In pursuit of truth the ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed.

Those who realize the fact that, the Self is not physical (form) but the self is consciousness (formless) enter into the realm of nondual tranquillity. They are fully aware of the fact that, the consciousness is the true self and it pervades everywhere and in everything in the universe, which is in the form of the mind. Thus the mind which is in the form of  universe is mere mirage created out of consciousness.   The mind or universe is myth on the standpoint of consciousness, which is the true self.  Whatever the mind or universe contains is myth.  Thus, the birth, life and death or pleasure and pain which are happenings within the mind or universe are myth.   Thus judging the truth on the base of the physical self /ego is erroneous. 

The gross universe is merged into the mental universe in the sense that when it is analyzed, it is found to exist inseparably in and as the mind alone. All "spiritual" planes are really mental: those who regard them as different or higher will remain ignorant.

A Gnani is free from experiencing the illusion (body + universe) as reality, he is fully aware of the fact that, his body and his experience of the world as consciousness, which is ultimate truth.  

People who are incapable to inquire and reason are tending to follow some philosophy without verification. Therefore the more ignorant they are the easier to get them into a religious fold. Religion is so strong and popular because it makes no demand on the intelligent: It simply requires belief in guru and his teachings.

It never strikes believer to doubt whether his inherited belief system is true. They never use their reason because they start and conclude that their belief system   alone is true, because they never question.

Theological philosophers say God is a perfect being, but they have never known God, never proved his existence; hence their ascription of perfection to Him is purely self-imagined or assumed.

The scholastic or mystic argument is endless. If one says "God is formless” another will reply, "No, God has attributes! If one says "his religion is higher" another will reply, "No, it is lower." It is impossible to get anywhere with such talk because both sides are merely imagining because they think on the base of the false self and false experience. When the self is not physical then whatever seen, known, believed and experienced as person is bound to be falsehood.   Therefore, there is need to know the fact that, the self is formless. 

The paradise or heavens and hell are mere religious injected imagination.  When the self is formless then the experience of birth, life death and the universe are mere mirage.  But where people have got a little thinking capacity, they begin to disbelieve through the contradictions of various contending orthodox claims and descriptions.

               

For religion one can interpret texts as he likes, in whatever way that pleases him, he simply imagine away.

 Mundaka Upanishad:- The 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; mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes not 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.

In pursuit of truth the ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed. Pundits who take scriptures for granted are not Gnanis.

Pundits teach that all is your-self, but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none can prove it. Rational proof is needed, so that one arrive at knowing truth i.e. wisdom; punditry is mere dogma, parrotism, repetition of what they read in scripture. Scriptures are not yardstick and scriptural truth is not proof.   Pundits take scriptures as authority.   Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.

Pundits have to test truth in this world not in the next world.  There is no proof other then blind belief based on the scriptures, belief is not truth.  So, doctrines are not the means to realize the truth. There is no need to follow them.

Doubts and Confusions arise when seeker finds the scriptures and yoga are inadequate or useless to quench his spiritual thirst.   Disappointments in religion or yoga or even science imply error or ignorance. Seeker reaches a stage whether he is right?" Where is the certainty that he is proceeding on right lines?" Thus doubts arise and the inquiring spirit comes and impels to search elsewhere for truth where it will not be possible even to have doubt. The test is therefore in experience. And only in non-duality, where there are no two to argue about views or to have difference of opinion can such doubtlessness be possible.  Belief depends upon unstable bases whereas certainty depends on proof.

Seeker of truth has to get rid of his doubts through deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning on his own, to realize the fact that, the self is not the form but self is formless. Thus his analysis and reasoning has to be based on the formless not on the form.  By simply go on believing and accepting whatever said by the punditry will not lead one towards path of wisdom. All the doubt has to be got rid of "by the sword of Self - Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana."  The scriptures, yoga are not necessary if one follows the inner (formless) path.  Religion and yoga are not the means to path of wisdom. 

There is a controversy as to the meaning of Maya. One Advaitic School says it is a shakti of Brahman whereby both illusion and creation are brought about.

How do you know that it is the truth? If one bases it on the sayings of Rishis and saints, granting that they honestly believed in their experiences, there is still the query how do they know that these experiences were the truth?

Even in dream whatever experienced becomes unreal when waking takes place.  Similarly when wisdom dawns one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity.  Thus whatever experienced as waking experience is as real as dream.  Thus for a Gnani all the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness, because he is fully aware of the fact that, the witness of the three states is not the body but consciousness.  A Gnani is fully aware of the fact that, his body, ego and universe are nothing but consciousness. Thus he finds the experience of any sort is play of consciousness and experience is mere mirage.  The one witnesses the experience, which is in the form of universe or mind is mere mirage.     

 For even mentally challenged people believe in what they see and feel and yet their experiences are often quite untrue. What then is it in us, which ascertains the truth of these experiences? If one says it is mystic experience, then everyone’s experience differs from another. Such disagreement does not settle the matter. Thus these are the two common sources—scriptural authority and Yogic Samadhi--but both are shown untenable because both are based on the false self([ego).

Mystic experience or Yogic Samadhi is not wisdom. Yogis consider the body as self and body as the author of the Samadhi or experience, whereas the self is not physical but formless. Thus the body and the world are mere experience.  The witness of the experience is always formless and apart. Thus the body and the world are an object to the formless witness. Thus any kind of experience is mere mirage, which comes and goes as mind or universe.  Thus, whatever an individual experience, experienced as a person, within the universe, bound to be mirage.  Thus yogi Samadhi or mystic experience is individual experience based on the false self within the false experience.  Thus there is a need to trace the formless witness of the three states mentally and drop the three states (mirage) mentally in order bring unity is diversity in midst of the mirage.          

 In the presence of great yogis one may really feel much peace, satisfaction and contentment. But what has that to do with the question of truth?" The man, who indulges in sensual pleasure, may also feel much satisfaction and contentment; his feeling is similar to the mystic's. but both the feelings are temporary .

Theology, fiction-writing, religion, poetry all belong to the same class--appeal to belief, fancy, imagination, not truth. When one cannot know his own self is not the body, how can he hope ever to know ultimate truth?

God cannot exist without man’s existence. If man is not there God is not there. When man is not self then why bring Him in? If God really were in every particle of everyone, as mystics claim, then everyone will be able to create universe, because everyone will be God.

It is impossible to prove the existence of God by any reasoning: one can only assume gods existence.   Yoga and mysticism are primitive things which appealed in the past to early races; now they indicate undeveloped mind when they are taken for truth, because they are based on the false self within the false experience. When self is formless, all the form [ego] based theories and practices hold no water.   

People think Advaita is the best, because the Vedas say so.  One can arrive at the same
conclusion without any scriptures by way of reasoning based on the soul as self which is in the form of consciousness. The habitual reasoning based on the “I” as self has to be discarded in order to grasp, assimilate and realize the non-dual truth.

The whole Advaitic teaching can be summed up into one sentence, ‘There is nothing else but Brahman. It says that the Absolute Existence, Absolute Knowledge and Absolute Bliss is Real. The universe is not real. It says that Brahman and Atman are one. The ultimate and the Absolute Truth is the Self, which is one though appearing as many in different individuals. The individual has no reality. Only the Self is real; the rest, mental and physical are but passing appearances.

 In fact Sage  Sri, Sankara states a paradox- the world is and is not. It is neither real nor unreal. It leads us to recognize the existence of Maya. He thinks that the world is illusory from one perspective and from the second it is nothing but Brahman, Itself in manifestation. This apparent world is Maya and has its basis in Brahman, the Eternal. It looks as real. It has names and forms and actually, it is not real In the light of true knowledge, it disappears and Self-alone shines as real. However Sage  Sri, Sankara’s Mayavad has not been accepted by many preachers and philosophers.

When Sri, Sankara says clearly, 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 in different individuals. The individual has no reality. Only the Self is Real; the rest, mental and physical are but passing appearances, then it indicates the form (waking or duality or mind or universe) is unreal and the formless soul (formless witness) is real.  Therefore, only Atman is real because there is no second thing exist other than Atman, which is in the form of consciousness.

The ultimate truth has nothing to do with Scriptures and it is independent of scriptures.  The point is:  though it is taught by the Vedas, it does not require any belief in the infallibility of Vedas; in other words even if an individual or some other religion were to propose the same thing, a person with an open mind would come to the same conclusion that there is a fourth state, that it is Brahman - and that it is the same as the self.

People think that the enlightenment is about the experience of the timeless, formless, space less unmanifested dimension and it is possible by transcending ego.  They also think that the universe is born millions of years ago and the universe erupted from the big void, from noting ness.   But these ideas are mere speculation based on the false self within the false experience.

Where there is experience then there is duality.  Where there is duality then there is always illusion. Where there is illusion then there is always ignorance. Where there is ignorance there is always ego. Where there is ego the false hood experienced as reality. Therefore, getting rid of the falsehood in its totality is necessary to realize the reality. Thus, transcending ego alone one cannot gets nondual reality, the whole false hood, which is in the form of mind or universe has to transcended mentally  in order realize the ultimate reality.    

It is erroneous to say that only by transcending the ego; one is able to experience formless, timeless and space-less unmanifested dimension. It is wrong to say that the universe erupted from the big void, from nothingness. All this are mere imaginations based on the false self.   

It is traditional belief that, if one meditates; he assumes no position in relationship with thoughts. One transcends his thought process. So when one transcends thoughts, he transcends mind, one transcend time. But all these belief based theoretical practices are not wisdom. Only through wisdom one is able to realize the ultimate truth which is beyond illusory form, time space which is in the form of universe.   

Those who lack the intelligence to discriminate between formless witness (subject) and three states (object) will not be able to grasp what is real and what is unreal. Both subject and object are consciousness, not subject alone.

The truth can never change. The nature of truth is, it can never be changed under any circumstances. It may be misrepresented. It must apply to the whole of existence, to the whole of the universe. It is in the object (three states) alone that one has all changes, as deeper analysis points out.

 The subject (formless witness) remains unchanged. The subject (formless witness), as such remains immortal. It can never die for it never changes. The body and world are an object, and goes, but the subject or knower of the body and the universe, can never go. Seeker has to take this principle as his guiding thread and non-dual truth becomes easy to grasp. The formless witness can never be subject to the changes of the object; it is unchanged. The mistake usually made is that subject becomes object, or that object is subject.