Lord Krishna says: ~ “This yoga has been lost for ages" the word yoga refers to Gnana yoga,+

If yoga gave occult powers, why did not the yogis of India during the past thousands of years use their powers to fight the battles of India and protect the country t from invaders?

If the yogis have the power of knowing the future, why did they not warn the world that pandemic is going to strike the whole world, and heal people with their miraculous power?

Why did Krishna, after 18 chapters of instruction in various kinds of Yoga, in the Gita, at the end tell Arjuna to go and fight? Why did Krishna not tell him not to fight but to use yogic power?

Instead of asking the yogis "Where is the proof?" people meekly say "He is such a great yogi with miraculous power. What he says must be true."

If anyone says that God is doing this or that or has such and such qualities, he is telling a lie. Did he go and sees God doing it? To know what "seeing" means is most difficult.

There are hundreds of commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita by different authors. Each one goes on spinning yarns imagining as he likes what the meaning may be.

But once you have studied Advaita scientifically you will know what Krishna really meant, you will see that there is only one possible interpretation, irrespective of your opinion or imagination.

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Why is the word Yoga used in so many different senses in the Gita? Because there are grades and the highest demands concentrated brains, not sitting mindless and imagining you are seeing God.

In Gita Chap. IV where Lord Krishna says: ~ “This yoga has been lost for ages" the word yoga refers to Gnana yoga, not other yogas: the force of the word this is to point this out.

Lord Krishna describes some of the other yogas but devotes this chapter separately to Gnana Yoga. So one sees even in those ancient days people did not care for Advaita; they wanted religion; hence Gnana got lost. That is why Krishna calls it "the supreme secret." Krishna points out that the yoga must-see "Brahman in action."

Gita Chap-IV: ~ “He who achieves perfection in Yoga finds the Self in time." This means that after his yoga is finished, he begins the inquiry into ultimate truth, and in due course, this inquiry produces the realization of the universal spirit as the result.

Understanding what is God is not so easy. Religious people can only imagine God based on their beliefs.

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 Sri Krishna himself says that he can do nothing to make a man intelligent straight away. The adepts give Prasad, blessing, initiations, mantrams, etc. 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.

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

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Reason as a means to reality. (Chap.18 verse 37)

After his yoga is finished, the yogi must begin the inquiry to realize Brahman or God in truth.

In chap. 10 of in Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says: ~ I cannot save you, but I can give you Buddhi (reason). (chap. 10)

In chap. 10 of in Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says: ~ "I have given you the most secret teaching, now reflect over it all" Krishna plainly says reflect, think. (Verse 63 of Chap. 18)

Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (Advaitic wisdom) has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita ~ Chap ~IV~ v.2)

Why is the word Yoga used in so many different senses in the Gita? Because there are grades and the highest demands concentrated brains, not sitting mindless and imagining you are seeing God.

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Bhagavad Gita is a hodgepodge containing everything; hence it suits the populace because there is something in it for every type of mindset. It is difficult to find any tradition whose voice is not found in the Gita. It is difficult to find anyone who does not take solace from the Bhagavad Gita. But for such people, the Advaitic path will prove very difficult.

Once you are Soulcentric you will know what Bhagavad Gita and other scriptures really meant you will see that there is only one possible interpretation, irrespective of your opinion or imagination.

Bhagavad Gita does not contain higher wisdom. Bhagavad Gita is intended for those who are incapable of thinking rationally.

People love the Bhagavad Gita because it is very easy to extract one's own meaning from it. Reading the Bhagavad Gita, a religious believer extracts something of which he can make a belief, because.

Bhagavad Gita speaks of bhakti, devotion. The karma yogi extracts his belief because Krishna has spoken on karma yoga, the Yoga of action. The believer in knowledge finds what he wants because Bhagavad Gita has spoken on knowledge as well. Somewhere Krishna calls bhakti the ultimate, somewhere else he calls knowledge the ultimate, again elsewhere he calls karma yoga the ultimate.

Lord Krishna taught the Karma and Bhakti yogis their own paths only in order to lead them up to the Gnana yoga path, which is the highest and the real object of his teaching.

Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (our true Advaita philosophy) has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita ~ Chap ~IV~ v.2)

Why is the word Yoga used in so many different senses in the Gita? Because there are grades and the highest demands concentrated brains, not sitting mindless and imagining you are seeing God.: ~Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara: ~ For Liberation cannot be attained without Self- Knowledge.+.

Advaitic wisdom is potent but bitter medicine for those imprisoned by orthodox ideology. The Vedas talk about Brahman which refers to the ultimate truth or ultimate reality. The consciousness is the ultimate truth, therefore, the consciousness is Brahman and Brahman is God in truth.

Sage Sankara is Jagadguru for the ignorant populace and Brahma Gnani for the seeking world.

Sage Sankara’s wisdom is nothing to do orthodox belief systems. Sage Sankara is the only sage who has final authority on the Advaitic truth. The Advaitic truth is rational truth and scientific truth without dogma.

Religion is nothing to do with Advaita. Advaitic sect belongs to religion. Advaita is pure spirituality. Advaitic sect is dualistic is nothing to do with the Advaitic truth which is hidden by the illusion. Mixing religion and spirituality is like mixing oil and water.

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

The religion and its sects are based on the form, time, and space whereas the Spirituality is based on the Atman the formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

Religions hold birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. From the ultimate standpoint, the world in which we exist is an illusion created out the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Advaitic sect holds the world (illusion) as a reality whereas the Sage Sankara says the world as an illusion. Therefore, the individual experience of birth, life, death, rebirth, sin, karma, and personal gods and rituals belongs to the illusion.

Thus, Advaitic religious sect is path meant for the ignorant populace, which is incapable of grasping the Advaitic wisdom hidden by the Maya or illusion.

The seeker must know the difference between religion and spirituality. Many people think the religion itself as spirituality.

Spirituality leads to discovering the truth which is hidden by the form, time, and space.

Advaita is universal. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the innermost Self. The world in which you exist is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaitic wisdom.

Sage Sankara’s wisdom is nothing to do with the orthodox belief systems. Some philosophers in the past dissented from this interpretation of Vedanta philosophy, holding that the incarnated Souls were separate from the Divine Essence and only finally merged with it after the cycles of birth.

All these theoretical philosophies are based on the imagination based on the false ‘Self’ (ego or you) within the false experience (waking).

Orthodox people argue that Sage Sankara had a Guru. Sage Sankara himself’ was Guru.

Yes, for orthodox people he is Jagadguru but for the seeker of truth, he is a Brahma Gnani.

The traditionally religious people are so entangled in orthodox religiosity; it is very difficult for them to free themselves from narrow-minded prejudices and dogmas and superstitions. These educated orthodox people are more ignorant than illiterate. They strongly stuck to their inherited orthodox baggage meant for the ignorant populace. Even though their own Sage has said that orthodoxy meant for the ignorant populace they ignore and they are like blind led by another blind follow the inherited blind belief.

Vedas do not permit idol worship. All the idols are of the Puranic Gods Priests are referring to the Puranic Brahma as GOD they are ignorant of the God in Vedas even though they speak of Vedas.

Priests do not who understands the meaning of the Brahman, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The word Brahman means ultimate truth or reality which cannot be indicated by any word. The Brahman can be expressed through silence because it is beyond the experience form, time, and space. Therefore, the word Brahman in the clearly stands for the essence of the three states, which is consciousness only. The Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is for realize the Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Sage Sankara opposed the Buddhists only, who misunderstood Bhagavan Buddha and became atheists. According to Sage Sankara meditation always means the critical analysis of the Self to get salvation from the worldly tensions. Due to the eccentric ego of the then atheists, Sage Sankara did not go beyond this since the atheists will not accept God beyond themselves. This limitation is not due to limited knowledge of Sage Sankara but is due to the then-existing situation of the psychology of the surrounding society.

Even Bhagavan Buddha kept silent about God because the society dealt by Him consisted of Purvamimamsakas, who were strong atheists. Bhagavan Buddha told that everything including the Self is only relatively real (Sunya). This is correct because the Self is a part of the universe, which is relatively real with respect to the absolute unimaginable God. The Bhagavan Buddha stopped at this point because the atheists cannot realize the existence of unimaginable God indicated through His silence.

The point of Buddha is that if God is non-existent, the entire creation including Self is non-existent. Sage Sankara wanted to establish the existence of the Brahman. For this purpose, He made the Atman as the Brahman. He brought out the identity of Self with the consciousness and made the Atman the Brahman. Since one will not negate the existence of his Self, he will accept the existence of the Brahman, which is the Atman or Soul the innermost Self. Both Bhagavan Buddha and Sage Sankara kept silent about the absolute unimaginable God. The same philosophy was dealt with by them from different angles in different situations.

Exploring if an outside observer can, in all cases, determine if a person is Enlightened or not, the venerated Indian Sanyasin, Sage Sankara), in his work The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination (1) or as it is sometimes known, Viveka Chudamani (2), states that the Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539). Continuing, although there are variances found in the actual wording between various translators and translations the gist behind the words remains the same, Sage Sankara writes: - “Sometimes he appears to be a Fool, sometimes a wise man. Sometimes he seems splendid as a king, sometimes feeble-minded. Sometimes he is calm and silent. Sometimes he draws men to him. Sometimes people honor him greatly, sometimes they insult him. Sometimes they ignore him.

Sage Sankara pokes fun at ascetics and points out that all their austerities do not cause desires to go “(Altar Flowers" Page 205, v.2 P.207 v.4.)

Sage Sankara says: ~ Whatever thing remains eternal is true, and whatever is non-eternal is untrue. Since the world is created and destroyed, it is not true.

Advaitic Truth is the thing that is unchanging. Since the world is changing, it is not true.

Whatever is independent of space and time is true, and whatever has space and time in itself are untrue.

Just as one sees dreams in sleep, he sees a kind of super-dream when he is waking. The world is compared to this conscious dream.

The world is believed to be a superimposition of the Brahman. Superimposition cannot be true.

On the other hand, Sage Sankara claims that the world is not absolutely false. It appears false only when compared to Brahman. In the pragmatic state, the world is completely true—which occurs as long as we are under the influence of Maya. The world cannot be both true and false at the same time; hence Sage Sankara has classified the world as indescribable. The following points suggest that according to Sage Sankara, the world is not false (Sage Sri, Sankara himself gave most of the arguments)

This Māyāvāda of Sage Sankara was highly criticized and misunderstood. Bhaskaracharya described Sage Sankara to be indebted to the Buddhists for his concept of Maya. (The term Maya, however, appears in the Bhagavad Gita 7.14 and also in many Upanishads).

The concept of Māyā seems to be a hypothesis. Since according to the Upanishads, only Brahman is real, but we see the material world to be real, Sage Sankara explained the anomaly by the concept of this illusionary power Māyā.

Sage Sankara: ~ “The world, filled with attachments and aversions, and the rest, is like a dream: it appears to be real as long as one is ignorant, but becomes unreal when one is awake.

Sage Sankara: ~ “As fire is the direct cause of cooking, so knowledge, and not any other form of discipline, is the direct cause of Liberation; for Liberation cannot be attained without Knowledge." (Self- Knowledge).

Sage Sankara: ~ As the moon appears to be moving when the clouds move in the sky, so also to the non-discriminating. Atman appears to be active when in reality the senses are active.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. The consciousness alone is real; the world is merely an illusion. The world in which we exist has no independent existence apart from consciousness. The world in which we exist is not different from consciousness because the world is created out of consciousness. The Soul, the Self is eternal, impersonal awareness, one without the second.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is meant for those who wish to realize the truth which is hidden by illusory universe or Maya.+

The wisdom will not dawn because of your good or bad conduct. You and your good and bad deeds are part of the illusory universe of Maya.

There are two kinds of audiences –

1. The religious believers who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of their action or karma

2.  The truth-seeker who seeks to know Brahman or God in truth.

Religion emphasis on the karma is meant for ignorant people who are incapable of grasping the God hidden by the ignorance.

Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is meant for those who wish to realize the truth which is hidden by illusory universe or Maya.

Those who lack the intelligence to discriminate between formless witness (subject) and three states (object) will not be able to grasp what is real and what is unreal. Both subject and object are consciousness, not subject alone. 

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal. (Commentary on Vedanta Sutra) Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification.

Sage Sankara is the only Sage who has final authority on the Advaitic truth (nonduality). The Advaitic truth is rational truth and scientific truth and ultimate truth without dogma.

Reading and reflecting on my post and blogs helps you to realize what is the truth and what is the untruth. Without knowing what is the truth? -  it is impossible to realize what is the untruth. Reading and reflection on my posts and blogs help the seeker sow the seed of Advaita in his subconscious.

First: reading and hearing the truth--that the Atman is the only reality and that everything else is an illusion.

Second: ~ Reasoning upon from all points of view.

Third: ~ giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth.

This realization comes from being certain that Brahman is real and the universe is 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 says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false leads truth realization.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ “Advaita encompasses everything. Since Advaita requires heavy-duty intellectualism, it had to be progressively simplified.

Atman is Brahman. The Atman is the Self is non-dual because there is no second thing exists other than the Atman. Atman is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the only true reality, and everything else, which appears as form, time, and space are merely an illusion.

Rig Veda:~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'-  Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth. 

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 as God other than consciousness.

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The ‘Self is not you but the ‘Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

You are the birth, entity, and you are bound by the life, death, and the world whereas the Soul is birthless, deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The experience of the birth, life, death, and the world is nothing to do with the Soul because the experience of the birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the  Self.

Thus, the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is a reality within the dualistic illusion. The illusion has no value from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self. Mentally reduce the dualistic illusion as the Soul or the consciousness and rest in consciousness.

It is not you who has to get freedom but it is the Soul, the  ‘Self’ that is seeking freedom from experiencing the birth, life, death, and universe as a reality.

Only when the Soul, the ‘Self’-wakes up from the sleep of ignorance the freedom happens. For this, it has to drop the inborn samskara or conditioning, which is present in the form of the ‘I’ by realizing is inborn ignorance.

It is erroneous to think from the base of the body when the ‘Self’ is not the body. The ‘Self’ is not the body; therefore the individual life is nothing to do with the Soul, the ‘Self’ because the Soul is unborn eternal because it is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. : ~Santthosh Kumaar