Rational proof is required so that one arrive at knowing the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth, i.e. Gnana.+

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.

Your quest does not begin with the Brahman or God. Brahman or God has to be proved, not assumed. Hence, so-called philosophers who take Brahman or God 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.

Rational proof is required so that one arrive at knowing the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth, i.e. Gnana. Theirs is merely dogma, parrotism, and 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 ignorance. Consciousness is only the witness; it is not Brahman or God in truth that is an error.

It becomes Brahman only after Soulcentric reasoning. Where there is no scope for two, that is Brahman or God in truth.

The ‘I ‘or mind or universe, waking or dream, duality are one and the same thing. Since ‘I’ is identified as ‘Self’ all the confusion.

Holding ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as the ‘Self’ is the cause of confusion. Holding the ‘Self’ as the ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ is blocking you from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman, which is hidden by the ‘I’.

Remember: The ‘I’ is not an individual, but the ‘I’ is the whole universe. The ‘I’ is an object to the Soul, the nondual subject.

Thus, it is necessary to include the universe in the inquiry to realize the unreal nature of the ‘I’, which is present in the form of the universe.

When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be consciousness, which is the Soul, the ‘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 transcend as the consciousness and without knowing the truth of the ‘Self’, how is one to achieve the Oneness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar