Until a man is ripe to receive Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, he will not be able to understand what I am saying.***

Everyone’s inner work is on. Until a man is ripe to receive Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, 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. 

The seeker must have: ~  

An intense urge to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space

Receptive to receive the truth

Sharpness to grasp the truth  

Courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth

Patience

Humility

Non- argumentive

Ready to reflect the truth repeatedly

Drop all the accumulated knowledge

All the above things are very much necessary to tread the Atmic path.    The Guru is needed only in religious and yogic paths.  In Atmic path there is no need for the Guru.  There is no need to stick to any Guru or any teaching.

A Gnani will never accept himself as Guru nor does he claim himself as a Gnani.   One who accepts himself as Guru does not know the truth. When one inquires into the nature of the mind than the truth will start revealing on its own.

That is why Swami Vivekananda said:~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”

Buddha said:~ Do not believe a spiritual teaching just because:-

1.   It is repeatedly recited

2. It is written in a scripture

3. It was handed from Guru to disciple

4. Everyone around you believes it

5. It has supernatural qualities

6. It fits my beliefs anyway

7. It sounds rational to me

8. It is taught by a respectable person

9. It was said to be the truth by the teacher

10. One must defend it or fight for it.

However, only when it agrees with your experience and reason, and when it is conducive to the good and gain of oneself and all others, then one should accept the teachings, and live up to them." 

 You have the firm conviction that you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward. Until this conviction is their your views, judgment and reasoning is based as an individual whereas the ‘Self’ is not an individual because it is the ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.  If the ‘Self’ is not you then it is erroneous to judge the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. The Self is prior to the world in which you exist.  

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe.***

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 is everything.God alone is and all else is  an illusion.

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 it’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)

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  other than consciousness a God. 

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.  Till 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.

Orthodoxy is  the path of ignorance.  And ignorant worships mechanically perform the prescribed sacrifices without any thought as to why they are doing them.   

That is why Ish Upanishads says: ~ “Such people no wonder they grope in the dark.” They are doomed unless someday the truth dawns on them that to save themselves they must seek Self-knowledge.

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.  Till 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.

Religious believers claim that happiness and sorrow are felt through our sense organs. Eating drinking and making merry are  a reality. The above experiences will appear false to a Gnani because he is fully aware of the fact that, all the three states are mere illusion.  

People think God is somewhere, up there, monitoring every act of the people, guiding the lost and uplifting the poor. God is the one who punishes the evil and rewards the benevolent.

Some people even claim of seeing them in stone idols or some conceptual belief, in inanimate or living things. Is it our faith that makes us believe that there is some supreme power above us or is it a reality, can never be answered.  Until this conviction is there one is in the grip of the dualistic illusion. The dualistic illusion keeps one in the ignorance of our true existence.  Therefore, there is a need to verify the fact that the ‘Self ‘, is not you but it is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. 

 When you become aware of the fact that, the ‘Self’ is the Soul, then you realize the fact that, whatever known, seen, believed and experienced on the base of the false Self is an illusion.

You are the false Self within the false experience.  You are not the Self because you are the birth entity whereas the Soul, the innermost Self is birthless and deathless.  The Soul is birthless and deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

From the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost Self, you and your experience of the world and your religion and your religious God and your accumulated knowledge is falsehood because the waking experience is mere an illusion.

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.

In Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~   It has been said that God Supreme or Supreme Spirit.

If God is the  formless spirit, then how does the man know God created the world? There is no proof. If the man had seen God creating the world, he could admit it, but how could he have seen God before he came into existence? (i.e. were created). 

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ "Don't unsettle the minds of ignorant by revealing the esoteric truth.”***

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ "Don't unsettle the minds of ignorant by revealing the esoteric truth.”

 
One could go on and on, but the point is that the Upanishads approach the Supreme immutable truth in multiple ways and try to articulate the manifest and unmanifest aspects of the Brahman. 

Sage Sri, Goudpada: ~ To establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. He begins by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the right way to discuss or teach. People must first know what they are talking about. (Mandukya Karika)

Reasoning is interpretable in two ways. The egocentric interpretation is to apply it only to waking experience. The Soulcentric interpretation is to apply it to the three states. The latter leads to the final settlement of the problems because it takes all data into consideration.

As we keep digging deeper and deeper, the truth will shine as pure awareness in the midst of the duality (waking). 

The Soul, the innermost Self is our ultimate teacher. It is only our inner teacher that will walk with us to the goal, for the Soul is the goal. From ultimate standpoint there is no teacher, there is no teaching and there is no student.  

Millions are searching for the truth, but one in million will realize it. For those that are deluded, the multiple points of view may amount to contradictory perceptions but Upanishads are the epitome of an attempted understanding of the immortal, immutable Brahman by mortals caught in the dynamism of this universe in which we exist.

Why distinction should imply the contradiction. What does the distinction mean? It implies that two things are not the same, hence duality exists there.

What is the Soul as different from the mind? The Soul is only a mental picture within the duality. Even if one says that he is immortal and exist eternally, only in duality he can say it i.e. the duality itSelf is mere illusion.

The illusion never reaches the Self, which is Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. The false Self never knows it. He who says he has a vision of the highest or describes it as super consciousness etc. does not understand consciousness, because it is free from all  imaginations, because it exists prior to all experience and imagination.

Ordinarily knowledge arises from the experience of an object by a subject; that all knowledge of objects will only lead to more thinking but never gives one the ultimate reality. 

People think questioning the Guru or scholars is irreligious and they indulge in rituals and hearing of religious discourses such people are weak and timid.***

Religious Gods are mere belief. Belief is not God.  Religious God  cannot be considered as the  center because the Soul the innermost ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists. Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, it means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.

Even The Bhagavad Gita says: ~ 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. 

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

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad declares: "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)

Why waste time discussing   the yoga, religion, worship of the religious Gods glorifying of the Gurus in the Atmic Path. 

Self-knowledge is not for those who believe in  religion and its beliefs like mantras and worship of Gods.   Mantras and prayers are nothing to do with the Atmic path. Those who are attached to   Mantras and prayers and worship must continue in their chosen path the Atmic is not for those who are stuck with religious dross.  . In Atmic path discussion is unimportant. One must think deeply and reflect on the subject. Passing their opinion with their accumulated knowledge will not help anyone.  Those who believe in religious

Mythology deals with symbols. It is not history; it is not concerned with objective reality. But that does not mean that it is not concerned with reality itSelf. It is concerned with subjective reality. These Gods, these mythological symbols, do not exist outside you, but they have a psychological existence and that psychological existence can be helpful, can be used. So the first thing to be understood is that they are not real persons in the world,  but they are real symbols in the psyche of man.

Mythological Gods are a myth. All mantras are based on the mythological Gods keeps one in the prison of the dualistic illusion.   The mantras never help to cross the trash hold of the form, time,  and space.  Mantras meant for the ignorant populace who believe the form, time and space as reality.  What is the use of the mantras based on the false God will yield false fruits.

That is why Sage Sri, Sankara says:~   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 realization one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.

That is why In Mundaka Upanishad 1:2:8   “Remaining in the fold of ignorance and thinking “we are extremely wise and learned,” the fools with boastful nature ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone.”

The people who follow religion think that by following their inherited religion is their duty.  And questioning the Guru or scholars is irreligious.  Thus, they indulge in rituals and hearing of religious discourses.   They are weak and timid.

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 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)

Rig-Veda 1-164-46 and Y.V 32-1 clearly mention that God is “One”.

Rig Veda declares God is ‘ONE’ and God is Atman, then why believe and   worship in place of real God.

Brihad Upanishad: ~ “If you think there is another entity, whether man or God there is no truth."

When Upanishad itself declares: ~   Sarvam khalvidam brahma ~ all this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality (Chandogya Upanishad). 

Sage Sri, Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal and Akarta (non-agent). It is above all needs and desires. It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as It is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other beside it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman cannot be described  because description implies distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not the distinction of substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman, and not just Its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sri, Sankara is impersonal.

What happens if one worships which is not real God with mantras and prayers based on the dummy gods.  It is only priest crafted baggage.

In Yajurveda says: ~ 

Translation 1.

They enter darkness, those who worship natural things (for example air, water, sun, moon, animals, fire, stone, etc).

They sink deeper in darkness those who worship sambhuti. (Sambhuti means created things, for example,  table, chair, idol etc.) (Yajurveda 40:9)

Translation 2.

"Deep into shade of blinding gloom fall asambhuti's worshippers. They sink to darkness deeper yet who on sambhuti are intent." (Yajurveda Samhita by Ralph T. H. Giffith pg 538)

All the accumulated knowledge from religion and yoga and paths and theories are mere dross in pursuit of truth. Religion and yoga are helpful for the general mass,  but they are barricade in unfolding the mystery of the mind. Therefore, the orthodox people, if they are seeking  the truth, then they have to drop all accumulated dross to acquire nondual wisdom.  The Advaitic wisdom alone is a weapon to eliminate the ignorance. 

Realize the ‘Self’ is not you. Do not struggle by practicing this and that to know the truth>***

The path of wisdom is not the religious and yogic path.   Guru is not required in the Atmic  path 

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Realize the ‘Self’ is not you. Do not struggle by practicing this and that to know the truth, which is beyond the form, time,  and space.

 The ‘Self' is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. The consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist and it itself is causeless.

 The consciousness is within the world in which you exists but it is without the world in which you exist. The consciousness can remain with or without the world in which you exist. 

There is no need of a Guru to know that you and your Guru and the world in which you exist are created out of a single stuff and that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.  Knowledge of that single stuff is the self-knowledge of Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  Gnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. There is no need to follow anyone. There is no need to practice anything. A perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’, leads to  the realization of the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space. 

Sage Sri, Sankara says:~  “On Gnani wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifesting, nor his behavior."  When the knower of Brahman wears no signs -- it means A Gnani does not identify himself as  a swami, Guru or yogi. 

The one who identifies himself as Swami, Guru or Yogi is not a Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself as a swami, Guru, pundit or yogi. Swami, Guru, Pundit or Yogi belongs to the religious and yogic path. The religious and yogic path are  not  the Atmic path.

~ if you are searching for truth then why you are struggling to get a Guru when sage Sankara says  a Gnani wears no signs whereas the Gurus and yogis are identifying themselves with the symbols.  Why waste time indulging in glorifying and worshipping the Gurus, which is meant for the ignorant populace. 

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study the Scriptures, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~ Then why you indulge in studying the scriptures.

 Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study philosophy, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why you indulge in studying the philosophy.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge rituals, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why you indulge in rituals.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge yoga, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why you indulge in yoga.

Sage Sri, Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)

~ then why you are sticking a Guru who is not a Gnani.

Sage Sri, Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in another type of meditation.

Yoga Vasistha says: ~ Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only by means of enquiry inspired by the company of wise (Gnani). One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia. 

There is no need to condemn Gurus, but there is need highlight how they become an obstacle in realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Swami Vivekananda said: ~   “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your own Soul.”

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman   has already been known.

A Guru is needed in religious and the yogic path.  There is no need of a Guru in to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.