Some Gurus say there is no other God but you but it is an error. The Soul, the Self is God, not you+.

 Some Gurus say ‘there is no other God but you but it is an error

How can you say you are God because you are not the ‘Self’?

The Soul, the Self, is God, which witnesses the coming and going of the ‘I’.

The seeker has to make sure what this ’ I ’ is supposed to be? The seeker has to make sure the unreal nature of the ‘I’, which comes and goes, to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

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

The ‘I’ hides the truth of the whole.

People think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The seeker has to understand the fact that the fact that ‘I’ is not the Self, but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true Self, which is eternal.

You are stuck to the ‘I’ by saying ‘I AM THAT’. The ‘Self’ is not an individual to identify the ‘Self’ as ‘I AM’. How can you identify the ‘Self as ‘I AM’, when the ‘Self’ is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence?

People say Aham Brahmasmi -- I am God, I am Brahman. I AM THAT, but when Brahman is, how can "I" remain? Only Brahman remains, not the ‘I’.

People think the ‘I’ without the body is the Self. The seeker has to understand the fact that the ‘I’ is not the Self, but the Soul, the witness of the ‘I’, is the true Self, which is eternal.

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.

People are stuck with the reality of the ‘I’, which they take as real because some Gurus have propagated that the Self is the ‘I’.

There is no need to convince such a mindset that refuses to accept anything other than its accepted truth.

The seeker of truth accepts only the truth, nothing but the truth. The truth is hidden by the ‘I,’ but it is without the ‘I.

Some Gurus in the past glorified the ‘I’ without verifying what this ‘I’ is an actuality. And followers of that ‘I’ based teaching Got stuck with the ‘I’.

The ‘I’ is present only when the mind is present.

The mind is present only when the universe is present.

The universe is present only when the waking is present.

If the ‘I’ is absent, then the mind, the universe, the waking, is absent.

~ It means the ‘I’, the mind, the universe, the waking, are one and the same thing.

This is very important for the seeker to know to realize that the ‘I’ itself is ignorance; to overcome the ignorance, they have to discard ‘I’.

Then why use the word ‘I’ for the ‘Self’, which is the cause of ignorance?

The innermost Self is God. It is not “I AM GOD, but it’s correct to say ‘the SELF IS GOD, because the Self is not the ‘I’ or ’I AM.

That is why 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.

No second thing existed before the appearance of the ‘I’, and ‘I’ never exists now, and also ‘I’ never exists in the future. Whatever appeared as the ‘I’ is merely an illusion.

Let you be clear on one thing. The ‘I’ is merely a dualistic illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. But in reality, ‘I’ neither exists in the past nor exists now, nor is going to exist in the future. Whatever existed in the past, whatever exists now, and whatever is going to exist in the future is merely an illusion created by the consciousness.

Whatever has appeared as ‘I’ is nothing but consciousness? The ‘I’ has no value because it is merely an illusion.

You search for the truth, and you will find only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. If you search for the Soul, then you will find only the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

Start your journey even you may find it difficult. Repeated reading the posts your subconscious will become soulcentric.+

Start your journey, even if you may find it difficult to repeatedly read the posts, your subconscious will become soulcentric. As your conviction about the Soul, the Self becomes firm in the subconscious, your subconscious will start dropping the dualistic egocentric knowledge and start accepting the Soul-centric Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

As you cross the ‘I’ and get to the other side, once you are on the other side of the ‘I’ is the reality, which is beyond form, time, and space. You will realize that the ‘I’ is an illusion.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana has nothing to do with the ‘I’ based teaching.

Remember, the ‘I’ is not an individual because the ‘I’ is the whole universe. Limiting the ‘I’ to individuality is the cause of experiencing the dualistic illusion as a reality?

The nature of the ‘I’ is the nature of the mind.

The nature of the mind is the nature of the universe.

The nature of the universe is the nature of the waking.

The nature of waking is the nature of the illusion.

Thus, it is necessary to study the nature of the ‘I’ to unfold the mystery of the universe.

All the teachings that limit the ‘I’ to an individual and glorify the ‘I’ without knowing what this ‘I’ is supposed to be in actuality. All ‘I’ based teachings are inadequate and useless for the serious seeker of truth.

If you are seeking truth, nothing but the truth must be discarded without mercy, such teaching in order to progress in your spiritual quest.

The seeker must know that the ‘I’ is not limited to individuality. The seeker has to see the ‘I’ as the universe, to overcome ignorance.

When the Advaitic wisdom dawns, then ignorance vanishes. When ignorance vanishes, and the dualistic illusion (world) you used to think of as reality becomes unreal. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

To know what God in truth, we must know what the ‘Self’ is in actuality.+

To know what God is, we must know what the Self is in actuality. In a deeper Self-search, we become aware of the fact that our body, ego, and our experience of the universe are created out of a single stuff, which is the Soul or consciousness.

Due to ignorance, we identify the Soul with the body, and we become egocentric. When we become aware that the Self is not the form but the Self is formless, then we become Soul -centric and realize that all three states are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Consciousness is the Self.

The ultimate truth is that Brahma is God in truth.

Thus, the seekers move ahead and reach the nondual destination through this mental (inner) journey.

In Spirituality, the word “God” stands for the ultimate truth or Brahman. All that is needed then is to realize the fact that the Self is not the body (you), not the mind, but the Soul, the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness (Spirit). Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Brahman is God. Firm conviction about the Soul as the Self leads to nondualistic Self-awareness. Self-awareness is God –awareness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

If you keep on reading my posts and blogs old as well as new repetedly, all your doubts and confusions will vanish.+

If you keep on reading my posts and blogs, old as well as new, all your doubts and confusion will vanish.

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 Self, to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The body, the ego, and the world together are the mind. If the mind is there, then only the body, the ego, and the world are present. The body, the ego, and the world appear together and disappear together. That is the mind that is present in the form of the ‘I’ that appears and disappears. The one which witnesses the coming and going of the ‘I’ (mind) is the Soul, the Self. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the mind (the universe in which we exist) is non-existent as a reality.

The mind cannot be purified because the mind itself is an illusion. Till one thinks the mind is within the body, he will not be able to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, because the body and the world are within the mind. And the mind is within the Soul.

Ignorance is the cause of duality. The duality is the cause of the illusion (Maya). The illusion is the cause of experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.

Self- knowledge leads to Self-awareness. The quest for truth is not the quest for acquiring the dualistic truth within the world. The seeker must have an intense urge to realize the truth that is beyond form, time, and space.

The dualistic knowledge hides the truth beyond form, time, and space. The practical life within the practical world has nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman.

The dualistic knowledge within the dualistic illusion is not Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

This vast cosmos with all its contents (atom, molecule, sun, moon, planet, and star) is created out of a single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

The Soul is the Self. the Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The awareness is the nature of the Soul or consciousness. Consciousness is existence itself.

Consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world in which you exist ceases to exist. Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

Gnani mixing with the company of people from all walks of life, behaving as they did, not claiming to be different from them.+

Gnani does not want to think of the ego; therefore, he does not do or say anything to make himself appear superior to others or to pretend to know more than others. If a person spends his time in Samadhi, he is not a Gnani, but he is a yogi.

The Gnani is as alert and awake to what is happening to him externally as all other people: he is not a yogi in Samadhi. A yogi does not know the ultimate truth or Brahman because he believes his Samadhi asto berahman.

The Gnani has realized the world in which he exists is merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth.

Gnani mixed with the company of people from all walks of life, behaving as they did, not claiming to be different from them. He occasionally drops some words and gives some suggestions, which create curiosity to know the reality beyond form, time, and space. '

Thus, he will instill hope into the seeker's heart that it is really possible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

A Gnani will neither talk too volubly like shallow persons nor observe complete silence like some yogis and Gurus. He will talk as much as is necessary, but no more. Thus, he follows the inner (mental) path. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Those who come to India in search truth must know the truth they are seeking for is not available in Himalayas or Ashrams or with any Gurus or yogis+

The religious people think that the Vedas are the final authority, and they strictly follow the Vedas, but they themselves are indulging in worshipping the non-Vedic Gods, non-Vedic rituals, and activities. The Vedas bar such activities.

Vedas bar indulging in worshipping the non-Vedic Gods and non-Vedic rituals.

Those who come to India in search of truth must know the truth they are seeking is not available in the Himalayas or Ashrams or with any Gurus or yogis, but it is hidden by the world in which they exist. All the paths and practices available in India are not meant for those who are seriously seeking the truth of their true existence.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “Atman is Brahman. The Atman alone is real is not religious truth. Sage Sri, Sankara declared this Advaitic truth, which this e ultimate truth to the whole world, many centuries back i, is the rational truth, scientific truth, and ultimate truth.

Thus, the Atman which is present in the form of the consciousness I, is real and eternal; the world in which we exist is memerelyn illusion.

Sage Sankara already declared ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’.

Atman is Brahman ~ “That is the Soul, the innermost 'Self’ is the ultimate truth”.

The world is unreal ~ “The unreal hides the truth because the world is created out of the real.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC 65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the ‘Self’, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ 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.

Atman, which is present in the form of the consciousness, is real and eternal; the world in which we exist is merely an illusion.

Sage 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)

Sage Sankara clearly indicates in Viveka Chudamani (2) that the Knower of the Atman (A Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Vedas say t to accept another God in place of the Atman, nor worship other than the Atman b, ut buteople unare aware thof eir own sacred Vedas and worship non-Vedic Gods as real Gods.

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

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 the Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material things, then nothing has to be accepted other than consciousness t, the real God.

Religious Gods are mere beliefs. Thereligiouss God cannot be considered as a center because his Soul, the innermost ‘‘Self’’ is the center of all that exists. Without the Soul t, the world in which you exist ceases to exist; it means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence.

Even 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 ‘Self’. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

God is the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’. The God becomes unthe iveruniverseality) In waking, nd the universe becomes God in deep sleep (nonduality). The universe is nothing but an illusion created by God. When you realize the ‘‘Self’’" isotis the ‘‘Self’’ is the Soul, the God t, hethen theres no second thingthat existss other than the God, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Only when you realize God in truth y, you will realize the universe is nothing but God because the universe is an illusion created out of God t, the consciousness.

Rig Veda 1/164/46: ~ “They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuna, Agni o, or the heavenly sunbird Garutmat. The seers call in many ways that which is One; they speak of Agni, Yama, Matarishvan.

Rig Veda 8/58/2: Only One is the Fire, enkindled in numerous ways; only One is the Sun, pervading this whole universe; only One is the Dawn, illuminating all things. In very truth, the One has become the whole world.

That is why Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the Self 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.

Lord i Krishna himself says that he can do nothing to make a man intelligent straight away. The adepts give Prasad, blblessingsinitiations, mantrams, etc. o, only to confer temporary peace of mind, to help one to get rid of worries, but not to confer Gnana. The capacity to receive it must first be inborn in man by evolutionary degree.

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

The Gods worshiped in India today are not God in truth. Believing and worshipping in non-Vedic Gods is barred by the Vedas.

That is why Swami Vivekananda: ~ “The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods, and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods?

Be aware of what you are searching for. Be aware of what you are seeking. The truth will reveal itself to you if you move in the right direction. You are making it complicated by accepting the untruth propagated as truth.

There is nothing but water in the Holy Rivers. Even if you dip a million times and indulge in performing pranayama, your ignorance will not vanish.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even Hundreds of pranayamas* can give us the knowledge about our own ‘Self’. The firm experience of the nature of the ‘Self’ is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advice of the wise. (13)

All the Gods sculpted of stone and metal will not be pleased with your devotion and offering. People are praying to them.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC- Let erudite scholars quote all the scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity With the ‘Self’, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together (verses-6)

The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words; you will not find the truth in them.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “Keep the scriptures for children, but throw them on the fire for wise seekers.

Mundaka Upanishads: ~ “So-called spiritual pundits and learned are called children because a child takes whatever it thinks as truth. The question never occurs to children, “Is what I have seen or thought really the truth?" (P.334 line 9)

People have lived through indulging in all these priests crafted beliefs d, dogmas, nd superstitions, something that's not true.

One of Sage Sakara’s missions was to wean people away from the ritualistic approach advocated by Mimamsakas and to project wisdom (jnana) as the means of liberation in the light of Upanishad teachings.

Sage Sankara criticized the ritualistic attitude severely and those who advocated such practices.

Mundaka Upanishad says: ~ “The rituals and the sacrifices described in the Vedas deal with lower knowledge. The sages ignored these rituals and went in search of higher knowledge. ... Such rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing the sea of samsara, of birth and death. Doomed to shipwreck are those who try to cross the sea of samsara on these poor rafts. Ignorant of their own ignorance, yet wise in their own esteem, these deluded men Proud of their vain learning g, go round and round Lilikehe blind led by the blind.

If you are seeking truth and you are trying to get it from yoga and following some teaching and following some Guru and other paths t, then you are dwelling in ignorance andgoing aroundd and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The seeker of truth must discard the holy business of Gurudom in order to get Self-realization.+

Gurudom has nothing to do with Advaitic wisdom. Gurudom belongs to religion and yoga.

Religion and yoga have nothing to do with spirituality. Advaitic wisdom is pure spirituality.

Unless you bifurcate religion and yoga from spirituality, there is no hope of getting Self-realization.

All the Advaitic Gurus of the east and west who propagate Advaita on a dualistic and orthodox perspective, thus, are inadequate and useless to acquire Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.

Sage Sankara says:~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book-knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

Sage Sankara says:~ VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the not-Self.
Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread." (Select Works of Sage Sankara, also his commentary on Brihad)

Thus, the above passage proves that all those who wear the sannyasin robes for the sake of bread belong to the religion; they have nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

There is no need to criticize and condemn the Gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of the ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

Remember:~,

Sage 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 are you sticking with a Guru who is not a Gnani?
Swami Vivekananda: This bending the knee to superstitions, this selling yourself, to your own mind does not befit you, the Soul. The Self is infinite, deathless, and birthless. Because the Self is infinite Spirit, it does not befit you to be a slave. ... Arise! Awake!

Swami Vivekananda: ~ Worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you; work out your own salvation.

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.”

The Gurudom may succeed to a limited extent in the West by appealing to the emotions of Western people, by creating a new cult with diverse theories of Hinduism. The ultimate truth is beyond religion, yoga, and scriptures.

When the ‘Self is not you but the Soul, why are you thinking of the physical Guru worshiping him? Such an act keeps you permanently in ignorance. Come out of the religious conditioning by realizing the ‘Self is not you, but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

If you are unable to come out of the Guru/disciple game, you are not qualified for Advaitic wisdom.-Santthosh Kumaar.

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