It is generally believed that the Buddha and Mahavira were the first to attack the Vedas. It is not so. Lord Sri Krishna him’Self’’ spoke against them***

Lord teaches us in the Gita and in it, he lashes out against the karmakanda. It is generally believed that the Buddha and Mahavira were the first to attack the Vedas.

It is not so. Lord Sri Krishna him’Self’’ spoke against them long before these two religious leaders. At one place in the Gita, he says to Arjuna :"The Vedas are associated with the three qualities of sattva, rajas, and tamas.

 You must transcend these three qualities. Full of desire, they (the practitioners of Vedic rituals) long for paradise and keep thinking of pleasures and material prosperity. They are born again and again and their minds are never fixed in Samadhi, these men clinging to Vedic rituals.

“In another passage Krishna declares:~  "Not by the Vedas is ‘‘Self’’ to be realized, nor by sacrifices nor by much study.

Lord Krishna him’Self’ declares  the ‘‘‘Self’’-realization is not possible by neither by study of the Vedas nor by sacrifices nor by much study.  Then why you are still thinking by studying Vedas you get ‘‘Self’’-realization.

Bhagavad Gita 2:46:~ "A man of true knowledge who has attained enlightenment, has the same use for all the scriptures as one has for a small reservoir of water in a place flooded on all sides."

Lord Krishna Says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know me 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.

Know me in truth means Know God in truth.  That is God without the form, time, and space.  The Soul, the innermost ‘‘Self’’, is God in truth. The Soul is present in the form of the consciousness.  The Soul is the cause; the Soul is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Soul the innermost ‘‘Self’’? Never accept another God in place of the Soul nor worship other than the Soul.

The Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

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  other than consciousness a God. 

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 dualities, no differentiation. Only Atman exists. The Vedas confirms God is Atman (spirit), the innermost ‘‘Self’’.

Rig Veda: ~ 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)

 The Soul alone is God.  Never accept another God in place of the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit.

Even Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24)”, 

 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 the  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 is. 

“It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is truth’ and ‘’what is untruth’***

You are not the Self.  You and your experience of the world are part of the illusion. The Self is not you.  If the Self is not you, then the question of your body, your ego, your memories and your experience of the world and your karma is nothing to do with the Soul, the innermost Self.  Advaitic Wisdom dawn only when you realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the formless Soul, which witnesses you and the world together. 

The Self is the formless Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.   The Soul, the innermost Self, witnesses you and your experience of the world together.   It is the Soul that has to get rid of the illusion, by realizing, you along with the world and the innermost Self are one in essence. That essence is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Thus, you and your experience of the world are made of a single stuff, which is the Soul, the innermost Self.  Thus is it is necessary to realize the Self is not within our body (you) but it is hidden within the world in which we exist  as its formless substance and the witness.  Thus, our body and our experience of the world are made of the same stuff. Realizing this truth will lead one to Advaitic Self-awareness in the midst of duality. 

The Soul is the innermost Self. The Soul is present in the form the consciousness. The nature of the Soul is Advaitic awareness.

Everyone’s inner work is on. Until a man is ripe to receive Self-knowledge, he will not be able to understand what I am saying. 

Even they may find it difficult in the first as they go on reading and reflecting repeatedly the post their subconscious will start dropping the dualistic egocentric knowledge and start accepting the Soul-centric Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Grasping the truth depends on the spiritual maturity of the seeker. My mission is sharing the knowledge by inspires the serious and sincere seekers of truth and divert their attention towards the inward reality. 

As their urge is in the seed level and As they go on reading the words of wisdom it will start growing. 

 “It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is truth’ and ‘’what is untruth’. 

 “It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is truth’ and ‘’what is untruth’. It takes time for the Soul, the innermost Self to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one realizes the truth, which is beyond the form, time and space. 

All the Buddhist sutras limited to physicality, we have to go beyond the form,time and space by perfect understanding.***

Gate gate para gate parasamgate bodhi svaha.

 Heart sutra is a great sutra.  Yes it takes us to the inner realm but all the Buddhist sutras limited to physicality, we have to go beyond physicality by perfect understanding.  Since the self is not the form self is formless. All the skandas are in physical realm (Form, feeling, perception, mental formation and consciousness).   The self is not limited the physicality but it pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states.  Thus, the heart sutra yields only half-truth.  

The Buddhist scriptures were completely distorted by the time of Sage Sri, Sankara. Sage Sri, Sankara had to criticize the Buddhist literature prevailing then as the Buddhists themselves were confused as to what Shunyata is. Vasubandhu and his disciple Dignaga (the latter lived about a couple of centuries before  Sage Sri, Sankara) could not retain the original teachings of Lord Buddha. At first Vasubandhu did not agree with his half-brother Asanga and wrote one book on Abhidharma and later on he went to the side of Asanga and wrote a second book, where? he opposed his own earlier views on Abhidharma.  Sage Sri, Sankara? had to criticise the Buddhist knowledge? and literature of his time as he wanted to bring to us back the Pure Vedantic knowledge through his work on the Prasthanatraya.. That is why there is reference to the writing of Dharmakirti in Sutrabashya.

There is another aspect also The? Vishnu Purana also says that Lord Buddha created confusion. In Sarnath, he first taught about the Moral code which is basic. He talked about Anatma. Then? two decades later he taught the concept of Shunyata and? the tenets of the Mahayana Buddhism.? In spite of Nagrjuna's telling that Shunyata is not Nihilism and that Parajanaparamita also mentioning about the Shunyata after one leaves? the five? skandhas, there are and there will always be people who will go on calling Buddha's philosophy as Nihilism. About the origin of the? Tantric Buddhism also? there are controversies.

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 Brhma Sutra was the final say in 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 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 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 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 Sage Sri, Sankara's  Mayavad has not been accepted by many preachers and philosophers.

 When  Sage 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 witness  is real (soul).  Therefore, only Atman is real because there is no second thing other than Atman.

He also clearly mentions that:-

The path of religion,  the theory of karma, the 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  the inner urge to know the truth and it is not for those who are immersed in earthly desires.

Thus,  we have to know the fact that Lord  Buddha,  Sage Sri, Goudpada and Sage Sri,Sankara are not only reformers but also  the greatest  scientists. Since there original thesis on path of wisdom  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 hurricane task.  Thus, it is no use going through all the scriptures, when there is direct path to non-dual truth.  The same time and effort can be used to reach the non-dual destination, in lesser time and effort.

God is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself. *****

Gods and Goddesses are not God in truth. God is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself. 

The religious Gurus and mystics are only a knower of the religious doctrines, not a knower of the ultimate truth or Brahman or God.

All God propagated by belief systems are nothing but imagination.  There is nothing so absurd which men have not worshiped in religion, every imaginable face has been given to God.  If God is creator then it is foolish to worship anything as God from his creation because the creation is apart from the God. 

Religious believers do not who understands the meaning of the Brahman means the ultimate truth or the ultimate reality not religious God with form and name. The Atman which is present in the form of the consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman.

The religious believers do not know the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.  They are immersed in devotion to their belief of God. Belief is not the truth, therefore, the belief is not God.

Meher Baba said: ~   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 everything is  God alone,  is and all else is an illusion.

Meher Baba said: ~To love God as he ought to be loved, we must love for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of life is to know God and find him as our own self.

To realize God is to attain liberation from the bondage of illusion. 

Live only to find and realize your true identity with your beloved God.

The energy which is expended in mere thinking, taking or writing is like steam which escapes through the whistle of railway engine …

That is why the sages have always insisted on practice rather than theory. This applies particularly to those who want to know and realize God.  

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~ It means one has to one has to know and realize his innermost self is God and identify it has his true identity to find liberation from the bondage of the illusion of birth, life, death, and the world.   The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with our beloved God, which is our innermost self.  

In Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~   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.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

Rig Veda: ~ 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)

Worshipping of the non-Vedic Gods will not yield any fruit.  The Veda and Upanishads confirm God is Atman (spirit), the innermost Self.

God and Goddesses worshiped in India today are non-Vedic Gods.   Such Gods and Goddesses cease to exist without the dualistic illusion. Whatever belongs to the dualistic illusion is bound to be a falsehood.

Rig Veda clearly declares the God is Atman and never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman.   Then why worship any other God in place of the Atman, the real God.

The Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness (Spirit),  which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

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. 

Lord Krishna Says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know me 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.

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.

Bhagavad Gita gives dualistic worship of "God” only for the lower minds; it also teaches Advaita for the more evolved.

Dogmas and beliefs, rituals and ceremonies are the essences of the religion, not of the spirituality. The religion has become merely a matter of external rituals and ceremonies. The religion hides the truth beyond the form, time, and space.  Until the form, time and space are present the duality is present. The duality creates the illusory prison to the Soul, the innermost Self.

Religious rites and rigid ceremonies were passed down from one generation to the next as a practice or set customs and tradition and performed automatically with a blind faith. Such worship based on the belief of God does not reach God.

Without realizing what this ‘I’ supposed to be it is impossible for the Soul to free itself from the dualistic illusion.***

The Soul is not ‘I’. ‘Self is not the ‘I’.  The Soul is the innermost Self. The Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ is the witness of the ‘I’ which appear and disappears.

You are seeking to realize the truth of your true existence.  To discover the truth, there is a need to understand the nature of the ‘I’.   Without the knowing what this ‘I’ supposed to be an actuality you will never be able to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time and space.

                                                                                                                                   

Till you hold the ‘Self ‘as the ‘I’ you will never be able to get Self-realization.  ‘I’ hides the Soul, which is the innermost Self.

Know what this ‘I’ first.  Without realizing what this ‘I’ supposed to be it is impossible for the Soul to free itself from the dualistic illusion.

The ‘I’ hides the truth of the whole. The ‘I’ hides the truth.

'I’ is ignorance.

‘I’ is the duality.

‘I’ is the form, time, and space.

‘I’ is the universe.

‘I’ is the waking.

‘I’ is the dream.

‘I’ is the illusion.

‘I’ is the experience of birth, life, death and the world.

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Without the ‘I’ there is no ignorance.

Without the ‘I’ there is no duality.

Without the ‘I’ there is no form, time, and space.

Without the ‘I’ there is no universe.

Without the ‘I’ there is no waking.

Without the ‘I’ there is no dream.

Without the ‘I’ there is no illusion.

Without the ‘I’ there is no experience of birth, life, death and the world.

That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ 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.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ “The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes.” (2.18)

Buddha said: ~ “Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true”.

Buddha: ~” There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way... and not starting.

When the Advaitic wisdom dawns then this ‘I’ which you think as reality becomes unreal.  It is time to discard the ‘I’. Never use the word  ‘I’ or I AM for the Self.