All my blogs and postings are not only spiritual insights that work as suggestions or affirmations to feed the subconscious.+

You must first train yourself to think and reason from a non-dualistic perspective then only when you read about Advaitic reality the true meaning become apparent. 

It is not possible to give a sudden revelation of Advaita in one or two letters, or in an interview or two: a course of personal mental training must be undergone. Hence reading my blogs and posting umpteen time is necessary to the seeker to make the subconscious Soulcentric.

All my blogs and postings are not only spiritual insights that work as suggestions or affirmations to feed the subconscious.

You, yourself must do the work of realizing Truth by using your own judgment and reason. Nobody else, no guru can do it for you.

Everyone has not got the capacity to know Truth very few have: but some among these few are so sharp that they have only to hear it explained by proper guidance when they grasp it at once. They have only to stabilize their illumination.

The Gnani will only point out the truth to the seeker. Sharing Gnana with the whole of humankind is the only goal of the Gnani.

Most people think he wears a yellow robe and his perpetual silences and his yogic activities and his monkish lifestyle but they do not judge by asking "Is what he says true?”

The Atmic method is to discriminate between real and unreal and drop the unreal by realizing the real.

Many swamis suffer from the insanity of the exaggerated dualistic egocentricity. "I want to distinguish myself from others" is their idea, and so they go about naked or else travel gorgeously on elephants or sit in tiger skin. From the Advaitic perspective, all this indicates a lack of mental balance.

It is not possible to determine whether he be a Sage or fool, scoundrel or good character; therefore we can only draw inferences from his actions as to what status and character he has attained.

People give titles to mystics "Gnani, Maharishi, Avatars, Sadguru, etc. merely because they do not know what these terms mean, so they just imagine. All the titles belong to the Body no tile can be given to the Soul, the Self, which is the ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Brihadaranyakopanishad: ~ "The knower of Brahman wears no signs."

A Gnani is free from all these titles because he does not identify himself as a holy man.

When you know Atman you know at what stage a man is, why he acts in certain ways what are his capacities for imagination, his motives, etc.

A Gnani is really measured not by what he appears to be, nor by what he does, not even by what he says, but by what he shares as truth.

Sage Sankara:~VC: ~ “It is the very nature of the Gnanis to be always exerting themselves of their own accord towards removing others ignorance."

Manduka Upanishad:~ "The track of the men of knowledge(Gnanis) is as invisible as that of the birds in the sky."

Manduka Upanishad:~ "The very Gods are stupefied in their attempts to find out the man that has realized the All and is engaged in doing good to all creatures, seeking the final refuge. (Brahman)

Of whom the many have no chance to even hear, whom many cannot know, though they have heard or seen.

Ashtavakra Samhita: "The man of knowledge, though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state.:~Santthosh Kumaar 

A Gnani sees everything as consciousness, even though he is in the midst of diversity.+

A Gnani wears no signs. Gives up the insignia of a monk's life…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior."

Sage Sankara states that the Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Viveka Chudamani (2), Stanza 539).

Sage Sankara “Sometimes Gnani appears to be a Fool, sometimes a wise man. Sometimes he seems splendid as a king, sometimes feeble-minded. Sometimes he is calm and silent. Sometimes he draws men to him. Sometimes people honor him greatly, sometimes they insult him. Sometimes they ignore him.

An ignorant observation is based on a dualistic (matter or body or ego) perspective, whereas a Gnanis judgment is based on the nondualistic (Soul or Spirit or consciousness) perspective.

A Gnani is one who sees the three states in equanimity because he is fully aware of the fact that all the three states are merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. A Gnani sees everything as consciousness, even though he is in the midst of diversity.

A Gnani sees only unity in diversity, just like a goldsmith estimating the gold in various items of jewelry sees only gold. When one identifies the Self with the form then only the form, time and space are present. But when one transcends form, time, and space the duality never remains as a reality.

A Gnani says everything exists (illusion) but everything is created out of the Soul, the consciousness. Everything rises from the Soul, the consciousness, and subsides as the Soul, the consciousness. Thus, the whole diversity has no relevance, from the standpoint of the Soul as Self.

Everything (universe or illusion or matter) is the Soul, the consciousness realizing the three states are created out of consciousness

Awareness is the nature of the Soul, the consciousness because there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. : ~Santthosh Kumaar 

All highly educated orthodox people are more ignorant than illiterate. They strongly stuck to their inherited orthodox baggage meant for the ignorant populace.+

If people have believed orthodox propagated myth thing over thousands of years, the length of time does not prove it true.

Sage Sankara’s Brahman or God in truth is impersonal. Worshiping personal Gods is meant for the orthodox people who are ignorant and refuse to accept the truth.

Sage Sankara gave religious, ritual, and dogmatic instruction to the orthodox populace, but Advaitic wisdom only to the few who could rise to it. Hence the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus, they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

Traditionally religious people are so entangled in orthodox religiosity; it is very difficult for them to free themselves from narrow-minded prejudices and dogmas and superstitions.

All highly educated orthodox people are more ignorant than illiterate. They strongly stuck to their inherited orthodox baggage meant for the ignorant populace. Even though their own sage has said that orthodoxy is meant for the ignorant populace they ignore and they are like blind led by another blind follow the inherited blind belief.

Sage Sankara clearly indicates in Viveka Chudamani (2) that the Knower of the Atman (A Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Remember:~

Most Orthodox scriptural scholars are ignorant in the guise of Gnanis.

One of Sage Sankara’s missions was to wean people away from the ritualistic approach advocated by Mimamsakas and to project wisdom (jnana) as the means of liberation in the light of Upanishad teachings. Sage Sankara criticized severely the ritualistic attitude and those who advocated such practices. However, the texts that combined rituals with wisdom (jnana_karma_samucchaya) more in favor of the Mimamsaka position came into vogue, projecting Sage Sankara as the rallying force of the doctrine.

Sage Sankara:~ Loud speech, a profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to Liberation."

Mundaka Upanishads:~ So-called spiritual pundits and learned are called children because a child takes whatever it thinks as truth. The question never occurs to children “Is what I have seen or thought really the truth?" (P.334 line 9)

The Scriptures' mastery, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of that Ultimate Truth or Brahman. The ultimate truth is revealed in the clear understanding and realization of ‘what is truth and ‘what is untruth. When one realizes the untruth (universe) is created out of single stuff, Self-awareness rises in the midst of duality exposing the unreal nature of form, time, and space.

An adherent of the orthodox philosopher may say his philosophy teaches so and so", another man may object and say “No, his religious philosophy teaches such and such." Thus, they may go on uttering contradictions in the name of philosophy. True philosophy deals only with the appeal to facts, not theories.

Where scriptures and authorities do not agree with the reason, the seeker of truth must reject them.

How is one to know that the scriptures are true? The seeker has to look into the facts, for proof of what has the worship of God done for the people! When a tsunami occurred in Japan God did not save the believers of Japan. Thus, God saves the one who prays such an argument is of no value in pursuit of truth.

People believe scripture is infallible, but deeper Self-search reveals the fact that they are a mere book of words. The words are a mere expression of thoughts. Then it is impossible to see if the scripture-writers thoughts are founded in fact or not.

The fallacy of orthodoxy’s appeal to scripture lies in the varying and conflicting interpretations of the same scripture that different men feel entitled to give or hold.

The scriptures are for the ignorant masses, who wholly accept the practical life within the practical world as it presents itself. Gnana is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem.

Where scriptures and authorities do not agree with the reason, the seeker of truth must reject them.

Scriptural knowledge is conceptual divisions invented by teachers of philosophy through their excessive analysis. All these concepts are a great obstacle in the pursuit of truth. Why should create confusion and then explain away?

Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy but goes straight to the source from which they all arise.

Remember:~

Sage Sankara pointed out that those rituals could in no way bring about wisdom, much less Moksha.

Sage Sankara says:~ One alone exists, and the rest is all superimposition on that One, due to ignorance.

It is time to free oneself from the prison of orthodoxy and strive to acquire the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara. :~ Santthosh Kumaar

People mostly foreigners are in search of a Guru to get Self-realization or enlightenment. There are many Gurus who sell their diverse spiritual package in the name of Self-realization.+

In this modern world, spirituality is fast a selling commodity. India is a supermarket having all verities of spiritual teaching for sale in the name of spirituality. 

People mostly foreigners are in search of a Guru to get Self-realization or enlightenment. There are many Gurus who sell their diverse spiritual package in the name of Self-realization.

The Guru is not needed to realize the Self. The knowledge arises from within. The real Self is prior to the idea “I” which is the beginning of all of the apparent manifestation. As the levels of mistaken understanding are whittled away, this truth is able to reach out, as it were, and clear away the final barrier of the ego itself.

Yoga Vasishtha says: - Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only by means of enquiry inspired by the company of wise and holy men. One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and lives like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with his fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state.

A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.

If you are trying to become a Guru or Monk then you are unfit to acquire Self-knowledge. Someone posing as a Gnani because he is some Gurus’ direct disciple cannot be a Gnani. Those who pose themselves as Gnanis are not Gnanis. A Gnani never poses himself as a Guru, a swami, a sadhu or a yogi, or some Guru’s disciple.

Different Gurus and teachers are pointing out the understanding of the Advaitic truth from different standpoints. All such understanding of Advaita is on dualistic perspective accumulated from here and there.

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

Sage Sankara: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Thus, it proves that the religious gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.

A Gnani never claims himself as a Gnani, he guides the seekers, not posing himself as a Guru, and he does not force his wisdom on others.

Advaita is not a theory or a philosophy. Advaita is the nature of the Soul the innermost Self. There is no need for any theory or philosophy or scriptures to acquire Self-knowledge. Only a perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.

Sage Sankara:~ Actual realization takes you beyond books. At a certain stage, books become a botheration.

Bhagavan Buddha: ~ Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

You need not become a Guru or a monk to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. You have not to renounce the world or to leave anything ~ your wife, children, job, responsibilities. You do not have to renounce anything! The only thing you have to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space by realizing the form, time and space are the product of ignorance. When the ignorance vanishes, the unreality of the form, time, and space is exposed.

Upanishad's say:~ "He who thinks he knows, does not know." This means that to know anything implies a second, an object of knowledge, hence duality, i.e. no Gnana.

Tripura Rahasya: ~ Second-hand knowledge of the Self-gathered from books or Gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning the mind inward. (18: 89) 

Remember:~

Your inner work is on. There is no need to neglect practical life within the practical world.

There is no need to indulge 24/7 in spirituality but use your spare time for that.

Do not neglect your family and personal life to realize the truth.

Be happy like any other human being enjoys life with humility and dignity in the practical world.

Internally focus your attention on the formless ‘Self’ or consciousness, which is free from form, time, and space.

You should not neglect your profession and business. Enjoy life as it comes and also face the difficulties as they come.

As your inner conviction about the Soul grows you will be able to realize ‘what is the truth?’ and ‘what is the untruth?’

As we keep thinking and reasoning deeper and deeper, the truth will shines as pure awareness in the midst of the duality (waking).

The Soul, the ‘Self’ is your ultimate teacher. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for the Soul is the goal.

Millions are searching for truth but one in million will realize it. You are one of those million because you have the intense urge to realize the ultimate truth.

When the seeker is ready, the guidance comes on its own. An earnest desire to grow and a sense of deep commitment are the hallmarks of one who aspires to be a seeker.

When at the core of one’s being a person comes to realize he/she needs to seek a path for coming out of one’s unconscious and conditioned life, mysteriously the guidance appears to guide and shows the way.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara : ~ “It is the very nature of the Gnanis to be always exerting themselves of their own accord towards removing others ignorance."+

People who think by worshiping their Gurus as God in human form to get Self-realization are unaware of the fact that, accepting someone as Guru and himself as a disciple is the greatest obstacle in the path of truth.

The person who accepts himself as a Guru is not a Gnani because he has already accepted his ego as the real Self whereas the real Self is not the ego but the real Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The person who accepts himself as a disciple of some Guru also considers himself as the Self thus; it becomes a great hindrance in the path of truth. Guru is essential in the religious and yogic path but not in the path of wisdom.      

One must study the wisdom propagated by Gnanis   very deeply and try to attain the same realization which he had, rather than spend their energies by indulging in glorifying and worship his form.

As per the scripters worshiping human form leads on to darkness.  The main aim of human life is to acquire self-knowledge.

Religious literature of Hinduism one finds many such aphorisms as ' there is no higher deity than the Guru', 'the Guru is the ultimate Truth and Deity; 'God and  Avatars (incarnations) are secondary to the Guru in importance;  ' there is no higher refuge, no higher target, no higher destination than the Guru '; ' the Guru is God Himself '; ' God and the Guru are one, he who makes a distinction between the Guru and God is ignorant; and scores of similar others. They abound both in Sanskrit and in modern Indian languages.  Some celebrated philosopher-Saints also like Jnandev, Eknath and so many others all over India have offered their first salutations and importance to the Guru in their various books but all the saints belong to the religion.

GURUR BRAHM GURUR VISHNU GURUR DEVO MAHESHVARAH, GURUH

SAKASHATH  PARAM BRAHM TASMAI SRI GURAVE NAMAH.

Why worship and glorify the Gurus and Yogis (human form) in place of God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge in such activities are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time

Vedas bar human worship: ~

Yajurveda:~

Translation:~

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time."- (Yajurveda 40:9.)

Many people are stuck to the idea that without a Guru, Truth -realization is impossible. Guru is only a religious fable. They do not even know that the Guru teaches, is the truth.

Gurus themselves dwelling in darkness preach their way is the only way and the followers of the gurus follow the dualistic path like the blind led by the blind.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

Remember:~

A Guru is needed in the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and lives like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani.

Ashtavakra Samhita: ~ "The man of knowledge (Gnani), though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state.

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread."

So he wore a Guru's robe only for the sake of the ignorant. So he was identified as Guru with parampara by religious people. For the truth seekers, Sage Sankara is a Brahma Gnani.

Sage Sankara himself said: ~ A Gnani "bears no outward mark of a holy man" (Stanza 539).

Thus, it proves that the religious gurus and yogis are not Gnanis because they identified themselves as holy people.

All those who were the sanyasin robes are wearing it for the sake of bread belongs to the religion; they are nothing to do with the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

There is no need to criticize and condemn the gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of ignorant masses in the dualistic world.

Even Swami Vivekananda was Ramakrishna Paramahansa's disciple. Swami Vivekananda himself said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your Soul.

Remember:~

The Upanishads are the only scriptures in the world that declare: ~ It is impossible to find and realize the truth via religion and scriptural study.

If Sage Sankara has declared the world is myth Brahman alone is real then it is time for everyone to overcome ignorance and realize the truth to realize what Sage Sankara said was the truth or not.

It is time for the reform of human society free from dogmas and superstition. With nagging orthodox parents trying to impose their orthodox ideas on their children staying in the Self-imposed prison of orthodoxy without realizing they themselves are on the wrong path and they think they are on the right path to Moksha.

The orthodox people live in the prison of ignorance.

Orthodox people expect their clan to follow a certain outdated religious code of conduct (Shastras) and live dogmatically following the traditional lifestyle. Those who followed the orthodoxy are favored and others are condemned they are thinking they are going to get Moksha by doing this act. Their chosen path is meant for the ignorant populace who have a sheepish mentality blindly accepting the inherited dogmas.

It is high time to stop judging who is right and who is wrong in this unreal world instead spend the same time acquiring Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to realize the world(samsara) is unreal the Brahman alone is real.

It is high time for the educated orthodox followers to realize their religion-based orthodox path was meant for the ignorant populace in the past, therefore, it is not suited for the modern mindset.

According to Advaita Vedanta, the Veda addresses itself to 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 seeker who seeks to know Brahman. Thus, the Purva mimam. sa, with its emphasis on the karma kanda of the Vedas, is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. However, the Vedanta, with its emphasis on the Jnana Kanda, is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.

The orthodox seekers are the ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices.

When Sage Sankara says the world is an illusion, it includes birth, life, and death, which happens within the world. Thus the seeker's main aim is to mentally trace the formless substance of the illusion, which is also the witness of the illusion. The formless substance and witness of the illusion (world), is the Atman, and this Atman itself is Brahman.

All desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices are of the dualistic illusion. Therefore, heaven and other pleasures are nothing but imagination based on the false self within the false experience. All the result of rituals, sacrifices is nothing but a myth propagated by the belief system.

It is time to stop imposing their inherited ideas on the children, which block their reasoning power believing all the myths propagated in the past by the belief system as truth. The path of the wisdom of Sage Sankara is most suited for the modern mindset. The orthodox religious Advaitic path is nothing to do with ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

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.

Getting stuck with the religious path is getting stuck with ignorance. Getting stuck with ignorance is getting stuck with dualistic illusion or Maya.

Getting stuck with the dualistic illusion or Maya is accepting the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. Thus, people who want freedom or Moksha right here right now must that is in this very life and this very world must follow the Soulcentric path of wisdom.

Remember:~

Most people think he wears a yellow robe and his perpetual silences and his yogic activities and his monkish lifestyle but they do not judge by asking "Is what he says true?”

The Atmic method is to discriminate between real and unreal and drop the unreal by realizing the real.

Many swamis suffer from the insanity of the exaggerated dualistic egocentricity. "I want to distinguish myself from others" is their idea, and so they go about naked or else travel gorgeously on elephants or sit in tiger skin. From the Advaitic perspective, all this indicates a lack of mental balance.

It is not possible to determine whether he be a Sage or fool, scoundrel or good character; therefore we can only draw inferences from his actions as to what status and character he has attained.

People give titles to mystics "Gnani, Maharishi, Avatars, Sadguru, etc. merely because they do not know what these terms mean, so they just imagine. All the titles belong to the Body no tile can be given to the Soul, the Self, which is the ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Brihadaranyakopanishad: ~ "The knower of Brahman wears no signs."

A Gnani is free from all these titles because he does not identify himself as a holy man.

When you know Atman you know at what stage a man is, why he acts in certain ways what are his capacities for imagination, his motives, etc.

A Gnani is really measured not by what he appears to be, nor by what he does, not even by what he says, but by what he shares as truth.

Sage Sankara in Vivekachoodamani: ~ “It is the very nature of the Gnanis to be always exerting themselves of their own accord towards removing others ignorance."

Manduka Upanishad:~ "The track of the men of knowledge(Gnanis) is as invisible as that of the birds in the sky."

Manduka Upanishad:~ "The very Gods are stupefied in their attempts to find out the man that has realized the All and is engaged in doing good to all creatures, seeking the final refuge. (Brahman)

Of whom the many have no chance to even hear, whom many cannot know, though they have heard or seen.

Ashtavakra Samhita:~ "The man of knowledge, though living like an ordinary man, is contrary to him and only those like him understand his state. 

The Guru is not needed to realize the Self. The knowledge arises from within. The real Self is prior to the idea “I” which is the beginning of all of the apparent manifestation. As the levels of mistaken understanding are whittled away, this truth can reach out, as it were, and clear away the final barrier of the ego itself.

Yoga Vasishtha says: - Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only through enquiry inspired by the company of wise and holy men. One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.

A person who realized the ultimate truth or Brahman will throw off his religious robe and all religious identity and lives like a commoner. He never identifies himself as Gnani nor does he identify himself as superior to others. He only shares his knowledge with his fellow seekers.

A Gnani never identifies himself as a Guru or a Yogi or someone disciple. The one who accepts himself as a Guru or someone’s disciple is not a Gnani. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

God in truth is the cause of the illusory form, time, and space, and God in truth is causeless.+

In a dream, the man and the world are dream objects and all actions and thinking are happening. If one is the dream entity, there must be a dreamer.

The formless witness witnesses the dream in which man and his experience of the world are present. 

Thus, the dream is an object to the formless witness. Similarly, man and his experience of the world, his actions, and his thinking are happening within the waking experience. Therefore, there is no difference between waking and dream.

The witness of the three states is within and it is formless and apart. It is within as the formless substance of the three states and it is apart as the formless witness of the three states. It has nothing to do with the waking and dream entity because it is the witness of the whole waking or dream entity.

The dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. When the Advaitic wisdom dawns then the waking experience becomes unreal. 

Advaitic wisdom dawns when the waking entity realizes the fact that, it itself is not the self but the self is formless Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states without the physical apparatus.

In the dream world, the dream people appeared together and disappeared together and disappear together. Similarly, the waking world and waking people appeared together and disappear together. 

Thus, the dream is created out of single stuff and that stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. In the same way, the waking experience also created out single stuff. And that single stuff is the consciousness.

The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the cause of the three states and it itself is uncaused. The many Souls theories are religious and yogic fable based on the false self(ego) and false experience (waking).

Knowledge of the single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana

Like an ornament made from gold is gold, that which is born out of consciousness is consciousness. Like gold is the permanent thing, in ornaments made of gold, similarly, the mind, which is in the form of the universe is born out of consciousness, is consciousness in its essence.

The Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. God in truth neither comes nor goes, but God in truth exists always. The form, time, and space, which appear as disappears are mere an illusion. Thus, all the form-based Gods are merely an illusion. God in truth is the cause of the illusory form, time, and space, and God in truth is causeless.

Why worship God based on the illusory form, time, and space, Self-realization is God-realization and God-realization is the real worship. 

Remember:~

Satsanga is thinking and reflecting on the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. The Soul, the Self is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is present in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

Even Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)

To be aware of the Atman or the Soul at all times is Satsanga.

Constant reflecting on the nature of the Soul is Satsanga, or association with Gnani is Satsanga.

Satsanga is neither hearing the sermons of the Gurus or priests nor indulging in religious activates nor hearing the stories of mythological stories by Swamis nor reading biographies of Saints and Sages nor intellectual discussion but Satsanga is to discover and realize the truth of our true existence.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

When ignorance vanishes through Advaitic wisdom than the world in which you exist which you think as reality becomes an illusion.+

 

Q: Cyndi Leigh:~So, regarding health issues and medicine. Since everything is created by consciousness, how do we know that the medicine that is created by scientists is actually true and effective. For instance, this Covid situation and these vaccinations. If everything is created by consciousness then there should be no worries, why would we need medicine?

Santthosh Kumaar:~Suppose if you had asked the same question in a dream, the dream becomes unreal when waking takes palace. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns. 

The Advaitic wisdom dawns when you realize the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

On the Standpoint of the Soul, the Self the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.  Thus, all the happening within the illusion is bound to be an illusion.  Until ignorance is there, the world in which you exist prevails as a reality.

When ignorance vanishes through Advaitic wisdom than the world in which you exist which you think as reality becomes an illusion.

Only for the ignorant who hold the illusory universe as a reality whatever is happening within the illusory universe feels it as reality. 

All those who experience the illusory universe as real are asleep. Only those who have realized the universe is illusory can realize life within the illusory universe is the illusory play of consciousness. 

If one says this universe is real then: ~

A person, who stamped his foot on the ground to refute to show the world, is real, ignore that in a dream he would do exactly the same--stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real. 

Advaitin Sage and Maya or illusion. 

The King of the Hoysalas was a dualist and was greatly incensed at the doctrine taught Advaitin Sage that everything here below is an illusion. He wanted to teach the exponent of this doctrine a lesson. So he invited the then Advaitin Sage to his palace. That Advaitin sage went there and stoutly maintained that everything in this world was an illusion. The king had arranged to let loose an infuriated elephant against, Advaitin sage. The beast rushed at Advaitin sage who took to a precipitate flight to save himself.

'Oh, Venerable Sir,' shouted the king, 'why do you run so fast seeing that the elephant is only an illusion?'

'Oh, king,' said Advaitin sage in the course of his flight, 'my running too is an illusion. Everything in this world is an illusion.’

Similarly, the practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion. A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. A Gnani e is fully aware of the fact that the experiences the pleasure and pain within the waking experience is merely an illusion because the waking experience itself is an illusion.

Thus, life within the waking experience will go on, on its own.  It is nothing to do with the Soul the Self.  The waking or dream is merely an object to the formless witness. The Soul is the innermost Self. The Soul is the witness. The Soul the witness is nothing to do with the three states, because it is merely a witness of the coming and going of the three states or illusion. 

Remember: ~

You, your body and the universe in which you are born and going to die are created out of single clay and that single clay is the Soul or consciousness.

Soul, the Self is unborn eternal. The Soul has neither birth nor death because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

It is foolish to discuss birth and death or pain and suffering, which is the part and parcel of the illusory universe or Maya in Atmic discussion, which is based on the Soul, the Self, which is unborn eternal.  

Prior to birth (illusory universe) there was only consciousness. After death (illusory universe) only consciousness will prevail as eternal existence. 

Remember:~

Sage Goudapada quotes from the Upanishads: ~ "There's no plurality here"; "The Soul through its powers appears to be many"; "those who are attached to the creation or production or origination go to utter darkness"; "the unborn is never reborn, for what can produce it?”

Sage Goudapada’s rational exposition of Advaita: ~  Whatever is seen, whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal. 

Thus, whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced as a person within the waking experience is bound to be an illusion created out of consciousness.  Thus, The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone, is real and eternal.

Consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world, in which you exist ceases to exist.    

Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness, because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar