Sage Sri Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal.*****

Sage Sri Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without proper inquiry will not lead to the final Goal. (Commentary on Vedanta Sutra) Nothing has to be accepted as truth without verification.

Sage Sri, Sankara is the only Sage who has final authority on the Advaitic truth (nonduality). The Advaitic truth is rational truth and scientific truth without dogma.

Reading and reflecting on my post and blogs helps you to realize what is the truth and what is the untruth. Without knowing what is the truth? -  it is impossible to realize what is the untruth. Reading and reflection on my posts and blogs help the seeker sow the seed of Advaita in his subconscious.

First: reading and hearing the truth--that the Atman is the only reality and that everything else is an illusion.

Second: reasoning upon from all points of view.

Third: giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth.

This realization comes from being certain that Brahman is real and the universe is unreal.

Sage Sri, 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 not-Self.

Sage Sri, Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false leads truth realization.

Atman is Brahman. The Atman is the innermost Self is non-dual because there is no second thing exist other than the Atman. Atman is present in the form of the consciousness. The consciousness is the only true reality, and everything else, which appears as form, time and space are mere an illusion.

Remember:  the ‘Self is not you but the ‘Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness.

You are the birth, entity and you are bound by the life, death and the world whereas the Soul is birthless, deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

The experience of the birth, life, death and the world is nothing to do with the Soul because the experience of the birth, life, death and the world is mere an illusion created out of the Soul, the innermost Self.

Thus, the experience of the birth, life, death and the world is a reality within the dualistic illusion. The illusion has no value from the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost Self. Mentally reduce the dualistic illusion as the Soul or the consciousness and rest in the consciousness.

It is not you who has to get freedom but it is the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ that is seeking freedom from experiencing the birth, life, death and universe as a reality.

Only when the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’-wakes up from the sleep of ignorance the freedom happens. For this, it has to drop the inborn samskara or conditioning, which is present in the form of the ‘I’ by realizing is inborn ignorance.

It is erroneous to think from the base of the body when the ‘Self’ is not the body. The ‘Self’ is not the body; therefore the individual life is nothing to do with the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ because the Soul is birthless and deathless because it is the ever formless, timeless and spaceless existence. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar