Gnanis ignored religion, rituals, and yoga and went in search of the truth and realized it.+

Gnanis ignored religion, rituals, and yoga and went in search of the truth and realized it. 

A Gnani cannot have the idea of renouncing the world or giving up something of the practical world because that would connote the idea of duality.

Duality is merely an illusion from the ultimate standpoint. Knowing no second thing at all there remains nothing to be given up.

Sage Sankara says: ~ 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 seeker of truth has to accept the truth as God and reject the untruth to realize other than the Atman the real God alone is real and all else is an illusion created of the Atman the only God. 

To know God what is supposed to be in truth Advaitic wisdom is very much necessary. The secret of God is hidden by the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya. 

God is one, which is the cause of the universe. The whole universe is created out of the Spirit, which is God in truth. There is no duality is the nature of God in truth, which is the Spirit.  

Oneness is the nature of the Spirit, the God in truth.  The universe is an illusion false when you realize God in truth.

When you realize God in truth then the illusory nature of the universe is exposed. Like an ornament made from gold is Gold, that which is born out of Spirit is Spirit. Like gold is a permanent thing, in ornaments made of gold, similarly, the universe is born out of Spirit, which is Spirit in its essence.  

The Spirit is the ultimate truth or God in truth. God in truth neither comes nor goes, but God exists always.  The universe, which appears as disappears is merely an illusion. 

Thus, all the form-based Gods are merely an illusion. God in truth is the cause of the universe, and God in truth is causeless. 

Why worship God based on the illusory form, time, and space, Self-realization is God-realization, and God-realization itself is the real worship. 

Brahman or God in truth.

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman 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 the description implies a 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

The God you see and meet and in your vision is not God in truth but a hallucination. 

How can you see and meet God without knowing what God is in actuality? Praying and meditating on God without knowing what God really is, leads to hallucination. 

The world in which you exist hides God. Thus, Self-realization is necessary to realize ‘what God is in actuality.

The Soul is the  Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.  The ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. 

Realize that to be Brahman which is Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss Absolute, which is non-dual and infinite, eternal and One, and which fills all that exists.

After the realization of Advaitic truth, the attainment of which leaves nothing more to be attained, the pure blessedness, and the Knowledge after which nothing needs to be known. When seen, there is nothing more to be seen. Having become after which one is not born again in the world of becoming. 

Consciousness permeates everything and everywhere in all three states. The consciousness illumines the whole universe including the Sun, Moon, and the whole galaxy. 

Consciousness pervades the entire Universe outwardly and shines of itself, as the fire that permeates a red-hot iron ball both inwardly and outwardly shines of itself. There exists nothing that is not consciousness. 

People perform all their actions in and through consciousness, but they are ignorant of the Soul, the  ‘Self’ not being consciousness is a mere illusion. From the illusion springs, separation wherein the experience of birth, life, death, and the world have roots. 

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ ‘The universe rises from you like bubbles from the sea. Thus, know the Self to be One and in this way enter into the state of dissolution." 

For the Gnani who realizes everything as the consciousness, what is there to meditate or not to meditate, what to speak or not to speak, what to do or not to do? 

Those who give up the highest and purest Brahmic consciousness live in vain and though human, are like beasts. Having turned the visible into the invisible, one should realize everything to be consciousness itself. 

A Gnani always dwells in nondual awareness. The ever-existent Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness shining within the three states, can be realized only through Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana or Advaitic wisdom. 

The Self indeed is this Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, not the phenomenal universe which is present in the form of the mind. :~Santthosh Kumaar