People study Vedanta and they are under the delusion and concludes that they say: ~ "I-Am-Brahman", but they fail to realize the fact that Brahman is everywhere and in everything!+

People study Vedanta and they are under the delusion and concludes that they say: ~ "I-Am-Brahman", but they fail to realize the fact that Brahman is everywhere and in everything!

The existence of Brahman is not limited to his physical identity, because, it the very essence of the form, time, and space.

By following Vedanta does not mean that one has become Brahman. One gains thereby a mere intellectual understanding of the truth which is beyond the form, time, and space.

The ultimate truth or Brahman or God can only be realized through ‘‘Self’’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Athma Gnana. Only through ‘‘Self’’-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Athma Gnana can one cross the domain of the duality.

Even then it is only a rare one who sees the all-pervading Brahman (God). He sees the Brahman within more clearly than you see the objects of this world with your physical eyes.

Brahman is to be grasped within and is not to be sought outside. When there is a real longing to be united with Brahman, then he realizes the truth beyond the form, time, and space. And still, only a rare one realizes Brahman.

When the Soul remains in its own awareness then there is oneness in the midst of diversity. In ‘‘Self’’-awareness the world in which we exist is merely an illusion. The Soul, the' Self'  itself is God in truth. 

Realizing the Soul, the 'Self'. is Self -realization or truth realization or God-realization. ‘‘Self’’-awareness can never be achieved through an intellectual understanding of Advaita

Remember:~

It is necessary to repeat the same truth again and again till it becomes reality. One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what. Words are needed until one gets a firm conviction of ‘what is what’. People need reading and hearing the words think deeply and reach the ultimate end.

Sage Sankara's commentary to Brahma Sutras [Chap.3.4.50] shows that the Gnani "should pass through life", not run away from life, and should take a middle course between seeking worldly honor and worldly abasement.

Sage Sankara varied his practical advice and doctrinal teaching according to the people he was amongst. He never advised them to give up their particular religion or beliefs or metaphysics completely; he only told them to give up the worst features of abuse: at the same time, he showed just one step forward towards the truth. Sri, Sankara was extremely precise and careful in his choice of words.

That is Why Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something detrimental to our spiritual progress.

Sage 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)

Seekers of truth should not believe blindly in traditional orthodox nonduality without verifying all the facts from every angle. One has to reflect through reasoning over and over again without getting tired of the process

The words are needed until one gets a firm conviction of ‘what is what. People need reading and hearing the words of wisdom to think deeply and reach the ultimate end.

My blogs and postings help the seeker to remove the mental blockade, which is blocking his realization. And it also helps to dispel all the inborn and inherited conditioning or samskara from the subconscious.

My blogs will help not only as information to move in the right direction to reach the ultimate end of understanding but also helps as subconscious suggestions, which is very much necessary to establish in non-dualistic reality.

By repeated reading and reflecting on my posts and blogs helps the seeker.

My blogs and posts and blogs are not teaching or theory. It only helps the seeker to remove all the obstacles in the path of truth and reach the ultimate end in lesser time and effort. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

What is the value of mystic experience, what is the value of the words of great people of the past and wise men of the present?+

What is the value of mystic experience, what is the value of the words of great people of the past and wise men of the present?

In the Atmic path, the seeker must examine and evaluate them all in order to find the truth.

• Is there a God?

• What is his nature?

• Let there be proof.

• Such questions must arise.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Every man knows God according to his likes and dislikes. That he must know him as Truth. We must have proof of what God has done and what he is doing.

• Why did God create pain and pleasure?

• Why does he torture humankind with epidemics and calamities?

• Has God no better business to do?

• Is God, teaching people lessons through these sufferings and setbacks?

• What lesson can God teach the little child destroyed by fire the other day?

• How can we believe that God is all-merciful when he constantly displeases all humanity?

Suppose one says he has got faith in a religion or some teaching. Suppose another says he has no faith in them. Thus, there is a contradiction.

No one can go to do anything about it. Nothing can be done. In the real truth, there can be no contradiction, nor any possibility of it. The realm of truth cannot contradict anymore, because there is no duality in reality.

Those who pray to God for something occasionally get what they ask for. They then declare it to be a miracle to be placed to the credit of God! But when they fail to get what they pray for they do not attribute these failures to God, and thus the obvious fact that, the failures far outnumber the successes, as for instance thousands of families of the soldiers who prayed to God to protect their dear ones, but the prayers remained unheard and they have lost their dear ones in the wars.

The seeker has to examine every aspect." he must think deeply to know the ultimate truth of his existence. That is to inquire.

All secret silent mental invisible service of mankind by occult power is mere imagination based on the false ‘Self’ within the false experience. There are the visible tangible signs in the world. There are signs of the benefit of yogis in the world to stop human suffering through yogic power. If such yogic power ever existed all wars' calamities would have been stopped. Such power exists only in mythological stories. Mythological stories are nothing but a myth.

The seeker should not believe just because it is mentioned in the books. All such books are meant for the ignorant mass.

All the prediction belongs to the realm of the duality. The duality is not a reality because it is based on the false ‘Self’ (ego or you) within the false experience (waking). All predictions as to what these yogis will do in the future are unacceptable because verification is not immediately possible. Who can take them as having any worth? Therefore, they belong to the world of imagination. The imagination belongs to the unreal world. : ~ 

Santthosh Kumaar

People who are saying ‘I Am GOD’ are hallucinating that they become God. First, they must know what is God is in actuality.+

How is one to know that what he believes as God is true? This question must prick the seeker of truth.

People who are saying ‘I Am GOD’ are hallucinating that they become God. First, they must know what is God is in actuality.

Before saying ‘I AM GOD,’ one must realize what ‘God’ is supposed to be in actuality. Only ignorant says ‘I AM GOD’ without knowing what it means.

People say I AM THAT ~ I am God, I am Brahman. But when Brahman is, how can "I" remain? Only Brahman remains, not I, it is erroneous to use the word ‘I’ for the Self, because ‘I’ represents the form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the innermost Self is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

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.

Only religious Godmen declare: I AM GOD. Gnanis say the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ is God.

Mystics talk of universal consciousness. How do they know it in this sky, or in that rock, or in the ocean? It is merely their guesswork or imagination or hallucination based on their samskara or conditioning!

Every man knows God according to his likes and dislikes. That he must know him as Truth. One must have a proof for all the claims - what God has done and what he is doing.

It is no use in arguing with someone who has faith in his belief system because for him there can be no possible refutation of what he believes, so, rational argument is entirely useless. He clings to his belief so strongly, that he makes no distinction between the truth and his belief. One has to know the fact that God cannot exist without his existence. The truth does not depend on 'Gods’ existence, but it entirely depends on man’s existence. Thus, it is foolish to venture into knowing the truth of God's existence without verifying the facts about his own existence.

It is difficult for tradition-bound people to accept anything as truth other than what they inherited from the inborn and inherited conditioning and parental grooming and their accumulated knowledge. Only with an intense urge to know the truth and courage to accept the truth after verification with better understanding one will be able to drop all his accumulated dross, which is the main obstacle in ‘Self’-realization.

What do they know? means, "What do they know as a fact?"

Is there a God? What is his nature?

Let there be proof.

Why did God create suffering and pleasure?

Why does God torture mankind with all types of disasters and epidemics, violence?

Has God no better business to do?

It is useless to say that he is teaching people lessons through these sufferings.

What lesson can God teach the little child destroyed by fire the other day?

How can we believe that God is all-merciful when he constantly displeases the whole of humankind?

How do they know there is an Absolute or a God?

Such questions must arise to the seeker. The onus of proof is on the one who makes this assertion. Without proof, one should not accept any claims as truth.

There is no doubt that mystics saw Vishnu, Krishna, Kali Shiva, Jesus, etc. That they saw visions may be an undeniable fact, but the question is “Was what they saw the Truth?"

Many people make similar claims. They no doubt had such vision but they never stopped to inquire if their visions are true.

What is the value of mystic experience, what is the value of the words of great men? In the pursuit of truth, the seeker has to examine and evaluate them all in order to find the truth. But one has to “Analyze, how far is it true?” because the waking entity itself’ is false ‘Self’ within the false experience. Thus, whatever the false ‘Self’ sees within the false experience is bound to be a falsehood. : ~ 

Santthosh Kumaar

 

Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification. Nothing has to be judged making some Guru, teacher, or some teaching as a yardstick.+

The scientific theories and inventions have made the materialistic life easier and comfortable for a man to live in the practical world, however, science failed to unfold the truth of the true existence. Since their invention is based on the false self (ego) and false experience (waking).

The religions have created an imaginary God based on blind belief and propagated the existence of such Gods.

Religion imposed people to blindly follow its scriptures without verification. Religion is based on blind belief. Every religion has its own beliefs and dogmas. Religion discourages people to verify whether it is based on truth or not. Scientific materialism and religious regulated life have resulted in restlessness.

Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification. Nothing has to be judged making some Guru, teacher, or some teaching as a yardstick.

There are diverse teachings in India with many branded Gurus and yogi’s people have to choose, whichever pleases them. All other paths and practices are for the mass and the path of wisdom is for the class who are ready and receptive to acquire Self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Remember:~

A Gnani will never force anyone to accept the path of wisdom. He will constantly bring the seeker back to the fact of his inherent perfection and encourage him to seek the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

A Gnani knows you need nothing, not even him, and is never tired of reminding you.

A Gnani continuously shares Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana with like-minded fellow seekers.

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

Blindly believing in some path, following some guru, practicing some so-called spiritual practice without verification will not help you to get rid of the ignorance.

Truth-realization is very simple. We make it complicated by mixing diverse theories, different ideologies, religions, and yoga. All our accumulated knowledge is the greatest hindrance in the pursuit of truth. To realize the truth beyond the form, time, and space, one must have the courage of Buddha. Buddha got enlightenment only after dropping the religion, Vedas, and the concept of God.

To realize the simple truth three is no need to go from one mountain to another, one Ashram to another, or worship the Godmen or Guru as a God or converting from one faith to another. The truth is universal. Anyone can realize it if has an intense urge.

There is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. In the world in which we exist, all our thoughts, words, beliefs, experiences are nothing but consciousness.

Realizing the consciousness is everything, is the truth-realization or Self-realization or God-realization.

Remember:~

One should not accept any belief, philosophies, or theories as truth without verification. If one says it may be true, then he is only imagining. The seeker must go as far as he can, never stop at a doubt; he should not get disheartened by it.

The seeker has to try to overcome all the doubts and confusions. The seeker should not kill it without verifying. Let the entire doubts sprout, but the seeker must try to overcome them fearlessly until he reaches the ultimate truth.

The religion preaches that God is one and the ways to God are many. It simply tries to lead them to darkness with its dogma and idea of many Gods, which is apart from the ‘Self’.

If one says he has not seen Gods' face. If he says that he did this or went there, it will only be his imagination. This applies to all learned theorists.

That is why Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (our true Advaita 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 the truth and have no time for it. (Gita –Chap- IV-v.2)

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.

~ it meant after his yoga is finished, Yogi must begin the Self-inquiry and this inquiry leads to Self- realization.

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. : ~Santthosh Kumaar

Sunyavada Buddhism strongly holds that the ultimate is but a void, with nothing exists, not even the Soul, the ‘Self.+

Sunyavada Buddhism strongly holds that the ultimate is but a void, with nothing exists, not even the Soul, the ‘Self.

Hume and Sunyavadin Buddhists declared the nonexistence of Entity, a Void. This is just as much unwarranted finality, for it means you are viewing it from a particular standpoint as to declare its existence. Silence alone is called for. Absence or presence of the objective world and even existence and non-existence is always referred to drsyam only; it still leaves the Soul, the witness is untouched.

In reality: ~

Where is the body?

Where is the mind?

Where is the world?

The void; or despair in the true Self, which the taintless Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. They are or have become consciousness.

One thinks there is the mind when he has thoughts, but when thoughts are not considered different from the consciousness, which is the true Self, then where is the division into, waking, dream and deep sleep, etc.

Void implies duality: the universe may not exist, but the thought of the second is there. If one knows there is a Void (emptiness/nothingness), then there is something there to be known and know. They are or have become consciousness.

All these appearances are merely an illusion that comes and go; hence meaningless to the formless Soul, the innermost Self.

The sun, the moon, the stars, planets shine because of the Soul or Spirit. The Soul shines and all things else shine as a result. Everything in the universe reflects but that light of the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness. Merely knowing the truth is not enough to escape from the tangle of illusion.

One who realizes the 'Self' discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, names and forms, birth and death, thoughts and words and deeds all is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

All is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears, consciousness still remains without the illusory form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara disagrees with Buddhists who say, there is nothing - a nonentity. Sage Sankara believes there is some reality, even though things are not what they appear to be. If one knows the truth, he will know what to do to find inspiration for action. The seeker of truth‘s subject is to know what is it that is Real.

Buddhism says: all things are illusory and nothing exists. However, Advaita avers that it is not so. It says that the universe, of course, is illusory, but there is Brahman (consciousness), that exists forming the very substratum of all things (illusion or universe). ~

Santthosh Kumaar

All these philosophies are worthless pieces of paper unless the ‘truth’, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space, is realized.+

Sage Sankara said:~Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

Even though people have read e philosophy and may be able to explain things to others, all these philosophies are worthless pieces of paper unless the ‘truth’, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space, is realized.

Sage Sankara said 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

One can never attain spiritual perfection without a perfect understanding of what is ‘what’. A Gnani finds the content of all the philosophical books as playthings.

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.

People dwelling in the ignorance, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round by various blind beliefs and tortuous paths and practices, like the blind led by the blind.

The truth seekers from different walks of life from all over the world are struggling to know the mystery of their own existence. Due to inborn and the inherited conditioning or samskara, it becomes difficult to grasp the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Religious beliefs, social and cultural bondage, personal predilections, and phobias become the greatest obstacle to discovering the ultimate truth. However, an intense inner urge to know the ultimate truth will not be satisfied until the journey to the unknown is completed. The seeker has to cross many obstacles and barricade injected by religion and society and beliefs and behaviors.

The fact is something which has to be proved beyond all doubts and cannot be challenged. The truth cannot be found in an antique shop there is no use in trying one old idea to another it leads to confusion. Nothing can be achieved or attained since the very base of seeking the truth is based on the false self (ego) and false experience (waking).

The seeker has to learn to view and judge the three states on the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost Self. Only when the seeker becomes Soulcentric then the truth will start unfolding gradually according to the spiritual maturity of the seeker.

When the Soul wakes up from its sleep of ignorance then there is no more diversity. The diversity is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to grasp because of ignorance. You have to only realize the world in which you exist is created out of single clay. And that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, you and your body and the world in which you exist are nothing but consciousness because they are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. A perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.

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

It is necessary to reflect on the same truth again and again until it becomes a reality. One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what. Words are needed until one gets a firm conviction of ‘what is what’. People need reading and hearing the words of wisdom to think reason and reflect deeply and reach the ultimate end.

“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 realizes the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The duality is a reality within the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.+

Grasping the truth depends on the spiritual maturity of the seeker. A Gnani’s mission is sharing knowledge. A Gnani inspires serious and sincere seekers of truth and diverts their attention towards the inward reality.

If your urge is at the seed level, as you go on reading the words of wisdom it will start growing. For advanced seekers will be able to grasp the Advaitic truth very easily.

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

How can one know what is pure and impure consciousness? When the illusion is made of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the consciousness. The illusion is impure consciousness and the Soul, the 'Self' pure consciousness, without the illusory division of form, time, and space.

The duality is a reality within the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Neither the body nor the world exists as a reality in reality, because both are created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. We are discussing within the illusion about the consciousness, without being aware of the fact that, our thoughts and words, and experiences are also an illusion created out of the consciousness. Therefore, diversity has no value when one becomes aware of the fact that, the ‘‘Self’’ is not you, but the ‘Self’ is the consciousness. The beyond is hidden within the world in which we exist as the consciousness.

Until man thinks that he is an individual separate from the world and he is born in this world, and the world existed prior to him until this conviction is there the Advaitic truth is impossible to grasp and realize.

Modern science discovers the truth of the fragments. Sage Sankara has discovered the truth of the whole. Advaita is the truth of the whole universe. The universe is created out of single stuff and that single stuff the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. the single stuff is real and the universe is merely an illusion created out of single stuff.

Max Planck: ~ “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve”

All the scientific inventions are based on the dualistic perspective whereas the ultimate truth of existence is based on the nondualistic perspective.

Scientific inventions are limited to the domain of the form, time, and space whereas the truth is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The scientists and the world in which they exist and their inventions are created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaita.

Advaita is the rational truth, scientific truth, the ultimate truth, and universal truth cannot be contradicted. The Advaitic truth was declared by the Sage Scientist Sankara 1200 years back.

One day the scientist also will confirm and declare that the universe is nothing but consciousness.

Science and its invention is based on the dualistic perspective (ego) whereas the ultimate truth, is based on the non-dualistic perspective (Soul). Thus, it is impossible to discover the truth which is hidden by the universe on a dualistic standpoint..

Modern science has to discover the truth of this mind first, and then only it is possible to investigate further. It is impossible to investigate the mind because the scientists and their scientific inventions are going on within the mind. The mind cannot be investigated in laboratory conditions.

Many scientists still think that the mind is within the brain so they will not be able to go deeper because they consider the physical ‘‘Self’’ as the real ‘‘Self’’ and physical existence as a reality, whereas from the ultimate standpoint the physical existence itself’’ is an illusion. : ~ 

Santthosh Kumaar

 

Bhagavad Gita:~ All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods.+

Bhagavad Gita:~ All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)

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

Even Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (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)

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

Vedas and Upanishad confirm the Soul, the innermost Self God. The Soul is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness.

The God (Spirit) is not separate from the universe (matter) because God (Spirit) and the universe (matter) are one, in essence. Without God, the universes in which you exist cease to exist. God is the fullness of the Spirit. Thus, any division in the Spirit, as the form, time, and space is merely an illusion. Thus, the universe in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Spirit, which is God.

The atheists and religious people both are believers. The atheists believe there is no such thing as God and religious people believe there is God. Belief is not the truth. One must know God in truth. The truth will set the Spirit free from the illusory prison of the form, time, and space.

Religious people are unaware of the fact that there is no God can exist, apart from the Soul, the ‘Self’. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. If there is no consciousness, then there is no physical body, no world, and no blind belief based God.

Yajur Veda says:~ "They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.

Mundaka Upanishad:~ 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 go round and round Like the blind led by the blind.

How can you worship the Absolute? That implies two ~ the worshipper and the worshipped, whereas the Absolute is nondual. One can worship his idea of the Absolute only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.

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 blind faith. Such worship based on the belief of God does not reach God in truth.

Religious rites and ceremonies, yagnas and homa-havans, or any other forms of ritual are meant for the ignorant populace.

Belief in blind belief based Gods without knowing God in actuality holds the worshiper more firmly in the grip of ignorance.

All worship and the ceremonies rituals performed on the base of non-~Vedic Gods will not yield any fruits. Deeper self-search reveals the fact that worshiped, the worship, and the worshiper and the world are merely an illusion created out of the consciousness.

Religious rites and ceremonies, yagnas and homa-havans, or any other forms of rituals formal observance has long since set in.

Religious rites and ceremonies, yagnas and homa-havans, or any other forms of ritual are meant for the ignorant populace. In the Atmic path, the seeker has to discard what is not needed to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

Sage Sankara says ~ “The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards are therefore addressed to an ignorant person.

Adhyasa Bhashya of Sage Sankara:~ (11) As regards the rituals, Sage Sankara says, the person who performs rituals and aspires for rewards will view himself in terms of the caste into which he is born, his age, the stage of his life, his standing in society, etc. Also, he is required to perform rituals all through his life. However, the Self has none of those attributes or tags. Hence, the person who superimposes all those attributes on the changeless, eternal Self and identifies Self with the body is confusing one for the other; and is, therefore, an ignorant person. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are therefore addressed to an ignorant person.

Adhyasa Bhashya of Sage Sankara:~ (11.1) This ignorance (mistaking the body for Self) brings in its wake a desire for the well-being of the body, aversion for its disease or discomfort, fear of its destruction, and thus a host of miseries(anartha). This anartha is caused by projecting karthvya(“doer” sense) and bhokthavya (object) on the Atman. Sankara calls this adhyasa. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are, therefore, he says, addressed to an ignorant person.

Adhyasa Bhashya of Sage Sankara:~ (11.2) In short, the person who engages in rituals with the notion “I am an agent, doer, thinker”, according to Sage Sankara, is ignorant, as his behavior implies a distinct, separate doer/agent/knower; and an object that is to be done/achieved/known. That duality is avidya, an error that can be removed by Vidya.

Adhyasa Bhashya of Sage Sankara: ~ (12) Sage Sankara affirming his belief in one eternal unchanging reality (Brahman) and the illusion of plurality, drives home the point that Upanishads deal not with rituals but with the knowledge of the Absolute (Brahma Vidya) and the Upanishads give us an insight into the essential nature of the Self which is identical with the Absolute, the Brahman.

Sage Sankara: ~ Atman, the Self is verily Brahman (God), being equanimous, quiescent, and by nature absolute Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss. Atman is not the body which is non-existence itself. This is called true Knowledge by the wise.

Remember:~

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)

No mantras help to get rid of ignorance. All the mantras and rituals are meant for the ignorant populace, which strongly believes, the world in which he exists as a reality. For one who wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, the mantas will not help to realize the truth, which is beyond the 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

Sage Sankara goes on to say: ~A sickness of not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take the medicine. Liberation does not come by merely saying the word “Brahman.” Brahman must be experienced. Until you allow this apparent universe to dissolve from your consciousness until you have realized Brahman, how can you find liberation just by saying the word Brahman? The result is merely noise. Until a man has destroyed his enemies and taken possession of the splendor and wealth of the kingdom, he cannot become a king by simply saying “I am a king.”

A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it, your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya, can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by subtle arguments. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar