Many Gurus of the east and west quote Advaita without understanding its highest aspect. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self.+

Many Gurus of the east and west quote Advaita without understanding its highest aspect. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the Self.

The path of Advaitic orthodoxy is the path of ignorance. “There are conflicting teachings. 

People get confused as to which are true?"  It is very difficult to know which is the real Advaita. People will be unable to prove because they do not know the proper test of truth.

The Veda serves only at the starting point. What one has to learn from Veda must be understood through the exercise of reason, as far as reason might go. And what one has understood must be realized in one’s life.

Only pretenders claim they God-realized without knowing what God supposed to be in actuality. People generally misinterpret the scriptures.  People think the Gnani is one sitting idle, remote from worldly concerns.

By a study of the holy texts, it is not possible to establish in the truth he is seeking for. Direct realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman is possible only through deeper self-search.

The seeker may be able to grasp the truth hidden by ignorance by discriminating between truth and untruth.

The citations from scriptures are not proofs.  The ultimate truth has to be proved without the scriptures.  The ultimate truth is the universal truth and it does not belong to any religion.  

The religion causes diversity in unity, whereas, the ultimate truth brings unity in diversity. 

It is not that one should pore over the ancient scriptures.  There is no need to study first then realize. One has to realize first then only he will know ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’.

One has to make his discoveries through the process of rational thinking and reasoning.

That is why Sage Sankara says: - VC-65-  As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent truth of the self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

It means to search the truth independently on your own therefore there is no need of any teacher our teaching the truth has to ascertained by the seeker himself.

Until the seeker realizes the truth, how can he know what is the untruth?  How can one know his Gurus knows the truth or teaching speaking of the truth?  The seeker should not accept anything as truth without deeper introspection. 

Only uncontradictable truth has to be accepted as the ultimate truth of Brahman. The path of wisdom is the path of verification. Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification.

The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.

Guru is needed in the religious and yogic path.  There is no need for Guru to acquire Self-knowledge.

That is why Sage  Sankara himself says:~ VC 59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

60. The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest which merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.

61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae) and medicines to such a one?

62. A disease does not leave off if one simply utters the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct realization one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.

63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

Self-knowledge is achievable without the grace of any Guru or conceptual god or the mercy of some godmen. The seeker has to simply wake up to the reality (consciousness), which is the formless substance and witness of the unreality (universe of mind).

At the end of the quest, the seeker becomes aware of the fact that the Self is not ‘I’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  There is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.:~Santthosh Kumaar