If the Advaita is bifurcated from orthodoxy than it becomes scientific and it becomes very easy to understand and assimilate.+

 

If you become fully aware of the fact that the Self is not you but the Self is the Soul then, all the universe will naturally become unreal. 

If the Advaita is bifurcated from orthodoxy then it becomes scientific and it becomes very easy to understand and assimilate.   The scientific –inventions about consciousness are nearer to the truth but they are not the truth in themselves.

Bhagavan Buddha, Sage Sankara, and Sage Goudpada have declared non-dual truth centuries back but one has to reach the destination with the scientific[rational] investigation, not through punditry. Until one mentally reaches the conclusion, the conviction will not arise. Without the firm conviction, the wisdom will not dawn.  Therefore, there is a need to know consciousness is real all else is a myth, which Sage Sankara declared as the world is myth Brahman alone is real.

Sage Sankara says Atman is Brahman and everything is Brahman is a scientific declaration not religious or yogic.  Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada are more scientific than anyone else in the world. Since the real Advaitic essence is hidden it cannot be got without the inner [mental] journey.

Sage Gaudapada says:~ The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upaasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

Gnana here is knowledge un-contradictable truth or scientific truth.  Thus their scientific truth of the whole, not part is declared by Sage Sankara 1400 years back and thought only to those of higher intellect.   Thus karma and upasana[religion and yoga], which is meant for the masses have to be bifurcated from Advaita to reach the ultimate end.     

Wisdom is for those who are capable of inquiring into their own existence to know and realize the ultimate truth, which is Brahman.

When one goes into the annals of history it looks like the true Advaith expounded by Sage Sankara and his param guru, Goudpada was lost or mutilated by the orthodox cult because their preaching is based on non-duality and practices are based on duality.

Sage Sankara says in Brahma Sutras: that Brahman is the cause of the world, whereas in Mandukya he denies it. This is because he says that at the lower stage of understanding, the former teaching must be given, for people will get frightened as they cannot understand how the world can be without a cause, but to those in a higher stage, the truth of non-causality can be revealed.

Sage Sankara himself has warned us not to use ambiguous words and to practice semantic analysis in his book "Definition of one's own Self. ( Page 199, v.24 of "Sankara's Selected Works)

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)

Sage Sankara’s notion of Maya, the cosmic illusion [mind or matter], which must be transcended in order to realize the truth of Brahman, which means ultimate truth or God in truth.  

If Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness then, it is necessary to realize, the consciousness as self, which pervades all the three states, to realize the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. Thus, consciousness (Soul or Atman) is the ultimate truth [Brahman].  

The Sruti itself says: "This Atma is NOT to be attained by a study of the Vedas.  (Katha Upanishad I, 2, 23.) 

It means the seeker has to investigate on his own and realize the ultimate truth

   

Ultimate Truth can be known if the seeker keeps up the pursuit to the very end, whereas some assert that Ultimate Truth cannot be known. 

When the Vedas and Upanishads declare that Consciousness or Atman is actually nothing but Brahman, then why go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. One has to realize the fact that, the mind is in form of the universe.  Trace the source of mind and realize that source is consciousness. The mind arises from consciousness as waking or dream and subsides as deep sleep.  

All are searching truth within the illusion not being aware of the fact that the illusion is created out of single stuff which is consciousness because everyone thinks their body and their experience of the universe are not consciousness, and consciousness is limited to their body.

Thus searching the truth in the illusion with the illusory self, within the illusory experience, has to be an illusion.  The illusion is created and sustained and finally dissolves as consciousness. Consciousness is the material of the illusion.   Since there is no second thing other than consciousness; the consciousness itself is God in truth or Brahma t.  This conviction derives only through deeper inquiry, analysis, and reasoning.

Many people want to take as little trouble as possible and gain as much as possible. They disdain the hard labor of thinking needed in pursuit of truth and hope to get the truth by doing nothing i.e. merely believing or refraining from thought in yoga.

 Conversion can occur only in the sphere of religion, never in pursuit of truth. When one knows non-dual truth, he becomes free from the sphere of imagination.

If one’s reason is not sharp enough, then only religion and yoga can satisfy him. The seeker of truth examines both scientific and religious doctrines and discoveries and to evaluate them.:~Santthosh Kumaar