Without breaking away from religion and ancient traditions it is impossible to acquire the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara.+

There is no need to follow anyone. There is no need to practice anything. Perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’, leads to the realization of the truth, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.

The physical Guru is the orthodox trap. If you are trapped in orthodoxy then it is very difficult for you to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Orthodoxy kills your ability to think independently. Orthodoxy is the inherited slavery passed on from one generation to the next.

Without breaking away from religion and ancient traditions it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana or Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara. Religion and tradition will keep one locked in ignorance.

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (9) - Children, immersed in ignorance in various ways, flatter themselves, saying: We have accomplished life's purpose. Because these performers of karma do not know the Truth owing to their attachment, they fall from heaven, misery-stricken, when the fruit of their work is exhausted.

First Mundaka - Chapter 2 (10) - Ignorant fools, regarding sacrifices and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know any higher good. Having enjoyed their reward on the heights of heaven, gained by good works, they enter again this world or a lower one

Orthodox people indulge in provocation and unnecessary argument holding their egocentric knowledge as a yardstick. Such an attitude leads to perversity. The ultimate truth or Brahman is not some custom-made stuff to please different mindsets. The serious seeker will never indulge in asking perverted questions.

The seeker must have enough patience, humility, and an intense urge to realize the truth. Arguments and provocation will not yield truth. Perfect understanding of ‘what is what ‘leads to the realization of Nondualistic or Advaitic truth.

As the seeker's understanding of ‘what is what ‘grows, gradually the seeker gets a glimpse of truth. Whatever is based on the waking entity is falsehood and whatever is based on the formless Soul, the innermost Self is real and eternal. The seeker of truth must make sure the waking entity (ego) is not the Self but the Self is a formless Soul to acquire Self-knowledge.

There is no need for a Guru, to know you and your Guru, and the world in which you exist is created out of single stuff and that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of that single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Gnana is given neither from outside nor from another person.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study the Scriptures, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~ then why indulge in studying the scriptures.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study philosophy, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why indulge in studying philosophy.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge in rituals, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why indulge in rituals.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge in yoga, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why indulge in yoga.

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)

~ then why you are sticking a Guru who is not a Gnani.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

Those who tell you that Brahman is unity, that you can get it only by intuition, that you should not reason, you should not question or inquire, are deluding you. Verification must come by thought. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar