The Gurus and Godmen who promise instant enlightenment or Self-realization are not Gnanis.+

Many Gurus describe to perfection as the awakening to Reality ~the realization that pure Consciousness alone is, that the perpetually fluctuating and evanescent contents of the mind derive from it. This awakening effectively happens in an instant. But for the lightning flash to take place, resulting in a firm and unshakable certitude, long labor is necessary, which they seem to underestimate. “Truth is formless is their answer.

 Many Guru's teaching seems essentially negative, potent but bitter medicine for those imprisoned by institutional cults. They break the disciple's bonds but then lead him to a vast desert where he abandons him.

The ultimate state of consciousness they describe is that of the traditional sage or fully enlightened being, but they do not show us the process leading to the realization of this state. They describe marvelously the goal but do not indicate the steps to be taken: their recurring phrases "unified consciousness" and "let go" and 'love alone' are not a road map.

Religious Gurus are not Gnanis, they propagate only religion. Religion is not spirituality. 

Religious Gurus do not propagate wisdom they are meant to guide the ignorant populace in practical life within the practical world. Many 

Religious Gurus are serving humanity by giving free education and maintaining love and harmony in society but they have nothing to do with the Atmic path.

The Gurus have nothing to do with Advaitic wisdom. A Gnani never identifies himself as a Gurus.

The Gurus and Godmen who promise instant enlightenment or Self-realization are not Gnanis. Mixing religion with the Atmic path is like mixing oil in the water.

Seekers from the West mistake whoever calls them as Gurus are Gnanis, thus, their mission of seeking the truth misguided by such Gurus.

Most of the Gurus and Yogis' approach was more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the 'I', they took it as real. All their teachings of Advaita are based on the dualistic perspective. Such teaching will not yield the truth of the whole.

Advaitic wisdom will not dawn by following some Gurus or Gurus' teaching or by worshipping Gurus and getting sentimentally and emotionally involved with the Gurus. The one who identifies himself as a Guru does not know the truth, which is hidden by the Sages of truth.

Sage Sankara:~  The Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man" ~VC~(2)(Stanza 539).

It means the Knower of the Atman (i.e., a Gnani) "bears no outward mark of a holy man. Thus, religious Gurus have nothing to do with the path of wisdom. All the religious-based Advaita is meant for the masses that is incapable of grasping the truth beyond form, time, and space. Thus, the religious idea of God, Gurus, and scriptural studies have nothing to do with the path of wisdom or Brahman.

Sage Sankara says the transparent Truth of the Self, which is hidden by the illusion, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, (Gnani)

~ Then why you are sticking a Gurus who is not a Gnani who has not acquired Advaitic Gnana.

That is why 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.”

Sage Sankara: ~ "Though I wear these robes of a Sanyasin, it is only for the sake of bread." (Select Works of Sage Sankara" also his commentary on Brihad)

Thus, the above passage proves that all those who wear the sanyasin robes are wearing it for the sake of bread belong to the religion; they have nothing to do with Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. 

There is no need to criticize and condemn the Gurus, yogis, and swamis because they are needed for the welfare of the ignorant masses in the dualistic world. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

Sage Sankara was the first scientist.+

Sage Sankara was the first scientist who discovered the mystery of the universe many centuries back.

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 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 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 Sri, Sankara is scientific spirituality.

Sage Sankara alone is a 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 innermost Self, is Self-Realization or Truth-Realization of GOD- Realization. Thus, Sage Sankara‘s declaration is 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 Sri, Sankara declared 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 Sri, 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 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 Sri, Sankara declared 1200 years back ~ everything is Atman- because Atman is present in the form of consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

If the seeker sticks to religious scriptures, religious Gurus and religious idea of God and dogmas, he will never be able to achieve Self-realization which is his prime goal.+

Mythological stories are a myth. Whatever is based on myth is merely a superstition. Mythology was introduced in the past for the ignorant masses. It has to be discarded as one progresses in his spiritual advancement.  

Mythology breeds superstition, blind belief, senseless rituals, and most irrational and gives them a divine outlook. The real God is stolen by ignorance and people worship ignorance as God because the religion propagated false God as the real God.

Swami Vivekananda: ~ “The masses in India cry to sixty million Gods, and still die like dogs. Where are these Gods? (In San Francisco, on May 28, 1900, of Swami Vivekananda/volume 1)

Religion breeds superstition because religion is based on blind belief. Whatever is based on blind belief is superstition.

God in truth is not a belief. One must know God in truth. Without knowing what God is supposed to be in actuality worshipping  God based on blind belief is superstition. Worshipping superstitious Gods barred by Vedas. Know what God is supposed to be according to the Vedas Upanishads Bhagavad Gita and Bible.

 Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in Spirit and in Truth. (John 4:24)”,

The Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul, the innermost Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. From the Spirit, the universe comes into existence. In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there 

Swami Vivekananda: ~ “If superstition enters, the brain is gone. Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.

Chandogya Upanishad Chapter: ~”ekam evaditiyam- God is only one without a second. (6- Section- 2- Verse- 1)

Swethaswethara Upanishad:~ “Na casya kasuj janita na cadhipah- which means of him of Almighty God, there are no parents they have got no lord. Almighty God has no true father, he has no true mother, he has no true superior. (Chapter-6- Verse -9)

Swethaswethara Upanishad: ~ “Na Tasya Pratima Asti- of that God there is no Pratima, there is no likeness, there is no image, there is no picture, there is no photograph, there is no sculpture, there is no statue. (Chapter -4- Verse- 19)

Swethaswethara Upanishad:~ “No one can see the Almighty God. (Chapter -4, Verse -20)

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

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

There is a clear-cut idea of God in the Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita. And also there is a clear-cut idea of what not to worship as God in place of real God.

The Vedas confirm God is Atman (spirit), the Self.

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. 

Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

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

People, who worship the belief in God, are hallucinating that they become one with such God.

Vedas itself says: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman? Thus, to know the real God Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God-realization. Self-realization itself is real worship.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman 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)

How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshipper and the worshiped, whereas God is non-dual. One can worship his idea of God only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as a part.

When the Upanishads and Vedas declare that, “God is in the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself” then why accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman.

God is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness, and intelligence, which is beyond form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many Gods. (7- Verse -20)

That is why 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.

Vedas and Upanishads confirm the Soul, the  Self, is present in the form of the Spirit or consciousness.

Only through deeper self-search, do beginners and intermediates gradually become aware ‘what is what’. Only after they have realized the fact that the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness, they are ready for the inner journey towards reality, which is beyond the form, time, and space.

Upanishad:~ ‘They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Atman. The ordinary man does not understand his way. (Chapter IV — Alatasanti Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada)

If you are seeking truth you have to realize the ‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Sage  Sankara gave religious, ritual, and dogmatic instruction to the ignorant populace but Advaitic wisdom only to the few who could rise to it. Hence the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus they may assert that ritual is a means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.

All the religious rituals, worship, and prayers based on the mythical Gods will not yield any fruits because God in truth is Atman.  

Religious rituals and ceremonies are a hindrance in the path of wisdom. People blindly follow and indulge in rituals because they think it is

Superstation, dogmas, beliefs, rituals and ceremonies, and astrology belongs to religion, it is nothing to do with spirituality.

Religion and its idea of God and worship and rituals become a prison for the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

If the seeker sticks to religious scriptures, religious gurus, and religious ideas of God and dogmas, he will never be able to achieve ‘Self-realization which is his prime goal.

Instead of performing religious ceremonies and rituals mechanically as age-old traditions and customs, one must know what God is supposed to be in actuality.

No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation, or penance helps to get rid of ignorance. Without getting rid of ignorance Self-realization is an impossibility.  

There is a clear-cut idea of God in the Vedas, Upanishad, and Bhagavad Gita. And also there is a clear-cut idea of what not to worship as God in place of real God.

That is why 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.

Sage  Sankara says:~  ‘The scriptures dealing with rituals, and rewards are therefore addressed to an ignorant person.  

 Sage Sankara:~ (11) As regards the rituals, Sage Sankara says, the person who performs rituals and aspires for rewards will view himself in terms of the caste into which he is born, his age, the stage of his life, his standing in society, etc. In addition, he is required to perform rituals all through his life. However, the 'Self' has none of those attributes or tags. Hence, the person who superimposes all those attributes on the changeless, eternal Self and identifies the Self with the body is confusing one for the other; and is, therefore, an ignorant person. The scriptures dealing with rituals, rewards, etc. are therefore addressed to an ignorant person. Adhyasa Bhashya 

The seeker has to discard religion and its worship of religious Gods and rituals by realizing how they become an obstacle to realizing God in truth.  : ~Santthosh Kumaar

Hinduism which is indulging is human worship is not the ancient Vedic Religion or Sanatana Dharma.+

It is very important for the seeker of truth must know why human worship is an obstacle in the path of wisdom.

Human worship is not a Vedic idea it is adopted from Buddhism and Jainism. Hinduism which is indulging is human worship is not the ancient Vedic Religion or Sanatana Dharma.  Vedas bar human worship because humans are part of the creation. The creation is the dualistic illusion or Maya.

Worshipping anything from the creation (dualistic illusion or Maya) in place of the Atman the God in truth is barred by Vedas.

Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman 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 Vedas talk about Brahman which refers to the ultimate truth or ultimate reality. The consciousness is the ultimate truth, therefore, the consciousness is Brahman and Brahman is God.

Vedas do not permit idol worship. All the idols are of the Puranic Gods Priests are referring to the Puranic Brahma as God they are ignorant of the God in Vedas even though they speak of Vedas.

Priests do not understand the meaning of the Brahman (God in truth), which is present in the form of consciousness. 

The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the innermost Self.   In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman the real exists.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the Self does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)

That is why Sage Sankara: ~ VC- Let erudite scholars quote all the Scripture, let Gods be invoked through sacrifices, let elaborate rituals be performed, let personal Gods be propitiated---yet, without the realization of one‘s identity with the Self, there shall be no liberation for the individual, not even in the lifetimes of a hundred Brahmas put together (verses-6)

 Vedas proclaim those who worship are enveloped are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery those who worship humans and the like in place of God are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly.

Yogis and Gurus are not Gods. 

This idea of worshiping God in human form, Gurus as God is not a Vedic idea but adopted from Jainism and Buddhism. 

Vedas bars human worship: ~

"They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.":~  (Yajur Veda 40:9.)

Then why worship and glorify the Guru s and Yogis (human form)   in place of God when Veda bars such activities and it also warns people who indulge in such activities are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time.

No one has ever seen God by practicing religion or yoga or indulging in glorifying the religious God and Goddesses because God exists prior to the form, time, and space.  Form, time, and space cease to exist as a reality when wisdom dawns. Gods and Gurus have no place in the domain of the Advaitic reality. Advaita is the nature of the Soul, which is the real God. Self-realization is the only way to God-realization.

By worshipping the religious Gods and Gurus one will not get Self-realization or God-realization.

The Soul, the inner Guru reveals ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready.

People of small intelligence follow religion and believe that the world was created by God. But how do they know that He did so? When a pot is created, one can see both pot and its maker, but not in the case of the world.

By believing and worshiping what is not God, one is in the prison of the dualistic illusion.  Truth realization or Self-realization is God-realization. Self-realization itself is real worship. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The Advaitic Wisdom liberates the Soul, th 'Self’ from the cage of the illusory form, time and space.+

The Advaitic Wisdom liberates the Soul, the'Self’ from the cage of the illusory form, time, and space. The form, time, and space are a reality within the dualistic illusion.

The religious Gurus don't appear to be liberated, they look enslaved. They talk about liberation but they don't look free. They seem to be bound with a thousand fetters because they are stuck with the reality of the world in which they exist. They believe in the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. They are unsure of how this world is an illusion.

Jesus has said: ~ “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."(John 8:32)

Jesus meant the truth of oneness which is the Advaitic truth, not the dualistic truth. The Advaitic truth is the truth of the whole, not the part. 

In reality, there is nothing exist other than consciousness. Only in ignorance, there is diversity. All three states are the product of ignorance. In the state of ignorance, one thinks of his body as the body, the ego as the ego, and the world in which he exists as the world.

In ignorance, one has the urge to search for the truth of his true existence.

When the waking entity (you) indulges in deeper  Self-search and becomes aware of the fact that the ‘Self’ is neither the waking entity nor the 'Self’ is the dream entity but the ‘‘Self’’ is formless substance and witness of the three states. That formless substance and witness are one, in essence, and that essence is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. 

Thus, consciousness alone is real and all the three states are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. Therefore, there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.

Thus, waking is created out of consciousness.

The dream is created out of  consciousness

In deep sleep,  consciousness is free of waking or dream

The three states cease to exist without consciousness. When there is no ignorance, then there is neither waking nor dream nor deep sleep, the Advaita is the very nature of  consciousness. 

The waking experience is the state of ignorance because it is the product of ignorance. We are discussing consciousness within the waking experience because we are unaware of the fact that the waking experience itself is an illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

The Spirit is the Soul. The Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. The nature of the Spirit is Advaita.+

Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~    God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions. Thus,   Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.

Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)”, 

The Spirit is the Soul. The Soul is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God.  The nature of the Spirit is Advaita. The Advaita is the nature of the Soul, the 'Self' shines in its own awareness when wisdom dawns. 

The Advaita is the Soul is the cause and the support of all that exists as the world in which we exist. Advaita is the nature of God, the Self. 

The Advaita is present in the form of consciousness. Advaita is the root element of the universe. From the Advaita, the universe comes into existence. In the Advaita, the universe resides. And into the Advaita, the universe is dissolved. The Advaita is the parent of all that is there is.

Without the Spirit the world, in which you exist ceases to exist. The world in which you exist is nothing but the Spirit.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free from all the limitations of human thought.

Sage Sankara:~VC~ if the universe be true, let it then be perceived in the state of deep sleep also. As it is not at all perceived, it must be unreal and false like dreams.  

Sage Sankara says: ~ A.A 88. When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman, and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Atman?

Investigation of the world in which we exist is very much necessary because we are searching for the truth within the objective world.  The objective world is an object to the Soul, which is the formless subject.   Subjective knowledge is very much necessary to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Knowing something is true within the objective world as truth is truth only from the dualistic perspective.

From the non-dualistic perspective, the dualistic defense will not sustain. Thus, there is a need to learn to view the subject as the subject and the object as the object.

In reality, the subject and object are one in essence.  So, there is no object in the realm of the subject. 

There is always evidence of misunderstanding because people are viewing and judging the nonduality from a dualistic perspective.

Everyone innately believes in the reality of practical life within the practical world.

If they take practical life within the practical world as a reality, then they have accepted their experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality.

 If they have accepted their experience of birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, then they have accepted the waking experience as a reality.

 If they have accepted the waking experience as a reality, then they have accepted the form, time, and space as a reality.

If they have accepted form, time, and space as a reality, then they have accepted duality as a reality.

 If they have accepted the duality as a reality, then they have accepted the mind as a reality.

 If they have accepted the mind as a reality they have accepted the ‘I’ as a reality.

 If they have accepted the ‘I’ as reality, then they have accepted the illusion as a reality.

If they accepted the illusion as a reality then they are in the realm of ignorance.  

Until they hold the ‘I’ as the Self they will remain in the prison of the dualistic illusion. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar