The seeker should not bother to know who is enlightened or who is not enlightened. The seeker’s aim is Self-realization.+

 

I respect all the Gurus of the past who contributed their own way to the seeking world and ‘I’ highlights good points in their teaching and I also highlight how their teaching becomes an obstacle, which blocks the realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

The seeker's aim is to move forward, not to get emotionally stuck with some teaching or teacher.

That is why Bhagavān Buddha said: ~ “Believe nothing because a wise man said it, believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be divine. Believe nothing because someone else said it. But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.

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

Sage Sankara is the final authority on Advaita. Is the only Sage who has final authority on the Advaitic truth.

As one goes deeper self-search, the seeker himself becomes aware ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. The seeker should not bother to know who is enlightened or who is not enlightened. The seeker's aim is Self-realization.

Remember: ~Jesus said: ~"Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find it, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all." (Gospel of Thomas 2)

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

The seeker must have the courage of Bhagavān Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Since Bhagavān Buddha rejected religion, the idea of God and scriptures, therefore, it is evident that he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.

Bhagavān Buddha: - There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way... and not starting.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ Worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that God is an eternal help.

Vivekananda himself said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you; none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your own Soul.”

Bhagavān Buddha: ~ ‘Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

The inner Soul, the Self is the inner Guru 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 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. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar