Direct realization of ultimate truth or Brahman will not come by hearing the sermons of the gurus or scholars

When one is unable to quench his spiritual thirst from his guru or teaching he has to look elsewhere to clear the cobwebs of his understanding and to move forward in his spiritual quest.

It is difficult for tradition-bound people to accept anything as truth other than what they inherited from then parental grooming. Only intense urge to know the ultimate truth and courage to accept the truth after verification with better understanding one will be able to drop all his accumulated dross, which is the main obstacle in Self-Realization.

A person who is not able to grasp the non-dual truth should constantly reflect on the formless substance witness of the three states, without distraction. 

A person who has realized the fact that, the Self is neither the waking entity nor self is dream entity but  self is the the formless  soul ,which is present in the form of consciousness.  Consciousness is   the formless substance and witness of the three states. 

There is no need to renounce the worldly duties in order to acquire Self-Knowledge OR Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana  because it is inner [mental] journey one can continue with his pursuit whenever he finds spare time.

 His practical life within the practical world does not conflict with the Self-Knowledge.   through Self-Knowledge one realizes  the fact that, the   universe in which he exists  is not real but mere  illusion and that the Self is pure Consciousness is not opposed to activities of practical life within the practical world. 

 In order to perform worldly activities within the practical world it is not necessary to believe that the world is real. Only the right means are necessary. These means are the mind, speech, body and external objects. They do not disappear on the attainment of enlightenment but only their unreal nature is exposed. The same way the unreal nature of the dream is exposed when waking takes place, the unreal nature of  waking reality is exposed when non-dual  wisdom dawns.   

The injunctions and prohibitions of the orthodoxy have no application to those who are in path of wisdom or Gnana. They apply only to those who look upon themselves as belonging to a certain caste or sect or stage of life.

The religion, caste and creed are creations of man to live in certain way of life within the society in certain order as prescribed in scriptural doctrine.   Religions pertain only to the individual within the practical world, and not to the Self which is formless soul or  Consciousness, which pervades all the three states as their formless substance and witness.  Thus how can one judge what is truth pass judgment or opinion when the self, which not an individual but self is  formless soul or conciousness.  

A Gnani is completely free from all human attributes by realizing the fact that, the self not human has anything to gain from action or inaction, meditation or japa, or rituals and yoga.

A person who meditates continuously attains identity with the object of meditation, but this identity ceases if the practice of meditation is given up. But the realization of the Self, once attained through knowledge, is never lost. Every living being including the universe is in reality consciousness, but is ignorant of this fact. Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana  only reveals this truth.

Because of ignorance, which conceals their real nature, people do not realize the purpose of life.  The sages in past  thought just as begging is better than starving, it is better to practice devotion and meditation rather than other pursuits for those  who are incapable of grasping and realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman,  therefore  they prescribed   Bhakti and yoga.  

Sages in the past might have prescribed Performance of the rituals laid down in the scriptures is superior to being engrossed in practical life within the practical world. 

 The serious seekers of truth have to take path of reason and discrimination. By becoming aware of the non-dual (attributeless) consciousness, which is the true self, leads one to direct realization.

Conviction becomes firmer on the non-dual (attributeless) consciousness matures into Self-Awareness.  Self –Awareness brings unity in diversity in the midst of diversity (waking).

In self-awareness there is still the distinction of body, ego and experience of the world because there is no division in consciousness because everything is consciousness because one is aware they are mere mirage created out of consciousness. 

When one is able to discriminate between the dual (waking or dream) and non-dual (deep sleep) experiences, leads to self-awareness   and illusory duality never remains as reality.  There is then a perfect realization of ultimate truth or Brahman as immutable, association -less, eternal, Self-luminous, without a second and infinite. 

Inquiry into the nature of the Self by deeper self-search and then reflecting on them is the direct means to Self-realization.  

 Direct realization of ultimate truth or Brahman will not come by hearing the sermons of the gurus or scholars. Intellectual understand of the non-dual truth though essential, is not sufficient. Seeker must constantly reflect mentally on the nature of the self, which is in the form consciousness.  

Faith in belief system obstructs the rise of direct knowledge. Accumulated knowledge is what obstructs the rise of self - knowledge.

 Deeper-self-search should be continued until realization. If one does not get realization he will get it as his understanding matures and when all obstacles have been eliminated. 

If even over a long period realization does not arise, it is due to various impediments. Realization will dawn when the impediments are removed. 

The veil of ignorance, which is in the form of form, time and space, will vanish when the wisdom dawns.  Thus the division within the consciousness also no longer remains as reality.  Thus, the illusory reality loses its luster of reality in self –awareness.  One knows his body, ego and his experience of the world as mere mirage created out of consciousness.  Thus consciousness alone is reality the forms and names and things are mere illusion. 

Who sees the universe as reality may try to deny it.  What has the experience of birth, life and death to do? In self-awareness one who sees his body, ego and universe but he is fully aware of the fact that they too are nothing but consciousness.  

If one think he is born in this world grew up and got married and have children and grandchildren and he is 90 years of age in a dream and when he wakes up the dream becomes unreal. The sense of form, time and space of the dream were reality within the dream. Similarly the sense of form, time and space will prevail as reality until the waking entity , which is in pursuit of truth becomes aware of the fact , it is not the self but the formless knower or witness of the three states which comes and goes is the true self. 

If one dreams he was poor farmer he did not know that one of his ancestors had buried a large quantity of gold under the ground in his field lives, when someone who knows the secret informs him about the treasure, he collects it and lives happily but when waking takes place the dream reality is never again becomes reality.  Similarly when wisdom dawns the waking reality never again prevail as reality to a Gnani, even though they exist.  

 A yogi cannot attain realization because he thinks his body to be body and world to be world and fails to see them as consciousness and thinks his experience of Samadhi is because of his individual effort. The individual experience is limited to waking experience is mere illusion. Thus even his Samadhi is also limited to the waking experience, which is mere illusion. He thinks the thoughtlessness is Samadhi but thoughts are of the individuality. Thoughts disappear even in deep sleep. Therefore deep sleep is not wisdom. If one thinks thoughtlessness is Samadhi and Samadhi is Brahman then any one get knowledge of Brahman by taking sleeping pills or hemp.   

Some of the impediments are: intense attachment to particle life within the particle world taking them as reality; lack of subtlety of the intellect, indulging in perverse arguments based on their accumulated second-hand unverified knowledge and scriptural mastery which makes them more and more egoic and orthodox attitude and belief in personal god ,karma theory, rebirth, heaven, hell and sin. 

People are making unlimited sacrifices and enduring unlimited suffering in the name of protecting their religion and god. They are therefore ignorant about the truth and incapable of understanding the ultimate truth, which is universal god. All organized religions have unequivocally claimed man for the life in the truth; thus it is sheer folly to fight in the name of religion and god. 

It is time that humanity had a fresh vision of truth that the mind, which is in the form of universe, is myth and consciousness is the only thing that is real and that matters.  On the base of consciousness as self, the physical life is a vain and empty pursuit of illusory values. 

Parental grooming is the main cause of religious influence upon the mass mind-set and it cannot be wiped out without knowing the truth of one’s own existence. Thus, teaching children to view and judge everything on religious point of view by their parents, which warps the minds and destroys the capacity to think beyond the belief system of their grooming.

People who are yearning for spiritual truth will not find it what they are seeking for. Religious truth is individual truth and it is not universal truth because the religion is based on individuality. 

As one goes in deeper investigation find nothing satisfying in any religion.  The more he learns of any religious doctrine they become aware of the fact that, the religion is not the means for self-realization because the true ‘Self” is not the form but the true self is formless.  The religion is based on the false self (ego) and false experience (universe). Religion takes the false self as real self and false experience as reality. Thus whatever is based on the false self and false experience is bound to be falsehood.     

The obsession with "our sins" having been "washed away by water of river  would be regarded as evidence of a serious mental illness in an individual within any sane society, but when this is an obsession of millions of people it becomes "religious faith", held by many others to be something that should never be criticized.

It was desperately important for the believers of their belief system for some reason that others shared their beliefs because they assume that their religious doctrine is literally true, and then justify their beliefs because "God says so in their doctrine ".

It is no use of arguing with someone who has faith in his belief system because for him there can be no possible refutation of what he believes, so rational argument is entirely useless. He clings to his belief so strongly that he makes no distinction between the truth and his belief. One has to know the fact that god cannot exist without his existence. The truth does not depend on gods’ existence but it entirely depends on man’s existence.   Thus it is foolish to venture in knowing the truth of gods existence without verifying the facts about his own existence. 

Deeper self-search  revel the fact that, the self is   neither the body, nor the ego.  If the self is not the body nor the ego  then  it proves the fact that, whatever is seen, known, believed and experienced on the base of the  self as body or ego is bound to be false hood.  Thus arguing on the standpoint of the body or ego, which is not the “self”, is erroneous.  Thus the whole argument has to be based on the true self, which is not the body or ego.   Thus it is necessary to realize the fact that, the “self” is not the form but the “self” is formless in order to realize the Advaitic truth.