Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom has nothing to do with Advaitic orthodoxy. The advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is pure spirituality par excellence, wide and deep as the ocean, which contains virtually all the water of the world and in which ignorance ultimately dissolves.
Sage Sankara is a rationalist philosopher. The orthodoxy projected him as a theologian.
Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is not even a philosopher's dish cooked to suit exclusively the palate of one particular religion.
The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is like the air and the water, the common food for the whole humanity.
The Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is the Science of the Spirit. If rightly interpreted, Sage Sankara’s Advaitic wisdom is spiritual food for the whole of humanity. The Advaitic wisdom is the universal wisdom par excellence. Advaitic wisdom is not just a philosophy, but not a science, but the Science of Truth.
Sage Sankara gave religious, ritual, or dogmatic instruction to the mass but pure philosophy 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.
Advaitic Truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to grasp because of ignorance.
You have to only realize the world in which you exist is created out of single clay. That single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Thus, you and your body and the world in which you exist are nothing but consciousness because they are merely an illusion created out of consciousness. A perfect understanding of ‘what is what’ is needed.
A Gnani can point at the sky, but the seeing of the star is the seeker's own work.
It is necessary to reflect on the same truth again and again till it becomes a reality. One needs to constantly reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what. Words are needed until one gets a firm conviction of ‘what is what. People need to read and hear the words of wisdom to think reason, reflect deeply, and reach the ultimate end.
Sage Sankara in Bhaja Govindam says:~ (One without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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