Upanishad:Fools, dwelling in darkness, but wise in their own conceit, wander like blind men led by the blind.+

Upanishads:~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking they wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Upanishads Nikilanada - Ch II-5 P-14)

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani).

First, know ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’ for sure. Without realizing what untruth truth is, it is difficult to know what truth is.

Without breaking away from religion and ancient traditions, it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Religion and tradition will keep one locked in ignorance.

Sage Sankara: - “The world, filled with attachments and aversions, and the rest, is like a dream: it appears to be real as long as one is ignorant, but becomes unreal when one is awake.

Sage Sankara:~ “As fire is the direct cause of cooking, so knowledge, and not any other form of discipline, is the direct cause of Liberation; for Liberation cannot be attained without Knowledge.” (Self-Knowledge)

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (8) - Fools, dwelling in darkness, but wise in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind men led by the blind.

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (9) - Children, immersed in ignorance in various ways, flatter themselves, saying: We have accomplished life's purpose. Because these performers of karma do not know the Truth owing to their attachment, they fall from heaven, misery-stricken, when the fruit of their work is exhausted.

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (10) - Ignorant fools, regarding sacrifices and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know any higher good. Having enjoyed their reward on the heights of heaven, gained by good works, they enter again this world or a lower one.

Most of the intellectuals indulge in provocation and unnecessary argument, holding their egocentric knowledge as a yardstick. Such an attitude is leads to perversity.

The ultimate truth or Brahman is not some custom-made stuff to please different mindset. The serious seeker will never indulge in asking perverted questions.

The seeker must have enough patience, humility, and intense urge to realize the truth. Arguments and provocation will not yield truth.

Perfect understanding of ‘what is what ‘leads to realization of Nondualistic or Advaitic truth.

As the seeker's understanding of ‘what is what ‘grows, gradually the seeker gets the glimpse of truth. Whatever is based on the waking entity is falsehood and whatever is based on the formless Soul, the Self, is real and eternal.

Thus, it is necessary for the seeker of truth to make sure the waking entity (ego) is not the Self, but the Self is formless Soul in order to acquire Self-knowledge. ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because some Guru has said it.+

According to Sages Sankara, the Atmic path is not meant for the religious and yogic mindset. There is no need to convince anyone and waste time in perverted argument and provocation.

The seeker's aim is to think deeply reflect constantly to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

The ignorant who want to remain in ignorance is not qualified for the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

The Atmic path is not for the religious and yogic minded people. Religious and yogic people must move on their chosen path. The Atmic path is for only seekers of truth who are seriously searching the truth of their own existence.

Sages of truth restrained themselves parting the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to the mass and only a selected few. It was hidden from the people who were not qualified and receptive to it.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana was not written down, but was imparted orally to the chosen few.

Thus, religion was given to the mass, and knowledge of the Spirit is given only to a selected few. Thus, we find traces of the knowledge of the spirit in the religious books in the form of parables.

Katha Upanishad says: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one, Atman reveals Its own form. (II -23-P-20)

Upanishads:~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking they wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Upanishads Nikilanada - Ch II-5 P-14)

The inner 'Self' reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because a wise man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by dualistic knowledge.

Find out the truth for yourself. Use Soulcentric reason, which leads to the realization of the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

Advaitic wisdom can never be gained by argument and provocation. Discard all the accumulated the dualistic knowledge by realizing the world in which you exist, exists because of the ignorance.

Get rid of the ignorance by realizing 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.

Realizing the ‘Self’’ is not you, but the Soul is Self-realization. The Soul is the cause of the universe, and it itself is uncaused.

Those who indulge in a perverted argument from their own standpoint and opinion are not seeking the truth, which is hidden by form, time, and space. They just want to exhibit their accumulated knowledge accumulated from here and there. They think what they know is the ultimate truth.

They think whatever they propagate is the ultimate truth. The question never occurs to them, “Is what I know is really the truth.

Those who indulge in a perverted argument from their own standpoint and opinion are not seeking the truth, which is hidden by form, time, and space. They just want to exhibit their accumulated knowledge accumulated from here and there. They think what they know is the ultimate truth.

They think whatever they propagate is the ultimate truth. The question never occurs to them, “Is what I know is really the truth.:~Santthosh Kumaar

Everyone has to discover afresh for himself by verifying all the facts.+

If someone has acquired Self-knowledge and shares his acquired knowledge with others, they cannot say that there is nothing for them to do.

Everyone has to discover afresh for himself by verifying all the facts. Each one has to grasp, assimilate and realize it until he gets a firm conviction of the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Select Works of Sage Sankara" also his commentary on Brihad: ~ “Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread.”

So, it proves those who are wearing religious robe it is only for the sake of bread."

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and his religious identity and becomes Avadhuta and live as he wishes.

Some branded dollar-centric Gurus, teachers, and preachers dominate humanity, and they are not right people ~ not right in the sense they don't accept other than ‘what they think it as the ultimate truth. They simply go on fabricating beautiful words and theories and creating an illusion in the minds of people that perhaps they are authentic seers, enlightened people.

People emotionally get stuck with their physical Gurus. This is a great mistake. If you are seeking truth then you neither require the grace of the physical Guru nor his love, nor his blessings.

Remember this, you and your physical Guru and the world in which you exist is the dualistic illusion. If you stick to anything of the dualistic illusion, you will never be able to transcend the dualistic illusion because you will never be able to come out of the grip of the ignorance.

Sage Sankara: On Gnani:~ "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior."

When the knower of Brahman (Gnani) wears no signs, it means he does not identify himself as Guru or yogi or teacher or Swami.

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)

~ Then why to stick a Guru who is not a Gnani.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state.

A Gnani is neither anyone’s gurus nor anyone’s disciple. He respects all the sage of the past, and he highlights good points in their teaching, and he also highlights the obstacles, which block the realization of the ultimate truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Do not waste your time with WHO AM I? and I AM THAT- teachings which are meant for the children just started their quest.+

Do not waste your time with WHO AM I? and I AM THAT-teachings which are meant for the children just started their quest. They are only helpful as starters. In later stages, you find them inadequate and useless.

These ‘I-centric teachings are not Advaitic wisdom, which is pure spirituality.

Your quest for the truth will not be completed with WHO AM I? AND I AM THAT-teachings. These 'I-centric teaching will not help you to unfold the mystery of the 'I'.

People who are emotionally stuck to the ‘I’-centric gurus and their teaching are unaware of the fact that their emotions and sentiments keep them permanently in the grip of ignorance.

Advaita is the nature of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

First, know what is mind. The mind is not within the body. The form, time, and space together is mind. Without the form, time, and space, the mind ceases to exist.

Without the form, time, and space, the world in which you exist cease to exist. Without the world in which you exist, the waking ceases to exist. Without waking, the ‘I’ ceases to exist.

Thus, a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is very much necessary to unfold the mystery of the ‘I’.

Rest in consciousness by realizing the world in which you exist is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness.

The Soul is the fullness of consciousness without the illusory division of the form, time, and space. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal, all else is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal. (Commentary on Vedanta Sutra)

Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification.

Sage Sankara is the only Sage who has final authority on the Advaitic truth (nonduality). The Advaitic truth is rational truth and scientific truth without dogma.

Advaitic wisdom is nothing to do with orthodox Advaita, which is dualistic. Orthodox Advaita is a sect, which blindly accepts and follows dogmas and superstitions.

The Advaitic orthodoxy is not the means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Advaitic orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant populace that is unfit to grasp the highest truth. The Advaitic orthodoxy is nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Upanishad says: ~ “The human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge, and they indicate that the belief in the personal Gods, yoga scriptures, worship, and rituals are not the means to Self –Knowledge, then why anyone should indulge in it. The religion, concept of individualized god and scriptures are an obstacle to Self-realization because they are based on false self.

The seeker of truth has to search the ultimate truth without losing himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, through deeper Self-search and assimilate and realize it.

That is why Sage Sankara, indicated in Bhaja Govindam says: ~ (Jnana Viheena Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena) ~ One without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows.

Sage Sankara’s wisdom is not a teaching or philosophy, but Advaita is the universal wisdom. Advaitic wisdom is neither a teaching nor a theory, but it is merely guidance to those who are seriously seeking the ultimate truth or Brahman. Grasp the ultimate truth anytime, any age, if the seeker has the spiritual maturity and capacity to grasp it.

Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the not-Self.

It really depends on his inborn natural capacity to understand and assimilate it.

Sage Sankara’s wisdom is a Self-examiner, to test oneself to discover how near to Gnana he has approached and what progress has already been made on the path and what still remains to be done. It sets up the criterion for Self-judgement. There are millions in search of truth, but one in million will be able to grasp it.

Without Sage Sankara, there is no Advaita (nonduality). Since it was mixed up with orthodoxy, there is lots of confusion.

All the Gurus who propagate Advaita of east and west air their knowledge base Advaita on the dualistic perspective and orthodox perspective.

I am highlighting all the obstacles, which are blocking one from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman. There are so many non-dualistic masters of the east and also from the west who expound Advaitic or non-dualistic knowledge, but none of them are helpful to reach the ultimate end.

The seeker has to know and realize the Self is the Soul and identify it as his true identity to find liberation from the bondage of the illusion of birth, life, death, and the world (duality). The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with our Soul, which is Self.

My main intention is to divert the seeker's attention to the Soul, the source from where the mind (universe) rises and subsides.

Reading and reflecting on my blogs and postings, gradually the seekers start assimilating and realizing ‘what is the truth? and what is the untruth?

Repeated reading my blogs and postings make the seeker, Soulcentric, and the inner dialogue will start and clear all the doubts and confusion.

When there is no doubts and confusion, then they have realized the truth that the form, time and space are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness.

There is no use in wasting time in questioning and arguing the same time and effort has to be used to make the seeker more independent and without external spoon-feeding, he can reach the inner core, which is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The words that mean different things to different people, it is what's behind the words, between, the lines that matter. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is meant for the class, not for the mass. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

What is the use of indulging in wars, violence, terrorism in the name of protecting religion and the religious idea of God.+

Religions are the cause of wars, violence, terrorism and all the unrest of the world.  What is the use of indulging in wars, violence, terrorism in the name of protecting religion and the religious idea of God?

God is not a Hindu, or Christian. God is not a Jew or a Muslim or Buddhist. All of those Gods in human form are imaginary meant for ignorant populace, which is not capable of grasping   God in truth hidden by the ignorance (I). 

Advaitic path is not for the religious minded people. Advaitic path is pure spirituality. Advaitic path is to help the seeker to unfold the mystery of God. 

Anyone who follows Advaita knows that that Advaita is not religion.  Advaita is not philosophy. Advaita is pure spirituality. Advaitic wisdom unfolds the God hidden by the universe because Advaita itself is God. 

Advaita is the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the Spirit (consciousness). The Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. So Advaita is the nondual nature of the Soul, the Self, which is God in truth. Advaita is universal. Advaita is nothing to do with caste, sect and creed. 

Religion is nothing but human-made concoction of many religious founders to promote the personal views of some while condemning the views of others. 

A Gnani does not belong to any religion. A Gnani has realized the God hidden by the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is ignorance. The ‘I’ is the dualistic illusion. The ‘I’ hides God in truth because ‘I’ is nothing but an illusion created out of Consciousness, which is God in truth/ 

The seeker must remember the religion is not Spirituality. Spirituality is knowledge of the Spirit, the real God. The seeker must know the difference between religious God and spiritual God.  

Yajur Veda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. 

Yajurveda: ~ There is no image of God in truth. God in truth is unborn and eternal. (Chapter 32, Verse 3) 

Yajurveda: ~ God in truth is nondual and pure.

Yajurveda: ~ "They are entering darkness, those who worship the natural things (like air, water, fire, etc.), they are sinking more in darkness who worship created things." (Chapter 40, Verse 9)

Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas. 

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman, nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

Do not accept any other God other than Athma. The Athma is God in truth, Nothing is real but the Athma, which is present in the form of consciousness. Nothing matters but realizing God in truth. God in truth, is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

God in truth, is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth, is real and eternal, and all else is an illusion.

Vedas say: never accept another God in place of the Atman, nor worship other than the Atman.  Thus, to know   God in truth, Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God realization. Self-realization is real worship.

Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth, or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.

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

People, who worship the belief of God, are hallucinating that they become one with such Go

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

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

God in truth is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness and intelligence, which is beyond the form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.

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

Only the path of wisdom leads the seeker of truth on his journey to the ultimate realization of the true nature of the Universal Essence, which is the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of   consciousness.

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Atman, worships ‘Self’ as~ Atman (God in truth) alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare."

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) 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 as God other than consciousness.

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. 

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the   Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

It is high time for the Humanity to discard the religion and accept the Spirituality for the universal peace and universal brotherhood. :~   Santthosh Kumaar 

Religious moksha is based on birth entity whereas spiritual moksha based on the unborn Soul, the ‘Self’.

Bhagavān Buddha: ~ No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Arguing with religious believers is fruitless. Belief in tradition and the scripture as if they were true or factual quite clearly is delusion, but the payoff for holding such delusions is, for those who hold them, extremely compelling ~ the avoidance of the "wrath of God," the hope of heaven or salvation, or the imagined "end of suffering."

Religious orthodox think that through their good karma and performing rituals, they get moksha. Religious moksha is based on birth entity whereas spiritual moksha based on the birthless Soul, the ‘Self’. Spiritual moksha is different from the religion propagated moksha. Self-realization leads to spiritual moksha.

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (9) - Children, immersed in ignorance in various ways, flatter themselves, saying: We have accomplished life's purpose. Because these performers of karma do not know the Truth owing to their attachment, they fall from heaven, misery-stricken, when the fruit of their work is exhausted.

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (10) - Ignorant fools, regarding sacrifices and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know any higher good. Having enjoyed their reward on the heights of heaven, gained by good works, they enter again this world or a lower one.

That is why Sage Sankara' gave religious, ritual or dogmatic instruction to the populace, but Advaitic wisdom only to the few who could rise to it.

If you mix Advaitic orthodoxy with Advaitic wisdom, create confusion, because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

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

There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the most advanced seeker who seeks to know the truth beyond the form, time and space.

The religious orthodoxy is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. The Atmic path, emphasis on the Advaitic wisdom, is meant for those who wish to go beyond 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?

Everyone’s individual experiences are not the same. Some are so much immersed in materiality, religion, duty bound towards their family and society, and they will not be attracted to the path of wisdom or understand and assimilate the Advaitic truth, because they accepted the world (dualistic illusion) as a reality whereas the Sage Sankara says the world is mere an illusion.

Many are good at acrobatics with words, but their knowledge is limited to the domain of the form, time and space. When the inner work is in progress then the realization will happen as the conviction about the Soul, the Self, becomes firm. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

It is foolish to say I am unborn without knowing the Self is not you but the unborn and eternal Soul.+

It is foolish to say I am unborn, without knowing the Self is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The one which is born lives, dies in this world is you.

You are the birth entity; your death is certain, then how you can say that you are unborn. The unborn is the Soul, the Self, which is the cause of your experience of the birth, life, death and the world and it itself causeless. The Soul, the Self unborn because you are unaware of the unborn Soul, the Self.

The Soul, the Self, is nothing to do with your individual experience of the birth, life, and death because it is birthless and deathless. It is birthless and deathless because, it is the ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence whereas you are bound by the form, time and space.

Without the form, time and space the individual experience of birth, life, death and world cease to exist.

You will not be able to find the ‘Self’ because you are blindfolded by dualistic illusion. If you have to traverse the path, you will have to seek the aid of the one who knows the ‘Self’ beyond the form, time and space; else you will wind up meandering here and there without gaining anything.

The ‘Self’ is not within you, because the ‘Self’ is not the body. If the ‘Self’ is not you, then why you think the Self is within you. Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, you and the world hides the Soul the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

You and the world hide the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness because the world in which you exist is created out of consciousness.

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the world in which you are born, live, die is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

A perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’ leads to Advaitic Self-awareness.

Mentally reduce the world in which you exist into waking experience and waking experience into mind and mind into consciousness by perfect understating of ‘what is what’.

When you realize’ what is what’ you will realize everything is nothing but consciousness. There is no second thing exists other than the consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The truth hidden by the ‘I’. The truth is the Athma the ‘Self’ or Brahman or God in truth.

People are stuck to the ‘I-centric’ Gurus and their teaching, holding it as revered. Why you are accepting what is not the truth as the wisdom when the truth is not based on the ‘I’ but the truth is hidden by the ‘I’.

The ‘I’ hides the truth. The truth hidden by the ‘I’. The truth is the Athma, the ‘Self or Brahman or God in truth.

Without the ‘I’ the mind ceases to exist because the ‘I’ itself is the mind. Without the mind, the world will not exist because the mind itself is the world in which you exist. The mind appears as waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality).

The one that appears as the mind is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. The mind appears and disappears as Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. The appearance is only an illusion.

In nondualistic reality, there is no illusion there is the fullness of consciousness without the illusory division of form, time and space.

People think the mind is within the body, but how can the body exist without the mind, which is present in the form of the world.

Perfect understanding of ‘what is what' leads to the realization of the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

Remember:~

Buddhists say, there is nothing - nonentity. Sage Sankara say there is some reality, even though things are not what they appear to be.

As one goes deeper in self-search, one realizes the fact that, the non-entity (formless) itself is a reality. If one knows the truth, he will know nonentity means absent of ignorance. Absent of ignorance means absent of duality. And absent of duality means absent of the Mind (I).

Absent of mind (I) means absent of universe. Absent of universe means absent of waking. Absent of waking means absent of illusion. Absent of illusion means the presence of reality (soul or consciousness). The truth pursuit is to know what it that is real, hidden by Maya or illusion.

The Soul, the ‘Self, is the Infinite God.

The Athma is the Self. God is the Athma, is present in the form of consciousness. God is fullness of consciousness without the illusory division of form, time and space. Therefore, there is nothing apart from it.

The God is Self-evident. God is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the God because God is the very essence of the one who denies it. The God is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. God is within the universe in which you exist, God is without the illusory universe in which you exist.

The Vedas confirms God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.

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

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

 

Do not accept any other God other than the Athma. The Athma is God in truth, Nothing is real but the Athma, which is present in the form of consciousness. Nothing matters but realizing God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.

 

God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is real and eternal, and all else is an illusion.

 

Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.

Vedas itself says, never accept another God in place of the Atman, nor worship other than the Atman, which is God in truth. Self-realization is necessary to realize God in truth. Self-realization is God realization. Self-realization is real worship.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman, nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

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

Even 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 as God other than consciousness.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Only an intense urge to know what God supposed to be in truth can make you realize God in truth.+

Religious believers constantly quarrelling with one another claiming that, their religion is superior to other religion. They haven't the intelligence to understand that in reality there is nothing to exist other than the universal God, which is present in the form of the Spirit. The Spirit is the Self.

Religion can never make you know God. Only an intense urge to know what God supposed to be in truth can make you realize God. The Soul, the ‘Self, is the Infinite God.

The Soul, the ‘Self, is the Infinite God.

The Soul is the Self. The God in truth is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. God in truth is the fullness of consciousness without the illusory division of form, time and space. Therefore, there is nothing apart from it.

The God in truth is Self-evident. God in truth is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the God in truth because God in truth is the very essence of the one who denies it. God in truth is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe in which you exist, the God in truth is without the illusory universe in which you exist.

The Vedas confirms God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.

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

Yajurveda: ~ There is no image of God in truth. God in truth is unborn and eternal. (Chapter 32, Verse 3)

Yajurveda: ~ God in truth is nondual and pure"

Yajurveda: ~ "They are entering darkness, those who worship the natural things (like air, water, fire, etc.), they are sinking more in darkness who worship created things." (Chapter 40, Verse 9)

Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.

Do not accept any other truth other than consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth,  Nothing is real but consciousness. Nothing matters but to realize the ultimate truth. Consciousness is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious. 

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman, nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

People, who worship the belief of God, are hallucinating that they become one with such God.

Vedas itself declare: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman, nor worship other than the Atman? Thus, to know the real God, Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God realization. Self-realization is real worship.

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

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

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

God in truth is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness and intelligence, which is beyond the form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.

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

Only the path of wisdom leads the seeker of truth on his journey to the ultimate realization of the true nature of the Universal Essence, which is the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of the consciousness.

Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained Self-knowledge or Atma Gnana, worships ‘Self’ as~ Atman (God in truth). Atman alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare."

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) 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 as God other than consciousness.

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.

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. God in truth is only Atman, the Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV-13:~ ‘As a mass of salt has neither inside nor outside, but is entirely a mass of taste, thus indeed, has that Self neither inside nor outside, but is altogether a mass of Knowledge. Just as a lump of salt has inside as well as outside one and the same saltish taste, not any other taste, so also that Brahman (consciousness) has inside as well as outside one and the same intelligence. Inside and outside are mental creation only. When the mind melts in silence, ideas of inside and outside vanish. The sages’ cognizes one illimitable, homogeneous mass of consciousness only.

Causality taught in the Upanishads is only to enable us to understand the supreme truth of no-origination. The world is not different from consciousness and consciousness is not different from the Soul, the Self, and the Soul is not different from the ultimate truth or Brahman. That consciousness appears as the diverse world is only an illusion. If it really became diverse, then the immortal would become mortal.

The dualists who seek to prove the origination of the unborn, by that very enterprise try to make the immortal, mortal. Ultimate nature can never change - the immortal can never become mortal and vice versa. The ultimate truth is One and universal. All people are seeking the same Truth..... Everyone is going toward the ultimate Goal. They will all realize the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth, if they have sincerity and longing to realize it. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar