Sage Sankara was the first scientist who discovered the mystery of the universe many centuries back without educational qualification.+

Sage Sankara did not have a Ph.D. from Harvard or Oxford universities in the world.

Sage Sankara was the first scientist who discovered the mystery of the universe many centuries back without educational qualifications. 

If rightly interpreted Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom as spiritual food for the whole of humanity. Advaitic wisdom is the universal wisdom par excellence. Advaitic wisdom is not just a not a philosophy, but not a science, but the Science of Truth.

Sage Sankara’s Advaita as the fairest flower of philosophy that any country of any age has produced.

The Advaitic truth is a rational or scientific truth  Sage Sankara centuries back, but unfortunately, the original essence of the rational Advaita is lost mainly, because of orthodox adulteration. 

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To realize the mystery of the universe you need not have a Ph.D. from Harvard or Oxford or other universities in the world.

Science is the highest teaching in the world of duality. Spirituality has its roots in the same world but ultimately leads to non-dualistic awareness.

Science cuts itself from the witness (Soul or spirit) and remains aloof from the witnessed (universe or matter).

The scientist not only stands aside, outside the field of the witness. It is because the scientist is unaware of the witness, which is apart from the witnessed, and he and his invention are part of the witnessed.

Therefore, science cannot cross the threshold of physical existence (universe or waking). Thus, its invention is limited to the domain of form, time, and space whereas Self-knowledge is the knowledge beyond form, time, and space.

Science is based on objects; its invention is based on an object as the subject. Thus, modern science can get the truth of the objectified subject. Elimination of the object mentally and realizing the subject, then judging the worldview on the base of the pure subject leads to the discovery of the ultimate truth.

The feelings and impressions and notions are based on the physical Self (ego or the waking entity). Scientific inventions are based on the physical Self (ego or you).

Deeper Self-search reveals the fact that the waking entity (ego) is the false self within the false experience (waking).

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RAMANUJA believed in a plurality of minds or selves and also in Prakriti matter. The latter he thought ultimately existed in the form of particles similar to our atomic theory. But recent science has killed the atomic theory and matter has vanished with it. Hence modern Ramanujists fear science and try to avoid it.

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Science has begun to admit that the world of the spirit and the world of matter are not two antipodes...  A leading British astronomer, Sir James Jeans, confessed that the scientific conception of the universe in the past was mistaken and that the borderline between the objective world, as it is manifested in nature, and the subjective one, as it expresses itself through the mind, hardly exists.

In (a 1934 address at Cornell University), he said: “The Nature we study does not consist so much of something we perceive as of our perceptions, it is not the object ... but the relation itself.  There is, in fact, no clear-cut division between the subject and object.”  Twenty years earlier, such a statement would have been sheer heresy.  Likewise, a search for the Ultimate Reality that we usually call "God," a search along both intellectual and unorthodox lines, need not be regarded as either heresy or sacrilege.

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The knowledge of both Matter and Spirit is True knowledge. True knowledge is the Advaitic wisdom of Sage  Sankara. 

Consciousness is the cause of the universe and it itself is uncaused.  The universe is nothing but consciousness. Modern science has yet to discover that consciousness is the cause of the universe, which was discovered and declared by Sage Sankara 1200 years back.  

Atman or consciousness you can never see. So do not inquire Ataman. Inquire into the world around you, which you can see. Science tells you it is passing away every second. Everything is dying repeatedly. Where is it going? 

Thus, you follow up your inquiry into what you can lay your hands on. How can you inquire into Atman which you cannot see? So first we deal with the known and seen, this inquiry leads up to the unknown in the end. 

Advaita encompasses everything. Since Advaita requires heavy-duty intellectualism, it had to be progressively simplified.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “Atman is Brahman. The Atman alone is real is not religious truth. Sage 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 the science 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 in truth.

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

The difference between science and spirituality is that 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.

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.

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 within 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 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, 

 (3) Brahman is the universe.

He did not stop at the 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 Self, is Self-Realization or Truth-Realization of God- Realization. 

Thus, Sage Sankara‘s declaration is the 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. His 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 that 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 Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is one of the 'most majestic structures and valuable products of the Genius of man in his search for Truth.

Scientists now concluded that you are not the brain (body). 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 a 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 in 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 Sankara declared 1200 years back ~ everything is Atman- because Atman is present in the form of consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar