Yoga Vasistha: ~ "Teachers, interpretations of sacred texts, the force of religious merit--none of these leads to the realization of that ultimate truth.+

Yoga Vasistha: ~ "Teachers, interpretations of sacred texts, the force of religious merit--none of these leads to the realization of that ultimate truth which is revealed in the clear reflection of the Atman, engendered from contact with the good."

Anybody can write a commentary on the Upanishads and other great philosophic texts, all they need to do to pour out words. Some Westerners along with some orthodox pundits translated and published books.

The influence of Sage Sankara’s wisdom has nothing to do with orthodox belief systems.

Some philosophers in the past dissented from this interpretation of Vedanta philosophy, holding that the incarnated Souls were separate from the Divine Essence and only finally merged with it after the cycles of birth.

All these theoretical philosophies are based on the imagination based on the false Self (ego or you) within the false experience (waking).

It is quite easy to do this even by those who have never understood the Upanishads but think they have.

The dualists and their disciples have written commentaries on scriptures: But all these have been written to satisfy themselves, not to get the truth because all their introspection is based on a dualistic perspective. The truth will be revealed only when one can reason from a nondualistic perspective.

Likewise, thinkers and poets of the Age of Devotion (Bhakti) of the 16th century believed in a God with attributes that became very tangible when incarnated as Avatar and were attainable simply through love and devotion rather than scholastic and intellectual meditation.

For them, the Bhagavad Gita became the main vehicle of inspiration with its qualified and deistic Monism, rather than the scholastic and esoteric path shown by Sage Sankara.

You and your experience of the world are within the dualistic illusion. Thus, what is the use of saying wake up when the ‘Self’ is not ‘You’? The world in which you exist is the product of ignorance.

Without getting rid of the ignorance, the Advaitic wisdom will not dawn. Without the Advaitic wisdom, the world in which you exist prevails as a reality.

Just by saying go back to your essence being now, the freedom will not come. Realize that the ‘Self’ is not you. The ‘Self is not within the domain of the form, time, and space.

Till you hold the ‘Self’ as you, you will never be able to understand, assimilate, and realize the truth beyond form, time, and space.

Self-knowledge of Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is not the imagination of ornamental words.

Self-knowledge of Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana leads to Self-awareness. In Self-awareness, the Soul, the Self remains in its own awareness in the midst of form, time, and space.

The ‘Self’ is not hidden within the human form because the Self pervades everything and everywhere in all three states. The one who propagates the ‘Self’ within the human form is a religious Guru or a yogi, not a Gnani.

A Gnani has realized the world in which he exists is nothing but consciousness and there is no second thing that exists other than consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar