Some people think they have read Ashtavakra Gita and mastered the knowledge but Ashtavakra Gita was misinterpreted based on the dualistic perspective.+

Ashtavakra: ~ “My child you may speak upon various scriptures or hear the sermons on the scriptures. But you cannot establish the ‘Self’ unless you forget all. 16-1 – p49 

Ashtavakra:~There is no wisdom whatsoever in the scriptures-just a collection of words.

Sage Sankara says:~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book-knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

Some people think they have read the Ashtavakra Gita and mastered the knowledge. Ashtavakra Gita was misinterpreted based on the dualistic perspective and also on the Orthodox perspective by many people and published in the past.

Interpretations of sacred texts, the force of scriptural mastery merit--none of these lead to the realization of the Self hidden by ignorance.

Ashtavakra or any other book is not final because it has been misinterpreted by different authors based on their egocentric outlook. The Soulcentric knowledge cannot be grasped on the dualistic understanding.

Nothing must be accepted as truth without verification. What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal.

The study of the Upanishad was neither indispensable nor a prerequisite for attaining the human goal, the moksha.

All that one was required to do was to get rid of ignorance. There is no need to read book after book. You need to realize only the world in which you exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of that single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana itself is Advaitic Gnana.

No books can do more than help us to find it, and even without them, we can get all the truth if we search for the truth that is hidden by the world in which we exist. You have a love for books without bondage to them, and read the books, but do not believe blindly because it is well written with the ornamental world, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out on your own to find the truth, which is hidden by form, time, and space. Think the Soul is your inner Guru - that Soul is an eternal help.

There is no need to read books to realize the truth which is beyond the form, time, and space.

Like a servant who carries a lamp in front of you to find your way, and you have found it, so becomes the spiritual books to that person who has realized the Truth. why should the seeker depend upon any book further?

Actual realization takes you beyond books. At a certain stage, books become a botheration.

All the books written on Advaita by Eastern and Western authors are based on the dualistic perspective and orthodox point of view. Thus, they do not have the Soulcentric vision of the truth.

Advaita is the nature of the Soul. There are so many books by many authors, but none will help the seeker to reach the ultimate understanding.

The wisdom is not found in scriptures or books. There are only hidden parables here and there. There is no clear-cut wisdom whatsoever in the scriptures or philosophy. Mere words ~ are just a collection of words.

The wisdom is hidden within the world in which we exist. The truth is not found in the world because the world is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. 

The Truth is hidden within the form, time, and space, but it is beyond the form, time, and space.

Sages of truth restrained themselves parting the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to the mass and only a selected few. It was hidden from the people who were not qualified and receptive to it.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma 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 few. 

Thus, we find traces of the knowledge of the spirit in the religious books in the form of parables.

Remember:~

Swami Vivekananda:~ Vedanta does not believe in the book. It denies the authority of any book over any other book. It denies emphatically any one book contains all the truths about God, the Soul, and the ultimate reality.

Those of you who have read Upanishads remember that again and again, “Not by reading books can we realize the Self.”

Second, it finds veneration for some particular person still more difficult to uphold. Those of you who are a student of Vedanta – Vedanta is always meant Upanishads- know that this is the only religion that does not cling to any person.

Not one man or woman has become an object of worship among the Vedantins. 

You see how very little room there is Vedanta for any man to stand ahead of us and for us to worship him. Vedanta does not give you that. No book, no man to worship nothing.  

A still greater difficulty is about God. if you want to be democratic in this country.   It is a democratic God that Vedanta teaches.  ~ (Is Vedanta in future religion? BY Swami Vivekananda –lecture – San Francisco on April 8, 1900)

Remember 

By reading my posts & blogs often propels the reader into the thinking process. By reading the repetition of the words on this subject the inner whirling in the subconscious takes place which replaces the old thoughts based on the ego by accepting the Soulcentric truth.

Perfect understanding removes all sorts of obstacles in pursuit of truth. Only through constant repetition of words in my posts will make one think differently but it also creates more doubts and confusion in his subconscious and his inner urge to know the truth even more intense. And it also helps to overcome some of our conditioning, which we have inherited from parental grooming and circumstances. 

Repetition of reading the words of wisdom assists a seeker to help to focus his attention from the form (world) to the formless (Soul or consciousness), which is very much necessary in the pursuit of truth.  

Repetition is an effective tool and has an effect on the subconscious mind, which is not receptive to receiving new truths because it is conditioned to receive only a logical conclusion based on ego. 

It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is the truth’ and ‘’what is untruth’. It takes time for the Soul, the  Self to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. 

The nature of the Soul, the Spirit is like a state of sleep. But the sleep is unconsciousness of the objects whereas Self-awareness is a conscious awareness of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness in the midst of the object. 

Reason, in respect of the ultimate reality, is like the impossible conception of a sleeping man trying to know what he is about, without waking up. As sleep is to waking, so is ordinary life to the state of realization. 

The seeker should be aware of everything untrue: stick to the truth and he shall succeed, maybe slowly, but surely. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar