Only a Gnani has realized what is Maya and what is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God.+

Only a Gnani has realized what is Maya and what is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.   

That is why Sage Sankara says: ~ ‘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 (Gnani).  

We have to discard all accumulated knowledge accumulated from different Gurus and teachers.

In reality, three is no scope for two. Advaita means one without the second. Advaita means the Soul. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is one without the second. \

Consciousness is one without the second because the world in which you exist is created out of consciousness. Thus, everything is consciousness. No second thing exists other than consciousness. Consciousness alone is real and eternal. 

Advaitic truth has to be grasped mentally by realizing the form, time and space are one, in essence. 

Swami Vivekananda said:~   “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your own Soul.”

Mundaka Upanishad condemns rituals:  The Para or Higher knowledge is the knowledge of the Supreme Being while the Apara or Lower Knowledge is that of following sacrificial rites and ceremonies. (1/2/ 1 – 6)

What is Maya: ~

The ignorance is Maya

The dualistic illusion is Maya

The ‘I’ is Maya.

The mind is Maya.

The form, time and space are Maya.

The universe is Maya. 

The three states are Maya.

 The individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world is Maya.

When the Soul, the Self is caught up in the cage of ignorance then it is in the domain of the dualistic illusion.

The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the ‘I’.

The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the mind.

The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the form, time and space.

The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the universe.

The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the waking.

The dualistic illusion is present in the form of a dream.

The dualistic illusion is present in the form of the individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world.

Remember:~

Without the dualistic illusion, there is no ‘I’.

Without the dualistic illusion, there is no mind.

Without the dualistic illusion, there is no form, time and space.

Without the dualistic illusion, there is no universe.

Without the dualistic illusion, there is no form of the waking.

Without the dualistic illusion, there is no dream

Without the dualistic illusion, there is no individual experience of birth, life, death, and the world. 

The Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness, is hidden by Maya. Only through the sword of Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana the veil of ignorance vanishes and then the Soul, the Self shines as the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. 

Remember:~ 

People are stuck with the reality of the ‘I’ which itself is Maya.  

People take the ‘I’, which is Maya as real because some Gurus have propagated the Self is the ‘I’. They refuse to accept ‘I’ as mays because they hold the ‘Self’ as the ‘I’. there is no need to convince such a mindset. The seeker of truth accepts only the truth nothing but the truth. 

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. 

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 and the not-Self.

It really depends on his inborn natural capacity to understand and assimilate it.  Sage  Sankara’s wisdom is a Self-examiner, to test oneself to discover how near to Gnana he has approached and what progress has already been made on the path and what still remains to be done.  It sets up a criterion for Self-judgement.   There are millions in search of truth but one in million will be able to grasp it.

Without Sage Sankara, there is no Advaita (nonduality).  Since it was mixed up with orthodoxy there is a lot of confusion.

All the Gurus who propagate Advaita of east and west air their knowledge base Advaita on the dualistic perspective and orthodox perspective. 

I am highlighting all the obstacles, which is blocking one from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman. There are so many non-dualistic masters of the east and also from the west who expound Advaitic or non-dualistic knowledge but none of them are helpful to reach the ultimate end.

The seeker has to know and realize the Self, not the ‘I’ but the Soul and identify the Self as the Soul to find liberation from the bondage of the Maya of birth, life, death, and the world.   The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with our Soul, which is our Self.  

People refuse to accept anything other than their Gurus words. For them, their Gurus words are the ultimate truth. They do not accept anything else other than their accepted truth. There is no need to convince such a mindset. 

Such a mindset is not fit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The seekers of truth accept only the truth nothing but the uncontradictable truth. 

Unless the seeker drops all his accumulated knowledge and strives to realize the truth with patience and humility it is not possible to realize the ‘Self’ hidden by the dualistic illusion. In the path of wisdom discussion of the unimportant subject matter and it creates a hindrance. The path of truth is the path of verification. Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification.

The seeker has to read umpteen times, think deeply, and reflect repeatedly until his reasoning base becomes Soulcentric. Once he becomes he becomes Soulcentric the truth will start revealing on its own. As the seeker digs into old and new posts, he will gradually start understanding and assimilating the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

The seeker has to discard all accumulated knowledge accumulated from different Gurus and their teachings to realize the truth hidden by the Maya.  : ~Santthosh Kumaar