tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28636521587416492732024-03-08T07:15:19.805-08:00 ADVAITA THE ATMIC PATH sunthosh2009@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158623067870617186noreply@blogger.comBlogger2900125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863652158741649273.post-80654403416220695762022-11-08T19:44:00.001-08:002022-11-08T19:44:53.950-08:00Vedic, Quaranic, and Biblical versions of God. <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXq_duSj8zSVH9_fFbt8UBo234DB2yabQ5aJNhq5X75fVHaoVA3bPvMSE-ia3Ay6YQg5mvHUlgBGTJv0JBkuaoXu_Qp7kolcTUw00WjiRNA_PzVvCGa9L77E9RBfuem_BC6JH-9ruX6Lrtnjfw73C08Qhb6c3JTfjLI0Hq-FjPbXT9M8RBd7zbKlMkMg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="720" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXq_duSj8zSVH9_fFbt8UBo234DB2yabQ5aJNhq5X75fVHaoVA3bPvMSE-ia3Ay6YQg5mvHUlgBGTJv0JBkuaoXu_Qp7kolcTUw00WjiRNA_PzVvCGa9L77E9RBfuem_BC6JH-9ruX6Lrtnjfw73C08Qhb6c3JTfjLI0Hq-FjPbXT9M8RBd7zbKlMkMg=w452-h230" width="452" /></a></div><p></p><div><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vedic, Quaranic, and Biblical versions of God. </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Advaita is the universal truth. Advaita is the universal God. All dualistic Gods of belief belong to the dualistic illusion. Realize God right now and right here ~ means right in this very life, not in the next birth or next world.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You may be a Hindu, you may be a Christian, you may be a Buddhist, you may be a Muslim, you may be a Jew but God in truth does not belong to any particular religion because God in truth is universal.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Remember:~</span></b></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the ‘Self’ is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit or the consciousness. The Soul, the ‘Self’ is neither a Hindu nor a Christian, nor a Buddhist, nor a Muslim because it is a formless timeless, and spaceless existence.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Remember the Soul; the Spirit is God in truth. Religious Gods are based on the belief in mythical Gods. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because the Soul, the ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Advaita is not a religion. Advaita is not philosophy. Advaita is not yoga. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Advaita is the Soul itself. Advaita is the ultimate truth. Advaita is Brahman. Advaita is God, the one without the second.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with God, which is the Soul, the Self.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Realize God in truth.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Religious Gods are based on blind belief. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because the Soul the innermost ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists. Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.</span></span></p><p style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.41px; transition-property: none !important;">Bible says: ~</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; letter-spacing: -0.41px; transition-property: none !important;"> “God is a Spirit and they that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth.-<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (John 4:24)</span></b></span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">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. </span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">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.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is no God but God. There is no God because the world in which we exist is merely an illusion created out of God, the Spirit. Call it by any name God is universal. God belongs to the whole of humanity.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Religion creates separation God is unity in diversity. God is one which the cause of the whole world in which humans exist. There is no God but God means the world in which we exist is an illusion the GOD is the cause of the world and is real and eternal. God alone is real and all else is an illusion. There is no second thing that exists other than the Spirit, God thus, God is Advaita.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Quranic version of Oneness or Advaita.</span></span></p><h2 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz x193iq5w xeuugli" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: 0.38px; line-height: 24px; margin: 24px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 xngnso2 x1qb5hxa x1xlr1w8 xzsf02u" style="animation-name: none !important; color: var(--primary-text); line-height: 1.1667; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; word-break: break-word;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">La illah illa Allah -- No God but Allah.</span></span></span></h2><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The meaning of La illaha illallah is simple, it means (La) No (illaha) God (illallah) but Allah.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">The meaning of the word Allah is unique unlike English, it is purely singular in the Arabic language and cannot be made female or male despite it being a name that means Allah is free from being </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">HE</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"> or </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">SHE</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">. But why scripture uses “he” is another topic up for debate. But La Illaha Illallah means (There is) No God but Allah.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This means there is no God worthy of worship in the universe but the God which is hidden by the universe and is the cause of the universe. Allah is God, second to none. Allah is Advaita.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Realize yourself by realizing the Self is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit. The Spirit is God, which is nondual or Advaita.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Religion is regarded as sacred and real by the common people, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">Religious fanatics never understood the Spiritualistic interpretation of </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">Anal Hak-</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"> they thought he is referring to himself as God but it is not so he was referring to the infinite existence hidden by the finite ‘I’ (Universe).</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">The Soul is the Self. The innermost Self is God. It is not “</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">I AM GOD</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">, but it’s correct to say ‘the </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">SELF IS GOD</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">Before saying </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">‘I AM GOD’</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"> one must realize what ‘God’ is supposed to be in actuality. Only the ignorant say </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">‘I AM GOD’ </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">without knowing what it means.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">People say </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">I AM GOD</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"> but when God is, how can "I" remain? Only God prevails not I. The ‘I’ exists only in the domain of the illusory form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The Soul, the ‘Self is God in truth.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is no God in the domain of the ‘I’ because the ‘I’ is merely an illusory expression of God.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is erroneous to use the word ‘I’ for the Self, because ‘I’ represents the illusory form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the Self is a formless, timeless and spaceless existence.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">Some people say: </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">"I AM GOD."</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"> This presupposes that they have the same miraculous and creative powers of God. They do not, however, display possession of such power. Such is the fallacy of their logic.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none !important;"></p><div style="color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.41px; transition-property: none !important;">People who say </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.41px; transition-property: none !important;">“I AM GOD’</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.41px; transition-property: none !important;"> are merely repeating a parrot word, which they have read in their holy books or heard from a wandering monk or fakir. It does not prove that they have realized the ultimate truth or God in truth. </span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span style="animation-name: none !important; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.41px;"> With bookish or hearsay knowledge it is unable to prove that everything is God, which is present in the form of the Spirit. One has to do lots of homework to realize God, the Self.</span></div></span></span><p></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jesus’s version of Nonduality or Advaita.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">Jesus said: ~</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"> Seek and ye shall find. Knock the doors shall open to you.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Why did Jesus say different things? Owing to the time and the persons, according to their readiness to listen and understand. What Jesus meant was to leave all and follow the ‘Self’; that means to know the ‘Self’ and realize the ‘Self’, which is the Spirit, the God.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The teachings that are being followed by Christians are not the real teachings that Christ gave. The priests have altered his words, added to his teachings, and spoiled them.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.41px; transition-property: none !important;">Jesus said: ~</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: georgia; letter-spacing: -0.41px; transition-property: none !important;"> Seek and ye shall find. Knock the doors shall open to you.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.41px;"> </span></div><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; letter-spacing: -0.41px; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"> Gospel Thomas Logian 22: ~</span></span><span style="animation-name: none !important; letter-spacing: -0.41px; transition-property: none !important;"> Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, “These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.”</span></div></span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.41px;"> </span></div></span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.41px;"> They said to him, “Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?”</span></div></span></span><p></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">Jesus</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"> said to them, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female is female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom.”</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">Santthosh Kumaar: ~</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"> “This above passage is Jesus’s version of Nonduality or Advaita. When one realizes mind (matter) and the Soul (Spirit), the Self, are one, in essence, there is no place for duality. Without duality, the universe ceases to exist. Without the universe, your existence within the universe is merely an illusion. After all, there is scope for two because everything is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the consciousness or Spirit, the God.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vedic God is Atman is Advaita.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In Vedas, God has been described as: ~</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">Yajur Veda – chapter- 32: ~ </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;">God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. He cannot be seen directly by anyone. He pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.</span></span></p><p class="x1qodse3" dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; line-height: 1.4118; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-weight: 600; transition-property: none !important;">Rig Veda: ~</span><span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"> 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?"<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (10:48, 5)</span></b></span></span></p><p style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; letter-spacing: -0.41px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #161616; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;">Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- </span><span style="color: #161616;">Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.</span></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #161616; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'georgia' , 'palatino';" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;" /></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #161616; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'georgia' , 'palatino';" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">God in truth is the Atman, the Self. Atman is present in the form of consciousness.</span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'georgia' , 'palatino';" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;" /></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #161616; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'georgia' , 'palatino';" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Do not accept any other God other than Atman not worship other than Atman.</span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'georgia' , 'palatino';" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;" /></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #161616; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'georgia' , 'palatino';" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.</span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'georgia' , 'palatino';" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'georgia' , 'palatino';" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Nothing is real but God. Nothing Matters but love for God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything.</span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'georgia' , 'palatino';" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"></span></span><br style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;" /></span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #161616; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><div dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span data-mce-style="font-family: 'georgia' , 'palatino';" style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is and all else is an illusion<b>.:~Santthosh Kumaar </b></span></span></span></div></div></div>sunthosh2009@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158623067870617186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863652158741649273.post-43220610711844036372019-11-26T04:25:00.001-08:002022-11-09T00:29:17.803-08:00From the Vedic perspective, mythological Gods are is not Vedic Gods because Rig Veda says: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman.+ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #171616; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The seekers of truth have to follow the Atmic path to realize the Athma the ‘Self’ is the real God. The Atmic path is the Vedic path because Vedic God is Athma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171616; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Vedas do not talk about idol worship; the followers of Vedic Religion or Santana Dharma never worshipped idols. Thus all the Puranic Gods which are of the form and attributes are not Vedic Gods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171616;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Max Müller says</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ~</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">"The religion of the Veda knows no idols; the worship of idols in India is a secondary formation, a degradation of the more primitive worship of idolized Gods."</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171616; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Vedas do not talk about idol worship. In fact, till about 2000 years ago followers of Vedism never worshipped idols. Idol worship was started by the followers of Buddhism and Jainism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171616;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Brihadaranyaka Upanishad </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">declares: </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">"He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span>(beast)</span><span>". </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(1. 4. 10)</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171616; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship in place of the real God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171616;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">When Upanishad itself’ says: ~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sarvam khalvidam brahma</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>~</b> all this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<b>Chandogya Upanishad)</b>. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171616;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">From the Vedic perspective, mythological Gods are</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> not Vedic God because </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rig Veda says</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">:</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">"</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171616;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>(</b></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yajurveda 40:9</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">)</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171616;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Even Sage Sankara says: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">~ </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Supreme Brahman (God) 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 description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman, and not just its </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">attributes. The nirguna Brahman of </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Sage Sankara</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">is impersonal. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #171616; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">God is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. Thus according to the Vedas God neither has any image nor God resides in any particular idol or statue. God cannot be seen directly by anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #171616;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">From the Vedic perspective, </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lord Krishna</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">has been just a Mahan yogi and not God himself. Because in </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">the Bhagavad Gita says: </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness. </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">: ~ Santthosh Kumaar</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #040303;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">If people </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">have believed a false thing over millions of years, the length of time does not </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">prove it true. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Without realizing what God suppose to be in actuality what is the use of praying and worshiping God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God in truth is not what you believe and worship. Worshiping inherited belief is ignorance. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">If people have believed a false thing over millions of years, the length of time does not prove it true.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Prayers and sacrifices belong to a premature stage of development. However, when no answers come to prayers, the struggle for existence presses man, and doubt arises again. Faith in religion weakens as man pays more attention to the facts of life and this world. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #040303;"><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The reason is the common ground for whole humanity in the modern age, whereas the appeal to scriptural relations reaches only the sects. Those who argue that truth is only in their religion are vain logicians, depending on mere ideas, speculations, and imaginations. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #040303; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Search for truth is searching to know God in truth. If you search for the ‘Self’ then you will find only the Soul. If you search for truth then you will find only the Soul. If you search for God you will find only the Soul. If you search for love you will find only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #040303; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">God is not he or she God is the Spirit. Do not physicalize God's worship. Such worships of non-Vedic Gods are barred by Vedas. All God with forms and attributes are not God in truth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #040303; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span>Lord Krishna Says Ch ~V: ~</span></b><span> “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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #040303;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span>Bhagavad Gita:</span></b><span> ~ </span><b><span>Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~</span></b><span> Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material.</span><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>(14.27).</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #040303;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span>When Bhagavad Gita says, 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 consciousness.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Bhagavad Gita Chapter: ~ “</span></b><span>All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many God s</span><span>. (7- Verse -20)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><b><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></b></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~</span></b><span> "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)"</span><span>. (1. 4. 10)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Max Müller says: ~ “</span></b><span>The religion of the Veda knows no idols; the worship of idols in India is a secondary formation, a degradation of the more primitive worship of ideal Gods."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span>Hindus are idol worshipers of the large numbers of Gods and Goddesses whereas Vedas declares God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>In Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ </span></b><span>It has been said that God Supreme or Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Rig Veda: ~</span></b><span> The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman the innermost ‘‘Self’’. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 </span></b><span>clearly mention that God is “One”.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span>Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman, then why believe and worship anything else in place of real God.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Thus, Atman the Self is God. Thus, Self-realization itself is real worship. ‘Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to get realization.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Hindus are idol worshipers of the large numbers of Gods and Goddesses whereas Vedas declares God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Chandogya Upanishad Chapter: ~</span></b><b><span> ekam evadvitiyam ~</span></b><span><span> God is only one without a second</span><span>. (6- Section- 2- Verse- 1)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>According to Vedas the Atman the Self is God.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span>Shiv is not Vedic God. All the Gods and Goddesses with form, name, and attributes belong to Hinduism, not of the Vedic religion or Santana Dharma.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span>G</span></span><span><span style="background-color: white;">od and Goddesses are religious concepts. Whatever is seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person within the dualistic illusion (world) is a falsehood.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Thus, it refers to formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman (Soul), the innermost ‘‘Self’’ within the false experience. Thus, it indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imaginations based on the false ‘‘Self’’. Thus, Atman or the Soul, the ’Self’’ is God.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The Vedas do not talk about idol worship. In fact, till about 2000 years ago followers of Vedism never worshiped idols. Idol worship was started by the followers of Buddhism and Jains. There is logic to idol worship. Vedas speak of one God that is the supreme ‘‘Self’’ in i.e. Atman or Soul but Hinduism indulges in worshiping 60 million Gods.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">It indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false self.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The Vedas as a body of scripture contains many contradictions and they are fragmentary in nature. For Hindus, scriptures like the Bhagavad-Gita, Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Puranas are more attractive and appealing than the Vedas. And also the Gods and Goddesses they worship differ considerably from the Vedic ones. The collection of hymns called Vedas is written in praise of certain deities by poets over several centuries does not seem to have much significance for the Hindus.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Yajur Veda says: ~</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Translation 1</span></b></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;">They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc.)</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span> <span>(Yajurveda 40:9)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Translation 2</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span>Deep into the shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshipers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent." </span><span>(Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Griffith pg 538)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Translation 3</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span>"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.</span><span><span>"</span><b><span> (Yajurveda 40:9.)</span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">So, Yajur Veda indicates: ~</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><b><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></b></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span>They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example, table, chair, idol, etc. </span><span>(Yajurveda 40:9)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span>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."</span><span> (Yajurveda 40:9.)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1</span></b><span> clearly mention that God is “One”.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span>Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and that God is Atman, then why believe and worship anything else in place of real God.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Thus, Atman the Self is God. Thus, ‘‘Self’’-realization is real worship. ‘‘Self’’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to get realization.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">To acquire Self -knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the seeker has to realize his inherited religion is adulterated in the past and it becomes a great obstacle is realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The seeker's aim is the search for the Ultimate Truth or Brahman. The search to find the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth that in actuality never was lost, only hidden.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span>Upanishad aspiration is best expressed in the following sutra: ~</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span>OM Asato ma sad gaMaya, tamaso ma jyotir gaMaya, mrityor ma aamritaam gaMaya. Shanti, Shanti, Shanti</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span>"OM Lead me from ignorance to truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. Peace, Peace, Peace" (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad</span><span> (1/3/28)).</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span>The belief system was coherent because they had a transcendent individualized God as a central doctrine, whereas in the realm of truth individualized God cannot be considered as the center. After all, the Soul and the Self is the center of all that exists.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span>First, one should not hold a God as the center of existence without verification. Both the theist and atheist are theories, nothing to do with ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Remember:~</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #040303;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Swami Vivekananda:- </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #040303; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> </span><span>If you seeking the truth then you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being a man or woman or even human should be discarded because the Self is not you but the Soul. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #040303;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All the attributes are merely an illusion. It is the Self that is in illusion and it is the self that has to gets free from the bondage of the illusion. The illusion is present in the form of the mind. The mind is in the form of the universe. The 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 a parallel waking experience and waking is a parallel dream. </span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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 Self is nothing to do with the three states. From the standpoint of the three states, the three states are merely an illusion. </span></span><br />
<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The practical life within the practical world, which is present as the waking experience, is merely an illusion. If waking experience is merely an illusion then the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If the experience of birth, life, death, and the world are merely an illusion, it means the form; time, and space are mere illusion. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If form, time and space are mere illusion, it means the past, present, and future is merely an illusion. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thus the seeker must realize the fact that form, time, and space are one, in essence, 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 exists other than the Soul, the Self. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>The seeker of truth has to constantly reflect on the subject to get a firm conviction of the truth. The seeker has to reflect on the same truth again and again until it becomes reality. One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what.</span><b><span>:~Santthosh Kumaar </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0d0c0c;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sage Sankara in the commentary to "Brahma Sutras: ~ </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> "</span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> "</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The highest beatitude is not to be attained by Yoga.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">"</span><span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 8pt;">(Sacred Books of East Series page 298 Vol.1.)</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span><b>h</b>e also says Samadhi is the same as sleep</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>(p.312)</b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">- </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>This indicates that yoga is not the means to Self-realization. And yogic Samadhi is not nondual Self-awareness. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0c0c;"><span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The essence of Mundaka is</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">:</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Do not be satisfied with rituals, yoga, etc. which are good in their own way but inquire. Into what? Brahman and Atman are things you can never 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 your 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. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0c0c;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Swami Vivekananda: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">~</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Jñāna Yoga is divided into three parts. First: hearing the truth--that the Atman is the only reality and that everything else is Maya. Second: reasoning upon this philosophy from all points of view. Third: giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth. This realization comes from being certain that Brahman is real and everything else is unreal</span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> : ~ Santthosh Kumaar</span></b></span></div>
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sunthosh2009@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158623067870617186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863652158741649273.post-59385040966717757862016-03-25T05:15:00.004-07:002021-06-21T22:45:15.333-07:00Bhagavad Gita says:~ “Just because one is born to a Brahmin doesn’t automatically make him a Brahmin. But he has more chances of becoming a Brahmin by acquiring or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.+*****<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #100d0d;">The Advaitic orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant populace. The Advaitic orthodoxy has to be dropped if one has chosen the path of wisdom. Those who propagate the Advaitic orthodoxy as the means to ‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana are propagating ignorance. Those who choose the path of Advaitic orthodoxy have chosen the path of ignorance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100d0d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>It is time for the educated orthodox to wake up to realize</span><span> </span></span><span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sri, Sankara’s</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">wisdom is the only wisdom in this world, which helps to get rid of the ignorance. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #100d0d;">The orthodoxy indulges in all non-Vedic rituals and because of add-ons and adulteration and such rituals lead one nowhere and it is a waste of time and effort. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #100d0d;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #100d0d;">Thus orthodoxy is not for those who are seeking truth nothing but the truth. Mixing orthodoxy and preaching non-duality is a foolish venture. By worshipping Gods and chanting mantras of individualized God the ignorance becomes stronger. It is very difficult to get rid of the belief of a person God which is deep-rooted in everyone who accepted the Advaitic orthodoxy to get ‘Self’-realization. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100d0d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Rituals and theories are not meant for those who are searching for the Brahman or ultimate or wisdom. All the orthodox Advaitins indulge and immersed themselves in ritualistic oriented lifestyle and preach theoretical philosophies which are an obstacle in realizing the Advaitic truth. Many chose these orthodox scholars as their Gurus. But these Gurus are good to learn the conceptual Advaita meant for those Orthodox who believe their conduct-oriented lifestyle leads to liberation. But those who are seeki</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">ng the truth have to do their own homework in order to acquire ‘Self’-knowledge. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #100d0d; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>When the knower of Brahman (Gnani) wears no signs it means he does not identify himself as Guru or yogi or teacher or Swami because a Gnani sees the form, the time and space are one in essence. Thus, there is unity in diversity in his realization. </span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100d0d;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kundli English"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sage Sankara said:</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>-</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>~ </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>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.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #100d0d;"><span>The Advaitic orthodoxy follows the system of pancayatana puja, where </span><b><span>Vishnu, Siva,</span><span> </span><span>Sakti, Ganapati</span></b><span>,</span><span> and</span><span> <b>Surya</b></span><b> </b><span>are worshipped as forms of Saguna Brahman. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #100d0d;"><span>That said, </span><b><span>Vishnu </span></b><span>and </span><span><b>Siva,</b> </span><span>the Great Gods of Hinduism, are both very important within the Advaita tradition. The sanyasis of the Advaita order always sign their correspondence with the words "iti Narayanasmaranam ". In worship, Advaitins do not insist on the exclusive worship of one devata alone. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #100d0d;"><span>As </span><b><span>Brahman</span></b><span> is essentially attributeless (nirguna), all attributes (Gunas) equally belong to It, within empirical reality. The particular form that the devotee prefers to worship is called the ishta-devatA. The ishta-devatas worshipped by Advaitins include </span><span><b>Vishnu</b> </span><span>as </span><b><span>Krishna</span></b><b>,</b><span> the Jagadguru, and as </span><span><b>Rama, Siva</b> </span><span>as </span><span><b>Dakshinamurti,</b> </span><span>the guru who teaches in silence, and as Candramaulivara, and the Mother Goddess as </span><b><span>Parvathi, Lakshmi</span></b><span>, and </span><span><b>Sarasvati</b>. </span><span>Especially popular are the representations of </span><b><span>Vishnu</span></b><span> as a Saliagrama, </span><b>Siva </b><span>as a linga, and </span><span><b>Sakti</b> </span><span>as the Sri-yantra.</span><span> <b>Ganapati</b> </span><span>is always worshipped at the beginning of any human endeavor, including the puja of other Gods. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100d0d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The ultimate truth or Brahman must be independent of religion, that in </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Sage Sankara</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">himself’ the Saguna Brahman or a personal God is the only a part of the phenomenal (if not illusory) world, and the Nirguna Brahman is the only reality and has nothing to do with religion. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100d0d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">In Brahma Sutra</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Sage Sankara</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span> </span><span>takes the position that there is another entity outside us, i.e. the wall really exists separately from the mind. This was because</span><span> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Sage Sri, Sankara</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span> </span><span>explains in Manduka that those who study the Sutras are orthodox minds, intellectual children, hence his popular viewpoint to assist them. These people are afraid to go deeper because it means being heroic enough to refuse to accept </span></span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; padding: 0cm;">Sruti</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">, and God's authority, in case they mean punishment by God. A Gnani says the scriptures for children, but the wise seekers will think rationally.</span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100d0d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The text of Brahma Sutras is based on religion, dogmatism, but in the commentary</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Sage Sri, Sankara</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">cleverly introduced some philosophy. If it is objected that a number of Upanishads are equally dogmatic because they also begin by assuming Brahman, only a few Upanishads do not but prove Brahman at the end of a train of proof.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100d0d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost ‘Self’. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> In reality, there is </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Sage Sankara:~</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">(11.2)</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">I</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">n short, a person who engages in rituals with the notion “I am an agent, doer, thinker”, according to Sage Sankara, is ignorant, as his behavior implies a distinct, separate doer/agent/knower; and an object that is to be done/achieved/known. That duality is avidya, an error that can be removed by Vidya.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span></b><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">-Adhyasa Bhashya</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #151313;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara said:~</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #151313; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>The beliefs in the religious ideas of God, religion, yoga are based on the false self, is nothing to do with the mental (inner) journey. The religious, rituals, worships, prayers glorifying God and Guru may be useful in worldly life, for those who believe in birth, life, death, and the world as reality, but they are not useful tools in realizing the ultimate truth. On the base of consciousness (Soul) as the ‘Self’, everything other than consciousness is merely an illusion. Thus, man and his experience of the world and his Gods based on blind faith or blind belief and religion are part and parcel of the illusion created out of consciousness. </span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #151313;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Mundaka Upanishad</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">: ~ </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">“T</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">he 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. </span><span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
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sunthosh2009@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158623067870617186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863652158741649273.post-17016289332134243102015-09-02T05:29:00.003-07:002021-10-24T21:01:07.703-07:00It is necessary to repeat the same truth again and again till the Soul becomes a reality.+ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #060505;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara said:~</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060505;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>There is a need for an atmosphere of free will; wherein deeper ‘Self’-search is the order of the day. The more one indulges in deeper ‘Self’-search, he learns and able to grasp the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth, which is beyond the form, time and space.</span></span><span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060505;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> This helps the seeker of truth to inquisitive and opens his vistas and dialogue with like-minded fellow seekers. The dialogue between the religious, yogic, and non-religious will not help to unfold the mystery of the ‘I’ which itself is the cause of ignorance.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060505;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">As what is important is the truth of the existence is first and then the rest in the Atmic path. The Seeker of truth needs to work towards, how he has to find answers to all his doubts and confusions. Most people consider the ultimate truth is a threat to their religious beliefs.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060505;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The ultimate aim of the human being is to find and realize the truth and work towards it rather than fight that one has the truth to oneself’ and other truths are wrong or inferior. Realization of the truth of one’s true existence is an important factor as mankind is caught up in the crossroads of witnessing the wars and terrorism in the name of fundamentalism.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #060505;">Only through deeper self-search do beginners and intermediates gradually become aware ‘what is what’. Only after they have realized the fact that the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, are they ready for the inner journey towards the reality, which is beyond the form, time and space. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060505;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Upanishad:~ </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Atman. The ordinary man does not understand their way.</span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">(Chapter IV — Alatasanti Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada)</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #060505;">If you are seeking the truth then you have to know the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060505;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">says the world is an illusion, it includes birth, life, and death, which happens within the world. Thus, the seeker's main aim is to mentally trace the formless substance of the illusion, which is also the witness of the illusion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060505; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b><span>66. </span></b><span>Therefore the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060505;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Thus,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankar</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">a </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">clearly indicated that - yoga, intellectualism, scriptural mastery is not the means to self-knowledge. But by the realization of one's identity with consciousness, which is the ultimate truth or Brahman, freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality is possible, and by no other means. </span><span></span></span></div>
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sunthosh2009@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158623067870617186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863652158741649273.post-29943789240060760292015-08-29T03:18:00.002-07:002022-11-10T01:03:41.607-08:00Bhagavan Buddha: ~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.+ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #090808;"><span class="textexposedshow">There are different grades of mindset, which are unable to grasp God in truth. The Advaitic wisdom requires demands sharpness to grasp the truth which is beyond form, time, and space. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #090808;"><span class="textexposedshow"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #090808;"><span class="textexposedshow">Just sitting mindless and imagining you are seeing God keeps you in the prison of the dualistic illusion.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #090808;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span><span><br /><span class="textexposedshow">Realize the Soul, the Self is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness itself, is God. Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist. And consciousness itself is uncaused.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #090808;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Bhagavan Buddha: ~</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #090808; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> "</span></span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">What is God in actuality?" </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #090808; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><span style="background: white;">“Where is God?” </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #090808;">People say that God is everywhere, but they do not know because they are holding their religious propagated belief in a religious God. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #090808;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #090808;">The religious propagated God is limited to a particular religion, community sect and creed cannot be universal. The believers of the other religion, community sects, and creeds will not accept any other God as their own other than their inherited accepted idea of God. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #090808; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span><br />The world in which you exist is not separate from God because the world in which you exist is created out of God. God is not imagination whatever you think of God is imagination based on the false self within the false experience. </span><span></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #090808;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Chandogya Upanishad.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span> </span></span></span></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">:</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span> ~</span><span> </span><b><span>Sarvam khalvidam brahma</span><span> ~</span></b><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">All this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality<span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #090808;"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Sage Sankara’s</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span> </span><span>Supreme Brahman (God in truth) 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 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 </span></span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span>Sage Sankara</span><span> </span></span></b><span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">is impersonal.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #090808; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></span><span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Sage Sankara:</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> ~</span></span><span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">"That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman (God)."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #090808; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><br /></span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Bhagavad Gita: ~</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span><b> Brahman hi pratisthaham </b>~</span><span> Brahman (</span><span>God</span><span>) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>(14.27).</b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #090808;"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">“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.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span>The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span> </span><span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #090808;"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~</span></b><span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span style="background: white;"> God is Supreme Spirit.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">If God is Spirit, then how does man know God created the world? There is no proof. If man had seen God creating the world, he could admit it, but how could he have seen God before he came into existence? (i.e. were created).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><b>The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rig Veda: ~</span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span> The Atman 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?"<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>(10:48, 5)</b></span></span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Rig Veda</span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span> </span><span>declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship in place of the real God.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #171515; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the most advanced seeker who seeks to know the truth beyond form, time, and space.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #171515; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #171515; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <b><span>Gurudom</span></b> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #171515; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">is</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #171515; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. The</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #171515; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Atmic path</b> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #171515; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">is meant for those who wish to go beyond the domain of form, time, and space </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span>Sage Sankara </span></b><span>gave</span><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> religious, ritual, and dogmatic instruction to the mass but the Advaitic wisdom 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. </span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Atmic path is straight. One travels from ignorance to wisdom by perfect understanding of ‘what is what’. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>The search for the truth of our true existence ends in the discovery of the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’. When form, time, and space are created out of single stuff then there is no division in the consciousness. The Soul is the fullness of consciousness without the division of form, time, and space. </span><span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #171515; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">It is erroneous to identify the Soul, the innermost Self as 'I' or 'I AM' because, the Soul, the innermost Self is not 'I' or I AM’. The Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ is that witness of the 'I'</span><b>.</b></span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #171515; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ‘I’ is not the expression of the fullness of consciousness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The ‘I’ is the cause of the division within consciousness. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ‘I’ is ignorance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ‘I’ is the cause of experiencing the dualistic illusion as a reality. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ‘I’ is the cause of the experience of birth death and the world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ‘I’ is the cause of the form, time, and space. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ‘I’ is the cause of the universe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ‘I’ is the cause of the three states. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ‘I’ is the cause of the mind. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without the ‘I’, it is the fullness of consciousness.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Without the ‘I’, there is no division within consciousness. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without the ‘I’, there is no ignorance.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without the ‘I’, there is no dualistic illusion. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without the ‘I’, there is no experience of birth, death, and the world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without the ‘I’, there is no form, time, or space. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without the ‘I’, there is no universe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without the ‘I’, there are no three states. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ‘I’ is the cause of the mind. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #171515;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">People try all kinds of paths and practices in order to get ‘Self’-realization. Realizing the 'Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is Self-realization'. Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist and it itself is uncaused.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span>The consciousness is pure, flawless, and full, beyond form, time, and space. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. The consciousness is beyond all limitations of form, time, and space.</span><b><span> :~Santthosh Kumaar </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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sunthosh2009@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158623067870617186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863652158741649273.post-56338481135117588592015-08-24T05:44:00.001-07:002022-11-10T01:22:11.368-08:00The Upanishad says the person worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the Self does not know the truth. he is like a beast.+ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>The Upanishad says<b> </b>the person who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the 'Self' and does not know the truth. he is like a beast (ignorant) </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>Till you believe the religious Gods as real God and religion as finality you are not qualified to acquire Self-knowledge Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self-knowledge Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the knowledge of the real God. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>The study of the Scriptures, rituals, yoga, karma, and love can be called lower knowledge meant for the ignorant populace. The higher knowledge is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana that which leads to Self-awareness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>The Soul is the real God. The Soul is the innermost Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The birthless and deathless ‘Self’ is the ever-formless, timeless and spaceless existence. ‘Self’ is infinite. The ‘Self’ is everlasting and changeless. The ‘Self’ is the cause and the source of the universe in which we exist and the ‘Self’ itself is uncaused. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Upanishad says:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> ~</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span>Brahman (God) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span><br /></span></span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Realize
God in truth. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Religious
Gods are based on blind belief. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as
the center because the Soul the innermost ‘Self’ is the center of all that
exists. Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means
the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence. God in truth is
only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Bible says: ~</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span> “</span><span>God is a Spirit, and they
that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth</span><span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>(John 4:24)”, </b></span></span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>The
Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form
of the Soul, the innermost 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. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>There
is no God but God. There is no God because the world in which we exist is
merely an illusion created out of God, the Spirit. Call it by any name
God is universal. God belongs to the whole of humanity.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Religion creates separation
God is unity in diversity. God is one which the cause of the whole world in
which humanity exists. there is no God but God means the world in which we exist
is an illusion the GOD is the cause of the world and is real and eternal. God
alone is real and all else is an illusion. There is no second thing that exists other
than the Spirit, God thus, God is Advaita. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Yajurveda
– chapter- 32:</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>~</span><b> </b><span>God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or
material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings
and all directions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>God
with form, name, and attributes does not find any support from the Vedas.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Sage Sankara’s</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span> </span><span>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 distinction
between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constituted the very essence or
Svarupa of Brahman, and not just Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of</span><span> <b>Sage
Sri, Sankara</b> </span><span>is impersonal. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>Vedas reveal ONE GOD but Hinduism filled with 33crores of Gods Vedas reveals God as Spirit (Atman or Brahman) and no form whereas Hindus worship God in the form of various non-Vedic idols of Gods and Goddesses are barred by Vedas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span>Yajur Veda says <span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">those who worship idols in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness. Therefore, all these add-ons prove that the form and attribute-based concepts are introduced by projecting Vedic Gods in the past with a new belief system and code of conduct in the name of Vedas. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">"He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the 'Self' does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(beast)"<b>.</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="1.4.10"></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(1. 4. 10)</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness (Spirit) which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Soul is God realizing God in truth. The ‘Soul' is prior to anything that exists. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Soul is the innermost Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.5pt; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.5pt; margin: 4.5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Soul is self-evident 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.</span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 14.5pt; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.5pt; margin: 4.5pt 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sage Sankara’s</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Advaitic wisdom is the fairest flower of wisdom in
the world. </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sage Sankara</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">says 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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Advaita
is not philosophy. Advaita is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. The nature
of God is Advaita. All the teaching propagated by some gurus are
adulterated with theories, tradition, and religions and are not Advaitic wisdom.
Advaita Gnana is “Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lord
Krishna</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (Advaitic wisdom) has been lost:
people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but
the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and
leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no
time for it.<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;"><b>(Gita –Chap- IV-v.2)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In Advaitic
reality, there is neither God nor Goddess but only the consciousness. The
consciousness is the real God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hi pratisthaham</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
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</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brahman
(God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all
the animate and inanimate entities and material</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;"><b>. (14.27).</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When
Bhagavad Gita says 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 consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lord
Krishna says Ch ~V: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in
truth is only Atman, the innermost “Self’. In reality, there is no duality, no
differentiation. Only Atman exists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is for every seeker who is seeking truth must first know what God is supposed to
be in actuality according to Vedas and Upanishads and reject all non-Vedic Gods
to realize that Atman is the real God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bhagavad
Gita Chapter: ~</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“All those whose intelligence has been stolen by
material desires, they worship many Gods<b>. </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;"><b>(7- Verse -20)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Brahman (God) is in the form of the Athma, and it is
indeed Athma itself’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thus,
it refers to a formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman (Soul), the
innermost ‘Self’ within the false experience. Thus, it indicates clearly all
the Gods with form and attributes are mere imaginations based on the false
‘Self’. Thus Atman or Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ is God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Vedas do not talk about idol worship. In fact, till about 2000 years ago
followers of Vedism never worshipped idols. Idol worship was started by the
followers of Buddhism and Jains. There is logic to idol worship. Vedas speak of
one God that is the supreme ‘Self’ i.e. Atman or Soul but Hinduism indulges
in worshiping 60 million Gods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
indicates clearly all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imaginations
based on the false ‘Self’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a
pasu (beast)<b>". </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;"><b>(1. 4. 10)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A great majority of Hindus are not in contact with their religious history
therefore, they believe their inherited beliefs as the ultimate truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>The
Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the ’Self’’.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rig
Veda: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The Atman is the
cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never
turn away from the Atman the innermost “Self’. May ye never accept another God
in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?"<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;"><b>(10:48, 5)</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rig-Veda
1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">clearly mention that God is “One”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Veda </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">declares
God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship in place of the real
God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">God is Supreme Spirit
has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by
anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not
find any support from the Vedas.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Meher
Baba said: ~</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">God is your innermost “Self’. Do not search for God
outside of you. Let these words be inscribed in your heart. Nothing is real but
God. Nothing Matters but love for God. God is everywhere and does everything.
God is beyond us and is everything. God alone is and all else is an illusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">People
who are saying ‘I AM GOD’ are hallucinating that they become God. First, you
must know what God is supposed to be in actuality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Sage Sankara d</b>eclares Atman is Brahman. That is the Soul, which is present in
the form of consciousness is the ultimate truth and the ultimate truth or
Brahman is God in truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nature of God is Advaita. Advaita is the fullness of consciousness. God is in the form of the Atman, therefore; never accept another God in place of the
Atman nor worship other than the Atman. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">: </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~ Santthosh Kumaar</span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #100f0f; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Why waste time discussing yoga, religion, and worship of the religious Gods glorifying the Gurus in the Atmic Path. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #100f0f;"><span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Self-knowledge is not for those who believe in religion and its beliefs like mantras and worship of Gods. Mantras and prayers are nothing to do with the Atmic path. Those who are attached to Mantras and prayers and worship must continue in their chosen path, the Atmic path is not for those who are stuck with religious dross. </span></span><br />
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<span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">In the Atmic path, the discussion is unimportant. One must think deeply and reflect on the subject. Passing their opinion with </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">their accumulated knowledge will not help anyone. Those who believe in religious </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #100f0f;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Mythology deals with symbols. It is not history; it is not concerned with objective reality. But that does not mean that it is not concerned with reality itself. It is concerned with subjective reality. These Gods, these mythological symbols, do not exist outside of you, but they have a psychological existence and that psychological existence can be helpful and can be used. So the first thing to be understood is that they are not real persons in the world, but they are real symbols in the psyche of man.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100f0f;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Mythological Gods are a myth. All beliefs in </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span>the mythological Gods keep one in the prison of the dualistic illusion. The mantras never help to cross the trash hold of form, time, and space. Mantras are meant for the ignorant populace who believe that form, time, and space as reality. What is the use of the mantras based on the false God that will yield only false fruits?</span> </span><br />
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on myth is merely a superstition. Mythology was introduced in the past for the
ignorant masses. It has to be discarded as one progresses in his spiritual
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attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics),
immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). God is above all needs and desires.
God is always the Witnessing Subject. God can never become an object as God is
beyond the reach of the senses. God is non-dual, one without a second. God has
no other besides it. God is destitute of difference, either external or
internal. God cannot be described because the description implies a distinction.
God cannot be distinguished from any other than God. In God, there is not distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constituted
the very essence or Svarupa of God, and not just God's attributes. The Nirguna
Brahman of</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sage Sankara</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is impersonal.</span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 4.5pt 0cm;"><span style="color: #100f0f; font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100f0f; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The people who follow religion think that by following their inherited religion is their duty. And questioning the Guru or scholars is irreligious. Thus, they indulge in rituals and hearing of religious discourses. They are weak and timid. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #100f0f;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> “</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">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. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100f0f;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost Self. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> In reality, there is </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100f0f;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Rig Veda</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">: ~</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"> The Atman 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?"</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">(10:48, 5) </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100f0f;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Brihad Upanishad: ~</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">“If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth."</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #100f0f;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b>Chandogya <span style="background-color: white;">Upanishad</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">: ~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Sarvam khalvidam brahma</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">~ all this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #100f0f;"><span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Sage Sankara’s</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Supreme Brahman (God) 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 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 </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Sage Sankara</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"> is impersonal.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100f0f;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">"Deep into the shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti is intent."<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: xx-small;">(Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Giffith pg 538)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #150707;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Self-knowledge is not for those who believe in religion and its beliefs like mantras and worship of Gods. Mantras and prayers are nothing to do with the Atmic path. Those who are attached to Mantras and prayers and worship must continue in their chosen path, the Atmic path is not for those who are stuck with religious dross. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #150707;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #150707;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the Atmic path, the discussion is unimportant. One must think deeply and reflect on the subject. Passing their opinion with </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">their accumulated knowledge will not help anyone get rid of ignorance. The Atmic path is not suitable for those who believe in religion and yoga. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #150707;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">That is why Sage Sri, Sankara says</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">:~ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #150707;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">That is why In</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mundaka Upanishad 1:2:8</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> “Remaining in the fold of ignorance and thinking “we are extremely wise and learned,” the fools with boastful nature ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #150707;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Brihad Upanishad: ~</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">“If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth."</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #100505;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span>The man alone does not become Brahman (God in truth) because the world in which man exists is merely an illusion. The illusion is created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span>According to Vedas and Upanishads God has no human form but God is Spirit, which is Athma. Athma is the formless, timeless and spaceless existence. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: #100505;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brihadaranyaka Upanishad</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">: ~</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span>Brahman (God in truth) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span><br /></span></span>
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<span style="color: #100505;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> <span>clearly mention that God is “One and God is Atman”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #100505;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Kundli English"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kundli English";">Rig Veda</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Kundli English"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kundli English";">: ~</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Kundli English"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kundli English";"> The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman the innermost self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?"</span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Kundli English"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kundli English";"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.8px;">(10:48, 5)</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 12pt 0cm;">
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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, <b>bodies</b> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(</span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">human
and the like</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span> 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."</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">-</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">(</span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Yajur Veda 40:9</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">.)</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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why worship and glorify the Gods in human form in place
of the real God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge
in such activities 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.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1717;">Those who indulge in a perverted argument from their own standpoint and opinion are not seeking the truth, which is beyond form, time and space. They just want to exhibit their accumulated knowledge accumulated from here and there. They think what they know is the ultimate truth. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1717; font-family: georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1717; font-family: georgia, serif;">They think whatever they propagate is the ultimate truth. The question never occurs to them, “Is what I know is really the truth? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="color: #1a1717;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 6; text-align: justify;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="color: #1a1717;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">That is why Jesus said: ~</span></b></span><span class="textexposedshow" style="color: #1a1717;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> Do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. </span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1717;"><span class="textexposedshow" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;">(Matthew -7:6)</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #1a1717;">Spirituality is nothing to do with religion. Spirituality is based on the Spirit, the real God whereas the religion is based on the false self within the false experience. </span></span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1717;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The Bible says: ~</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1717; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> “God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1a1717; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;">(John 4:24)”,</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1717;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span></span></div>
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</span><span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">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 uni<span class="textexposedshow">verse is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there is.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span></span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br />
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</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In Yajurveda – chapter- 32</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">:~ God is Supreme or Supreme Spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1717;"><b><span style="background: rgb(255, 254, 253); font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">That is why Jesus said: -</span></b><span style="background: rgb(255, 254, 253); font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span> Do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <b>(Matthew -7:6) </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span>Why did </span><b><span>Jesus </span></b><span>say different things? Owing to the time and the persons, according to their readiness to listen and understand. What </span><b><span>Jesus </span></b><span>meant was to leave all and follow him; that means to know him, see him, and experience him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1717;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>The spirit is present in the form of consciousness. Everything is consciousness. All the moments are within the dualistic illusion. Whatever happens within the dualistic illusion is bound to be an illusion created out of consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and all else is merely an illusion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>F</span><span>or the sincere spiritual seeker duality (dvaita) and suffering are synonyms. So also Nonduality (Advaita) and bliss (sukha) are synonyms. The Veda, especially the Upanishad portions, are full of teachings directed at establishing the unreality and miserable nature of duality and upholding the non-dual nature of the Atman, the sole reality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><b>Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.3.22 </b></span><span>alludes to this experience:~ (In this state a father is no father, a mother no mother, no Gods, no Vedas. In this state, a thief is no thief, the killer of a noble Brahmana no killer, a monk no monk, a hermit no hermit. This form of his is untouched by good work and untouched by evil work, for he is then beyond all the woes of his intellect.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span>Mundaka Upanishad: - </span></b><span>T</span><span>he 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. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The dualist thinkers ’ arguments are based on false self (ego or waking entity) and false experience (mind or waking or dream or universe) to show the weakness of the position of the dualistic standpoint. They are at their wits end to explain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Existence cannot be a cause and effect at the same time, from the point of view of the dualists, but deeper Self-search shows that existence is no two and causality can’t rise at all. The dualistic theory says that whatever was in the cause was also in the effect. They say that the gold brick, the gold medal, the gold ornaments --are in the seed--the gold. Deeper Self-search reveals the fact that, if cause and effect are one what is the difference between the two? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">In the realm of truth, there is neither unwisdom nor ignorance; neither bondage nor liberation. There is but one pure consciousness. The logic holds good for the practical purpose in practical life (waking). Soul-centric reasoning leads to non- dualistic Self-awareness. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The consciousness is existence absolute, awareness absolute. The existence of absolute means that consciousness is not unreal or non-existent. And it is not unconsciousness. Nothing positive can be stated about consciousness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Soul, the Self is the One without a second. There is not the least shadow of multiplicity in the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Both modern science and religion offer hypotheses and theories, but there is one vital difference--science begins with facts which it collects; religion begins with fancies. Science evolves its hypotheses from such facts, religion from fancies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Science declares that oxygen combines with hydrogen to give water. And it also declares oxygen is protons or electrons. But in pursuit of truth, the whole physical existence (universe or mind) is considered an illusion, and science and its inventions, which are based on physical existence are limited to physical existence. The truth is within, but it is beyond physical existence. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The science demands physical proof. But the physical proof is part of the illusion. Hence, science cannot go beyond physicality because the truth cannot be traced with laboratory conditions. Deeper Inquiry, analysis, and reasoning are required if one wants to push the quest deeply enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Common people and primitive minds fall into faulty thinking through their inherited conditioning, such faulty thinking and reasoning make them accept the experience of birth, life, and death as a reality; taking what one sees through the senses as real, taking what is apparently obvious and superficial as true because it is less troublesome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many people adopt the attitude that what they know is the truth. And what others say is false. This attitude makes them not verify anything other than what they know. One needs to be rational, not merely logical. Logic has its value only in the physical plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As one advances towards the spiritual plane, he sees the logic underlying experience and becomes more rational. His reasoning is two-fold--implicit and explicit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is a need for facts of physical proof in scientific invention, whereas, in pursuit of truth, the proof has to be grasped mentally and realized. Therefore, the truth is realized only by a few who take this mental pursuit. “Whatever facts revealed, which is un-contradictable has to be accepted as truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The truth based on the formless Soul, the Self is worthwhile; without it, one has something else, not the truth. Most people refuse to venture into the pursuit of truth; because they do not want to go into the root of things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The seeker of truth has to study, inquire, and reason at the beginning of the pursuit of truth because it is absolutely necessary for the pursuit of truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One has to know the Self is not physical, but the Self is the formless spirit. The Spirit or Soul or the Self is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness gives one the awareness of the three states. </span></div>
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sunthosh2009@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158623067870617186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863652158741649273.post-31492081082769264962015-08-19T21:25:00.001-07:002022-11-10T19:57:45.603-08:00Sticking to ‘I’ is sticking to the ignorance.+ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;">If one has a perfect understanding, assimilation and the realization he becomes a Gnani that brings benefit to others by sharing the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana who are seeking the truth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;">Through perfect understanding and assimilation, Advaitic wisdom will naturally dawn and thus, the seeker will have a yardstick unmistakably know what to accept as truth and what to discard as untruth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;">By cultivating the soulcentric view of the worldview, the egocentric view of the worldview diminishes and there is self-awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion (universe). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;">In self-awareness, the universe becomes one with its essence. That essence is the Soul, is present in the form of consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;">When one realizes the nature of the universe then he is no longer affected in any way by the dualistic illusion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Self- Awareness is the nature of the Soul, the Self. The Soul is unaffected by the dualistic illusion because the dualistic illusion is created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Realizing the Soul does not die nor is it born. The universe and Mukti or nirvana is of the dualistic illusion. The dualistic illusion arises momentarily, it is impermanent, because the dualistic illusion appears and disappears.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The reality is beyond the form, time, and space. The form, time, and space are essential material for the dualistic illusion. Without the form, time and space the dualistic illusion ceases to exist. The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the ‘I’.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span> The reality is beyond the ‘I’. The seeker of truth should not cling to the ‘I’ if he wants to realize the truth, which is beyond the ‘I’. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;">By sticking to ‘I’ is sticking to ignorance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;">By sticking to ‘I’ is sticking to the dualistic illusion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;">By sticking to ‘I’ is sticking to the body or the ego and the mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;">By sticking to ‘I’ is sticking to the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">By sticking to ‘I’ is sticking to the form, time, and space.</span><span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>By sticking to ‘I’ is sticking to the three states.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Without the ‘I’, there is no ignorance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;"> Without the ‘I’, there is no dualistic illusion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;"> Without the ‘I’, there is no-body or ego and the mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;"> Without the ‘I’, there is no universe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> Without the ‘I’, there is no form, time, and space.</span><span face=""helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0808;"><span> Without the ‘I’ there are no three states.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808;"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">That is why Bhagavad Gita: ~</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(2.18)</span></span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0d0808; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /><span>People think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The seeker has to understand the fact that ‘I’ is not the Self, but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which is eternal. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /><span>That is why </span></span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Ashtavakra Gita 16:10</span></b><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">:~</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> If you desire liberation, but you still say "I," If you feel the ‘Self’ is the ‘I’, You are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #0d0808; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span><br /><span>People are stuck with the reality of the ‘I’, which they take it as real because some Gurus have propagated the Self is the ‘I’. is no need to convince such mindsets. The seeker of truth accepts only the truth nothing but the truth. </span></span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0d0808;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">That is why </span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says: -</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b><span>VC-65. </span></b><span>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.</span></span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0a0a;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">The religion
preaches that God is one and the ways to God are many. It simply tries to lead
them to darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the
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in the past and present accepted the idea of the existence of God. The fear of God injected by the religion
was the root cause of worship, superstitions, and dogmas. The religious belief is passed on to the
populace from one generation to the next generation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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single stuff of which this universe in which you exist is made is Truth
realization or Self-realization or God-realization.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0a0a; font-family: Georgia, serif;">No one has ever seen God by
practicing religion or yoga or indulging in glorifying the religious God and
Goddesses because God exists prior to the form, time, and space. The form, time, and space cease to exist as a
reality when wisdom dawns. Thus, the Gods and Guru s have no place in the
domain of the Advaitic reality. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, which is God in truth. Thus, Self-realization is
the only way to God-realization. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on myth is merely a superstition. Mythology was introduced in the past for the
ignorant masses. It has to be discarded as one progresses in his spiritual
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senseless rituals, and most irrational and gives them a divine outlook. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Religious Gods are not God in truth. One must
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Upanishad</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">:~ </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">By worshipping Gods and Goddesses and
going to the world of Gods after death is of no use. The time one spends
in ritualistic practices is wasted; one can spend the same time moving forward
towards Self-knowledge, which is the main goal. One cannot reach the non-dual
destination by glorifying God and Goddesses and by doing that, one goes deeper
and deeper into darkness. It surely indicates the fact that the seeker of
truth has to drop the worshiping God and Goddess to get
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<span style="color: #0b0a0a;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">When Bhagavad Gita says, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">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 consciousness. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0a0a;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kundli English";">Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kundli English";">: ~</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Kundli English";"> <span>Brahman (God) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0a0a;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara goes on to say:</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> ~</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Kundli English";">A sickness of not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take the medicine. Liberation does not come by merely saying the word “Brahman.” Brahman must be experienced. Until you allow this apparent universe to dissolve from your consciousness until you have realized Brahman, how can you find liberation just by saying the word Brahman? The result is merely noise. Until a man has destroyed his enemies and taken possession of the splendor and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Kundli English"; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;">wealth of the kingdom, he cannot become a king by simply saying “I am a king.” </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Kundli English"; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0a0a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it, your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya, can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by subtle arguments.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0a0a;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Normally people will not understand what I am driving at because they are seeking something which they can enjoy.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0b0a0a;"> The so-called Gurus and yogis focus their ambition on acquiring wealth by making the mass more and more dogmatic oriented. No one inquires why they are in this hell. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0a0a;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This begging to God and Guru goes on and on. If their wish is fulfilled, they indulge more and more if the wish is not fulfilled they indulge again and again because of fear of getting curses of God. Thus, to get rid of this path of begging one has to know the truth of his true existence. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0a0a;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>That is why Swami Vivekananda: ~ </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0a0a;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Knowing this, stand up and fight! Not one step back that is the idea. ... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! Death means only a change of garment. What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards. ... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune. You have cried to all the Gods in the world. Has misery ceased? The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods? ... The Gods come to help you when you have succeeded. So what is the use? Die game. ... This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself to your own mind does not befit you, my Soul. You are infinite, deathless, and birthless. Because you are the infinite Spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. ... Arise! Awake! Stand up and fight! Die if you must. There is none to help you. You are the entire world. Who can help you?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">-</span><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> <b>Swami Vivekananda </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><b> </b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, serif;"><b>(Delivered in San Francisco, on May 28, 1900) -The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita II</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0a0a;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara said:~ </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but the liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0a0a;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Yoga Vasistha</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> <b>says:~ </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">‘Self’-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only through inquiry inspired by the company of wise (Gnani). One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0a0a;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Swami Vivekananda said: ~ </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your own Soul.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>Thus, the term ‘Hindu’ was used to describe those who professed a religion other than Islam and Christianity. It is also noteworthy that the use of the word ‘Hindu’ in non-Islamic sources is known probably only from the 15<sup>TH</sup> century A.D.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #121111;">The term ‘Hindu’ became a term of administrative convenience when the rulers of Arab, Turkish, Afghan, and Mughal origin - all Muslims~ had to differentiate between ‘the believers’ and the rest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Swami Vivekananda says: ~ </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The word Hindu is a misnomer; the correct word should</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> be a Vedantins, a person who follows the Vedas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru:~ </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The word Hindu can be earliest traced to a source a Tantrik in the 8th century, and it was used initially to describe the people, it was never used to describe religion</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;">(The discovery of India” on pages -74 and -75) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">According to </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru,</span></b><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">its connection with religion is of late occurrence. The word Hinduism is derived from the word Hindu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span>The word Hinduism was first used by English writers in the 19th century to describe the multiplicity of faiths of the people of India.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In Encyclopaedia Britannica it says:~ </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The word Hinduism was first used by the British writers in the year 1830 to describe the multiplicity of the faiths of the people of India excluding the converted Christians.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: xx-small;">(Volume -20, Reference -581)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(</span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sir William Jones</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> spent 11 years on the Supreme Court of Calcutta were highly productive ones, and he applied democratic principles to his judicial decisions. The six charges Jones made to the Calcutta Grand Jury during that period helped determine the course of Indian jurisprudence as well as preserve the rights of Indian citizens to a trial by jury, as Jones considered Indians to be equal under the law with Europeans.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">His most famous accomplishment in India was established the Asiatic Society of Bengal, in January of 1784. The founding of the Society grew out of Jones's love for India, its people, and its culture, as well as his abhorrence of oppression, nationalism, and imperialism. His goal for Society was to develop a means to foster collaborative international scientific and humanistic projects that would be unhindered by social, ethnic, religious, and political barriers. Through Society, Jones hoped to make Oriental studies much more attractive to people from the West. As a result, Jones exerted a substantial influence on the academic and literary disciplines in Western Europe. He would remain the Society's president until he died.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In addition to establishing the Society, Jones felt compelled to learn Sanskrit so that he could better prepare himself to understand Hindu and Muslim laws. This led to an enormous personal project: the compilation of all such laws. The task was so huge that he was unable to complete it before he died. However, he did publish portions, including Institutes of Hindu Law, or the Ordinances of Menu, Mohammedan Law of Succession to Property of Intestates, and Mohammedan Law of Inheritance. He also published numerous works about India, covering a variety of topics including law, art, music, literature, botany, and geography.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #121111;">The term Hindu religion is totally a new name that cannot be found in any Indian literature prior to 1794 A.D. Out of the five Indian religions of Buddhism, Jainism, Saivism, Vaishnavism, and Sikhism; Saivism, and Vaishnavism were brought under the Varnashrama principle.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After naming the discriminating principle of casteism of Manu Dharma as Hindutva, the religions of Saivism and Vaishnavism, which were enslaved to the caste-discriminating principles, were given a new name as ‘Hindu Religion’! Thus, the Hindu religion is different from Sanatana Dharma or the Vedic religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #121111;">The term Hinduism came into existence under British rule. Hinduism is the caste-discriminating principle of Varnashrama Dharma based on of the Book of Manu. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #121111;">After 1750 A.D., Europeans captured certain parts of India and started ruling those areas. The capital of the British India was Calcutta present-day Kolkata.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #121111;">The Britishers were duty-bound to administer justice to the people living within their dominion. Thus, they set up courts of justice. They needed laws to administer justice through the courts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To administer justice to the Christian citizens of India living within their dominion, there was Christian Law, based on Biblical principles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span>To administer justice to the Muslim citizens of India living within their dominion, there was Islamic Law, based on Quranic principles. But to administer justice to non-Christian and non-Islamic citizens living in British dominion, there was no law book. This created problems for the Britishers.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>At this time, </span><b><span>Sir William Jones</span></b><span> </span><span>was appointed as the chief justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta. Local pundits made </span><b><span>Sir William Jones </span></b><span>believe that the book of Manu was the law book for the people of India.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span>Sir William Jones</span></b><span> believed pundits and translated the book of Manu from Sanskrit to English. Thus, on the basis of the laws of Manu, a law was formed for administering justice to non-Christian, and non-Muslim Indians of the British dominion, and this law was called the Hindu law.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The principles of the book of Manu which was used for drafting the Hindu Law were called Hinduism. The basic principle of the book of Manu is caste discrimination. The <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">book of Manu is nothing to do with the Vedas. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>The name coined by </span><b><span>Sir William Jones</span></b><span><span> to denote caste-discriminating principles is Hinduism. It is not a religion. It is a way of Life. It is the way of life of the Indus people.</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #121111;">Out of the five Indian religions, since Saivism and Vaishnavism were already enslaved to Varnashrama dharma i.e. caste discrimination or Hindutva, the people of India began to use the newly originated common name of ‘Hindu religion’ to denote Saivism and Vaishnavism. The context and substance of the term Hinduism; coined by Sir William Jones is different from the context and substance of this term ‘Hindu religion, which was substituted erroneously and used by the people to denote Saivism and Vaishnavism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #121111;">The Orthodox believe in Varnashrama Dharma or caste discrimination. People of India wrongly believe that Hinduism is an ancient religion because they are unaware of the fact that Hinduism is not the Santana Dharma or Vedic religion. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121111;"><span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">People of India have to be liberated from the stranglehold of casteism to realize their original religion is not Hinduism which is full of different castes and creeds but Vedic religion. The people should be educated about the historical truth of the religion of Vedas or Santan Dharma. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>The word Hinduism is a misnomer.</span><b><span>:~Santthosh Kumaar </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060606;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">The mystic who sees God in vision has seen Him during the waking state. The waking experience itself is an illusion. Thus, whatever is seen within the illusion is bound to be an illusion. Thus, it is necessary for the mystic to realize his existence is a reality within the illusion. Whatever belief of God one is familiar with through his inherited conditioning or samskara that he will see in his visions. When a man is the false ‘Self’ within the false experience, then whatever he believes is bound to be a falsehood. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #060606;"><span>There is neither </span><b><span>Shiva</span></b><span> nor</span><b><span> Shakti</span></b><span> but only consciousness. The consciousness is real God. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060606;"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">The</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;">dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost ‘Self’. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"> In reality, there is </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 115%;"><span>no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060606;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">Bhagavad Gita: 4: 22:~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"> </span></b><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">".....who has gone beyond the conflicting dualities like good (happiness) and bad (sorrow)....."</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060606;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">Bhagavad Gita: 4: 42:~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">".....cut all such conflicting dualities (doubts) by the sword (weapon) of knowledge. ....."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060606;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">Bhagavad Gita: 5: 18:~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"> “</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">The learned men (who have come out of delusions<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Māyā), got rid of Avidya) see no differentiation have equal vision for a revered Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a cāndāla (outcaste, rogue, mleccha, demonic person, etc)"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060606;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">Bhagavad Gita: 5: 19:~</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";">"Those who have achieved the true knowledge i.e. the '‘Self’-Knowledge' or the 'knowledge of Atman' and see no difference, are free from conflicting dualities have merged in Brahman"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060606;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>The most important thing is that neither society nor politics nor any religion has anything to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. ‘Self’ –Knowledge helps the seeker transcend emotion, transcending form, time, and space. Perhaps this is why the Atmic path, has not had much impact.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #060606;">Mythological stories are a myth. Mythological Gods are a myth. By worshipping mythological heroes as God produces only myth. There is a need to realize ‘what God is supposed to be in actuality. Religion has been very influential. Mythology is a synthesis. They are more concerned with synthesis than with truth. The attraction for synthesis is so strong that people accept it blindly without verifying its validity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060606; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The nondualistic or Advaitic truth is not for synthesis – it is an uncontradictable truth and it is the ultimate truth. Nondual truth just as it is, without any artifice or coloring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #060606;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Because the Soul is free from the illusory form, time, and space. Only within the dualistic illusion, the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is caught up in the illusory experience of the form, time, and space. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span>This is the truth.</span><b><span>:~Santthosh Kumaar </span></b></span></span></div>
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sunthosh2009@hotmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158623067870617186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863652158741649273.post-90572335864723347622015-07-28T05:01:00.002-07:002021-11-30T08:16:20.848-08:00The Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self shines in its own its awareness when wisdom dawns.+ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0c0c;">Advaita is not a theory based on religious doctrine. Advaita is an inner revolution. Advaita is not entertainment to please different mindsets. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #0d0c0c;">The so-called ‘Self’-declared Gurus of the east and west can go on repeating the Advaita parrot-like, ornamental words ~ they don't mean anything. Whatever the Gurus are saying of the Advaita is from the dualistic perspective. Their knowledge is skin deep. They may be great Gurus or yogis, but they are not Gnanis. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sage Goudpada: ~</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To establish the truth of Nonduality 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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;">. (</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 8pt;">Manduka Karika)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Logic is misunderstood. People cannot distinguish between reasoning and intellect as a Gnani does. Egocentric reason applied only to practical life within the practical world is called logic, and intellect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Soulcentric reason is the Spiritualistic reason that is necessary to unfold the truth of the whole. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A Gnani knows both egocentric reason (logic) and Soulcentric reason. He uses the egocentric reason (logic) in practical life within the practical world and uses the Soulcentric reason to know the truth beyond, time and space. Logic is very much necessary for practical purposes. But the logic cannot be applied to discover the truth because logic implies duality and the ultimate truth is based on the Nondualistic perspective. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>To say rise above logic is generally confused by saying "Rise above Reason." It is wrong to give up reason. Life does not consist only of a waking state. We must take all three states into account. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If one sticks to the old formal logic, he cannot get at the truth. People seeing this insufficiency of logic, therefore wrongly says: "Give up logic and go to intuition." Their error is “What is it that told them that logic was not enough?” It was Reason itself; not intuition. Thus, there is confusion between logic and reason. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The reasoning is interpretable in two ways. The defective interpretation is to apply it only to the waking state. The correct interpretation is to apply it to the three states. The latter leads to a final settlement of the problems because it takes all data into consideration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span>Logic, in short, is concerned with correct or valid thinking. Its main concern is non-contradiction, it can lay down the criterion of Truth as non-contradiction, but only with the assumed premises and not with facts. But when facts enter into consideration we have Reason but the same criterion of Truth remains, only the propositions with which we start must square with facts of experience, with observed data. Hence, the reason includes logic or correct thinking as well as strict fidelity to experience or facts. Bad logic or insufficiency of facts or wrong data may lead to untruth. The scientist with a plethora of data may reason illogically and reach false conclusions. Reason avoids both those mistakes. While reason searches for truth, logic insists on valid or correct thinking only. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>Intellect is the power or faculty of thinking logically. The reason is the power or faculty of thinking truly or towards truth. </span><b><span>:~Santthosh Kumaar </span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #151414;">Advaitic Gnana or ‘Self’-Knowledge which is contentless is not ordinary dualistic knowledge. People have no idea of the ‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana yet. "Intellect" is a dangerous word to use as a translation of Gnana. For instance, some mathematical wizard has a tremendous intellect; one can follow their mathematical equations, yet does it mean that the mathematical wizard possesses Gnana or ‘Self’-knowledge? Dualistic knowledge based on a dualistic perspective is not Advaaitic Gnana or ‘Self’-knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #151414;"> <span lang="EN-US">Soulcentric Reason is not intellect. Soulcentric Reason is that which finally distinguishes between real and unreal, false and true, and therefore it takes all three states into account. Until that is attained people generally use only intellect (egocentric reason) which is confined to the waking state only. Intellect (egocentric reason) evolves into Soulcentric Reason as man realizes that the study of the waking world is not enough, and that study of all the phenomena of consciousness is required. Such a study must embrace dreams and sleep; hence there is no perfection of reason without an analysis of the three states. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Without </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara,</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> there</span><span style="background: rgb(246, 247, 248); font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> is no Advaita. Without Advaitic wisdom, it is impossible to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The all-pervading Reality</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> <span style="background: white;">is beyond both duality and non-duality. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="break-after: avoid; margin: 12pt 0cm 3pt; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #121010;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says: ~</span></b><span style="color: #121010; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="color: #121010; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Atman is Brahman. The Atman alone is real is not religious truth. </span><b style="color: #121010;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara </span></b><span style="color: #121010; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">declared this Advaitic truth, which is the ultimate truth to the whole world, many centuries back is the rational truth, the scientific truth, and the ultimate truth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara’s</span></b><span><span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span><span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">whole wisdom can be summed up in one sentence, ‘There is nothing else but Brahman. He says that Absolute Existence, Absolute Knowledge, and Absolute Bliss are real. The universe is not real. He says that Brahman and Atman are one. The ultimate and the Absolute Truth is the ‘Self’, which is one though appearing as many different individuals. The individual has no reality. Only the ‘‘Self’’ is real; the rest, mental and physical are but passing appearances.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Genuine philosophy must be independent of religion, that in </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">himself’ the attributed God is a reality only in dualistic illusion. And the attributeless God (Brahman) is the only reality and has nothing to do with religion. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>There are two kinds of audiences ~ the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual, prayers, devotion to personal Gods, and sacrifices. And the more advanced seeker who seeks to know the ultimate truth or Brahman.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">~ </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">there is no need to study philosophy, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman then why indulge in studying philosophy.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">~ “</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">There is no need to indulge in rituals, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman then why indulge in rituals.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says: </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">~</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span> </span><span>“</span></span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>The person who superimposes all those attributes on the changeless, eternal ‘‘Self’’ and identifies ‘‘Self’’ with the body is confusing one for the other; and is, therefore, an ignorant person. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are therefore addressed to an ignorant person. Therefore, why believe and worship attributed Gods in place of real God and permanently remain in ignorance of the reality, which is beyond form, time, and space.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">There is no need to indulge in yoga, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman then why indulge in yoga. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even Hundreds of pranayamas* can give Self-knowledge then why indulge in yoga, pranayama dipping in the rivers, and any amount of charity when they are not the means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says “</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Loud</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise, erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar but are no good for liberation then why you are after scholars explanation, when the scholars' scriptural mastery and a shower of words, the skill in expounding the scriptures are no good for liberation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> “The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known then why you want to study the scriptures.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> “The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest which merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence, men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the ‘Self’ and then why you are not independently investigating and knowing the ‘‘Self’’. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says “</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one? When </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> “</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Vedas and mantras will not help you to get rid of the ignorance then why you are indulging in what is not required to acquire the ‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> “</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">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 then why indulge in a repetition of the name of God when they are not the means to Self-knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Sage Sankara says: ~</span><span><span> </span><span>“</span></span></span></b><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">What</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal. Then why do you accept other wisdom without verifying its validity? Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification. Only uncontradictable truth has to be accepted as the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">himself had often said that his philosophy was based on Sruti, or revealed scripture. This may be because </span><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> addressed the ordinary man, who finds security in the idea of causality and thus, in the idea of God ~ and Revelation is indispensable to prove the latter. He believed that those of superior intelligence, have no need for this idea of divine causality, and can, therefore, dispense with Sruti<b> </b>and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">is the only sage who has final authority on the Advaitic truth. The Advaitic truth is rational truth and scientific truth without dogma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara </span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>says “the Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man”, then why you are stuck up with the holy men or Gurus or Godmen or yogis who identify themselves as holy men, not Gnanis. </span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #121010;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara says</span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>How can the talk of diversity, dvaita, apply to the Supreme Reality which is one and homogeneous, Advaita? Who has ever observed diversity, dvaita, in the unmixed bliss of the state of profound sleep?</span><b><span>:~Santthosh Kumaar </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>In ancient times, the religious Yogic discipline considered to be a means for Self-realization. But such discipline is almost an impossible task for the modern man to adopt. Day by day people are becoming aware of the fact that religion and yoga are nothing to do with the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span> The modern mindset is pre-eminently scientific owing to the great progress that science has made. And the best method of freeing the mind from its inaccurate ways of thinking is to imbue it as fully as possible with the scientific spirit. It is therefore only one who possesses a clear knowledge of its methods and results i.e., who is able to make the reason as the highest means of inquiry that would be fit for Self-knowledge.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Vedanta itself admits its highest Truth that is, Atman or Brahman cannot be reached by any path other than that of reason and unless the reason is sharper than the ‘Edge of a razor'.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>One may feel satisfied with the religion, theology or mysticism in which one believes, but they are based ‘I’ which itself is an illusion. Thus, they are imagined on the base of the false self (ego) and false experience (waking). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Religion, theology, mystic practice and yoga are not the means to acquire </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Self</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">. the Absence of the reason is the absence of wisdom.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>The aim of every seeker should be to reach this highest level of Reason, by continued deeper Self-search.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Soul-centric reasoning largely covers the preliminary, indicating directly the way to the final, i.e., the rational means of attaining the goal.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> All religious, yogic and theoretical paths rely on the authority of intuitive Revelation and mystic experiences or Yogic ecstasy of Samadhi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The most advanced seekers take the path of reason which helps them unfold the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Some have no patience to pursue till to the end. For such a mindset believe firmly that the highest stage to attain is only the theological based on authority or the mystic based on intuition and not the rational. The highest order of Reason has to be reached with much patience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The Soul is realized through soul-centric reasoning. After this is attained, he realizes the fact that the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness pervades everything and everywhere in all the three states. Thus, all three states are nothing, but the illusion created out of consciousness.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>Soulcentric Reason is the highest means of attaining Self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The truth is beyond scriptures and egocentric intelligence. Thus in order to grasp, assimilate and realize the Advaitic truth the seeker to employ the soulcentric reasoning faculty.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /><br /><span style="background: white;">That is why </span></span><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Sage Sankara</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">says in the commentary in Vedanta-sutra that what is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow">evil, in something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /><span class="textexposedshow"><span>Thus, Seeker of truth should not believe blindly in traditional orthodox nonduality without verifying all the facts from every angle. One has to reflect through reasoning over and over again without getting tired of the process.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span><br /><span class="textexposedshow">There is no need to study the scriptures. One has to Self-search the truth and realize it without the scriptures. And then when he reads the scriptures he becomes aware the scriptures are also saying the same thing but everything is misinterpreted.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Mundaka Upanishad:~</span></b></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">This Atman cannot be attained through the study of the Vedas, nor through intelligence, nor through much learning. He who chooses Atman ~by him alone is Atman attained. It is Atman that reveals to the seeker Its true nature. </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 8pt;">(3 page70upanhsds by Nikilanada)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /><span class="textexposedshow"><span>It means the ultimate truth is beyond scriptures and egocentric intelligence. Thus, in order to grasp, assimilate and realize the Advaitic truth the seeker to employ the soulcentric reasoning faculty.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span> </span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">That is why Sage Sankara says:</span></b></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span>~ </span><b><span>VC ~58</span></b><span>. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar but are no good for Liberation.</span></span></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /><br /><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span>59.</span></b><span> The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.</span></span><br /><br /><span class="textexposedshow"><span><b>60</b>. </span></span><span class="textexposedshow">The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest which merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence, men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /><span class="textexposedshow"><span>There </span>is<span> nothing more rational, more intelligible and more un-dogmatic insights of </span><b><span>Sage Sri, Sankara</span></b><span>, is to drop all the theistic nonduality or Advaita which is meant for those who are incapable and not receptive to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span><br /></span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Bhagavad Gita: ~</span></b></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Reason as a means to reality. </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 8pt;">(Chap.18 verse 37)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In chap. 10 of in Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says:</span></b></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">~ I cannot save you, but I can give you Buddhi (reason). </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 8pt;">(chap. 10)</span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In chap. 10 of in Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says: ~</span></b></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> "I have given you the most secret teaching, now reflect over it all" Krishna plainly says reflect, think. </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 8pt;">(Verse 63 of Chap. 1</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">8</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 8pt;">)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Mundaka Upanishad says: ~</span></b></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Both states are harmful and take you away from the path of inquiry into truth. </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 8pt;">(Page 234)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Ashtavakra Gita: ~</span></b></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">It is not the absence of Buddhi (Reason) that can grasp Advaita but the man who possesses the highest intellect. Brains are necessary. Such a man, by merely hearing the truth mentioned will know it. </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 8pt;">(Page~ 224).</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Realizing the real God is real worship. Whatever is based on the false God yields no fruits. It is necessary to realize what God is supposed to be in actuality. </span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.08px;">God is not physical. God is present in the form of the Spirit. The Spirit is the cause</span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of the world and the Spirit itself is uncaused. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the standpoint of the Spirit, the form, time, space, and name are merely an illusion. The spirit alone is real and all else is an illusion. In reality, the spirit (God) and matter (the world in which we exist) are one. </span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><b><span>Bhagavad Gita: ~</span></b><span><b> </b></span></span><span><b>Brahmano<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"> hi </span>pratisthaham</b></span><span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span><b> </b>~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness (Spirit), which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b> (14.27). </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness (Spirit) 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. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><b><span>Lord Krishna says Ch ~V:</span></b><span> ~ “Those who know the Self in truth.". The last two words </span><span>(</span></span><span>tattvataha<span style="line-height: 16.08px;">) </span></span><span style="line-height: 16.08px;">are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.08px;">The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost Self. In </span>reality, <span style="line-height: 16.08px;"> there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span>Rig Veda: ~ </span></b><span>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?" <b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(10:48, 5) </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span>Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1</span></b><span> </span><span>clearly mention that God is “One”. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and worship in place of the real God. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span>Brihad</span></b><span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><b><span> Upanishad: ~ </span></b><span>“If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><b>Chandogya Upanishad</b><b><span>: ~ </span></b><b><span>Sarvam </span></b></span><b><span>khalvidam brahma</span></b><span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><b><span> ~</span></b><span> all this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span> </span><span>All the mantras and rituals are meant for the ignorant populace, which strongly believes, in the world in which he exists as a reality. For one who wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma </span></span><span>Gnana,<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"> the mantas will not help to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>That is why </span><b><span>Sage Sankara:~</span><span><span> VC-</span></span><span>61</span><span>.</span></b><span> </span><span>For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span>VC- v6~</span></b><span> 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 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span>Sage Sankara goes on to say: </span></b><span>~<span>A sickness of not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take the medicine. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.08px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Liberation does not come by merely saying the word “Brahman.” Brahman must be experienced. Until you allow this apparent universe to dissolve from your consciousness until you have realized Brahman, how can you find liberation just by saying the word Brahman? The result is merely noise.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.08px;">A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it, your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya, can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by perverted arguments.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span>Sage Sankara:</span></b><span> </span><span>~"That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman (God)."</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span>Thus, truth realization is Self-realization. Self-realization is God-realization. God- realization itself is real worship.</span><b><span>:~Santthosh Kumaar </span></b></span></span></div>
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