Sage Sankara was the first scientist. Sage Sankara's Advaitic wisdom is the mother of the science because it unfolds the mystery of the universe.+

Sage Sankara was the first scientist. Sage Sankara's Advaitic wisdom is the mother of science because it unfolds the mystery of the universe.

Sage  Sankara was the first scientist who discovered the mystery of the universe many centuries back.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “Atman is Brahman. The Atman alone is real is not religious truth. Sage Sri, Sankara declared, many centuries back the Advaitic truth, is the ultimate truth to the whole world. Advaitic truth is the rational truth, scientific truth, and ultimate truth.

India is the fountainhead of Advaitic wisdom. Advaitic wisdom unfolds the mystery of the universe, which contains the whole of humanity.

Spirituality is nothing but Self-knowledge or Brahm Gnana or Atma Gnana. Self-knowledge or Brahm Gnana or Atma Gnana is nothing but science the of the Spirit.

Advaita is Vedic science. Advaita is scientific spirituality. Advaita is nothing to do with religion and its belief and dogmas.

Advaita is the truth hidden by the matter.

Advaita is the Spirit.

Advaita is the nature of true existence hidden by matter.

Advaita is existence itself

Advaita is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God.

Sage Sankara proved the existence of God, the Spirit (Atman) through Advaitic wisdom

The difference between science and spirituality is the modern science deal with the matter and spirituality is based on the Spirit, the cause of the matter.

Modern science deals with objects whereas spirituality deals with the subject.

The scientists are trying to understand the truth of the objective world in which we exist objectively whereas spirituality unfolds the truth of the objective world in which we exist subjectively.

The scientists hold the object as the object and investigate whereas spirituality holds the subject as the subject and declares the object is nothing but an illusion created out of the subject and subject and object are one in essence.

Modern science exposed the truth of the objective world objectively part by part whereas spirituality exposed the cause hidden by the whole objective world in which we exist.

The approaches of both are scientific but the objects of their investigation are different.

Modern science deals with the objective world, which belongs to the matter whereas spirituality deals with the Spirit, which is the cause of the matter.

Modern science deals with the framework of form, time, and space whereas spirituality is based on the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence, which is hidden by the form, time, and space and which is the cause of the form, time, and space and which itself is uncaused.

Since spirituality is been mixed up with religion and mysticism in the past it has become hotchpotch and it is difficult to accept spirituality as scientific.

Spirituality has to be bifurcated from religion and mysticism to get the scientific essence of spirituality. The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is scientific spirituality.

Sage Sankara alone is a Sage scientist humanity has to bow with gratitude to the great sage.

Sage Sankara was criticized for his views on Maya (illusion) without understanding him.

Sage Sankara said: ~

(1) Brahman (Atman) is real

(2) The universe is unreal, and

(3) Brahman is the universe.

He did not stop at second because the third explains the other two. It signifies that the universe is real if perceived as the ‘Self’ and unreal if perceived as apart from the Self. Hence, Maya or illusion and reality are one and the same.

Realists criticize the concept of illusion without understanding it. Sage Sankara said: ~

(1) Consciousness (Atman) is real

(2) The universe or mind is unreal

(3) Consciousness is the universe because the universe is an illusion created out of consciousness.

One need not stop at the second because the third explains the other two. It signifies that the universe is real if perceived as the Self (Atman or consciousness) and unreal if perceived as apart from the Self (consciousness). Hence, illusion and reality are one and the same because both are one in essence. Realizing the essence, which is consciousness as the innermost Self, is Self-Realization or Truth-Realization of GOD- Realization. Thus, Sage Sankara‘s declaration is rational truth, scientific truth, and also the ultimate truth

Sage Sankara says: ~ “V.63 ~ "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-47 All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self (Spirit) and the not-Self (Matter).

Sage Sankara says ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real (Spirit) and unreal (Matter) and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation.

Sage Sankara says you must first know what is before you. If you cannot know that, what else can you know or understand? If you give up the external world in your inquiry, you cannot get the whole truth.

Sage Sankara believed that those of superior intelligence, have no need of this idea of divine causality, and can, therefore, dispense with Sruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason.

Sage Sankara: ~ “The objective world-the world of names and forms has no independent existence. The Atman alone has real existence. The world is only phenomenal.

Sage Sankara was the exponent of Advaitic wisdom. Sage Sankara's wisdom can be summed up in the following words:

~ Brahman (Spirit) alone is real; this world (matter) is unreal.

All scientific inventions are based on the dualistic perspective whereas the ultimate truth of existence is based on the nondualistic perspective. Scientific inventions are limited to the domain of form, time, and space whereas the truth is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

When the scientists and the world in which they exist and their inventions are created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaita.

Thus, Advaita is the rational truth, scientific truth, the ultimate truth, and universal truth cannot be contradicted. Sage Sankara declared the Advaitic truth 1200 years back.

One day the scientist also will confirm and declare that the universe is nothing but consciousness.

Humanity has to appreciate the high flights of Sage Sri, Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is one of the 'most majestic structures and valuable products of the Genius of man in his search for Truth.

Max Planck ~Father of quantum physics says: ~ Science has no answer to it. Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Scientists now concluded that you are not the brain (body). The consciousness requires the joint operation of the brain, body, and the world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."

The Biology of Consciousness

By Alva Noë. Hill and Wang, 2009

Alva Noe, a University of California, Berkeley, philosopher, and cognitive scientist, argues that after decades of concerted effort on the part of neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers "only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious ... has emerged unchallenged: we don't have a clue." The reason we have been unable to explain the neural basis of consciousness, he says, is that it does not take place in the brain. Consciousness is not something that happens inside us but something we achieve it is more like dancing than it is like the digestive process. To understand consciousness the fact that we think and feel and that the world shows up for us we need to look at a larger system of which the brain is only one element. Consciousness requires the joint operation of the brain, body, and the world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."

Thus, science is going in the right direction in its invention and one day it will declare that everything is consciousness, which Sage Sri, Sankara declared 1200 years back ~ everything is Atman- because Atman is present in the form of the consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar