Know and realize God in truth.+

Know and realize God in truth:

Religious Gods are mere beliefs. Belief is not God. The religious God cannot be considered as the center because the invisible Soul, the Self, is the center of all that lives.

Without the invisible Soul, the Self, the world in which you exist ceases to exist; it means the religious God is dependent on the invisible Soul for his existence. God in truth, is only the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Even the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad states ~ Brahman (God in truth) is present in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.

Religious Gods are mere beliefs. The religious God cannot be considered as the center because the invisible Soul, the Self, is the center of all that exists.

Without the invisible Soul, the world in which you exist ceases to exist, which means the religious God is dependent on the invisible Soul for his existence.

Even Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman, the Self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman." (10:48, 5)

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says:~ "He who worships the deities as entities entirely separate from the Self does not know the truth. For the Gods, he is like a pasu (beast)". (1. 4. 10)

Nirguna Brahman has nothing to do with religion because Nirguna Brahman is Atman, the real God is not the God people believe in and worship.

Atman is Brahman (God). The Atman is the Self, and is non-dual because there is no second thing that exists other than the Atman.

Atman is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the only true reality, and everything else, which appears as form, time, and space, is merely an illusion.

Your religion has nothing to do with the invisible Soul, the Self, because the Soul is the universal God.

The God you believe and worship has nothing to do with the Soul, the Self, because the Soul itself is God in truth.

God in truth, is only the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Different Religions call God by different names. In Spirituality, the ultimate truth is called Brahman or God.

The words and their meaning belong to plurality are illusory. The words are necessary to indicate the truth.

The word God is the best word to express because most of the populace is attached to the word God.

Religious people use the word God for their religious belief-based Gods. In Spirituality, we have to use the word God for the ultimate truth.

Words cause the mind to ramble. The seeker should earnestly try to mentally grasp the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space, indicated by the words.

Brahman -The English use of the word real as applied to the material world, whereas we Advaitins use it as applied to unseen Atman or consciousness. Hence, many errors have arisen in translations from Sanskrit.

Brahman ~ “The word Brahman or Sat has no proper equivalent in English. The nearest is the ultimate reality or ultimate truth. The West, however, applies reality to individual objects or the multiplicity of them all, whereas Advaitins apply it to the non-duality. Brahman is called "That" because it is something not known yet by the seeker.

The words are used for communication purposes. From the non-dualistic perspective, the words are meaningless. The words are used within the dualistic to indicate the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

Everything is consciousness, and consciousness is everything. Consciousness encompasses everything.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ ‘Brahmano hi pratisthaham’ ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).

When the Bhagavad Gita itself says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material, then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.

Sage Sankara says: - VC-47- All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

The path of wisdom is not for the religious populace. It is difficult for religious people to accept the truth because they have already accepted something else as truth because of their samskara or conditioning. It is difficult for them to accept anything other than their inherited conditioning.

Even Sage Sankara appears personally and tells them that what they have accepted as truth is not truth; they will never be able to accept anything other than their accepted truth.

Religious people must follow their chosen path, which makes them happy and gives them satisfaction. Without an intense urge to acquire Self-knowledge, it is impossible to tread the path of wisdom.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ Among thousands of men, scarcely one strives for perfection; and of those who strive and succeed, scarcely one knows the Self in truth.

The path of wisdom attracts only those who are in search of truth, and they appreciate it greatly.

The ignorant are not spiritually mature; they receive Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana. The ignorant indulge in argument and provocation and personal attack, which hinders their realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman.

Bhagavad Gita says: ~ “Don't unsettle the minds of the ignorant by revealing the esoteric truth."

Swami Vivekananda:~“Advaita encompasses everything. Since Advaita requires heavy-duty intellectualism, it had to be progressively simplified. (From 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda)

Bhagavad Gita:~ All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many gods. (7- Verse -20)

Humanity has to awaken to the reality of its true existence by realizing the world in which humanity exists is merely an illusion created out of consciousness through Self-knowledge, or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana frees the invisible Soul, the Self, from the cage of the dualistic illusion.

Sage Sankara says: ~ VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense organs, etc., which are unreal.

People dwelling in ignorance, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round by various blind beliefs and tortuous paths and practices, like the blind led by the blind.

Swami Vivekananda said:~ "The Vedas teach that the Soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukthi - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery."

The Advaitic truth is very simple, but it is very difficult to grasp because of ignorance. You have to realize the world in which you exist is created out of a single clay. And 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 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 one 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, and reflect deeply and reach the ultimate end.

It takes time for the seeker to gain the perfect understanding of ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. It takes time for the invisible Soul, the Self, to wake up from the sleep of ignorance, and it takes time for one to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The invisible Soul, the Self, is the only Ancient One. Realize the Self is not you, but the Self is the invisible Soul. God is not based on blind belief that you worship because the invisible Soul itself is God in truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar