Sunday, August 12, 2012

The one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.



Religionists have written big volumes about the soul. Yet they are quite ignorant of the fact that the ‘I’ about which they write itself come and go and have no permanent existence, is only an idea or notion after all.

The earliest ancient sages used the word ‘I’ to the witness of the three states not to the ego as moderns use it and think the ‘I’ without the body is the self. The seeker has to understand the fact that the fact that ‘I’ is not the self but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true self, which is eternal. 

People think that the ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ is something different from the mind. They believe that the mind is really two. This is the confusion among religionists and intellectuals. If ‘Soul’ has any meaning, if ‘spirit’ has any meaning, so long as one thinks of them, they are merely ideas. Soul or Atman is the highest. The soul is present in the form of consciousness.  Consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman because the whole universe is created out of consciousness.

The individual is a bundle of memories, desires within the waking or dream. The memories and desires are part of the duality. Therefore the individual self is entirely part and parcel of the mirage. Peoples' ideas of that they will go to some world after death, some astral plane or religious heavens will disappear as nonsense with the disappearance of belief in the reality of the ‘I’.  

When the ultimate truth is rightly known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.


 Not by intellectual   speculation but only by an awakening to the reality of his true existence he gets soul-centric vision. Soul, the innermost self’s nature is like state of deep sleep.


The soul, the innermost  self  is that which knows the coming and going of the  three states the soul,which is present in the form of consciousness  alone remains after it gets rid of all three states  by identification with itself. Soul or consciousness  is only the witness. The  mind  becomes consciousness  only after the soul-centric reasoning. 


Waking or dream contains the Feelings, passions, mental pictures, thoughts, idea or notions, seeker of truth has to consider the whole waking or dream as matter.  And matter as an object There must be a perceiver, which knows that all these are illusions. All three states  rest on a substratum--the formless soul or consciousness. 

Imaginations are  part of the waking  or  dream. Even if  one  says he do not exist he is thinking, and the mind is revealing itself.

That which becomes conscious of all the things contained in consciousness, is the seer, the the soul , the Knower. The soul has never seen  itself , for it  is never an object. Hence, logic, inference, cannot be applied to it , because intellect, logic is for objective world which exists within the  waking experience only, the state where one infers effects from causes.

The greatest mistake is to think of the object  as self, to confuse the object with the subject. There is no proof that the seer/soul  is confined to it, it is universal.

If the knower also had been changing along with the changes, how could he ever have known of the changes? It is only that which is known which is changing, otherwise it could not have been known. Those who say the formless soul, the innermost self   is also changing are uttering words without meaning.

How could one know whether anything is changing unless there were something which itself did not change and could thus note the changes?  One  knows of no changes in the soul or consciousness; he knows only the changes in what is perceived by the the soul or consciousness .

When one realizes  formless ,non dual true nature of the soul, he  knows the real can never change, hence never die. Death is only in the region of the "seen." That of which it is aware and which is nearer to it is the seer or the soul. Yet no statement can be made about it. All words will concern to the  three states-- never the seer or soul.

Without the individual self or ego  one could never think. Through such thinking, he is able to prove the existence of Ataman, the individual  and his experience of the world is finally identical with the the soul . If the unchanging had also been changing, then the fact of change would never be perceptible to one. The Seer/soul never alters and is thus the true witness.

The seer or soul  immortal  because it sees a change. Change  is always in the three states . One never sees changes  in seer because he  never sees  the seer or soul. Hence, one cannot ascribe mortality to Seer as he can to three states.


Consciousness is the substance and the witness of the duality.  The duality is present in the form of mind. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream and diapers as deep sleep. The one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  When the soul becomes aware of its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of duality it is called self –awareness. It is foolish to limit the consciousness only to duality because the consciousness pervades all the three states 

Gnani only remains silent about it. Everything of which  the seer or the  soul   is aware is an illusion. As the ego is something of which one is aware under certain conditions, it too is an illusion. Whatever one  says about Ataman as person , it is only an idea within the illusion.

Reason when applied to Three state one can grasp  the formless witness; but he  can never grasp the Formless Witness without the three states. Reason can tell it the Formless Witness is there, but he cannot grasp it. This is the limit of reason.

The formless witness or soul  is always there; it cannot be known, or understood because knowing implies a second thing. However, in all acts of knowledge, the Formless Witness is there when one  is thinking; he  is therefore seeking Ataman. Hence, the soul is known only in illusion-lessness.

It is impossible to be free from the soul or consciousness, for it is impossible for any states  arise without it. This is the distinctive feature of the path of wisdom.  The seeker  must analyze himself and see that whenever there is three states , there must be the seer, which is aware of it. When one observes this, he  knows the soul. Hence the Subject/Object Analysis is so fundamental and so difficult.

People wrongly think that the ego or waking entity is the Witness, even though the ego vanishing every minute



We have to grow from the inside out. None can teach us, none can make us spiritual. There is no other guru but our own soul.”

Self-knowledge or Atma Gnana or Brahma Gnana cannot be attained by one who is without strength or earnestness or without the receptiveness and courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth. If a serious seeker strives sincerely by means of inquiry, analysis and soul-centric reasoning, he will be able to realize it.
It is only seekers sincerity and earnestness in his spiritual pursuit, the knowledge started reveling on its own.  Anyone who has humility and patience and is sincere and ready to drop their accumulated dross and receptive to accept the truth will enter non-dual Self-Awareness when his conviction becomes firm. 


People  wrongly think that the ego or waking entity  is the Witness, even though the ego vanishing every minute.  When one  inquires deeply enough the personal self disappears it find there are no separate individuals at all, there is no variety of beings, all are really the undivided Ataman.

Birth, life and death , can only be applied to the three states. That to which such words cannot be applied is the formless witness of the three states. It is the only thing known that does not vanish. For this reason, it is called  “the unborn.” The three states  that are seen/ known, is only to the true  self, the Seer, therefore all things are unborn, uncreated.  

The seeker must  observe the nature of the three states  by  thinking  deeply through inquiry, analysis and reasoning , and he will  find that the Seer, the knower is not the ‘I’ but the soul, which  unborn.

That which blocks the way of acceptance of non dual  truth even on the part of great thinkers is the ego. If Modern thinkers will only give up the  viewing and judging and concluding on the base of ego they can  the truth, but the reason why ego prevents such understanding is that it causes a person to be strongly attached in the belief that soul/self  is the support of the individual.

Which is the true ego?  The ego is  always changing. As a youth, one  had a different idea of what he  has in the middle age. The ego then was not the same as the ego now.  

Psychologists glibly use the word personality but they do not see it is a term to be used with the greatest difficulty, because which of all the changing personalities of a man can be ascertained to be his real one? The truth is that a number of other things or thoughts have combined with the Atman , the formless witness, and must be separated from it.

Religious believers  believe  ‘only by  going to  Heaven  they shall attain freedom.  Because they strongly believe ’ I’ is the true self.   They are not aware of the fact that ‘I’ is not self.  ‘I’ is only a mirage.

 Buddhism is partly right in teaching that it was an illusion. Once one understands the ego, he  will be able to grasp the non dual truth. He  must learn that the ego is different from consciousness. Homogeneity is the natural condition of the mind. Through ignorance, one creates dissociations within it. The first dissociation is the ‘I’. There is no such thing as ‘I’, the ego is part  and parcel of the mind. The mind is a myth.  Therefore, the understanding of the ego and its nonexistence is of vital importance.

It is the formless soul, the innermost self that is in ignorence ot its own true nature




Many books of thoughts, logical books are vitiated in value because they do not inquire into the nature of the mind. the ego body and the world are within the waking experience.  The waking appears and disappears every night as sleep. The 'I'(object) is always changing but the formless witness[subject] never changes.

The soul, the innermost self" is different from “mind”  because without the soul,  the mind ceases to exist.  The formless substance and witness of the mind is the soul, the innermost self.  Thus the soul,which is present in the form of consciousness  pervades  in everything and everywhere in all the three states. 


It is the formless soul, the innermost  self that is in ignorence ot its own true nature. Due to ignorence it experinces the illusory duality as reality. And it is the soul, the innermost  self that has to  get  free from the bondage of the illusion. The illusion is present in the form of mind. Mind is in the form of universe. Universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.  The individual experiences of birth, life, death and the world are within the waking experience.  The dream is parallel waking experience and waking is parallel dream.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that ,  the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is the dream entity but the self is formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession without the physical apparatus.  This has to be mentally grasped and assimilated to realize the formless soul, the innermost   self is nothing to do with the three states. On the standpoint of the three states, the three states are mere illusion.

The practical life within the practical world, which is present as waking experience, is mere illusion. If waking experience is mere illusion than the individual experience of birth, life, death and world are mere illusion.   If the experience birth, life death and the world are mere illusion, it means the form; time and space are mere illusion.  If form, time and space are mere illusion, it means the past, present and future is mere illusion. Thus it is necessary for the seeker to realize the fact that,   form, time and space are one in essence, in order to realize the three states are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. Thus all the diversity is created out of   formless consciousness. Thus no second thing exist other than consciousness, the innermost self.

The seeker of truth has to constantly reflect on the subject in order to get firm conviction of the truth.  Seeker has to reflect on the same truth again and again until it becomes reality. One needs to constant reflect on the subject until he gets firm conviction of what is what.


 That which becomes aware of anything is Mind. The objective awareness is called mind. the mind is in the form of universe. the universe appears as waking or dream. Mind is not permanent   whatever one thinks of himself of the world or of the god, he is aware of it only when the mind is present and they are absent when the mind is absent.  Thus the physical existence including the body and  the world  is mind.  When mind becomes still , it remains in its  formless non dual nature of  its substance.  The substance of the mind is conciousness.  conciousness is the soul, the innermost self. 


Gods existence depends on the mind. If there is no mind, then there is no man, no world, no god. Whatever prevails without the mind is ultimate truth.   Thus  formless soul, the innermost self   prevails with or without the mind. The consciousness(soul)   is ultimate truth or Brahman. Brahman truth is God.   

One  can it say that God is here or is not here or anywhere only in waking experience. The waking experience is mere mirage. Mirage is  not permanent, thus the  personal  God is part of the mirage.  Belief in personal god is a biggest obstacle in pursuit of truth, because there is no second thing exists other then formless  soul or conciousness. 

Experience  is impossible if there is no  consciousness (witness). consciousness and  soul is one and the same ; the names only are different. Those who advocate nothingness, or sunya  are not gone deep enough, because if there were no soul (consciousness) to say so one would be blocks of wood, incapable of experience.


Advaitin disagree with Buddhists who say, there is nothing - nonentity. Advaitin believe there is some reality, even though things are not what they appear to be. If one knows the truth, he will know what to do to find inspiration for action. Seeker of truth‘s subject is to know what is it that is Real.

Buddhism says: all things are illusory and noting exists.  However, Advaita avers that it is not so.  It says that the universe of course is illusory, but there is Brahman, that exists forming the very substratum of all things. 



DVI" means two. DVI" connotes dual existence and the non-dual. Which of these two is non-existence? People think that there is God and that the jivas--souls-- like them form the second, other than them. There is no such duality at all.

"Soul”, which is present in the form of consciousness,   is the only reality and there is nothing other than this soul or consciousness, which is the innermost self. On the stand point the formless soul or consciousness, innermost self, there is no second thing exists other than consciousness.  Because the whole universe in, which we all exist is created out of consciousness.  There is no second thing exist other than consciousness. Hence it is nondual (non-duality)    

The ego is the thing one  is attached to most; his  attachment to the body is less. The religious thinkers  think  that the consciousness in one  is different from the mind in another.  He cannot measure consciousness, cannot say that it is confined to this or that body or that it starts here and stops there. Therefore, religionists  who say every  soul is  different and  teach the reality of the individual soul, is because they cling to this ‘I’, because they lack the humility to give up the ego, because they don't understand that the Ego is not a permanent thing: everyday the ‘I’ dies in sleep.  Thus the theory of  individual soul  is mere words.

Religious thinkers  could not distinguish between ‘I’ and ‘Formless witness.’ The 'I' was the witness. There highest was the Personal self. It is so much attached to the 'I' that it do not want to think that 'I' does not exist. Again, it is unable to detach the ‘I’ from the Real witness, which is formless.

The intellectuals argue and says: If everything else is false, then  soul also is  false. However, when he  says Ataman, is false, there must be the awareness, consciousness, behind the very statement.  He is making statement with in the waking experience will also go, die, therefore waking experience is not permanent . The formless witness of the three states is permanent. 


When the ultimate truth is rightly known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.




When the ultimate truth is rightly known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.

 Not by intellectual   speculation but only by an awakening to the reality of his true existence he gets soulcentric vision. Soul, the innermost self’s nature is like state of deep sleep.


Again as a step leading to formless witness, the arguments, the three states avails. However, if one  knows the formless witness, nothing else remains to be known. Even scriptures  are unreal for the Gnani because it is part of the unreal.


Experience  is three states and experiencer  is the formless soul, the innermost self. The formless Soul  witnesses  all experiences that is the three states. Everyone thinks that ‘I’ is the  self; this is ignorance. One  enjoys and suffers because he thinks ‘I’ is the true self .  The soul is the only unaffected witness of the pain, pleasure and the world. Ataman or the soul  means the unchanging witness.

Only when on is aware of the three states the birth, life and death or pain and pleasure are reality.  The world, the ego and body are made of one single stuff. That stuff is the soul/spirit. The soul is the substance and the witness of the three states.  

 Religious believers and intellectuals think that   that there is nothing higher than 'I’ and they try to get rid of the ego. To convince them by argument is a difficult thing, because they do not accept anything else then their accepted truth.


The earliest ancient sages used the word ‘I’ to the witness of the three states not to the ego as moderns use it and think the ‘I’ without the body is self. The seeker has to understand the fact that the fact that ‘i’ is not the self but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true self, which is eternal. 

People think that the ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ is something different from the mind. They believe that the mind is really two. This is the confusion among religionists and intellectuals. If ‘Soul’ has any meaning, if ‘spirit’ has any meaning, so long as one thinks of them, they are merely ideas. Soul or Atman is the highest. Soul is present in the form of consciousness.  Consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman because the whole universe is created out of consciousness.

The individual is a bundle of memories, desires within the waking or dream. The memories and desires are part of the duality. Therefore the individual self is entirely part and parcel of the mirage. Peoples ideas of that they will go to some world after death, some astral plane or religious heavens will disappear as nonsense with the disappearance of belief in the reality of the ‘I’.  

 The individuals exist only with in the waking  or dream. Thus, the individual has no value in the realm of truth.   One thinks as a person within the waking or dream. Therefore, the thinker is limited to the physical entity whereas the self pervades in everything, and everywhere in the three states. All the objects within the waking or dream are non-different from the soul/self.  The waking contains the world with so many people and egos. One takes the form he imagines as is experienced in a dream.

One becomes aware of the seer within the duality (waking or dream). In reality, there is no duality.  Thus Seer and Three states are mere mirage because the seer and the seen are both one in essence. "I know my physical body," means that there is something, which is aware of the body.  It implies there is a something, which is formless, knows the form. There is no connection between the Witness and the three states, which appears and disappears. All  is happy or miserable experiences are happening within the mirage. The one  which the witnesses the three states  remains unconcerned.

There is no such thing as internal and external with reference to the formless  Witness. One cannot say where it is not, He cannot even say that it is not in three states. One has to  begin by separating Seer from Three states mentally. Later one has to take them both together in the end because everything is Ataman.

Consciousness is bliss in the sense that it is aware of all. What is it that prevents one from knowing things as such? It is the superimposition of non-existence and non-luminousness on Consciousness or Awareness. It is because one  is thinking. 'I' is the self , he  does not know the fact that ‘I’ is not the self but the soul is the true self .

 One  can never know mind by himself; he can know only the states of mind. Psychology has yet to discover this. Similarly, it is impossible to define mind. For the deeper it go it come ultimately to the witness and it can say nothing about its nature. For if it describes or know it, it becomes an object and is no longer the true Witness! Intellectuals can only learn this from inquiring into the nature of the mind.  He  will eventually have to come to this knowledge. Use any word he  likes for mind, the moment he  define it is defining only an idea.

The secret is to know that there is a Seer. Seer is the soul. The soul  cannot be defined: all one  can say of it is "negate!" When intellectuals  became skeptical of the existence of consciousness, first they must  answer  how they  knows there is no consciousness. For it cannot be known ever  the  soul, the innermost self(Formless Witness) is the knower, never the known. How at any time can it get rid of consciousness? The moment he  is thinking of it, it is there: Everything exists for him only through consciousness.

Consciousness is the substance and witness of the duality.  The duality is present in the form of mind. Mind is present in the form of universe. The universe appears as waking or dream and diapers as deep sleep. The one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  When the soul becomes aware of its formless nondual true nature in the midst of duality it is called self –awareness. It is foolish to limit the consciousness only to duality because the consciousness pervades all the three states 







The witness (knower) is that witnesses the coming and going of the three states.



Psychologists regard consciousness as something, which appears and disappears, as relational to something. Gnanis position is the exact opposite, for he regards it as that which does not vanish, that which sees all the three states.  Therefore he  does not regard it as self-consciousness (in Religionists sense) -- that is entirely different. Hence, the term soul, when meant for pure consciousness is not self on the personal limited Religionists sense.

Those who cannot understand Witness and witnessed  Analysis cannot grasp non dualistic  nor Advaitic  truth. Religious believers  psychologists, they combine witness with witnessed  and all the combinations as "consciousness." Gnani separates them and call Formless Witness only as "Consciousness" (the soul, the innermost self).

It is not settled by psychologists what the mind is. They often do not define what it is because they find it so difficult. It is impossible to know what the mind is, because the more they think about it get only thoughts: they cannot ordinarily detach themselves from them, the three states, and be the Witness (the soul, the innermost self). They can go on thinking about mind for a century but all that will come will be more thoughts. 

