The Advaita is nothing but God in truth.+

The Soul, the  ‘Self’  is God.  The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.  The Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. The Soul is one without the second. The Soul is Advaita. The Advaita is nothing but God in truth.

Sage  Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). It is above all needs and desires. It is always the Witnessing Subject. It can never become an object as it is beyond the reach of the senses. Brahman is non-dual, one without a second. It has no other besides it. It is destitute of difference, either external or internal. Brahman (God)  cannot be described because the description implies a distinction. Brahman cannot be distinguished from any other than It. In Brahman, there is not a distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constitutes the very essence or Svarupa of Brahman and not just its attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage  Sankara is impersonal. 

Even The Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness. 

Advaita means the Soul, the Self, which is second to none. The Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit or the consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. Advaita is the nature of God, the Self. Advaita is God. Advaita is the fullness of consciousness.

 

When wisdom dawns then ignorance vanishes then the unreality of the world in which we exist is exposed. In the same way, the unreality of the dream is exposed when the waking takes place. 

The waking experience is the dualistic illusion created out of single clay.  That single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  Knowledge of the Single clay is Advaitic wisdom.

All searches are vain until the seeker begins to perceive that the truth he is seeking is hidden within the world in which he exists. Then he may know the world in which he exists is created out of single clay. That single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Knowledge of this single clay reveals the truth that is hidden by the illusory world in which we exist.

Only when the seeker drops all the accumulated knowledge then he will be able to realize this truth beyond form, time, and space.

In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says: ~It is only one amongst thousands of people who strive for spiritual salvation. Even amongst such seekers, it is only the rare person who gets to know “Self” correctly.’ (7.3)

That is why Swami Vivekananda 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 own Soul.”

Sage Sankara’s wisdom is very much in tune with the essence of Vedas and Upanishad.

 The Soul, the Self, is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness. 

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study the Scriptures, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~ then why indulge in studying the scriptures.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to study philosophy, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why indulge in studying philosophy.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge in rituals, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why indulge in rituals.

Sage Sankara says: ~ there is no need to indulge in yoga, to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman

~then why indulge in yoga.

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)

~ then why you are sticking a Guru who is not a Gnani.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false leads to truth -realization.

Atman is Brahman. The Atman is the Self is non-dual because there is no second thing that exists other than the Atman. 

Atman is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the only true reality, and everything else, which appears as form, time, and space is merely an illusion. :~Santthosh Kumaar