Holding some Guru or some teaching as a yardstick leads to all types of doubts and confusion, and unnecessary arguments.
One has to unlearn what one has learned. Without mentally burning the accumulated knowledge from different sources, it is impossible to acquire Advaitic wisdom or Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
The seeker of truth should not become attached to words as being in perfect conformity with meaning because Truth is not in the letters. When a man with his finger-tip points to something, the finger-tip may be mistaken for the thing pointed at; in like manner, the ignorant are unable to even to the day of their death to abandon the idea that in the finger-tip of words there is the meaning itself. They cannot realize the ultimate reality because of their clinging to words that were intended to be no more than a pointing finger.
The words and their discrimination bind one to the duality; meaning stands alone and is a guide to non-dual awareness. Meaning is attained by much learning, and much learning is attained by becoming conversant with meaning and not with words; therefore, seekers of truth have to avoid the sticklers for particular words
The invisible Soul, the Self, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal' when the seeker is receptive and ready.
Sage Sankara restrained himself, parting the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to the masses and only to a selected few. It was hidden from the people who were not qualified and receptive to it. Self- it was given knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana was not written down but was imparted orally to the chosen few.
Thus, religion was given to the ignorant populace, and knowledge of the Spirit is given only to the selected few. Thus, we find traces of the knowledge of the Spirit in religious books in the form of parables.
Katha Upanishad says: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one, Atman reveals its own form. ( II -23-P-20)
The invisible Soul, the Self, reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.
There is no such thing as ignorance beyond the ‘I’. Beyond the ‘I’ is the invisible Soul, which is the reality. The invisible Soul is the fullness of consciousness without the division of form, time, and space. The invisible Soul is the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
The ‘I’ itself is ignorance, the cause of the bondage of illusory form, time, and space. When ignorance is eliminated, the unreal nature of the form, time, and space is exposed. Only ignorance is the form; time and space prevail as reality. ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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