Scientists take the experience of the birth, life, and death as a reality.+*

All spiritual planes are really mental: those who regard them as different or higher are taking the physical body and the world as a reality.

Scientists take the experience of birth, life, and death as a reality; their scientific inventions are based on physical awareness, and they will not be able to go deeper into this subject because they cannot cross the threshold of physicality.

The modern equipment can investigate objects within the physical existence, but it is impossible to investigate the physical existence as a whole, i.e., man, and the world together. The whole cannot be investigated under laboratory conditions. Only through deeper thinking, through inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, can the whole be investigated.

One has to go beyond the physical existence, mentally, and discovers, grasps the fact that the physical existence is merely an illusion created out of a single stuff and that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness; otherwise, he will remain the conviction believing the duality(universe) is a reality.

Consciousness is the cause of the universe, and it itself is uncaused. The universe is nothing but consciousness. Modern science has yet to discover that consciousness is the cause of the universe, which was discovered and declared by Sage Sri Sankara 1200 years ago.

Sage Sankara says: ~ Atman is Brahman. The Atman alone is real is not religious truth.

Sage Sankara declared this Advaitic truth, which is the ultimate truth to the whole world, many centuries back, to be the rational truth, scientific truth, and ultimate truth.

Thus, the Atman, which is present in the form of the consciousness, is real and eternal; the world in which we exist is merely an illusion.

Sage Sankara:~ VC~ "All this universe, which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman, which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ “VC ~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.

VC~65: As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

VC ~66: Therefore, the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths (illusion).

The Ish Upanishad declares: ~ “Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide.

Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds after death. This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain Self-knowledge. They are, in a real sense, committing suicide, for what can be worse than being a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life, which is to be one’s own master?

There is nothing more rational, more intelligible, and more undogmatic insights of Sage Sri Sankara, which is to drop all theistic (religious) non-duality or Advaita, which is meant for those who are incapable and not receptive to realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.

People’s approach was more practical, and they are stuck with the belief in their inherited belief system.

Religions are based on blind faith or belief, not the truth. Religions are more concerned with their beliefs, dogmas, and superstitions.

Religious Gods are based on imaginary beliefs. The beliefs are not true. The belief is part of the illusory universe or Maya.

Atman is Brahman or God in actuality. Other than the Atman, the God, all else is an illusion. Whatever is based on belief is a myth.

When Upanishads and Vedas declare that “God is the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself,” then why accept another God in place of the Atman or worship anything other than the Atman?

In the Yajurveda – Chapter- 32: - God Supreme or Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. He cannot be seen directly by anyone. He pervades all beings and all directions. Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

RIG VEDA: ~ The Atman (Soul or 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)

It is for every seeker who is seeking truth must first know what God is supposed to be in actuality, according to the Vedas and Upanishads, and reject all non-Vedic Gods to realize the Atman is the real God.

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

Briharanyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

Thus, it refers to a formless and attributeless God, which is the Atman (Soul), the ‘Self’ within the false experience. Thus, it indicates clearly that all the Gods with form and attributes are mere imagination based on the false ‘Self’. Thus, Atman or Soul, the ‘Self’, is God in truth.

Goudpada Karika-s of the second, third, and fourth chapters are the authority that a mumukshu ought to resort to. Since the reality of duality is born of ignorance even to a just-born animal, and therefore the cause and characteristic of samsara, bondage, misery, the Upanishads and the Sages who have followed the Vedic tradition teach the unreality of the duality and redeem the suffering humanity from the misery caused by the duality (universe).

For the sincere spiritual seeker, duality (Dvaita) and suffering are synonyms. So also, Nonduality (Advaita) and bliss (sukha) are synonyms. The Veda, especially the Upanishad portions, is full of teachings directed at establishing the unreality and miserable nature of duality (universe) and upholding the non-dual nature of the Atman, the sole reality.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.3.22 alludes to this experience: ~ (In this state, a father is no father, a mother no mother, Gods no Gods, no Vedas. In this state, a thief is no thief, the killer of a noble Brahmana no killer, a monk no monk, a hermit no hermit. This form of his is untouched by good work and untouched by evil work, for he is then beyond all the woes of his intellect.)

Mundaka Upanishad: ~ “The study of the Vedas, linguistics, Rituals, astronomy, a nd all the artscan bee called lower knowledge. The highest is that which leads to Self-realization. The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self has neither caste nor race, neither eyes nor ears nor hands nor feet. Sages say this Self is infinite in the great and in the small, everlasting and changeless, the source of life.

The Ultimate Reality is one without a second and is designated by the name Brahman. Brahman is incorporeal, immutable, all-pervading consciousness, beyond form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar