Swami Vivekananda: ~ “Advaita encompasses everything. Since Advaita requires heavy-duty intellectualism, it had to be progressively simplified. (From 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda)
One has to go beyond Vedas, which means going beyond the religion. Going beyond religion means, going beyond religious God based on blind faith.
Going beyond the Vedas, religion and religious God means, going beyond the illusion, that is the end of the Vedas (Veda –antha).
Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (Advaitic wisdom) has been lost, people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The philosophy teachers and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita –Chap- IV-v.2)
When one goes deeper in self-verification one becomes aware that the Advaitic Gnana expounded by Sage Sankara and Sage Goudapada was hidden by the Sages of truth. Sages of truth restrained themselves from parting Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to the masses and only a selected few. It was hidden from the masses 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 masses, and knowledge of the spirit was given to only a selected few. Thus, we find traces of knowledge of the spirit in the religious books in the form of parables.
That is why Sage Sankara says:~(VC) -65- As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it, and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the ‘Self’, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.
The seekers of truth personally strive to realize the ‘Self’ hidden by ignorance. It is necessary for the seeker to do his homework, and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what orthodox pundits expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is obtained.
Self- Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is only being true knowledge not the absence of duality. Self -Knowledge cannot destroy the world but it eliminates ignorance and exposes the unreal nature of the mind or the universe.
Sage Sankara:~ 63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the ‘Self’, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.
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?
How does one get the knowledge? What is meant for knowledge? What is true knowledge? –All this of which must be dealt with by the seeker of truth to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana does not destroy the world but it exposes the unreal nature of the world which appears as the waking. In the same way, the unreal nature of the dream was exposed when waking took place.
The Advaitic wisdom has nothing to do with orthodox preaching and practice because Advaitic orthodoxy is dogmatism. The Advaitic orthodoxy has to be discarded if one wants to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Sage Sankara and Sage Goudpada 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.
Sage Sankara was an independent thinker. His wisdom has not been taken seriously by many in India because most of the followers of Sage Sri, Sankara belong to the orthodox sect. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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