Advaitic wisdom is not found in scriptures or books. There are only hidden parables here and there.+

Advaitic wisdom is not found in scriptures or books. There are only hidden parables here and there. There is no clear-cut wisdom whatsoever in this. 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 beyond form, time, and space.

Mundaka Upanishad:~ The study of the Vedas, linguistics, Rituals, astronomy, and all the arts Can be called lower knowledge. The higher is that which leads to Self-realization. The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless 'Self' has neither caste nor race, neither eyes nor ears nor hands nor feet. Sages say this Self is infinite in the great and in the small, everlasting and changeless, the source of life.

All these selected quotes from the scriptures are helpful to think deeply nothing more.  In pursuit of truth, the ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed. Pundits who take scriptures for granted are not Gnanis.

Pundits 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 needed so that one arrives at knowing truth i.e. wisdom; punditry is mere dogma, parrotism, and repetition of what they read in scripture. Scriptures are not yardstick and the scriptural truth is not proof. 

Pundits take scripters as an authority. Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.

Pundits have to test the truth in this world, not in the next world. There is no proof other than blind belief based on the scriptures, belief is not the truth. So, doctrines are not the means to realize the truth. There is no need to follow them to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana.

Doubts and confusion arise when the seeker finds the scripters and yoga are inadequate or useless to quench his spiritual thirst. 

Disappointments in religion, yoga, or even science imply error or ignorance. Seeker reaches a stage whether he is right?" Where is the certainty that he is proceeding on the right lines?" 

Thus, the doubts arise and the inquiring spirit comes and impels to search elsewhere for truth where it will not be possible even to have doubt. The test is, therefore, in the experience. And only in non-duality, where there are no two to argue about views or to have differences of opinion can such doubtlessness be possible. Belief depends upon unstable bases whereas certainty depends on the proof.

The seeker of truth has to get rid of his doubts through deeper self-search on his own, to realize that the 'Self' is not the form but the ' Self' is formless. 

Thus, his analysis and reasoning have to be based on the formless (Soul), not on the form(ego). Simply believing and accepting whatever the pundit says will not lead one towards the path of wisdom. All the doubt has to be got rid of "by the sword of Self-knowledge." According to the scriptures, yoga is not necessary if one follows the inner (formless) path. Religion and yoga are not the means to the path of wisdom. :

One has to go beyond the Vedas, which means going beyond the religion.

Going beyond religion means, going beyond the religious Gods based on blind faith.  

Going beyond the Vedas, religion and the conceptual God means going beyond the illusion.

Going beyond the illusion means going beyond the ignorance.

Going beyond ignorance means going beyond the 'I'. ~That is the end of Vedas (Veda –antha).

When one goes into the annals of the history it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada was hidden from the populace. The seeker has to discover the ultimate truth on his own.

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.

The seeker must do his homework, and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what others expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is obtained.

The seeker must have the courage of Bhagavan Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Since Buddha rejected religion, the idea of God, and the scriptures, therefore, it is evident that he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.

Even Buddhism is mixed up with regional culture and traditions of the local religion, wherever it existed. Thus to get the full essence of Buddhism is difficult.

The scriptures are for ignorant masses, who wholly accept the material world as it presents itself. Wisdom is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar