The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is not concerned with the universe, which is born millions of years ago. Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara unfolds the mystery of the universe.

People also think that the universe is born millions of years ago and the universe erupted from the big void, from nothingness. But these ideas are mere speculation based on the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking).

From the Advaitic perspective, the universe is merely an illusion. therefore, the idea of millions of years of the universe is bound to be illusory.

The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is not concerned with the universe, which is born millions of years ago. Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara unfolds the mystery of the universe.

The universe is merely an illusion created out of consciousness.

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Scientists need to prove whether the universe can exist without consciousness.

Max Planck: ~ “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve”

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All the 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.

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.

Advaita is the rational truth, scientific truth, the ultimate truth, and universal truth cannot be contradicted. The Advaitic truth was declared by the Sage Scientist Sri, Sankara 1200 years back.

One day the scientist also will confirm and declare that the universe is nothing but consciousness.

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Until scientists realize the universe is an illusion and consciousness is hidden by the illusory universe is real and eternal, the mystery of the universe will never be revealed.

Both modern science and religion offer hypotheses and theories but there is one vital difference--science begins with the facts which it collects; religion begins with fancies.

Science evolves its hypotheses from such facts, religion from fancies.

Science declares that oxygen combines with hydrogen to give water. And it also declares oxygen is protons or electrons. But in pursuit of truth, the whole universe or mind s considered as an illusion, and science and their inventions, which are based on physical existence is limited to physical existence.

The truth is hidden by the universe but it is beyond the universe. The universe is physical existence.

Science demands physical proof. But the physical proof is part of the illusion. Hence science cannot go beyond physicality because the truth cannot be traced with laboratory conditions. Deeper Inquiry, analysis, and reasoning are required if one wants to push its quest deeply enough.

Perfect understanding of 'what is what' helps the Seeker to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Remember:~

Both modern science and religion offer hypotheses and theories but there is one vital difference--science begins with facts which it collects; religion begins with fancies. Science evolves its hypotheses from such facts, religion from fancies.

Science declares that oxygen combines with hydrogen to give water. And it also declares oxygen is protons or electrons. But in pursuit of the truth,  the whole physical existence (universe or mind) is considered as an illusion, and science and their inventions, which are based on physical existence is limited to physical existence. The truth is within but it is beyond the physical existence.  Science demands physical proof.  But the physical proof is part of the illusion. Hence,  science cannot go beyond physicality because the truth cannot be traced with laboratory conditions.  Deeper Inquiry, analysis,  and reasoning are required if one wants to push its quest deeply enough.

The modern man appears to have acquired admirable knowledge in various fields of inventions in the physical world. However, what man has acquired is limited to the physical world not beyond.  The man has to admit the fact that he cannot investigate the truth of his own existence through scientific inventions because it is possible only through a deeper thinking process. Above all, acquired physical-based knowledge and power do not assure man of lasting happiness in the worldly life and peace evades him at every moment.

Sage  Sankara says ~ VC- 56- Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by the realization of one's identity with Brahman (consciousness) is Liberation possible, and by no other means. 

The Mind and thought process are co-related to the Quantum Field, i.e. the operation and distribution of particles at atomic and molecular levels.- all these ideas are true on the physical base. The physical base is the base of the duality. The duality is not a reality from the ultimate standpoint. in reality,  there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness.  Thus, all these theories based on the false self (ego) hold no water from the ultimate standpoint.   

There is a need for facts of physical proof in scientific invention, whereas in pursuit of truth the proof has to be grasped mentally and realized.  Therefore, the truth is realized only by a few who take this mental pursuit.  “Whatever facts revealed, which is uncontradictable has to be accepted as truth.

So long as you are in the realm of duality, you have to explain how or why one thing came from another; and contradictory views are expressed. But when the Advaitin shows there is no second, there is no production, and the contradictions do not arise at all when the ultimate thing is Brahman alone. 

Dualists say matter existed along with God, who took it and made it into the world like the potter with clay. But when you go deep into it, you must ask how do you know that these two things existed together and who created God? Reason gives no ultimate causation; therefore,  we drop God, First Matter, etc.

Determinism in classical physics: We can measure the energy in a cause and in an effect, i.e. that a certain thing produces a particular effect. Newton said that all happenings are completely determined and with certainty. This means that man’s will is not free, that materialism is true. The quantum theory has upset this theory of determinism and says that certainty has vanished, and probability or averages have replaced it. This weakens or demolishes the law of causality. Science can now describe only, not explain. Explanation depends on causality, on the "how." The description merely says what happens during the process.

Nobody knows nor can anybody ever know how a seed becomes a tree. We know only one antecedent fact--the planting of the seed--and one consequent fact--the growing of the tree. Hence,  we know no causes, only antecedents.

Atoms, the electron, the atomic nucleus, earth, planets, stars, galaxy, air, water, and the sun are nothing but consciousness. Without consciousness, they cease to exist. The scientific invention that takes place within the world, in which we exist, is nothing but an illusion created out of consciousness.

Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman, which Sage Sankara declared 1200 years back. 

Dualists saw this difficulty and said, as we can’t know let us use faith from this point onwards. Advaitic Sages has solved the difficulty.

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The universe is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness. The universe hides the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

That is why Sage Sankara Says: ~ VC-63- Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the ‘Self’ how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

Sage Sankara says: ~   A buried treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.” You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth from above it, and then make it your own. In the same way, the pure truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines but never by perverse arguments.

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

When you finally realize the ‘‘Self’ ‘is not you but the ‘‘Self’’ is the Soul then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

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 non-Self.

All is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears, the consciousness still remains without form, time, and space.:~  Santthosh Kumaar