Sage Sankara:~ The vital- air-Sheath cannot be the Self because it is the modification of air (Vayu). +

Chandogya Upanishad:~ One who meditates upon and realizes the Self discovers that everything in the cosmos- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantrams and meditation- all come from the Self.

Sage Gaudapada: ~ To establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. He begins by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the right way to discuss or teach. People must first know what they are talking about. (Manduka Karika)

Buddhism and its relationship with Science are like that of water and wine, one cannot say there is no water in wine, but when you drink it, it would not be the water but wine... thus Einstein’s view is water in wine because modern science does not believe in the matter but in this religion, everything is the matter only"

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.

Emptiness is the nature of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Emptiness is the fullness of consciousness without the division of form, time, and space.

We have one key from Sage Sankara to be applied to every statement or assertion or speculation: It is “Is this true?” “Where is the proof?”

Opinions belong to scholasticism, not to Advaitic truth. Advaita has no use for opinions.

Sage Sankara:~ The vital- air-Sheath cannot be the Self because it is the modification of air (Vayu). Like air, it enters the body and goes out of it, never knowing joy and sorrow like others. It is ever dependent on the Self. ~Viveka Chudamani 165-166 pdf

Breath, body, and world are one in essence. That essence is formless consciousness. Consciousness (Soul) is the innermost Self. Breath, body, and the world are part and parcel of the illusion.

By holding the breath (vital force) as Self, one cannot get rid of ignorance. Without getting rid of ignorance, wisdom will not dawn. Wisdom dawns only when one realizes that form, time, and space are one in essence. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar