Do not compare Sage Sankara’s with dualistic Saints and Gurus wisdom or any other wisdom even with the Advaitic orthodoxy, which is also dualistic.+

Do not compare Sage Sankara’s with dualistic Saints and Gurus wisdom or any other wisdom even with the Advaitic orthodoxy, which is also dualistic.

There are two kinds of audiences: ~

1. The ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices.

2. The most advanced seeker who seeks to know the truth beyond form, time, and space.

The Advaitic orthodoxy is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. The path of wisdom with its emphasis on Advaitic wisdom is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.

Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is nothing to do with religion and religious Gods and the scriptures.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC ~ “Neither sacred baths nor any amount of charity nor even Hundreds of pranayamas* can give us the knowledge of our own Self. The firm conviction of the nature of the Self is seen to proceed from inquiry along the lines of the salutary advice of the wise.

Sage Sankara said:~” Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many Gods as you please, observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.

Fortunate is the one who does not lose himself in the orthodoxy. Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to and realizes the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space and realizes the form, time, and space are created out of single clay and that singles clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness. Knowledge of the single clay is Advaita.

Upanishad says ~ “The human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge and they indicate that belief in the personal Gods, yoga scriptures, worship, and rituals are not the means to Self –Knowledge, then why anyone should indulge in it. 

Religion, the concept of an individualized god, and scriptures are the greatest obstacle to realizing non-dual truth or Self-realization because they are based on a false self. The seeker of truth has to search for the ultimate truth without losing himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, through deeper Self-search, and assimilate and realize it.

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ “One without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows. (Bhaja Govindam)

Thus, the path of wisdom is the only means. Then it is no use going a roundabout way, trace the Brahman which is the formless substance and the witness of the universe (mind). By tracing the source of the mind or the universe, one will be able to realize the Brahman.

Yoga Vasistha says: ~Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only by means of inquiry inspired by the company of wise (Gnani). One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.

Sage  Sankara himself has warned us not to use ambiguous words and to practice semantic analysis in his book "Definition of one's own Self. ("Page 199, v.24 of "Sankara's Selected Works)

Sage Sankara: - Loud speech, the profusion of words, and skilfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation."

Perfectly tame your own self by knowing ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is the truth in order to have a mental yardstick to discard the untruth. Sage Sankara’s seeker must know what is the truth? and what is the untruth?

Sage Gaudapada: ~ To establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. He begins by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the right way to discuss or teach. People must first know what they are talking about. (Manduka Karika)

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.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ “Oneness is the Secret of Everything”.

Nothing is needed for acquiring Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana other than perfect understanding, assimilation, and realization of ‘what is what”

The dualistic illusion is present only when form, time, and space are present. The form, time, and space are one, in essence. The ego, body, and the world are one, in essence. Birth, life, death, and the world are one, in essence. The three states are one, in essence. That essence is consciousness. The thinker thought and the world, is one, in essence. Thus, there is no division in consciousness in reality.

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the life observed and experienced. The commoner viewing life will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same life. Each one interprets the life that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego therefore the life he experiences as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees life is an illusion created out of consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness (subject). 

Thus, all the objective observation is based on the false self and has to be bifurcated to realize what I am saying. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar