Bhagavad Gita: ~ Reason as means to reality.+

The man who possesses the highest intellect can grasp Advaita, by merely hearing the truth mentioned and will know it

Bhagavad Gita: ~ Reason as a means to reality. (Chap.18 verse 37)

In chap. 10 of in Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says: ~ I cannot save you, but I can give you Buddhi (reason). ( chap. 10)

In chap. 10 of in Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says: ~ "I have given you the most secret teaching, now reflect over it all" Krishna plainly says reflect, think. (Verse 63 of Chap. 18)

Mundaka Upanishad says: ~ Both states are harmful and take you away from the path of inquiry into truth. (Page 234)

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ It is not the absence of Buddhi (Reason) that can grasp Advaita but the man who possesses the highest intellect. Brains are necessary. Such a man, by merely hearing the truth mentioned will know it. (Page~ 224).

Remember:~

The mystic must become a constant slave to some line of "thought" or rather imagination, and then he will really see visions confirming his imagination.

The mystic who sees God in vision has seen God during the waking state. The waking experience itself is an illusion. Thus, whatever is seen within the illusion is bound to be an illusion. Thus, it is necessary for the mystic to realize his existence is a reality within the illusion.

Vedas say God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God appears to the yogi in meditation or penance is merely a hallucination because whatever is known, seen, believed, and experienced as a person within the waking experience is a falsehood because the waking experience itself is a falsehood.

Sage Goudapada’s rational exposition of Advaita:~ Whatever is seen, whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal.

From the ultimate standpoint, there is no value for such a claim because it is merely a hallucination.

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.

Whatever belief of God one is familiar with through his inherited conditioning or samskara that he will see in his visions. When a man is a false Self within the false experience, then whatever he believes is bound to be a falsehood.

God in truth is the Soul, the Self. The Soul, the Self is present in the form of consciousness. God is not within you, but you and your experience of the world are within your Soul, the God in truth.

Self-realization is God-realization because the Soul, the Self itself is God in truth. When you and your experience of the world disappear, then God alone prevails as a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar