Sage Sankara:- In matters spiritual attainment, one’s own realization was the sole authority and it cannot be disputed.+

Advaita is the nondual nature of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Advaita is the invisible Soul itself.

The Advaita becomes dvaita and dvaita becomes Advaita. That is, the invisible Soul becomes the universe and the universe becomes the invisible Soul.

The one that appears as the universe in the waking and one that prevails without the universe in deep sleep is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Rig Veda confirms the Soul is the cause of the universe.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman (Soul) 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)

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The goal of the truth-seeker is to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, is inherent in every seeker of truth.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana does not come from outside; it is hidden within the world in which we exist.

Sage Sankara strongly advocated the study of Upanishads, and at the same time, cautioned that the study of Upanishads alone would not lead to moksha. In matters such as spiritual attainment, one’s own realization was the sole authority, and it cannot be disputed.

Self-knowledge cannot be attained by the study of the scriptures and intellectual understanding or by bookish knowledge. Therefore, there is no use in studying the scriptures and other scriptures to acquire the non-dual wisdom.

That is why Bhagavan Buddha rejected the scriptures, and even Sage Sankara indicated that the ultimate truth lies beyond religion, the concept of God, and scriptures.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe.

Sage Sankara ~ VC~ "All this universe, which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman, which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ “The universe rises from the invisible Soul, the Self, like bubbles from the sea. Thus, know the Self to be One and in this way enter into the state of dissolution.

Sage Sankara says the transparent truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman (Gnani).

First, know ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’ for sure. Without realizing what untruth truth is, it is difficult to know what truth is.

When the sky, clouds, and the world in which you exist are made of single clay, then there is no second thing that exists, other than that clay. That clay is the Soul, which has formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The reality is hidden by the unreality. The world in which we exist hides the truth. Whatever belongs to you is unreal. The words and thoughts belong to you, not to the Soul, which is the Self.

Whatever has a name and form and attributes, and whatever belongs to form, time, and space, is an illusion.

The illusion hides the Spirit, which is God in truth. The illusion and Spirit are one in essence. Spirit, the God alone is real and eternal.

The invisible Soul is the Self. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

The invisible Soul is the witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theater, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

One knows everything within the waking experience is consciousness because the waking experience itself is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

The physical apparatus is absent in deep sleep, so one cannot know anything by intuition because there is no duality in deep sleep. This proves that the duality is present only in waking or dream. And also, it proves that if there be such a faculty as intuition, it must be limited to the physical Self within the physical existence.

You are the body with a name. It is foolish to say I am not the body when the Self is not you because the Self is the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The invisible Soul, the Self, has nothing to do with you and your experience of the birth, life, death, and the world because the invisible Soul, the Self, is birthless and deathless. The invisible Soul is birthless and deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, pervades everywhere and in everything in all the three states.

The invisible Soul, the Self, is not within the body, but the world in which you exist rises from the invisible Soul, the Self. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar