Do not search for the ‘Self' in the spiritual junkyard in India or elsewhere in the world because the 'Self' is hidden by the world in which you exist. The world you exist itself the dualistic illusion or Maya.
Do not become part of the junkyard you will not find the treasure hidden by the Sage Sri, Sankara. All your accumulated junk accumulated from different Gurus and their junk will make you a prisoner of dualistic junk.
The Advaitic treasure is hidden by the universe like fragrance in the flower; Musk lies within the Musk-deer yet seeks it afar." Until one traces the hidden treasure, the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world is experienced as a reality
Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut 1.36-42- Non-duality is taught by some; some others teach duality. They don't understand that the all-pervading Reality is beyond both duality and non-duality.
The self-styled Gurus talk about ripeness and effort of destiny and grace; all these are playing with the emotions and sentiments of the seekers. Emotionally and sentimentally addicted seekers become victims of these Gurus and their teachings. Instead of helping the seeker, they obstruct.
Advaitic wisdom is a treasure hidden by the Sage Sri, Sankara 1200 years back. Every seeker is qualified for the treasure if he is serious and sincere in his quest for truth.
Do not get stuck with Gurus and teachers who preach Advaita their propagated wisdom is only skin deep and inadequate and useless to unfold the Advaitic treasure of Sage Sir, Sankara.
Remember: Sage Sri, Sankara is the final authority in Advaita. There is no Advaitic wisdom without Sage Sri, Sankara.
Unless you forget all your accumulated knowledge of different gurus you will never be able to find the reassure hidden by the great sage.
If you are following any Guru or his teaching however holy or sacred is the Guru it will become a great obstacle to the realization of truth.
Advaitic wisdom is not a marketable commodity only by self-discovery you will find it.
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.”
That is why Buddha said: ~ “Believe nothing because a wise man said it, Believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be divine. Believe nothing because someone else said it. But believe only what you judge to be true
The wisdom consists in knowing the truth, that everything (mind or physical existence) is the consciousness. Freedom (ultimate truth) is always there yet one does not know it. But to those whose reason is turned away from physicality and who have attained the serenity of the Soul or the consciousness, the innermost Self, is quite near to realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Ashtavakra: ~ Diamonds are not many; only pebbles and rocks are so common. A single diamond is enough.
Buddha: - There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way... and not starting
The Advaitic wisdom hidden by the Sages of truth imparted only to a few who were capable of grasping it. In time the Advaitic truth was lost and forgotten in the garbage of religion, philosophies, and yoga.
That is why Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (Advaitic wisdom) has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita –Chap- IV-v.2)
That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ “A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya, can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by perverted arguments.
If someone has acquired Self-knowledge and shares his acquired knowledge with others, they cannot say that there is nothing for them to do. Everyone has to discover a fresh for himself by verifying all the facts. Each one has to grasp assimilate and realize it until he gets a firm conviction of the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Remember:~
Sage Sankara said: ~A.A~ 88. When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman (consciousness), and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Atman?
The ‘Self’ is not the mind. The mind is present in the form of not the world in which we exist. The world appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality).
The ‘Self’ is the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness pervades everything and everywhere in all three states. Thus, diversity is created out of single stuff. That stuff is consciousness.
Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman because there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. From the standpoint of the Soul, the form, time, and space are one, in essence.
In Spirituality, God means the ultimate truth or Brahman. Self–realization is truth-realization. Truth- realization is God-realization.
Sage Sri, Sankara: ~VC~ if the universe is true, let it then be perceived in the state of deep sleep also. As it is not at all perceived, it must be unreal and false like dreams.
That is why Sri, Sankara's declaration: ~ “Brahman is the truth The World is Unreal everything is Truly Brahman and nothing else has any value.
If you are seeking truth then do not waste time finding a Guru and becoming his slave. The Gurudom belongs to the religious and yogic path and it has nothing to do with the Advaitic path.
Upanishads:~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking they wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Upanishads Nikilanada - Ch II-5 P-14)
There is no need for a Guru, to know you and your Guru, and the world in which you exist are created out of single clay and that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of that single stuff is Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Gnana is given neither from outside nor from another person.
There is no need to follow anyone. There is no need to practice anything but perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’ leads to realizing the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.
The Soul the ’Self’ reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.
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: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.
Those who tell you that Brahman is unity, that you can get it only by intuition, that you should not reason, you should not question or inquire, are deluding you. Verification must come by thought. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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