Those Gurus who speak of ‘Sahasrara’ and 'Sushumna’ are yogis not Gnanis. ‘Sahasrara’ and 'Sushumna’are noting to do with Advaitic Gnana or Advaitic wisdom. +

The Self-inquiry is finding out the ‘Self’ which is hidden by the illusory world, in which we exist. By inquiring ‘Who am I?’, the ignorance will not vanish because the ‘I’ itself is illusory.

People have got the child mentality, the slavish mentality, and accept statements merely because they are uttered by famous Gurus. They lack the scientific method of inquiry.

Those Gurus who speak ‘Sahasrara’ and  'Sushumna’ are yogis, not Gnanis. ‘Sahasrara’ and  'Sushumna’ are noting to do with  Advaitic Gnana or Advaitic wisdom. 

Sage  Sankara says: ~ ‘What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal. (Commentary on Vedanta Sutra)

The chief purpose of analyzing the external world is to discover that it is part of the ultimate reality and thus to enable us to carry on with activity from the highest possible viewpoint; where people fail to make this analysis, as with so many religious-minded seekers, they fail to do anything worthwhile in the material world.

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.

To effect this discrimination, we need intelligence much sharper than the average, whereas too much religion and not a little mysticism drug this intelligence. The highest state is to be the “All”--not to shut your eyes to the world and to go off into the deep sleep of trance.

Swami Vivekananda says: Advaita encompasses everything. Since Advaita requires heavy-duty intellectualism, it had to be progressively simplified. (From 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda)

Nothing is to be given up. If you omit anything, if you ignore any knowledge, then you are not a Gnani.  All must be known; if you give up the world, what and how can you understand of it?

Weak minds cannot take a comprehensive view and so decry what they cannot understand.

The seeker need not get an aversion to the existence, as do the ascetics and yogis; on the contrary, the seeker should go on living in the world, acting, working, etc. that he should accept the practical life but realize the practical life within the world is merely an illusion because the world in which he exists is merely an illusion.

There is no need to give up anything, but to know the world is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The mental renunciation of the ignorance is higher than the renunciation of the earthly desired.

 Remember:~

Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut 1.36-42: ~ Non-duality is taught by some; some others teach duality. They don't understand that the all-pervading Reality is beyond both duality and non-duality.

Sage Ramana Maharshi: ~ "The location of the Heart is of the chest and not on the left. The light of the consciousness flows from the heart through the Sushumna channel to ‘Sahasrarara’.(KNOW YOUR SELF page 31)~

From ‘Sahasrarara’ consciousness spreads all over the body, then the experience of the world arises. Viewing themselves as different from that consciousness human beings get caught up in the cycle of birth and death.  

The ‘Sahasrarara’ of one who abides in the Self is pure light only. Any thoughts which approach it cannot survive.

Even when objects are perceived, because of their nearness, it does not destroy yoga as the mind sees no differences

The state in which awareness is firm,  even when objects are sensed, is called the natural state.  In Nivikalpa Samadhi, there is no objective perception.

The entire universe is in the body and the whole body is in the Heart. Hence, the universe is contained within the Heart.

Sage   Ramana Maharishi: ~ He placed his right hand on his right breast and continued, "Here lies the Heart, the dynamic, spiritual Heart. It is called Hridaya and is located on the right side of the chest and is clearly visible to the inner eye of an adept on the spiritual path. Through meditation, you can learn to find the Self in the cave of this Heart." ~ Mercedes de Acosta, Here Lies the Heart


Santthosh Kumaar: ~ When the Self is not the body,  but the Self is the formless Soul,  then the question of  ‘Sahasrara’ and  'Sushumna’ does not arise,  because ‘Sahasrara’ and  ‘Sushumna' are within the body. 

The spiritual heart is the Soul, the Self, not the physical heart. The world in which you exist is within the Soul, the spiritual heart. 

Mistaking the spiritual heart within the body is a great error. Even some Advaitic guru says that the Self is within the spiritual heart. And the spiritual heart is on the left side.  Such a declaration is merely an imagination, based on the false self. When the Self is bodiless, then the question of the heart being left side or right side does not arise.  

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~  The Self is indeed Brahman, but through ignorance, people identify it with intellect, mind, senses, passions, and the elements of earth, water, air, space, and fire. This is why the Self is said to consist of this and that and appears to be everything. 

The Self is not ‘I’ but the Self is the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the substance and witness of the ‘I’. When one realizes the Soul is the Self then  Soul is freed from experiencing the dualistic illusion or Maya as reality.:~Santthosh Kumaar