Without consciousness, you, your experience of birth, life, death, and the world cease to exist.+

Anyone sharp can grasp Advaitic or non-dualistic truth. The seeker must have an intense urge to know the truth.

One need not have to be born in any particular caste or creed to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

One need not have a university degree to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, Only strong willpower is needed.

The ignorance will be gone eventually and you realize that the Soul, the 'Self' itself God. God is always the pure infinite without beginning, without end, and immortal.

You, your experience of birth, life, death, and the world have nothing to do with the Soul, the Self.

The Soul, the Self is unborn and eternal because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

You, your experience of birth, life, death, and the world are a reality within the dualistic illusion or Maya. Because You, your experience of birth, life, death, and the world are nothing but an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Remember:~

Without consciousness, you, your experience of birth, life, death, and the world cease to exist. Without you, your experience of birth, life, death, and the world the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the consciousness alone exists.

Consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world, in which you exist ceases to exist. Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness, because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Whatever you see, know, believe, and experience as a person within the world is bound to be an illusion created out of consciousness. Thus, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone, is real and eternal.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theatre, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

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Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the knowledge that unfolds the mystery of the universe. The universe is created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The ‘I’ is present only when the mind is present. 

Without the ‘I’ the mind ceases to exist.

The mind is present when the universe is present. 

Without a mind, the universe ceases to exist.

The universe is present only when the waking is present. 

Without the universe, the waking ceases to exist. So, without the ‘I’ the mind or universe or the waking ceases to exist.

From the standpoint of the Soul is the ‘Self’, the ‘I’ the mind or universe or the waking cease exists as a reality.

The Soul is the Self can remain with or without the ‘I’.

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Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is knowledge of Brahman or God, which is beyond form, time, and space. 

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana has nothing to do with religion sect or creed and religious belief. Adythma is pure spirituality. 

Knowledge of Atma is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Advaita is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the knowledge of the truth beyond form, time, and space. 

Bifurcate religion, yoga, and theoretical philosophies are based on matter, not Spirit. 

Whatever is based on the Atma it is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is based on the ultimate truth which is based on the Atma or Spirit, which is the Self.

Vedas are based on the Atma the supreme Spirit.  

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~  God is Supreme Spirit.

Vedas confirm the Atma (Soul), the Self, is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness and is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. 

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul or Spirit) is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5) 

The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul, the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. From the Spirit, the universe comes into existence. In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there is. 

In Yajurveda says: ~ 

Translation 1

They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc).

They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc.) (Yajurveda 40:9)

Translation 2

Deep into the shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent." (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Giffith pg 538)

Translation 3

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow and suffer terribly for a long time." (Yajur Veda 40:9.)

So, Yajur Veda indicates that: ~

 

Those who worship visible such as the earth, trees, and bodies (humans and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater ignorance. 

Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself. 

There is a clear-cut idea of God in the Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita. And also there is a clear-cut idea of what not to worship as God in place of real God.

The Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27). 

When Bhagavad Gita says, that God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than the consciousness. 

Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the Self in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God. 

That is why Sage Sankara said:~ Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

The religion of the Veda knows no idols, so why so many Gods and Goddesses with different forms and names are being propagated as Vedic Gods. Why these conceptual Gods are introduced when the Vedic concept of God is free from form and attributes.

As one peeps into the annals of Indian religious history, he finds that some saints in the past introduced the concept of God with attributes

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Yajur Veda says: -   Those who worship visible things, born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like), in place of God, are enveloped in still greater darkness. Therefore, all these adulterated add-ons prove that the form and attribute-based concepts are introduced by some sages of the past with a new belief system and code of conduct in the name of Vedas. 

Sruti is made the final or exclusive authority in apara Vidya and for supporting the tenet of the causal relation or creatorship of Brahman, Nirguna Brahman = the "Absolute beyond qualities," which can be defined only in a negative way.

For the Sankarian school = the Ultimate Reality, is higher than the Lord. i.e. of Saguna or apara Brahman ... The support of Scriptural Revelation is, therefore, absolutely necessary for this hypothesis of cosmology, this Saguna or apara (= inferior) Brahman, but not for the absolute truth of Nirguna Brahman. 

The Sruti itself’ says:~  "This Atma is NOT to be attained by a study of the Vedas.  (Katha Upanishad I, 2, 23.)   

        

Therefore, all the adulterated add-ons and attribute-based knowledge, which are inferior, have to be bifurcated and excluded to know the ultimate truth.  The seeker of truth has to drop all the inferior knowledge based on the attributes and go beyond the Vedas to understand assimilate and realize the ultimate truth or Brahman. 

One has to go beyond Vedas means going beyond the religion. Going beyond religion means, going beyond God based on blind belief.  Going beyond the Vedas, Religion and the belief in God is going beyond the illusion.   That is the end of the Vedas (Veda –antha). The realization of the ultimate truth is Adythma.   : ~ Santthosh Kumaar