Non-dualistic truth is ultimate truth or Brahman. All dualistic
systems hold false self as real self and false experience as reality. Non- dualistic wisdom is culmination of all
systems including theistic non-duality. The true non-dualist will not quarrel and
argue with any theoretical philosophy because he is fully aware of the fact that,
this orthodox theistic non-dualistic scholars or pundits like Dualist sages could not distinguish
between ‘I’ and ‘formless witness.’ The 'I' was the witness. Their highest was
the Jiva. One is so much attached to the 'I' that he do not want to think that
'I' does not exist. Again one is unable to detach the ‘I’ from the Real
witness.
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.
That is why Sri,
Sankara says in VivekaChudamani :-
58. 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.
59. 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.
60. 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.
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?
62. A disease does not leave off if one simply
utter the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct
realisation one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.
There is nothing more rational, more
intelligible and more un-dogmatic insights of Sri, Sankara, is to drop all the
theistic non-duality or Advaita which is meant for those who are incapable and
not receptive to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
If one
merely theories, tries to understand through his intellect and there contended
he cannot become a Gnani but he becomes a scholar or pundit. Seeker
of truth must make what he has understood and assimilated has to be realized, to get firm conviction of the non-
dualistic truth or ultimate truth or Brahman, than
only it is possible for him to transcend all the limitations of the experience of
form, time and space.
The
existence beyond limitations of form, time and space is known as Moksha or
Nirvana. Spiritual freedom or self-realization is the goal of every seeker of
truth.