Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is like the air and the water, the common food to the whole of humanity.+

Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is like the air and the water, the common food to the whole of humanity.

Sage  Sankara has declared non-dualistic or Advaitic truth centuries back.

Sage  Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal. (Commentary on Vedanta Sutra)

Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification.

Sage Sankara is the only Sage who has final authority on the Advaitic truth (non-duality). The Advaitic truth is rational truth and scientific truth without dogma.

Advaitic wisdom has nothing to do with orthodox Advaita, which is dualistic. Orthodox Advaita is a sect, which blindly accepts and follows dogmas and superstitions.

The Advaitic orthodoxy is not the means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Advaitic orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant populace that is unfit to grasp the highest truth. The Advaitic orthodoxy has nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Upanishad says: ~ “The human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge Upanishads also indicate that belief in the personal Gods, yoga scriptures, worship, and rituals are not the means to Self –Knowledge, so why anyone should indulge in it.

The religion, concept of individualized god, and scriptures are a great obstacle to realizing non-dual truth or Self-realization because they are based on false Self. The seeker of truth has to search for the ultimate truth without losing himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, through deeper Self-search, and assimilate and realize it.

Sage Sankara’s wisdom is not a teaching or philosophy but Advaita is the universal wisdom. Advaitic wisdom is neither a teaching nor a theory but it is merely guidance to those who are seriously seeking the ultimate truth or Brahman. Grasp the ultimate truth anytime, at any age, if the seeker has the spiritual maturity and capacity to grasp it.

The seeker has to reach the destination with a scientific (rational) investigation, not through punditry or intellectuality. Until one mentally reaches a conclusion, the conviction will not arise. 

Without firm conviction, wisdom will not dawn. Therefore, there is a need to know consciousness is real all else is a myth, Sage  Sankara declared that the world is a myth Brahman (God in truth) alone is real.

Sage  Sankara is a rationalist philosopher, in contrast to the most traditional image of him as a theologian.

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is not a philosopher’s dish cooked to suit exclusively the palate of a particular sect or religion.

Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is like the air and the water, the common food to the whole of humanity.

If rightly interpreted Sage Sankara’s wisdom is food for all humanity, the universal wisdom par excellence.

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.

All accumulated knowledge is mental Garbage is no use in the quest for truth. The seeker has to discard all the accumulated knowledge and start afresh.

Perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ through deeper thinking and reasoning helps to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Reading and reflecting on my blogs and postings gradually, the seekers will start assimilating and realizing ‘what is the truth’ and what the untruth is. Repeated reading of my blogs and postings makes the seeker, Soulcentric, and the inner dialogue will start and clear all the doubts and confusion.

When there are no doubts and confusion, then they have realized the truth that form, time, and space are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness. 

There is no use in wasting time in questioning and arguing the same time and effort has to be used to make the seeker more independent and without external spoon-feeding he can reach the inner core, which is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

In the Atmic path discussion of the unimportant subject matter is a great hindrance. The path of truth is the path of verification. Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification. Agreeing to disagree causes unnecessary friction.

Sage Sankara says:~ VC-47-  All the effects of ignorance, roots, and branches are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the not-Self.

Advaitic wisdom is universal. Advaitic wisdom does not belong to a religion, but it is pure spirituality based on the Soul or the Spirit. Advaitic wisdom is not a philosophy, but a tool to unfold the truth hidden by ignorance. 

Advaitic wisdom is not the dualistic science but the mother of all Science. Advaitic wisdom is the science of Spirit, which exposes the truth hidden by form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom has nothing to with Advaitic orthodoxy but pure spirituality par excellence, wide and deep as the ocean which contains virtually all the water of the world and in which ignorance ultimately dissolves.

Advaitic Truth is very simple but it is very difficult to grasp because of ignorance. You have to only realize the world in which you exist is created out of a single clay. And that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.

Thus, you and your body and the world in which you exist are nothing but consciousness because they are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. A perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.

A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.  It is necessary to reflect on the same truth again and again till it becomes a reality. One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what. 

Words of wisdom 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.

Sage  Sankara in Bhaja Govindam says: ~ One without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows.

Who am ‘I’ is not Self-inquiry?  Self-inquiry is to realize the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ but the Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Inquire into what? The Soul you can never see. So do not inquire into the Soul. Inquire into the world around you, which you can see. So do not inquire into them. Inquire into the world around you, which you can see. Science tells you it is passing away every second. Everything is dying repeatedly. Where is it going? Thus you follow up your inquiry into what you can lay hands on. How can you inquire into Atma which you cannot see? So first we deal with the known and seen, this inquiry leads up to the unknown in the end.

Sage Sankara says:~ VC63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

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.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC- Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even Hundreds of pranayamas* can give us knowledge about the Self. The firm experience of the nature of the Self is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advice of the wise. (13)

Sage Sankara says you must first know what is before you. If you cannot know that, what else can you know or understand? If you give up the external world in your inquiry, you cannot get the whole truth.

Sage Sankara says: ~ V.63 ~ "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

The universe is verily consciousness. Without realizing ‘this truth is impossible to get Self-realization. The universe is not different from the Mind because the universe itself is the mind. 

The mind is not different from the Soul because the mind is the dualistic illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, the universe is nothing but consciousness. The universe is unreal because it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness.

It is impossible for any human being to challenge successfully the Advaitic position, as Sage  Sankara says.

Sage Sankara ~ VC~ "This entire universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

Sage Sankara: ~VC~ if the universe is true, let it then be perceived in the state of deep sleep also. As it is not at all perceived, it must be unreal and false like dreams.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC In the dream state, even though there is no contact with the outside world, the Soul alone projects the entire dream universe of enjoyer, enjoyment, etc. Similarly, the waking state is no different. All this world of pluralistic phenomena is an illusory projection.

Sage Sankara asks his opponents "How do you know there are separate individual Souls? Have you seen the Soul of a man? You can only say that you have seen different bodies. To say more is to misuse language. Therefore, I call you liars unless you give proof, which is impossible.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC "As layers of clouds generated by the sun's rays cover the sun and alone appear (in the sky), so egoism generated by the Self, covers the reality of the Self and appears by itself."

Sage Goudpada wrote his Manduka Karika to establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. He begins by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc., because that is the right way to discuss or teach. People must first know what they are talking about.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

The fortunate are the ones who do not lose themselves in the finding meaning of the words indicated in the scriptures.

Sage Sankara himself has warned us not to use ambiguous words and to practice semantic analysis in his book "Definition of one's own Self. (" Page 199, v.24 of "Sankara's Selected Works)

Sage  Sankara says Atman is Brahman and everything is Brahman is a scientific declaration not religious or yogic. Sage Sankara is more scientific than anyone else in the world. Since the real Advaitic essence is hidden it cannot be got without the inner (mental) journey.

Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but he tries to get the direct realization of truth hidden by ignorance.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar