Sage Sankara:~The Scriptures, consisting of many words, are a dense forest that merely causes the mind to ramble.+

Mundaka Upanishad: ~ “This Atman cannot be attained through study of the Vedas, nor through intelligence nor through much learning. He who chooses Atman—by him alone is Atman attained. It is Ataman that reveals to the seeker its true nature.” ( 3 page 70 Upanhsds by Nikilanada)

It means the truth is beyond scriptures and egocentric intelligence. Thus, to grasp, assimilate, and realize the Advaitic truth, the seeker employs soulcentric reasoning.

That is why Sage Sankara says in the commentary in Vedanta-sutra that what is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something detrimental to our spiritual progress.

Seekers of truth should not believe blindly in traditional orthodox nonduality without verifying all the facts from every angle. One has to reflect on reasoning over and over again without getting tired of the process.

That is why Sage Sankara says:~ VC- 58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar but are no good for Liberation.

59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

60. The Scriptures, consisting of many words, are a dense forest that merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence, men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.

61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae), and medicines to such a one?

62. A disease does not leave off if one simply utters the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct realization one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.

There are nothing more rational, more intelligible, and more un-dogmatic insights of Sage, Sankara, is to drop all the theistic nonduality or Advaita which is meant for those who are incapable and not receptive to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.

If one merely theorizes and tries to understand through his intellect and there contended he cannot become a Gnani but he becomes a scholar or pundit.

Seekers of truth must make what he has understood and assimilate what has to be realized, to get a firm conviction of the non-dualistic truth or ultimate truth or Brahman, then only it is possible for him to transcend all the limitations of the experience of form, time and space.

The existence beyond the limitations of form, time, and space is known as Moksha or Nirvana. Spiritual freedom or Self-realization is the goal of every seeker of truth.

The ‘Self’ –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the goal of the true seeker. Self-knowledge is nondualistic knowledge, and it is the end of all egocentric dualistic knowledge.- Santthosh Kumaar