Sage Sri, Sankara says you must first know what is before you. If you cannot know that, what else can you know or understand? *****

Sage Sri, 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.

Upanishads:-  Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking they wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Upanishads Nikilanada - Ch II-5 P-14)

No one can teach anybody. The wisdom is hidden within the world in which you exist.  A Gnani can only show the way that much is the work of a Gnani. A Gnani   only guides the seekers to apply their own reason and realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time and space. When the seeker learns to view and judge and reason the three states on the base of the Soul, the truth will start unfolding on its own.     First the seeker may find it difficult to use Soulcentric reason, but gradually it will become easy.

Holding some Guru or some teaching as a yardstick leads to all types of doubts and confusion and unnecessary argument. An argument fuels the ego. The argument is possible only when one trying to grasp the Non-dualistic truth on the dualistic perspective. One has to unlearn what he has learned. Without mentally burning the accumulated knowledge accumulated from different sources it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

The Seeker of truth should not become attached to words as being in perfect conformity with meaning because Truth is not in the letters. When a man with his finger-tip points to something, the finger-tip may be mistaken for the thing pointed at; in like manner the ignorant, are unable even to the day of their death to abandon the idea that in the finger-tip of words there is the meaning itself. They cannot realize Ultimate Reality because of their intent clinging to words which were intended to be no more than a pointing finger.

The Words and their discrimination bind one to the duality; meaning stands alone and is a guide to non-dual awareness. Meaning is attained by much learning, and much learning is attained by becoming conversant with meaning and not with words; therefore, seekers of truth have to avoid the sticklers for particular words

 The inner Self revels ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready. 

Sages of truth restrained themselves parting the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana to the mass and only a selected few. It was hidden from the people who were not qualified and receptive to it. Self- it was given knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana was not written down but was imparted orally to the chosen few. Thus, religion was given to the ignorant populace and knowledge of the Spirit is given only selected few. Thus, we find traces of knowledge of the Spirit in the religious books in the form of parables.

Katha Upanishad says: ~ This Atman is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one Atman reveals Its own form. (II -23-P-20)

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The inner Self revels ‘what is real’ and ‘what is unreal” when the seeker is receptive and ready. 

There is no such thing as ignorance beyond the ‘I’. Beyond the ‘I’ is the Soul, which is the reality. The Soul is the fullness of the consciousness without the division of the form, time and space. The Soul is the   formless, timeless and spaceless existence.

The ‘I’ itself is ignorance, the cause of the bondage of illusory form, time and space. When ignorance is eliminated, the unreal nature of the form, time and space is exposed. . Only the ignorance is   the form, time and space prevails as reality. ~ Santthosh Kumaar