Sage Sankara cautioned that the study of the Upanishad alone would not lead to Moksha.
Discussion with the right people is always better than arguments with the wrong people. Silence is always better than meaningless.
To come to a more precise understanding of what non-duality is or might mean, we must return to the original linguistic and philosophic backgrounds from which the word has been translated into English.
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 eons, without realizing the Oneness.
The seeker should never stick to any Guru or his teaching if he is seeking the ultimate truth.
Scriptural knowledge is conceptual divisions invented by some past and modern authors of Advaita through their excessive imaginary analysis. All these imaginary analyses are a great obstacle in the Atmic path. They create more confusion and try to satisfy their imaginary explanation based on the dualistic perspective. Fortunate are people who do not lose themselves in the labyrinths of such bookish knowledge, but they will never be satisfied until they find what they are seeking.
Most thinkers hold views of Maya (illusion) which are entirely incorrect and untenable because they do not know Sage Sankara's Upanishad Bashyas, but only the Brahma Sutra Bashya.
When one is unaware of what illusion is, then there is ignorance. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self is present in the form of consciousness.
The duality is merely an illusion. The illusion is a reality only from the standpoint of you (ego). The world in which you exist is the product of ignorance.
Till ignorance is there, the world in which you exist prevails as a reality.
"One may recognize a fool by the fact that he talks too freely"…Sunyavadins Buddhists say everything is non-existence, but their judgment is based on a dualistic perspective.
As one goes deeper and deeper, one realizes how one can see, hear, and think. …All these differences, all this multiplicity, all this ignorance which regards the multiplicity as real, is caused by ignorance of the invisible Soul, the Self.
The invisible Soul, the Self, is the witness of the world in which you exist. Your youth, maturity, and old age are happening within the dualistic world. The Soul remains unchanged amid these changes.
All these experiences as a father, son, owner, and pupil, and all the contents of the world were one and the same consciousness appearing differently.
All these distinctions disappear in the invisible Soul wakes up from its sleep of ignorance.
Dream the mountain, which is apparently insentient and material, is nevertheless still the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness alone.
Whether living or dead, conscious or unconscious thought or matter, all things are appearances of one and the same consciousness. All these distinctions are seen by Gnani as only consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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