A Gnani is not the religious person. The religious person is not qualified to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because the religion is based on faith, not truth. The religion propagates ignorance, not truth.
How religious man can get Gnana? He has not even taken the first step to knowing what God supposed to be in actuality. He believes in the heaven and hell as if he has personally been there on a conducted tour.
He prays -- to the mythical Gods of his belief. Mythical Gods are not God in truth.
Know God in truth
Religious Gods are mere belief. Belief is not God. Religious God cannot be considered as the center because the Soul, the ‘Self’ is the center of all that exists. Without the Soul the world in which you exist ceases to exist, it means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence. God in truth is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
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 other than consciousness.
Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
Religious Gods are based on blind belief. Religious God cannot be considered as the cause of the universe because the Soul, the ‘Self’ is the cause of of the universe. Without the Soul, the Self, the world in which you exist ceases to exist, it means the religious God is dependent on the Soul for his existence.
Even 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) The
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.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad declares: "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from him does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)".
There is a tremendous difference between prayer and Gnana.
Prayer is directed towards a mythological God, a fiction. Prayer is always directed outward.
Gnana is an inward journey, not to some fiction but the reality hidden by ignorance. Enlightenment happens when the Soul, the Self, wakes up from its sleep of ignorance.
Religious people are busy praying and worshiping a God of their belief, thinking God is somewhere, up there, monitoring every act of the people, guiding the lost and uplifting the poor. God is the one who punishes the evil and rewards the benevolent.
Some people even claim of seeing them in stone idols or some conceptual belief, in inanimate or living things. Is it our faith that makes us believe that there is some supreme power above us, or is it a reality, can never be answered.
Until this conviction is there, one is in the grip of the dualistic illusion (I). The dualistic illusion keeps one in the ignorance of the Self. Therefore, there is a need to realize the fact that, the Self is not ‘I’ but it is the formless Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Sage Sankara: ~ VC Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even Hundreds of pranayamas* can give us the knowledge about our own Self. The firm experience of the nature of the Self is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advice of the wise. (13)
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.
All these experiences as a father, son, Guru, and pupil and the world in which they all exist were one and the same consciousness appearing differently. All these distinctions disappear when one realizes Self is not ‘I’ but the Soul. The Soul is the cause of this world in which we exist, and it itself is uncaused.
Perfect understanding and realization of ‘what is what’ leads to Self-awareness. By holding on to theories, one remains in the realm of duality. You have to mentally go on dropping what is not truth through deeper Self-search. Finally, when you become aware of the fact that, your ego, your body, and the world are one in essence then there is Self-awareness in the midst of duality.
When one becomes aware of the fact that the Soul is the Self, then he realizes the fact that whatever known, seen, believed and experienced on the base of the ‘I’ is an illusion.
Sage Goudpada: ~ To establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. He begins by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc., because that is the right way to discuss or teach. People must first know what they are talking about. (Manduka Karika)
There is no comparison of anyone wisdom with Sage Sankara’s wisdom. Without Sage Sankara, there is no Advaita. All the Gurus and intellectual version of Advaita is on dualistic perspective.
Many Gurus describe the perfection is the awakening to Reality ~the realization that pure Consciousness alone is, that the perpetually fluctuating and evanescent contents of the mind derive from it. This awakening effectively happens in an instant. But in order for the lightning flash to take place, resulting in a firm and unshakable certitude, a long labor is necessary, which they seem to underestimate. “Truth is a love is their answer.
Many Guru's teaching seems essentially negative, a potent but bitter medicine for those imprisoned by institutional cults. They break the disciple's bonds but then lead him to a vast desert where he abandons him.
The ultimate state of consciousness they describe is that of the traditional sage or fully enlightened being, but they do not show us the process leading to the realization of this state. They describe marvelously the goal but does not indicate the steps to be taken: their recurring phrases "unified consciousness" and "let go" and "'love alone" are not a road-map.
Most of the Gurus and Yogis s approach was more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the 'I', they take it as real. All their teachings of Advaita are based on the dualistic perspective. Such teaching will not yield the truth of the whole.
Everyone is not in the same level of understanding. Everyone’s inner work is on. You will slowly, steadily but surely able to understand, assimilate and realize nondualistic or Advaitic truth if you have an intense urge to know the ultimate truth. Because man is egocentric, he feels the world in which he is born, lives and dies as reality. But when he becomes Soulcentric he realizes his body, his ego and the world in which he exists is mere an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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