holds a hypothesis untrue if it does not satisfy even one out of a hundred conditions. For faithful belief is sanctified even if comes true only once in a thousand times.
In the modern age, the proposition that science will replace faith has become an attractive one. Much that was a mystery earlier has now been rationalized through scientific discoveries. Inevitably many more mysteries of the present also will be explained in the years to come. But science has its limitations. For example, it can theorize how the universe began with a Big Bang, but not explain what agency caused it. Scientific theories also are fickle. Science propagates knowledge; it does not necessarily confirm the certainty. Scientific truth is dualistic wisdom based on the dualistic perspective whereas the truth of the whole is the Advaitic wisdom based on the nondualistic perspective.
Sages of truth restrained themselves parting the Advaitic Gnana to only a selected few. Advaitic Gnana itself is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Advaitic Gnana was hidden from the people who were not qualified and receptive to it.
That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ “A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya, can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by subtle arguments.
The Atmic path is not for religious and yogic-minded people. Religious and yogic people must move on to their chosen path. The Atmic path is for only seekers of truth who are seriously searching for the truth of their own existence.
Advaitic Gnana itself is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Advaitic Gnana was not written down but was imparted orally to the chosen few. Thus, religion was given to the masses, and knowledge of the Spirit was given to only a selected few.
Thus we find traces of knowledge of the Spirit in the religious books in the form of parables.
The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is soulcentric knowledge. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is soulcentric knowledge that destroys ignorance.
Tripura Rahasya: ~ Second-hand knowledge of the Self-gathered from books or Gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning the mind inward. (18: 89)
Sage Sankara:~ VC- v6~ Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity with the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together.
The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is pure spirituality. Advaitic wisdom has nothing to do with religion yoga and philosophies.
All Advaitic teachings of the Gurus of the east and west are not Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.
Advaita is universal. Advaita is not for sale. Do not buy Advaita from the spiritual supermarket. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self.
The world in which you exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom.
Advaitic truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to realize because you have accumulated mental garbage from different sources in the name of Advaita.
Until you discard all the accumulated knowledge you will never be able to realize the Advaitic truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.
The Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self shines in its own awareness when wisdom dawns.
The Advaita is the Soul is the cause and the support of all that exists as the world in which we exist. Advaita is the nature of God, the Self.
The Advaita is present in the form of consciousness. Advaita is the root element of the universe.
From the Advaita, the universe comes into existence. In the Advaita, the universe resides. And into the Advaita, the universe is dissolved. The Advaita is the parent of all that is there.
All your accumulated knowledge from different Gurus and teaching has nothing to do with Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
All your accumulated knowledge is not of any use in realizing the ‘Self’, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.
If you want to realize the ‘Self’ then you have to drop all accumulated knowledge and start afresh. Do not hold your accumulated knowledge as a yardstick.
Mundaka Upanishads: ~ ‘So-called spiritual pundits and learned are called children because a child takes whatever it thinks as truth. The question never occurs to children “Is what I have seen or thought really the truth?" (P.334 line 9)
Remember:~
Advaitic Gnana cannot be transmitted neither from outside nor from another person. Guru of everyone is only the Soul, the Self that is always revealing on its own.
The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is the nature of the Soul. It is the Soul, the Self is unceasingly revealing its existence. This revelation is always going on naturally in every serious seeker."
Advaitic Gnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realized by the seeker on his own.
The Gnana Guru of everyone is only the Soul the ‘Self’ that is always revealing its own is the seeker is receptive and serious in quest of truth.:~Santthosh Kumaar
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