Genuine philosophy must be independent of religion, that in Sage Sankara himself the Saguna Brahman or a personal God is only a part of the phenomenal (if not illusory) world, and the Nirguna Brahman is the only reality and has nothing to do with religion.
The main hurdle in his way of thinking is the fact that Sage Sankara did not claim to be an original thinker at all, and his philosophy took the form of commentaries on the generality of Hindu scriptures, particularly the Upanishads and the Gita.
Sage Sankara was an independent thinker. His philosophy has not been taken seriously by many in India because most of the followers of Sage Sankara are orthodox. It is that philosophy in India was for centuries more an exposition of the ancient classics than the independent thought of individual thinkers as in Ancient Greece or modern Europe and America.
Sage Sankara and Sage Gaudapada 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.
Intelligence and thought, is not applicable to Advaitism, intelligence and thought are based on false self (waking entity) within the false experience (waking). The whole Advaitic philosophy is an attempt to transcend the limitations of intelligence and thought.
The two points of view A Gnani is not cut off from the experience of practical life within the practical world because the Advaitic truth is neither realism nor idealism; it is beyond both these.
Sage Sankara said:- Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.
Advaita does not begin with ultimate truth. Ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed. Hence, so-called philosophers who take Brahman for granted are not philosophers at all.
Lots of Advaitin scholars will teach that all is yourself, but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none can prove it.
A rational proof is required so that one arrives at knowing the ultimate truth or Brahman, i.e. Gnana. Theirs is mere dogmas, parrotism, repetition of what they read in scripture.
Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.
Consciousness is that which knows everything, that which sees. Consciousness alone remains after one gets rid of all thoughts and ideas by identification with the self. Consciousness is only the seer; it is not Brahman that is an error. It becomes Brahman only after inquiry and reasoning.
The ‘I ‘or mind or universe, waking or dream, duality, are one and the same thing. Since ‘I’ is identified as the Self, all the confusion. And taking ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as the Self is the cause of confusion.
Taking ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as the Self is blocking the realization of ultimate truth. The ‘I’ or universe is an object to the formless subject.
Thus, it is necessary to include the universe in the inquiry to realize the unreal nature of the ‘I’ or universe.
When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be consciousness, which is the innermost self and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is the Self?
Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve.
Santana Dharma meaning that has no beginning or an end, righteousness forever.
Today, going to a temple would make you a follower of Hinduism.
Orthodox Advaitins must try to get more empathy, and mere rituals and expertise in Sanskrit language do not lead you to Moksha.
Sage Sankara says:~ "Kuruthe Ganga sahar gamanam Vratha paripal mathva dhanam. Gyana Vihine.Sarva Mathene.”
Gnana is common to all religions. There is nothing like One Gnana for a Hindu and another for a Christian. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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