All the philosophies are a mental fabrication. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could reveal the whole truth.+

All the philosophies are a mental fabrication. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could reveal the whole truth.

Ashtavakra:~There is no wisdom whatsoever in the scriptures-just a collection of words.

 

The seeker should not bother about finding the meaning of what is written in the scriptures.

Sage Sankara clearly says:~ Neither studying philosophy nor by worship as many gods nor observe ceremonies nor by singing devotional hymns nor by uttering mantra nor by mastering the scriptures liberation comes without realizing the Oneness.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana cannot be surmised by merely reading the Vedas and Upanishads.

All your accumulated knowledge is religious-based nothing to with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  

All your accumulated knowledge is not of any use in realizing the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.  

If you want to realize the truth then you have to drop all accumulated knowledge and start afresh.  do not hold your accumulated knowledge as a yardstick.

Remember:~  

I am highlighting some scriptural citations only to show the seeker that the Advaitic Sages themselves declare that scriptures, religion, and ideas of God are unimportant in pursuit of truth. It is easier to understand, assimilate and realize the ultimate truth or non-dualistic truth by rationalizing our views and understanding:-

There is no need to condemn any ones’ views and ideas or writing, but without being judgmental, the seeker has to verify whether the author is speaking on the standpoint of ego, or whether he is speaking on the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’. If his views are based on the standpoint of the physical ‘Self’ (ego), then there are many doubts and confusion. If his views are based on the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ then there is no confusion and doubts of any sort.

Nothing has to be accepted without verifying the validity of any claim in pursuit of truth. Only the uncontradictable truth has to be accepted as truth. There is no need to condemn any religion or any saints or sages, but the seeker has to think beyond religion, scriptures, and individualized Gods.

It is difficult to understand assimilate within a framework of some teaching or holding some philosophy as a yardstick.

We have to drop all our accumulated dross to understand and assimilate and realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth.

There is nothing to discuss, there is nothing to argue to acquire the knowledge of the single clay. All words, all the thoughts, all the people the whole cosmos is created out of single clay. That single clay is consciousness. Knowledge of the single clay is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atman Gnana.

Thus, stick to consciousness and mentally drop everything else as an illusion and enter the Advaita, the real nature of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The sugar cannot know its sweetness. The true ‘Self’ without ignorance is without the universe, which is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Thus, you have to base on the sugar, not on its sweetness. Without sugar, there is no sweetness. Similarly, without consciousness, the world, in which you exist ceases to exist as a reality. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar