Advaitic orthodoxy has to be discarded if you want to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.+

You have to go beyond the Vedas means going beyond the religion. Go beyond religion means, go beyond the blind belief-based Gods.

You have to mentally realize the ‘Self’ by a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’. Go beyond the Vedas, religion and the belief in religion propagated God. Go beyond the Vedas, religion and the belief in religious propagated God means, going beyond the illusion. That is the end of Vedas (Veda –antha).

When one goes into the annals of history it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada was lost or mutilated by the orthodox. The Advaitic wisdom is nothing to do with orthodox preaching and practice because Advaitic orthodoxy is dogmatism. Advaitic orthodoxy has to be discarded if you want to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada are independent thinkers other schools of Indian philosophy are mere theologies. Advaitic philosophy is real philosophy. The dualistic philosophy cannot escape the charge of dogmatism.

Sage Sri, Sankara was an independent thinker. His wisdom has not been taken seriously by many in India, because, most of the followers of Sage Sankara are religious orthodoxy.

Yoga Vasistha:~ "Teachers, interpretations of sacred texts, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of that Ultimate Truth which is revealed in the clear reflection of the heart, engendered from contact with the good."

Anybody can write a commentary on the Upanishads and other great philosophic texts, all they need to do to pour out words. Some westerners along with some orthodox pundits translated and published books. The influence of Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is nothing to do with the orthodox sect.

It is necessary for the seeker to do his homework, and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what orthodox pundits expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is obtained.

Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is only being true knowledge not the absence of duality. Self -Knowledge cannot destroy the world but it eliminates ignorance and exposes the unreal nature of the mind or the universe.

Sage Sankara: - 63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the ‘Self’, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

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?

How does one get the knowledge? What is meant for knowledge? What is true knowledge? –All this of which must be dealt with by the seeker of truth in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

The Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana does not destroy the world in which you exist but it exposes the unreal nature of the world which appears as waking and is experienced as reality by the person within the waking. The same way the unreality of the dream was exposed when the waking took place.

People talk of liberation. They are only forming an idea. The idea is mere imagination; imagination is possible only in ignorance.

People, who are so confused as to be unable mentally, separate the Soul from the dualistic illusion, speaking of gaining liberation. All such idea of liberation is possible only in waking experience.

The waking experience is a dualistic illusion. The dualistic illusion appears and disappears. The Soul is the formless witness of the appearance and disappearance of the dualistic illusion. The Soul is caught up in the cage of the dualistic illusion.

It is the Soul that is in ignorance it is the Soul that has to wake up from the sleep of ignorance. It is the Soul that is in the quest of itself.

It is not you who wants freedom. It is the Soul, which wants to free itself from ignorance, which is the cause of experiencing the dualistic illusion as a reality.

The ‘ Soul’ is not you. Self-realization is necessary to realize the ‘ Soul’ is not you, but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Consciousness is the cause of the world in which you exist and it, itself is uncaused. When the world in which you exist is nothing but consciousness then the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Thus, stick to the consciousness, which is the ultimate truth, or Brahman, and mentally drop the illusory world in which you exist. Enter the kingdom of Advaita. Advaita means the one without the second. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar