Path of love should not be mixed with path of wisdom because the path of love is based on the duality and path of wisdom is based on non-duality.

Love implies duality. Without the lover there is no love. Wherever there is duality there is ignorance.  Wherever there is ignorance the illusion is experienced as reality.   Thus the lover and the love are part of the illusion. 

In reality love and lover are one in essence. That essence is consciousness.  The consciousness or soul is the innermost self.  The innermost self is God. Call it Self, God, Christ, Brahman, inner Buddha or Emptiness or Nothingness or Spirit or Love it is all the same. 

When one becomes aware of the ultimate truth as a person of the world he sees that the self or God [consciousness] pervades in everything everywhere   in all the three states.  Thus it is necessary to realize the innermost self or God or Buddha or Christ, is the lover and love together.  

Thus our conditioned love conditioned by physicality will not be able to recognize unconditional love the innermost self.  

The love within the physical existence (practical world)   is very valuable in practical life.  Great master Paramahanasa Yogananad and many other sages in the past prescribed unconditional love to the humanity.   And unconditional love is very valuable tool for the humanity which is immersed in practical life and practical world.  We have to respect every sage for their service contribution to the humankind.  

The path of love, path of humanity is limited to the practical life within the practical world. The path of love and path of humanity are the best tool to serve the human kind within the practical life within the practical world. 

Gnani loves humanity in the practical world but inwardly he is fully aware of the truth that,  the practical life within the practical world is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint.

 Thus Path of love should not be mixed with path of wisdom because the path of love is based on the duality and path of wisdom is based on non-duality.  

Jesus said, "Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. 

It means one has to know the world which confronts him  to realize his body and the world are made of the same essence and that essence is Spirit (father).  

Sage Sri, Sankara says: one must first know what is before him. If he cannot know that, what else can he know or understand? If he gives up the external world in his inquiry, he cannot get the whole truth. 

[63. 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. (Sri, Sankara says in the Viveka Chudamani)   

Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. (And after they have reigned they will rest.)" 

When the seeker indulges in deeper self-search becomes aware of the fact that, the experience of birth, life, death and the world are mere illusion created out of spirit, he  will be in fear of losing his  physical identity  and the experience of the world, which  he is  deeply  attached.   But gradually his conviction grows about the innermost self the mind becomes still and rests in consciousness, the innermost self, which is God or Christ.  

Meher Baba said: - Give no importance to creed, dogma, caste or the performance of religious ceremonies and rites.

The only Real Existence is that of the One and only God Who is the Self in every (finite) self.

The only Real Love is the Love for this Infinity (God), which arouses an intense longing to see, know and become one with its Truth (God).

The only Real Sacrifice is that in which, in pursuance of this Love, all things—body, mind, position, welfare and even life itself—are sacrificed.

The only Real Renunciation is that which abandons, even in the midst of worldly duties, all selfish thoughts and desires.

The only Real Knowledge is the Knowledge that God is the inner dweller in good people and in so-called bad, in saints and in the so-called sinner. This Knowledge requires you to help all equally as circumstances demand without expectation of reward, and when compelled to take part in a dispute, to act without the slightest trace of enmity or hatred; to try to make.

The real love is the love for the innermost self. Thus ‘Love Thyself'. The self cannot be experienced, because the experience is possible only in the realm of duality.   There is neither experience nor experiencer in reality.  In self-awareness the body, ego and the world are not considered different from consciousness.

One has to have perfect understanding and march a head, surely and steadily, towards that Ultimate Reality, which is consciousness or Brahman or Christ or Buddha.

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.As deeper self-search points out:-  truth  is hidden  in the object (three states)alone that one has all changes.

 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.

If one wants to have absence of contradictions, absence of duality, there must be one entity, one being. If one has experience which is an object [mind], there is contradiction between subject and object, for "mind” is an object.

The duality is reality on the standpoint of the false self [ego or body as Self].  The duality is mere mirage on the base of the true self, which is formless consciousness. This understanding comes only to the serious seeker, who has real urge to know the ultimate truth, which is beyond the all the teachings and teachers. There is neither teaching, nor teacher, nor student in the realm of truth.  

Different paths will not converge to the same Ultimate Reality because they are based on the false self. They are not the different stages in the same path. People fight about the differences and greatness of their chosen paths but only through wisdom one can realize the Ultimate Reality.

One has to have perfect understanding and march a head, surely and steadily, towards that Ultimate Reality, which is consciousness or Brahman or Christ or Buddha. One becomes limited to the concepts, names and forms within the waking OR dream. Waking/dream originates from the soul.

The soul is the true self.  The soul is in the form of consciousness. Realizing the consciousness as the true self is truth realization. Consciousness is formless, limitless, permanent and unchanging, and by its nature non-dual and universal. The consciousness is the formless knower of the mirage (universe) which comes and goes.

Realize Brahman or ultimate truth here and now,  in this very life , not in next life and in ii next world by realizing the fact that this life itself is illusion.  

Why worship and glorify the GURUS and YOGIS (human form) in place of God when Veda bars such activities

Limiting the mind [I] to the physical entity is the cause of all confusion. Therefore, there is need to know what is mind, and what is the substance of the mind, to overcome all the confusion. Deeper self-search revels the fact that, the man and the world exists within the mind, and mind itself is the universe.

By limiting the mind to the physical entity [ego or waking entity] and viewing and judging the worldview, makes one think that he is apart from the world, which is the cause of experiencing the duality as reality. There is neither projector nor projection when one becomes aware of the formless witness, which consciousness the innermost self, because, consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states as their formless clay. Thus no second thing exist other than consciousness in all the three states. The mind [world] is non-existent on the standpoint of the consciousness the innermost self because the consciousness is the formless witness and also the consciousness is the formless substance of the three states. And the formless substance and witness are one in essence. Thus no second thing exist other than consciousness. Therefore,    consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman.

To realize this simple truth one need not go to any guru, one need not loose himself in labyrinth of philosophy; one need not spend his life time and indulge in guru or god glorification, one need not search truth in the books, one need not renounce his family life.   One has to be in the world but not of the world.

It is because of   our inherited samskara or conditioning we are carrying the baggage of the mental junk.  We have to burn all the junk, which is the blocking our realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman.

If one is seeking truth nothing but truth one has to drop the worshiping  and glorifying the physical gurus.  The guru and god glorification is for those who are not seeking truth. 

Vedas bars human worship:-

Translation 3.

"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."- (Yajur Veda 40:9.)

Than why worship and glorify the GURUS and YOGIS [human form]   in place of 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.

The Vedas are the only scriptures in the world which declare:- It is impossible to find and realize the truth via religion and scriptural study. Even Upanishads conform this. 

Katha Upanishad:- This Atman cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas, or by intelligence, or by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one Ataman reveals Its own form. ( Ch-II -23-P-20)

Mundaka Upanishad  :- This Atman cannot be attained through 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.(3 –page-70

Upanishads by Nikilanada)

When the Upanishad says:  the human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge and they indicate the personal gods, scriptures, worship and rituals are not the means to Self –Knowledge, then why anyone should indulge in it. The religion, concept of individualized god and scriptures are greatest obstacle to realize non-dual truth or self-realization, because they are based on false self.  The seeker of truth has to search the ultimate truth without losing himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, through deeper, inquiry, analysis and reasoning and assimilate and realize it.

That is why Sri Sankara, indicated  in Bhaja Govindam says: - [Jnana Viheena Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena] - one without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows.

Then it is no use going roundabout way, trace the Brahman which is the formless substance and witness of the universe, which is in the form of mind.  

By tracing the source of the mind or universe one will be able to realize the Brahman. Thus, self-knowledge is meant only for those who have intense urge, and courage to accept the truth with humility and reject the untruth. Since people start comparing with their scriptural knowledge, it becomes impossible to assimilate and realize the non-dual truth.   Therefore, there is no need to convince anyone other than our own-selves to get the firm conviction. 

So they clearly indicate rituals and theories are not meant for those who are searching for the higher knowledge or wisdom.   The path of wisdom is the only means.

Ish Upanishad declares: - Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide(10/11/12).

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 the validity of their inherited belief. 

For religion one can interpret texts as he likes, in whatever way that pleases him, he simply imagine away.  The idea of god injected in the past and inherited by people and they refuse to verify the facts, because they think it blasphemy even to question their inherited belief system. 

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 analysed 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. Scripters are not yardstick and scriptural truth is not proof.   Pundits take scripters 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 than blind belief based on the scriptures, belief is not truth.  So, doctrines are not the means to realize the ultimate truth. There is no need to follow them.

Gaudapada says: - the merciful Veda teaches karma and upaasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

So they clearly indicate rituals and theories are not meant for those who are searching for the higher knowledge or wisdom.   The path of wisdom is the only means. thus it proves that the Advaitic orthodoxy is not the means to acquire self-knowledge it is meant for lower and middling intellect.    

All the orthodox Advaitins indulge and immersed themselves in ritualistic oriented life style and follow the path of karma and upasana which is meant for lower and middling intellect   and not for 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 life style leads to Moksha (liberation).   Orthodox  Adavaita is not   the means to acquire Self - Knowledge.  Those who are seeking truth have to do their own homework without scriptures  in order to acquire self-knowledge.

Doubts and Confusions arise when seeker finds the scripters and yoga are inadequate or useless to quench his spiritual thirst.   Disappointments in religion or yoga or even science imply error or ignorance.

When serious seeker reaches a stage with all his baggage of accumulate knowledge, then uncertainty haunts him.  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.

The 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 Bramha 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. 

Upanishads:- They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Ataman. The ordinary man does not understand their way. (Chapter IV — Alatasanti Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada)

This passage indicates the fact that everything is Ataman/spirit. The one who views and judges the worldview on the base of his birth /body will not realize the fact that, the man including the world is created sustained and finally dissolves as Ataman. Thus Ataman alone is, and all else is mirage.

Thus Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana is the aim of every human being. Since everyone thinks the physical body is the self, their aim is misdirected and they focus their attention on materiality which makes one feel the duality [waking] as reality.

A Gnani is a great spiritual spring***

A Gnani is the one who has realized the ‘Self’ is not the form but the ‘Self’ is formless Soul. He is released from experiencing duality as a reality because he observes the worldview on the base of the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.

He is fully aware of “what is truth” and what is false in the midst of the waking experience. He lives in the world but he is not of the world in the midst of the form, time and space.

He always reveals in the ‘Self’-awareness. He has no identification with the body and the world within the waking or the dream. Hence, he has no idea of enjoyment or enjoyer when he exhausts the residue of his action within the waking/dream. He has no idea of action or agency. He roams about happily without attachment to duality, with a balanced mind and an equal vision. His state is indescribable. He is fully aware of the fact that his body and his experience of the world are merely an illusion created out of the consciousness.  For him, everything is the consciousness nothing but the consciousness.

 A Gnani is a great spiritual spring. He is an enlightened Soul who has knowledge of the ‘Self’, which is in the form of consciousness. He is pre-eminent amongst men. He is the conqueror of the mind. He is absolutely free from experiencing duality as reality.

 For a Gnani, there is no distinction between a rogue and a saint, gold and stone, high and low, man and woman, man and animal, censure and praise, honor and dishonor. He beholds the one ‘Self’ everywhere. He sees consciousness in everyone and everywhere in the three states. As he is mindless, all differences and barriers have vanished from him.

In the vast ocean of the consciousness of nondual bliss, the Gnani neither sees nor hears. He remains in the tranquillity of the consciousness and in its nondual nature. He sees true –’Self’ as second less as  the natural state. His vision or experience is beyond description. He has attained supreme quiescence. He is ever peaceful. He is of a pure nature. He has realized true ‘Self’ to be pure consciousness alone. He is ever resting at perfect ease in the pleasure-garden of his own ‘Self’.

 The eye cannot perceive consciousness. The mind cannot reach consciousness. The gross worldly intellect cannot grasp  the consciousness. The speech cannot describe Consciousness. The speech returns back along with the mind, as it is not able to describe the  consciousness inadequate terms because it exists in its true form prior to the appearance of the mind, which is in the form of the universe. 

Gnani's say "They are baffled in their efforts to describe consciousness. The Consciousness is indescribable. To describe the consciousness or Soul is to deny his own existence." How can a finite mind grasp the infinite? But the consciousness can be directly realized by that aspirant who is equipped with the sharp, subtle and pure intellect and learn to view and judge the worldview on the true base. 

Is a fish inside or outside of water? The fish searching for water is as silly as a cloud searching for the sky.

One, who knows the fish and water and cloud and sky are one, in essence, is a real Gnani. For him, there is neither inside nor outside. Until one thinks the fish is the fish, cloud is the cloud; the water is the water he will remain in the illusion of inside outside.

For Gnani even though he has a body, he is bodiless, even though he has the ego, he is egoless, even though he lives in the world[duality] he is in wordless because he has the firm conviction that the world in which exist is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. The Soul is the innermost ‘Self’. Realizing the Soul as the ‘Self’ is ‘Self’-realization.

On the standpoint of the Soul the innermost ‘Self’, the world in which we exist is mere an illusion. Thus, whatever is going on in the world is just a play of the consciousness.

Thus, the Gnani has perfect understanding and realization of the fact that the diversity is a mere mirage created out of single stuff in the midst diversity.

‘Self’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to realize the diversity is mere an illusion. The consciousness which is the cause of the illusion is real and eternal. The consciousness it’Self’ is uncaused. The consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman. 

Mixing religion, god, scriptures, and yoga and theories are greatest hindrance in pursuit of truth

When the Upanishad says:  the human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge and they indicate the personal gods, scriptures, worship and rituals are not the means to Self –Knowledge, then why anyone should indulge in it.

The religion, concept of individualized God and scriptures are the greatest obstacle to realize non-dualistic or Advaitic  truth  or self-realization, because they are based on the false self.  The seeker of truth has to search the ultimate truth without losing himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, through deeper, inquiry, analysis and reasoning and assimilate and realize it. 

Many people follow both Bhakti as well as Jnana.  Advaitic sages in the past composed numerous hymns for various Gods and Goddesses by mixing both dual and non-dualistic ideas.

Many sages used to illustrate, the formless (Nirakar God) ocean water under the cold currents of bhakti freezes take a shape as the ice (Saakar God). The same ice (Saakar God) under the heat of Gyan dissolves and again becomes the formless ocean (Niraakar God).

All the Advaitins believe in god and goddesses (Vidya) and performing rituals  and other sacrifices(Avidya) both are hindrance to self-knowledge according to Ish Upanishads,  then why the seeker of truth needs to worship of  god and goddesses, when essence of Advaita  is Atman is Brahman (soul or self as the ultimate reality).  When the self is formless there is no need pada pooja (feet worship) Advaitin gurus to get freedom. A guru who preaches conduct as the means to freedom believes in birth, life death and the world as reality, whereas the Advitic sage Sri, Sankara declares the world as unreal.  Therefore, how actions performed in an unreal world can get moksha or freedom. Therefore,there is a need to know the fact that the self is not physical in order to understand and assimilate and realize the truth beyond physicality.

 Isa Upanishads indicates that: 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 the darkness. It surely indicates the fact that, the seeker of truth has to drop the worshiping god and goddess in order to get the self-knowledge.

It also indicates that, Religious Rituals (Avidya) is karma (action) and therefore a hindrance. By performing Agnihotra and other sacrifices (Avidya) is a roundabout way of purifying the mind, and it is also groping in the dark.

In addition, it indicates the karma is limited only to the religious rituals, not on the whole human life. This karma theory based on the human conduct must have been adopted from Buddhism and other theories based on human conducts. 

When it says: Perform the obligatory karmas without any attachment to the fruits, and at the same time worship gods and goddesses, again without any desire to go to heaven - then you can get the benefit of both, liberation and bliss. For those who are not yet ready to renounce, this path is recommended, it mean that the religion and its  idea of god and goddesses and code of conducts, and its rituals are meant for the mass who are incapable of thinking of the beyond.

In addition, it also speaks of heaven the abode of gods, where one goes after death, and it speaks of rebirth, this contradiction, seeker has to conclude that religion, rituals god and its code of conducts is meant for the mass that is not receptive to self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

When the self is not the body (‘ego’) whatever one sees, knows, believes, experiences and feels on the base of the body (ego) as self is bound to be an illusion.  Thus, the karma performed in illusion is bound to be an illusion. The birth, life and death is happening within the illusion, therefore it is bound to be an illusion. Thus, rebirth and reincarnation theories based on the false self within the false experience are bound to be an illusion on the base of the true self. Only the witness of the illusion is real (Brahman).  Therefore, everything has to be viewed and judged, on the base of the Formless Witness (soul)in order to overcome the illusion/duality. 

 Seeker of truth has to know somewhere he is going wrong, and it is for the seeker to go on his own and remove the obstacle.   Mixing religion, god, scriptures, and yoga and  theories are a greatest hindrance in pursuit of truth. Moreover, attachment to scriptures, personal god and religious code of conduct keeps one permanently in the grip of duality.

For the same reason Raman Maharshi said:  fortunate are the one who do not lose themselves in the labyrinths of philosophy. Bhagwan says: Take Vedanta, for instance: it speaks of 15 pranas the names and functions of it   which the student is asked to commit memory. Will it not be sufficient if he thought, only one prana does the whole work of maintaining the body? Again the antakaran is said to think, to desire, to will, to reason etc. Why all these details? Has anyone seen antakarana, or all these pranas? Do they really exist? They are conceptual divisions invented by teachers of philosophy by their excessive analysis. Where do all these concepts end? Why should confusion created and then explained away? Fortunate is the man who does not lose him self in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the source from which they all arise. (GURU RAMANA .By S.S Cohen -vii Danger of philosophy-Page -58-59)

The most valuable contribution of  Sage Sri, Sankara is that he gained general consciousness on the issue that the authoritative explanation of Upanishads, Gita and Brahma Sutra was the final say in the  matter of religion. Anything that goes contrary to the trio is not authentic. He also made a clear distinction between Vedas and Upanishads in his commentary on Gita. He stated that the Karma Kand of the Vedas deal with the injunctions relating to the performance of duties and actions. These are for ordinary householders.

  

The path of religion, path of yoga and the path of wisdom were intended for different classes of people. The wisdom is for the advanced seekers of truth. It deals with the nature of the ultimate Truth and Reality. It is meant for superior aspirants who have an inner urge to know the truth and it is not for those who are immersed in earthly desires.

Sage Sri Sankara’s whole teaching can be summed up into one sentence, ‘There is nothing else but Brahma. He says that the Absolute Existence, Absolute Knowledge and Absolute Bliss is Real. The universe is not real. He says that Brahma 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,Sri, Sankar 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 Brahma, 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 Sri, Sankar’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) is unreal the formless is real (soul or spirit or self or FW).  Therefore, only Atman is real because there is no second thing other than Atman.

The path of religion, path of yoga and the path of wisdom were intended for different classes of people. The wisdom is for the advanced seekers of truth. It deals with the nature of the ultimate Truth and Reality. It is meant for superior aspirants who have an inner urge to know the truth and it is not for those who are immersed in earthly desires.

The scientists now concluded that you are not the brain (body). Consciousness requires the joint operation of brain, body and world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."

 The Biology of Consciousness

by Alva Noë. Hill and Wang, 2009

Alva Noe, a University of California, Berkeley, philosopher and cognitive scientist, argues that after decades of concerted effort on the part of neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers "only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious ... has emerged unchallenged: we don't have a clue." The reason we have been unable to explain the neural basis of consciousness, he says, is that it does not take place in the brain. Consciousness is not something that happens inside us but something we achieve it is more like dancing than it is like the digestive process. To understand consciousness the fact that we think and feel and that a world shows up for us we need to look at a larger system of which the brain is only one element. Consciousness requires the joint operation of brain, body and world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."

Thus, science is going in the right direction in its invention, and one day it will declare that everything is consciousness, which Shankar declared 1200 years back –everything is Atman- because Atman is in the form of consciousness. 

Self is not your brain. The brain body and the world are one in essence.  That essence is the soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  The soul is the innermost self. 

Thus we have to know the fact that Buddha, Goudpada and Sri,Sankara are not only reformers but also  the greatest  scientists. Since there original thesis have been lost in the labyrinths of philosophy and mutilated by pundits and priest craft, it becomes very difficult understand and assimilate the wisdom expounded by the great masters. In addition, the conservativeness of the orthodox scholars will not allow any research other than playing with the words, which suits the mass mind sets, because of their egocentric outlook.

 All the add-ons have to be deleted, in order to understand and assimilate the real fragrance of the wisdom expounded by the great masters of Advaita, but it is a hurricane task.  Thus, it is no use going through all the scriptures, when there is a direct path to nondual truth.  The same time and effort can be used to reach the nondual destination, in lesser time and effort. 

Just because we can't see the soul it doesn’t mean it doesn't exist, although this is a common way in which people deny the existence of the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.

Just because we can't see the soul it doesn’t mean it doesn't exist, although this is a common way in which people deny the existence of the soul, which is in the form of consciousness. 

People think the soul does not exist because their master say so or some teaching say so or some scriptures say so.  First they must know the fact that, the soul is not individual but it is universal it pervades the whole universe as its formless substance.  

However, one can attest to the fact that, it does exist, because the whole physical existence is dependent on it. Even though one can't see it but he cannot exist without it. Without it nothing can exists and nothing can be known or seen or experienced.  Until one thinks his body or ego as self, he will remain ignorant of the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.  Thus he is remains unaware of the consciousness because he is in duality. He identifies the self with the physical body and becomes ignorant of the soul and experiences the duality as reality.  

Man remains as the part of the objective world and tries to discover the ultimate truth not realizing the fact that, he and his experience of the universe is an object to the formless subject. He applies it to things seen as an individual. This is because he is ignorant of the relation between the formless subject [soul] and the object [mind or universe].  He judges everything on the base of the object as subject and trying to know and realize the ultimate truth on the base of objectified subject.   Whatever objects are known by the ego, are objects within the object(universe). 

Thoughts are also objects because it is the part of the objective universe. The thoughts will not rise without the form, which is an object. Whether the objects are there or not, consciousness will always be there, even in deep sleep.

Psychologists say that if the object is not there to draw ones attention, then there is no consciousness. The latter, therefore insist on consciousness being a relation between one who is aware and an object of which he is aware. It is obvious that we differ in the meaning of the term consciousness.

 Ultimate truth means the knowledge of the non-relation, and relation whereas psychology as well as in religious or pseudo-Vedanta Consciousness is only Witnessing.

Psychologists have analyzed much as far as subject-object relation i.e. mind plus object equals consciousness and then stopped. But they have to analyze still further in the direction of noting that all objects are constantly changing, illusion, which implies that there is a constant standard of reference, something that notes the changes because it keeps unchanged itself. That something is Consciousness.

The idea of change presupposes existence of something unchanging, how does one distinguish this change from changelessness? By what means do one has to know that change has occurred? There is, there must be a changeless knower of the ever-changing; whilst all changes the consciousness remains unchanged.

Thoughts are arising within the mirage and pass away every moment. Every object is an idea within the mirage. Hence every object has no more value than that of a thought because both are part of the mirage. 

The moment is time. The time creates division in consciousness, which is the true self.  The past, present and future exists within the myth and so also this and that.