First, they must   the existence of the formless witness of the three states in order to realize the physical existence is mere illusion.  The thoughts and the thinker and the world are part and parcel of the illusion  which is present in the form of waking experience. The thinker and  the thoughts and the world are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. The consciousness is the innermost self.  The consciousness (soul) is the formless witness of the three states. on the standpoint of the consciousness (soul) the witness and witnessed are one in essence.  Thus there is no second thing exists other than consciousness.    

Gnani does not rule out multiplicity of individuals and things; he admits this separate existence, since it cannot be denied. However, he asks, "What is meant by each existence? What has become of the vanished or changed individuality of each existence? What has become of the child I once was?" When it is superficial and fond of imagining, it can say what it like, but when it go deeper in the inquiry, it sees that multiplicity of the world(duality) is not what it seems.

When one thinks of his body as an infant,  what is that to him now? When he thinks of it again as a youth,  what has happened to it now? When he thinks finally of the body at middle age,where is it now? He  will see that he  had so many different bodies. None can be identified as particularly and permanently his.

It is difficult to grasp at the beginning ,How did ignorance come into pure Atman ?it is due to ignorance. This  ignorance is born of  considering false self as the real self. It causes in the person the contrary of truth and he views and judges the world view on the base of false self. It is the incapacity, the dullness, of the mind to understand it. However, when the mind gets clear, then he "sees" the Truth. Hence, the inability to see is not in the perceiver, but the mind('I') which comes and goes, which hides and prevents one  from "seeing." This "mind('I' )" is like a veil.

It is the illusory reality which prevents one to believe the duality as reality.  mind is the only thing which is available for the seeker , because the whole experience of diversity is nothing but mind.  The mind is something that  comes   and goes, but the formless witness  is untouched by it. Religion does not want truth because it is based on the false self within the false experience.

People who believe their physical self as reality  makes the 'ego'  the center of everything by reducing everything and everyone to mere idea or notions. Religious believers  find itself in danger of falling into this egocentric predicament. Therefore, they avoid it by saying that God creates other minds, persons who really exist in a different way from material objects, which are merely perceived.

All agendas are within the illusion, which appears in the form of mind (universe or waking experience). The self is within the illusion as its formless substance and it is without the illusion as its formless witness. The formless witness is the one which witnesses the body and the universe together.  Thus the ordinary awareness is physical awareness (waking) is not self-awareness.  In self-awareness the body is not the body but it is the consciousness, the ego is not ego but it is the consciousness, the world is not the world but it is the consciousness even though they exist but their unreal nature is exposed. Just as the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place, the waking also becomes unreal when nondual wisdom dawns.

The witness (knower) is that witnesses the coming and going of the three states. This truth has to be grasped mentally to realize the existence of the formless witness. Once this truth is grasped mentally, then one has to cling to the formless witness. Once one clings to this formless witness mentally than the subconscious has the yardstick to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Thus deeper self-search is necessary to understand, assimilate to have a firm conviction of what is what in order to get self-awareness. . 

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, The soul (consciousness) ,body and world are one in essence therefore no second thing exists other than the soul , which is in the form of consciousness.  Thus realizing all the three states as consciousness leads to self-awareness.







Buddhism says: all things are illusory and nothing exists. However, Advaita avers that it is not so. It says that the universe of course is illusory, but there is Brahman, that exists forming the very substratum of all things.



People think it is very difficult to acquire  Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana  .Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana which has to be acquired carefully and gradually, through  deeper self-search by realizing 'what is not truth' to realize 'what is truth'. 

In the past, spirituality was treated not as a separate subject but as a part of religion, but it is not so. Religion is based on the form and spirituality is based on formless. Therefore, spirituality is nothing to  do with religion.  Spirituality is a rational inquiry regarding all that is known to exist. Every one, each to the extent to which one's reasoning power admits, is by nature free to exercise this faculty, at whatever stage one may be. One is able to devote himself exclusively to a pursuit of the highest Truth, by means of reason.

It is no use arguing Buddha is wrong or Sri Sankara is right, but where we are going wrong in our understanding the non-dual truth, propagated by the great sages of the past.  Some say, that without the sunyvada, Advaita philosophy could not have come into existence; Because Advaita starts from where sunyavada ends.  That is why they say it is extension of Buddhism.  If Advaita existed prior to Buddha, he would not have advocated sunyavada at all because Advaita is final and ultimate truth. 

Buddha also holds that this world which changes from moment to moment is no real, it is only a reflection and a thing of which it is the reflection alone is real. Buddha was not an atheist. He never denied reality. There is nothing in his words or teaching to show that he considered truth to be non-existent like horns of a hare. He could not have held the foolish view that something came out of nothing. It is true; some of his disciples misunderstood and misinterpreted him. His idea was that the truth which cannot be designated by a name , or described is words and of which one cannot even say whether it is existent or none extent , is like non-existent.  The idea is quiet in agreement with the view of the Upanishads. An object which cannot even be talked about, is, for all practical purposes, as good as non-extent. But it is not non-existent in the sense that the son of barren woman is non-existent.  This subtle idea, Buddha's contemporaries and even his disciple fail to catch. In one passage Buddha says clearly: Srmana Gautama was an atheist. It is annihilation of non-existent of truth that he teaches. So will people attribute to me atheism, which is not mine? So will they ascribe me to the theory of non-existent, which again is not mine. 


From these similar statements of Buddha it is clear that he was not an atheist. All philosophers old and new arrive at the same point. Orthodox Advaita (monism) that is inevitable; the people of thoughtful temperament cannot find peace and quietude until they do so. Moksha (liberation) is in the realization of oneness with God. They speak of God Goddesses, devotion and devotee, only in an inaccurate way only from the standpoint of dvaithi.  After realizing oneness with God, there is no distinction between god and devotee and the word "devotion" has no meaning.   


Advaitin disagree with Buddhists who say, there is nothing - nonentity. Advaitin believe there is some reality, even though things are not what they appear to be. If one knows the truth, he will know what to do to find inspiration for action. Seeker of truth‘s subject is to know what is it that is Real.

Buddhism says: all things are illusory and nothing exists.  However, Advaita avers that it is not so.  It says that the universe of course is illusory, but there is Brahman, that exists forming the very substratum of all things. 



Since the Buddhist and Vedic  scriptures have been passed down by hearing. They were written down only relatively late. So one wouldn’t know whether to rely on the times they give. Also, a lot depends on the translation. Each 'Shloka' or sutra is open to many layers of interpretation. 


So many centuries  have passed since  Sage Sri Sankara appeared; yet it is very hard to find his true teachings understood anywhere in India today Because so few could rise to his level. Hence qualified non-dualist sage   Sri, Ramanuja,  dualist Sage Madvacharya  and others came to supply the common demand.

Sage Sri Sankara's work has got two aspects: the vyavikarika and the paramarthika. He gave religious, ritual or dogmatic instruction to the populace but pure philosophy only to the few who could rise to it. Hence the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd. 


As per the religious archaeologists view: the date of Sankara may be taken most correctly as that of the 9th Century. Some claims are made in India that he lived two thousand years ago, but there is absolutely no proof for this claim.  They do not go back farther than the 12th century A.D. and that all so-called evidences for Sankara having lived two centuries before Christ are either were conjectures or Pandit's fabrication.


Regarding the question of Sankara's death, one may dismiss the legend that he did not die, at the age of 32 but disappeared into a cave. This is another Pandit's story which is quite unfounded. He did really die in the Himalayas at that age.

As one goes into the annals of the history, one becomes aware of the fact that; the spiritual Advith is mixed up with punditry.  Therefore there is a need to do his own research in order to know the true essence of Advith propounded by Sri,Sankara and Sri, Gudapada and emptiness of the Buddha . 

 How it was possible for Sri, Sankara to have written so many books during such a short term of existence. The fact is that he wrote very few books. Those actually written by him were Commentaries on Brahma Sutras and the Upanishads and on the Gita. All other books ascribed to him were not written down by his own hand.

They are merely collections of notes recorded by his disciples from his sayings, talks and discussions. Fourthly Sage Sri, Sankara's own Guru was named Sri, Govinda and he lived near Indore. When Sri,Sankara wrote his commentary on the Mandukya his guru was so pleased with it that he took his disciple  to the Himalayas to visit his own Guru who was named Sri, Goudapada. Only when the latter agreed that the commentary was perfect did Sri, Govinda releases his disciple to start his own mission of teaching.

Sage Sri, Sankara varied his practical advice and doctrinal teaching according to the people he was amongst. He never told them to give their particular religion or beliefs or metaphysics completely; he only told them to give up the worst features of abuse: at the same time he showed just one step forward towards the truth.

In Brahma Sutras Sage Sri, Sankara says that Brahman is the cause of the world, whereas in Mandukya he denies it. This is because he says that at the lower stage of understanding, the former teaching must be given, for people will get frightened as they cannot understand how the world can be without a cause, but to those in a higher stage, the truth of non-causality can be revealed.

Brahma Sutras, i.e. "Vedanta Sutras" by Badarayana, are intended for those of middling intellects, not for those who have the best brains: it is a semi-theological, semi-philosophical work; it starts with the assumption that Brahman exists.

The opening sentence is "All this is Brahman.” But nobody knows or has seen Brahman. If we say "All this is wood" and show a piece of wood, the words are understandable. Suppose you have never seen wood. Then what is the use of such a sentence? It becomes meaningless when the object indicated is seen by none. Hence the Brahma Sutra opening is equivalent to "All this is X". Both have no meaning so long as they are not understood, if we take them as the data to start from. It is for this reason that I say the book is intended for theological minds, because it begins with dogma although its reasoning is close. For it starts with something imagined.

A man who describes Sankara's philosophy as negative (because of his Neti, Neti) does not know that this is applied only to the world of the Seen, the critic ignorantly believes that it is also applied to the Seer. Vedanta never negates the seer, only the seen. Scriptural mastery is not wisdom.

As one goes deeper in the subject one becomes aware of the fact that the religion, scriptures and concept of god is nothing to do with spiritual  side of Advaita, the present religious based Advaitic knowledge and theories is meant for the mass, who hold the religion as high, not the truth, because religion is based on the form (waking entity or ego) and they view and judge and argue on the base of body (waking entity or ego)as self,  but spiritual Advaita is based on the formless (soul) and it negates everything other then the soul.

 As Sage Sri, Ramana Maharishi  said:-   All the conceptual divisions invented by teachers of philosophy by their excessive analysis. Where do all these concepts end? Why should confusion created and then explained away? Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the source from which they all arise.   It is better to follow the direct path of Ramana, instead of going all around and coming to the same point.

"Soul”, which is present in the form of consciousness,   is the only reality and there is nothing other than this soul or consciousness, which is the innermost self. On the stand point the formless soul or consciousness, innermost self, there is no second thing exists other than consciousness.  Because the whole universe in, which we all exist is created out of consciousness.  There is no second thing exist other than consciousness. Hence it is nondual (non-duality)    







Repetitively reading of the FP&IP blogs and posings helps to acquire Self-Knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana .


Ataman is the only Reality. 'Reality' is defined as that which does not disappear at any time. By this test, Ataman, which is absolutely present always and eternal, is alone real. The waking/dream which consists man and the world keeps on appearing and disappearing all the time, so it cannot be considered as real.  

People consider the world is real because they are born and living in the world, but they are unaware of the fact that the world which consists them is within the waking/dream which is present as mind or’ I’.

Until and unless they   verify the truth of their true existence, they bound to believe, they are an individual separate from the world, and they are born in this world and the world existed prior to them.  Until this conviction is there they will not be able to grasp and assimilate the nondual truth. And individuality and separateness from the world keep them in the grip of duality. To overcome the duality they have to drop old subconscious conditioning.  This has to be done through repetitively reading of the FP&IP blogs and posings. Repetitively reading of the FP&IP blogs and posings helps to acquire Self-Knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana . 

These  Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana repetitively reads of the FP&IP blogs and posings sends  suggestions  to subconscious what is real and unreal and these suggestions  will stir and churn the sub-conscious and lots of doubts and confusion starts popping up.  This is because of the inner work. The subconscious is trying to replace the old programming with new program by accepting new suggestions.  The seeker has to write down all the doubts and try to find answers on his own through deeper thinking.  As he starts thinking the inner revelation starts and all the answers will starts coming on its own. And when uncontradicted truth comes as an answer, it is sign that the subconscious has dropped its old programming and accepted new program, which the seeker has injected through suggestions.


Words may aggravate illusion; words may also help dispel it.  It is necessary to repeat the same truth again and again until it becomes reality. One needs to constant reflect on the subject until he gets a conviction of what is what. Words are needed until one gets a firm conviction of ‘what is what,. People need to read and hear the words to think deeply and reach the ultimate end.  


Till man thinks himself as a person perceiving the world, he will not be able to understand and assimilate the Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana. When the deeper self-search  reveals the fact that,  self is neither the waking entity , nor the self is dream entity; but the self is the formless soul .

 If the self is not the  form but the self is  formless then  man(form) is not the self. If man is not the  self, how can he know and assimilate truth, how can he recognize and measure the truth.  The truth is possible only, when he includes the world in his realization. Doubts and confusions arise out of partial vision. When the whole truth is realized, there can be no doubts and confusions. Everything depends on the seekers intensity to know the truth and sharpness and inner maturity to grasp it.

Read F.P & IP blogs and postings  like an affirmation, until it reaches the core. Once the inner work starts your thinking process diverts itself from pathway to highway and from highway to the runway and helps you to understand and assimilate and realize better and faster.

The soul is present in the form of consciousness.




The world cannot be dismissed as unreal, because it is actually experienced by us. But the seeker of the truth has to understand the fact that the man and his experience of the world are reality with in the waking and dream. But the waking  and dream both are unreal on the standpoint of the true self which formless soul,which is present in the form of consciousness. 

The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place; similarly the waking becomes unreal when the true self, wakes up in its non-dual true nature.  Thus the true self which is formless soul has to wake up and make itself realize the waking is mere mirage. This awakening is possible only when the seeking mind realizes the fact that, ‘I’ is not  the self, and drops all its effort to discover and realize the self, on the base of ‘I’ as self. Since everyone trying to assimilate and realize the non-dual truth, on the base of false identity, it becomes difficult for them to assimilate and realize the non-dual truth.


When one is searching for the truth he is not aware of the fact that, he is searching for the truth within the false experience with his the false identity.  There is no I, me or you or us, no seeker, no enlightenment, no disciple and no guru, no teaching, when one becomes aware of the fact that the true self is not ‘I’ but the formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness. From the ultimate standpoint:-  there is no birth, life and death, no purpose of life, and nothing that has to be achieved when one realizes and becomes aware of the fact that, his physical identity and his experience of the world are mere illusion.

All that appeared as three states or illusion is a mere mirage created out of consciousness. The soul is the true self and also it is the source of the mind from where it rises and subsides as waking or dream . All that apparently manifests in the illusion create ignorance. And ignorance creates separation. This separation is the cause of duality, which cause division within the consciousness. Man and his world, his belief of god, the search for truth is part of the illusion. The ignorance makes one appearing as two. Absent of ignorance absent of duality. Whatever prevails without duality is nondual reality.

All past, present and future are reality in ignorance. Absent of ignorance absent of diversity/illusion. The wisdom brings unity in diversity. Destiny is part of the illusion, because birth, life and death itself is an illusion.

 All the happenings are part of the illusion.  The seeker has to discover the source.  The source is the soul or consciousness which is uncaused, unchanging, formless and nondual.

The nature of the true self is oneness is incomprehensible and so any communication about it can only be an interpretation of the ideas based on the false self/ego. Ignorance generates doubts and confusion. Ignorance makes one experience the duality as reality.  Ignorance makes one view and judge on the standpoint of false physical self/ego. Whatever is based on false physical self/ego is bound to be falsehood because everything is viewed and judged believing the duality as reality. Thus, one is unable to think beyond duality.

Deeper understanding and assimilation are required for self-realization.  It becomes difficult to understand and communicate about the oneness on the base of false self.   Thus rectifying the reasoning  base from,  form(ego) base to formless(soul) base is necessary in order  to understand and assimilate and realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth.

Ego is well established as the subject of perception whereas the body is the object within the “mind” which appears as waking or dream. This is learnt from the fact that when one speaks of his body within the universe. Man and the world exist within the waking or dream.” Thus the man cannot be the self, because the self, pervades everywhere and in everything in all the three states.

It is a fact of direct experience that the “self”, which is in the form consciousness, is without any change, whereas the waking or dream is always undergoing changes. Thus the physical entity, which is within the waking or dream, cannot be the self. The true self is that witnesses all the changes but it itself is changeless.

Seeker of truth has to ascertain the real nature of the true self through deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base then only they become fully aware of the fact that, “There is nothing higher than consciousness.  Thus consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman.

All the three states are verily the consciousness. Thus this waking entity cannot be the self, because the waking entity is limited to the waking experience, whereas the consciousness pervades all the three states.

Consciousness is completely unattached” from the universe, because it is not an entity or identity within the universe. The universe is a mere mirage created out of consciousness.  All the forms and names within the mirage have no value from the ultimate standpoint.  Thus the division created by the forms and names are within the illusion. Absent of division there is unity in diversity.

Consciousness is within the universe but it is without the universe. It is within the universe as its the formless substance and it is without the universe as its formless  witness.  The formless substance and witness are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. Thus consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman.  


The soul is the ultimate truth. The Soul is self-evident. The soul is present in the form of consciousness.  It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the soul, because It is the very essence of the one who denies It. The soul is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions and proofs. The soul is the true self. Self is within, Self is without; Self is before, Self is behind; Self is on the right, Self is on the left; Self is above and Self is below.