Without breaking away from religion and ancient traditions it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Religion and tradition will keep one locked in ignorance.
All the dualist Sages and orthodox Advaitic sect base their teachings on personal Gods and they hold the individual experience of birth, life, and death as a reality.
There are two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the most advanced seekers who seek to know the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The Advaitic and dualistic orthodoxy are meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way.
There is no need to follow the orthodoxy who wishes to realize the truth which is hidden by form, time, and space.
The religion is not spirituality. We should not mix religion with spirituality because religion is based on the ego and spirituality is based on the Soul.
Religion is concerned with its traditions, not truth whereas spirituality is concerned only with the truth, which is hidden by form, time, and space.
When one is unable to quench his spiritual thirst from his guru or teaching he has to look elsewhere to clear the cobwebs of his understanding and to move forward in his spiritual quest.
It is no use in arguing with someone who has faith in his belief system because for him there can be no possible refutation of what he believes, so rational argument is entirely useless. He clings to his belief so strongly that he makes no distinction between the truth and his belief.
One has to know the fact that God cannot exist without his existence. The truth does not depend on God’s existence but it entirely depends on man’s existence. Thus it is foolish to venture into knowing the truth of God's existence without verifying the facts about his own existence.
It is difficult for tradition-bound people to accept anything as truth other than what they inherited from the inborn and inherited conditioning of parental grooming and their accumulated knowledge.
Only an intense urge to know the truth and the courage to accept the truth after verification with a better understanding one will be able to drop all his accumulated dross, which is the main obstacle in Self-realization.
To say the universe is an illusion without first examining it and inquiring into its nature thoroughly is to delude oneself. This world is common to every one of us; therefore the seeker of truth must begin his inquiry with it.
It is only after he has inquired into the nature of the objective world that he realizes the universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.
First, the seeker must inquire into the nature of the three states to realize the three states are one in essence.
One has to observe everything in the three states because all three states are one in essence. And that essence is consciousness (Soul or Atman) Atman is Brahman.
The seeker should not shut his eyes to the nature of the three states because they are a mere mirage created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.
The form, time, and space are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahma.
Brahman cannot be described because description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than the Soul, the Self.
The three states have no independent existence. The Soul, the Self which is present in the form of consciousness alone, has real existence. The three states are merely an illusion created out of consciousness.
The three states have no independent existence. The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness alone is the real existence. The three states are merely an illusion created out of consciousness.::~Santthosh Kumaar
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