In Spirituality or Adyathma, the ultimate truth is Brahman or God.+

In Spirituality or Adyathma, the ultimate truth is Brahman or God. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. Brahman is God in truth. Thus, there is no devotee, devotion and deity, worship, and the world in Nondualistic reality, because everything is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the Self. The Soul or consciousness is God in truth. Thus, Atman is Brahman,

Thus, God in truth is the Soul, the   Self.

Even Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) 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 the consciousness.

Even Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

Even Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman (Soul) is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?." (10:48, 5)

The world in which you exist is a dualistic illusion created out of the ‘Self’ which is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

Whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced is within the dualistic illusion. Thus, your existence is bound to an illusion created out of consciousness(God in truth), which is real and eternal.

Like an ornament made from gold is Gold, which is born out of consciousness is consciousness. Like gold is a permanent thing, in ornaments made of gold, similarly, the mind, which is in the form of the universe is born out of the consciousness, is consciousness in its essence.

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The Gurus of the past and present who profound Advaita holding the Self as ‘I’. Their teaching based on the ‘I’, is based on the dualistic perspective. Whatever teaching is based on the dualistic perspective is speculated imagination.

Most of these bands of Gurus are half religious and half spiritual. They have not reached anywhere but they think they are Gnanis and propagate their cocktail teaching collected from different sources. They are just playing with the emotions of people.

Religion is nothing to do with spirituality. If you mix religion and yoga with spirituality, you will never be able to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Those who are stuck with religion and yoga are not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Religion and yoga are based on the matter not on the Spirit therefore, they are useless in the pursuit of truth.

Yoga Vasistha:~ "Teachers, interpretations of sacred texts, the force of religious merit--none of these lead to the realization of that Ultimate Truth which is revealed in the clear reflection of the heart, engendered from contact with the good."

All yogic teachings are based on the body, and thus have nothing to do with Gnana. Yoga helps only to remove mental and physical stress.

Panchadasi: ~ The impossibility of yoga arrives at a successful end to its practices. (P.509 v, 109)

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Manduka Upanishads: -  Gnani bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the yellow robe has anything to do with him.

 Some Gurus declare watch the ‘I. The reality is just behind it. Keep quiet and keep silent, it will emerge or rather it will take you in.”

The seeker of truth read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider and discover the truth by using his own reason. 

The greatest and noblest pleasure that a seeker can have is to discover new truths and drop old prejudices and accumulated knowledge.

That is why  Bhagavan Buddha: ~ “We ourselves must walk the path.

By relaxing and watching the ‘I’ you will not realize the reality hidden by the ‘I. Without knowing what this ‘I’ is supposed to be in actuality ignorance will prevail. By relaxing or by keeping quiet or being silent within the dualistic illusion the ignorance will not vanish. Without getting rid of ignorance wisdom will not dawn.

Most people believe that all enlightened people have exactly the same experience and merely express it differently depending on the deep study of the scriptures but this is just an assumption.

No one can really know the truth beyond form, time, and space because the ultimate truth or Brahman is beyond experience. If anyone says that, he has experienced the Self, then he is only hallucinating. 

The Soul, the Self cannot be experienced, because there is neither any experience nor any experiencer when the Soul, the innermost self, remains in its own awareness.

One Guru says the ‘I’ as the self and another Guru holds the ‘I’ as the witness. Both of these Gurus hold the Self as the ‘I’. So, both the Gurus are not gone deep enough because holding the ‘I’ itself is an error. So both have built their teaching based on imagination holding the self as the ‘I’.

The ‘I’ is ignorance. Till one holds the ‘I’ as the Self, it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

Thus, the seeker has to get rid of the ignorance, which is present in the form of ‘I’, in order to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

What is this ‘I’?

The ‘I’ is not a thought. The ‘I’ is the mind. The mind is the whole universe. The universe appears as a waking or dream (duality and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). The one that appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality), is the Soul, the Self. 

The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness pervades everything and everywhere in all three states.

Without knowing what the mind is, it is impossible to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space. People think the mind is within the body, but deeper self-search reveals the fact that the world in which you exist itself is the mind. 

When the ‘I’ is there then only the mind is there. If the mind is there then only the universe is there. If the universe is there then only the waking is there. 

Thus, it is very much necessary to realize ‘what ‘I’ is in actuality. Without knowing ‘what is ‘I’ it is impossible to realize the ‘I-less’ truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Until you hold the ‘Self ‘as the ‘I’ you will never be able to get Self-realization. ‘I’ hides the Soul, which is the Self. ‘

'I’ is ignorance.

‘I’ is the duality.

‘I’ is form, time, and space.

‘I’ is the universe.

‘I’ is the waking.

‘I’ is the dream.

‘I’ is the illusion.

‘I’ is the experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

Remember:~

Without the ‘I’ there is no ignorance.

Without the ‘I’ there is no duality.

Without the ‘I’ there is no form, time, and space.

Without the ‘I’ there is no universe.

Without the ‘I’ there is no waking.

Without the ‘I’ there is no dream.

Without the ‘I’ there is no illusion.

Without the ‘I’ there is no experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

The ‘I’ hides the truth of the whole. The ‘I’ hides the truth.

That is why Ashtavakra Gita 16:10:~ If you desire liberation, but you still say ‘I,’, If you feel the ‘Self’ is the ‘I’, you are not a wise man or a seeker. You are simply a man who suffers.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘The permanent is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)

It is time to discard the ‘I’. Never use the word ‘I’ or I AM, for the Self.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar