Krishna's words were misunderstood as vanity or self-praise.+

Krishna's words were misunderstood as vanity or self-praise.

Krishna said: "Ahum Brahmasmi." ‘Self’ is Brahman ~ that is, Atman is Brahman.

Krishna's words were misunderstood as vanity or self-praise.

The doubts come; as long as there is ignorance, there will be doubts. You always work that way, going one way and then another because you think the Self is the ‘I’. Until you hold the ‘I’ as the Self, you will never be able to realize the spiritual truth (Spirit), which is beyond form, time, and space.

Beyond the form, time, and space- means - beyond the ignorance.

Beyond ignorance means beyond the dualistic illusion.

Beyond the dualistic illusion means the non-dualistic reality.

The non-dualistic or Advaitic reality is the fullness of consciousness without the division of form, time, and space.

Until you get a firm conviction of ‘what is truth and what is untruth it is very difficult to assimilate Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana or knowledge of the Spirit or the knowledge of God in truth.

For religious people, it is very difficult to accept anything other than their religiously injected truth.

Religious truth is based on blind belief, whereas spiritual truth is based on the Spirit, the real God.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16

There is nothing that exists before consciousness. The ‘I’ ceases to exist without consciousness. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate truth or Brahman.

That is why Bhagavad Gita: ~ The permanent (consciousness) is always there, only the transient ‘I’ comes and goes. (2.18)

The ‘I’ hides the Soul, the Self, or consciousness.

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 says that 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.

Truth realization or God-realization is not for religious people who are stuck with their religion.

Until you have the firm conviction of the truth, you will not be able to realize God, which is hidden by the illusion. You will realize the truth if you are sincere and serious.

The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. The waking experience becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns.

The Advaitic wisdom dawns only when one investigates and realizes “What is mind?” and “What is the substance of the mind?” and what is the source of the mind?

In Atmic reality, the mind, its substance, and its source are one in essence. That essence is consciousness. The knowledge of this essence is Self ~knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana does not consist in the mastery of scriptural knowledge or intellectual speculation or logical conclusions, but in the realization of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The invisble Soul, the Self, is neither the waking entity (ego or you) nor the dream entity. Without this Self-Knowledge, it is futile to try to know the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth.

Human knowledge of an object is clouded by the ignorance that shrouds the invisble Soul, the Self.

Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the unifying force that brings unity in diversity. All egocentric knowledge is reduced to mere conjecture, and, therefore, it is arbitrary.

Self ~ knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is the knowledge of our true existence, which is beyond form, time, and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar