If you are seeking truth then you should not waste your precious time and fortune by attending to the Satsangha and retreats.+

Those Gurus who expound ‘I-centric’ knowledge are propagating ignorance. The seeker has to be aware of the fact that the ‘I’ itself is ignorance. The truth is hidden by the ‘I’.

Bhagvad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16

If you stick to ‘I-centric Gurus and their teaching, you are sticking to ignorance. By following ‘I-centric’ teaching even after a hundred years, you will never realize the ‘Self’ hidden by the ‘I’. If you are seeking truth, then you should not waste your precious time and fortune by attending the Satsangha and retreats of ‘I-centric’ Gurus.

That is why Bhagavan Buddha said: ~ ‘Believe nothing because a wise man said it, Believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be divine. Believe nothing because someone else said it. But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.

It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is the 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 to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The seeker should be aware of everything untrue: stick to the truth, and he shall succeed, maybe slowly, but surely. The ‘I’ is not the root of all appearances because the ‘I’ itself is an appearance.

Only ignorant people say ‘I’ is the root of all appearances. Those who Gurus who propagated the ‘Self’ is within the body err. This mistake has to be rectified to realize that the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the fullness of consciousness. By emotionally sticking to these ’I’-centric gurus and their teachings, you will remain permanently in the domain of ignorance.

Because of ignorance, you think you are an individual separate from the world, and the world existed before you; you are born in it later on. The ‘I’ is inborn ignorance, the cause of experiencing the world in which you exist as a reality, whereas the world in which you exist is the dualistic illusion. Whatever belongs to dualistic illusion is bound to be an illusion. So, your experience of the birth, life, death, and the world is bound to be an illusion.

Everyone is holding some teaching or a teacher or their accepted truth as a yardstick. All the accumulated egocentric knowledge is inadequate or useless in unfolding the mystery of the mind or the universe.

The ‘I’ is inborn samskara or conditioning, because of this inborn samskara or conditioning, one has accepted the ‘I’ as the 'Self’; he is ignorant of the fact that the ‘I’ itself is the cause of ignorance. Because of this, ‘I’ he has accepted illusion as a reality. Therefore, there is a need to realize ‘what is this ‘I’?’ - in actuality.

Without knowing ‘what is this ‘I’?’ In actuality, it is impossible to unfold the hidden truth which is beyond form, time, and space.

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

‘ 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.

But

Without the ‘I’, there is no ignorance.

Without the ‘I’, there is no duality.

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

The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the ‘Self. The ‘I’ hides the truth.

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.

Bhagvad Gita: ~ ‘The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18) It is time to discard the ‘I’. Never use the word the ‘I’ or I AM for the Self. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is not the religious Gods but knowledge of God in truth.+

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, is not the knowledge of religion and religious Gods. Religion's religious Gods have nothing to do with Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, knowledge of the Spirit, the real God, hidden by the ‘I’, which is ignorance.

The Upanishads indicate 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 darkness. It surely indicates the fact that the seeker of truth has to drop the worship of God and Goddess to get Self-knowledge.

Ish Upanishad:~ "Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide

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Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds after death.

This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain Self-knowledge. They are, in a real sense, committing suicide, for what can be worse than being a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life, which is to be one’s own master?

Ish Upanishads:-

MANTRA 10

Vidya and Avidya both are hindrances to Self-knowledge, but Vidya is even worse than Avidya. The word Vidya is used here in a special sense; here it means worshipping Gods and Goddesses. By worshipping Gods and Goddesses, you will go after death to the world of Gods and Goddesses. But will that help you? The time you spent there is wasted because if you were not there, you could have spent that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is your goal. In the world of Gods and Goddesses, you cannot do that, and thus, you go deeper and deeper into darkness.

Avidya is Karma and therefore a hindrance. You perform Avidya - i.e., you perform Agnihotra and other sacrifices. This is a roundabout way of purifying the mind, and it is also groping in the dark. But it may not have as heavy a toll on your time and energy as the other.

Ishopanishad: ~ “They are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worship the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God, and those who worship things born of matter, like trees, animals, man, etc., are sunk deeper in misery."

The seeker must do his homework and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe what others expound as knowledge, till the uncontradicted truth is obtained.

The seeker must have the courage of Bhagavan Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Since Bhagavan Buddha rejected religion, the idea of God, and scriptures, it is evident that he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.

That is why Bhagavan Buddha said: ~ “Believe nothing because a wise man said it, Believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be divine. Believe nothing because someone else said it. But believe only what you yourself judge to be true. Bhagavan Buddha: - There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way... and not starting. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Atman, the Spirit is a universal God. All religious propagated blind faith or blind belief based Gods are not God in truth.+

The Soul, the Self, is not Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Buddhist because it is an ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

In religion, there is no freedom to believe other than what it preaches. Religious people consider the mythological stories as truth, and not believing in mythological Gods is considered irreligious. The mythological God can exist within the domain of duality. From the Advaitic perspective, duality is merely an illusion. Thus, whatever belongs to the illusion is bound to be a falsehood.

The religion declares one must believe that there is no other God but God, as propagated by the particular belief system.

The seeker has to deny the existence of such a God based on the belief because, first, one must realize what God really is.

People find some of the religious doctrines very illuminating. People who renounce the world and become a monk or sanyasi, who leave it all behind to find the truth of their true existence.

People think the events that happened in the mythological stories really happened the way they are described, and hallucinate about these stories.

Swami Vivekananda: ~The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods and still die like dogs. Where are these gods?

Swami Vivekananda: ~ If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them, we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them and 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. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ The Self is indeed Brahman (God), but through ignorance, people identify it with intellect, mind, senses, passions, and the elements of earth, water, air, space, and fire. This is why the ‘Self’ is said to consist of this and that and appears to be everything.

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 the Bhagavad Gita says that 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 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.

The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul or Spirit) 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 the real God? Atman, the Spirit, is a universal God. All religiously propagated belief based Gods are not God in truth.

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

Chandogya Upanishad: ~ 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 (The Soul, the Self is not Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist), because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Sage 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 no distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman, and not just its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

Sage Sankara: ~"That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without, that Supreme non-dual Brahman (God)."

Thus, truth realization is Self-realization. Self-realization is God-realization because the Soul, the Self itself, is God. God-realization itself is real worship. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

It is better to educate the crowd to realize what God suppose to be in actuality according to their own scriptures.+

Religion is meant for the ignorant populace who are incapable of grasping the truth, which is hidden by form, time, and space. Spirituality is meant for the serious seekers of truth who want to realize the truth hidden by illusory form, time, and space.

Never mix spirituality with religion. Religion is based on the ego, whereas spirituality is based on the Soul, the Spirit, or God.

The religious Gurus are meant to inject morals and ethics and guide the ignorant populace in the human society to live with love and harmony.

People who rebelled against the religion are merely intellectual speculators.

They are not serious about realizing the truth. They are more interested in showing their intellectual acrobatics with the information collected from whatever they have read and heard. Such accumulated knowledge is not the means to realize the truth, which is hidden by ignorance.

Condemning religion and its Gurus and Gods will help the seeker to get rid of the ignorance.

It is better to educate the crowd to realize what God is supposed to be in actuality, according to their own scriptures.

Religion is regarded as sacred and real by the common people, by the wise as false, and by the politicians as useful.

Religion has nothing to do with the ultimate truth of Brahman or God in truth.

If one is seeking the truth, then one has to be free from all religious beliefs and dogmas. The religion is based on the ego (you), whereas the ultimate truth is based on the Soul, the Self.

Whatever is based on the ego is an illusion, and whatever is based on the Soul is the ultimate reality or Brahman. Thus, the religion has to be bifurcated from spirituality to realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.

There is no use in condemning religion. But one has to highlight how they cause hindrance and become an obstacle in the pursuit of truth.

There is no need to rebel against religion, but to realize that religion is based on the false self within the false experience, whereas spirituality is based on the Soul, the Self.

The religion makes humanity remain in ignorance of the reality of their true existence, with its beliefs, superstitions, and dogmas, the ideas of heaven, hell, sin, karma, and rebirth.

The heaven, the abode of physicalized Gods, where one goes after death, rebirth, and karma theories based on the birth entity, which is the false self within the illusory world.

For those ignorant who believe their experience of birth, life, death and the world as a reality, think that, the effect of action done in previous births, as the Prarabdha in this birth, but for the realized one the present birth, life, death and the world itself is an illusion because they have realized the fact that, waking experience itself is an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The heaven, the abode of physicalized Gods, where one goes after death, rebirth, and karma theories based on the birth entity, which is the false self within the illusory world.

When the Vedas and Upanishads give clear-cut ideas of what God is supposed to be, then all these Gods and Goddesses which people worship have no value from the ultimate standpoint.

Religious Gods are based on blind faith or belief. Belief is not God. The 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 consciousness.

The Vedic God is Spirit. The Spirit, the God, is present in the form of the Atman (Soul). The Spirit, the God, is present in the form of consciousness.

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.

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)

Even the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is present in 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 that 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 as God other than consciousness.

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

No mantras can help eliminate ignorance. All the mantras and rituals are meant for the ignorant populace, who strongly believe that the world in which they exist is a reality. For one who wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the mantras will not help to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

That is why Sage Sankara:~VC~.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?

VC- v6~ 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. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

If the ‘Self ‘is not the body then it is erroneous to judge the truth on the base of the body as the Self.+

If the ‘Self ‘is not the body, then it is erroneous to judge the truth based on the body as the Self. You are not the Self because you are the body with the name. You are the false self within the false experience. Therefore, all your judgment of the truth is a false judgment.

When ‘Self’ is not you, then it is erroneous to judge the truth as you, as the Self. The judgment has to be based on the Soul, the innermost Self. Only when you learn to view, judge, and reason based on the Soul as the Self, the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space, will start unfolding.

All your judgment is intellectual judgment, which is useful in practical life within the practical world. Intellectual judgment is a dualistic judgment that is of no use to unfold the mystery of the world in which you exist.

The dualistic intelligence is limited to the dualistic illusion. Nondualistic intelligence is needed to unfold the mystery of form, time, and space.

Your dualistic intelligence judges everything from a dualistic perspective; thus, its use is limited to the dualistic world. Nondualistic intelligence is required to unfold the mystery of the experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

Your dualistic intelligence is limited to the waking experience. You have to be keen to view and judge everything from the non-dualistic perspective to unfold the mystery of the three states.

You are egocentric; therefore, your intelligence is egocentric. Only when you become soulcentric will you realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

Egocentricity is the prison for the Soul, the Self. When you become soulcentric, the Soul will wake up from the sleep of ignorance in the midst of the dualistic illusion.

Thus, realize you are not the Self. Come out of the intoxication of the ‘I’. Till you use the word ‘I’ for the ‘Self’, the Soul will remain in the clutches of the dualistic illusion.

Advaita says:~ One alone exists, and the rest is all superimposition on that One, due to ignorance.+

Swami Vivekananda aptly described Sage Sri Sankara’s Advaita as the fairest flower of philosophy that any country in any age has produced.

The Advaitic truth is a rational or scientific truth declared by Bhagwan Buddha and Sage Sankara centuries back, but unfortunately, the original essence of the rational Advaita is lost mainly because of orthodox adulteration and add-ons, which are based on the ego (waking entity), which is the false self within the false experience (waking).

The seeker has to first indulge in deeper self-search without scriptures and understand and assimilate the Advaitic truth, which leads to self-awareness. Thus, soulcentric thinking, reasoning, and judgment are very much necessary in the pursuit of truth.

Sage Gaudapada:~ The non-dual Atman is realized when the individual self (jiva) is awakened from its ignorance. Atman is unborn, dreamless, sleepless, and motionless, and is beyond duality. It is cognition at its purest. It is Brahman- Ayam Atma Brahma, this Atma is that Brahma; Thus epitomizing the core of Upanishad teachings.

Sage Sri, Gaudapada, expands further on these states of consciousness. The Self is AUM. It represents the manifest and unmanifest aspects of Brahman. It is the single syllable that symbolizes and embodies Brahman, the Absolute Reality. It is the Pranava that pervades all existence and is our very life-breath.

Vaisvanara in the waking state is the first part of AAUM. One who realizes this attains his desires.

Teijasa in the dream state is U, the second part of AUM. One who realizes this attains knowledge.

Prajna in deep sleep is M, the third part of AUM, concluding the sounds of the earlier two parts. One who realizes this attains a comprehensive understanding of all.

The Syllable AUM in its entirety stands for the fourth state, Turiya, the one beyond phenomenal existence, supremely blissful and non-dual.

AUM in its integral whole stands for the fourth state, which is transcendental, devoid of phenomenal existence, and is the source of all existence. AUM represents Ultimate Reality.

AUM is thus verily the Self itself. One who realizes this merges into that Self. Meditate on AUM as the Self.

Sage Sri, Sankara says:~ "Kuruthe Ganga sahar gamanam Vratha paripal mathva dhanam. Gyana Vihine.Sarva Mathene.”

Gnana is common to all religions. There is nothing like one Gnana for a Hindu and another for a Christian.

The entire philosophy of Sage Sri, Sankara can be summed up in the following statement:-

Brahma satyam, jaganmithya, jivobrahmaivanaparah: - Brahman alone is real; the world is non-real, and the individual Self is essentially not-different from Brahman.

This is the quintessence of Sage Sri, Sankara’s metaphysics.

Consciousness is the one single reality or Brahman. The individual self is a reality within the duality. There is no individual in the realm of the non-dual reality.

Advaita says:~ One alone exists, and the rest is all superimposition on that One, due to ignorance.

Through a systematic inquiry into the nature of the mind, which is present in the form of the universe, one arrives at the position that the soul, the innermost self, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

The Soul, the innermost self, is constant and, therefore, real, while the phenomena constituting the universe are constantly changing and, therefore, unreal. The final conclusion is that the form, time, and space of the universe are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. Thus, no second thing exists other than the consciousness.

The seeker of truth has to take into account all three states of our existence, which are waking, dream, and deep sleep ~ in waking or dream, one experiences duality, and in deep sleep, there is only non-duality. In order to obtain a complete picture of our existential reality, we need to include evidence from all three states. This is the phenomenology of consciousness.

The consciousness is one only, without a second. One experience the manifold universe ignorance ~ led illusion “covers" the One and "projects" the Many. The illusion is the veil on the consciousness. In truth, only One, non-dual Reality is all there is. Consciousness is all-pervasive. It is intrinsically Real, self-effulgent, infinite, undifferentiated Pure.

When the soul, the innermost self, wakes up to its own formless nondual true nature, the ignorance ceases, and the illusion, which is present in the form of duality never again experienced as reality.

The show of the illusory duality, however, continues, as before. Only our identification with a particular actor's role is gone forever because the self is in its own awareness.

Self-awareness is Brahmic Bliss! This state is already ours, always in deep sleep in a "general" way. When the Self-Knowledge dawns, then one is awake to it in a "special" way in the midst of duality.

Atman=Brahman or the innermost Self, captures the essence of the immanent (Self) and the transcendent (Brahman) Reality. Humanity has not yet conceived a more lofty conception of its position in the universe.

Advaita only means negation of duality. The soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Consciousness is the cause of the origin, maintenance, and withdrawal of the universe, which is Advaita (i.e., non-dual); it means that consciousness transcends all conceptions, positive and negative. Nothing positive can ever be imagined or said about it.

Consciousness is existence absolute, awareness absolute. Existence absolute means that consciousness is not unreal or non-existent. And it is not unconsciousness. Nothing positive can be stated about consciousness."~Samtthosh Kumaa

Religious people use the word Dharma to signify the religion. But in ancient days the Sages of truth used it to signify the Athma+.

A person who realizes the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and becomes Avadhuta and live as he wishes.

Many times we get insights in a mysterious way, from mysterious people and in mysterious circumstances. The advanced seekers will be able to grasp the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth. The Advaitic truth is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God.

A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.

Katha Upanishads:~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one, Atman reveals its own form. (II -23-P-20)

All the chosen ones will get freedom from experiencing the illusion (duality) as a reality. You are the chosen one.

Millions are searching for truth, but one in a million will realize it. If you are the truth seeker, then you are one of a million.

The realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman is possible only to the seeker who learns to view and judge the three states based on the Soul, the Self.

The ‘Self’ is not within you. But the world in which you exist is within the Soul. Till you think the ‘Self is within your body, you will not be able to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The world in which you exist is a falsehood. Thus, you are the false Self within the falsehood. The falsehood appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality). Therefore, realize ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal’ in order to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ helps to get rid of the ignorance, which is the cause of experiencing the dualistic illusion (world) as a reality.

The world in which we exist is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of the consciousness, but it is unreal, in the sense that it is not absolute and eternal like the consciousness itself.

People's approach is more practical, and they stick with the reality of the world; they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.

When the seeker has the firm conviction that the form, time, and space are made of a single stuff and that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, then the Soul, the innermost Self, will be able to remain in its own awareness in the midst of the form, time, and space.

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

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."

By becoming a sanyasi or monk, one will not get Self-realization, truth realization, or God realization. What is the use of becoming a sanyasi or monk when the ‘Self ‘is not you? You are the false ‘Self.’

The ‘I’ is not the witness. The Soul, the innermost Self, is the witness. The Soul, the innermost Self, witnesses the coming and going of the ‘I’. Holding the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as the witness is an error because the Self is not the ‘I’ but the Self is the ‘I-LESS Soul.

In Tattireya Upanishad:~ "satyaM vada. DharmaM Cara." Speak the truth, practice dharma. Now, if you want to practice dharma, you should first know what it means. (1.11.1)

The word “dharma “found in the karikas means Atma in Advaita Vedanta.

Religious people use the word Dharma to signify the religion. But in ancient days, the Sages of truth used it to signify the Atma. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar