Going beyond Vedas means going beyond religion. Going beyond religion means, going beyond the belief of God. Going beyond the Vedas, religion and belief of God mean going beyond illusion. That is the end of the Vedas (Veda –ante). That is why Buddha rejected Vedas, religion, and belief in religious God and got enlightenment.
When one goes into the annals of the history it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sage Sri Sankara and Sage Sri, Goudpada was hidden from the ignorant populace. The Advaitic orthodoxy is not Sage Sri, Sankara's wisdom. Advaitic orthodoxy meant for the ignorant populace.
The Advaitic Orthodoxy talks of Advaita but their practice is dualistic. The orthodoxy is nothing to do with Sage Sri, Sankara's Advaitic wisdom. Advaitic orthodoxy is based on the experience of the birth entity whereas the Advaitic wisdom is based on the Soul, the Self which is ever birthless and deathless and wordless.
Advaitic Orthodoxy holds the individual experience of birth, life, death and the world as a reality whereas the Sage Sankara says the world in which the individual exists is an illusion.
Sage Sri, Sankara’s wisdom is not teaching or philosophy but Advaita is the universal wisdom. Advaitic wisdom is neither a teaching nor a theory but it is mere guidance to those who are seriously seeking the ultimate truth or Brahman. Grasp the ultimate truth anytime, any age, if seeker has the spiritual maturity and capacity to grasp to grasp it.
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.
It really depends on his inborn natural capacity to understand and assimilate it.
Sage Sri, Sankara’s wisdom is a Self-examiner, to test oneself to discover how near to Gnana he has approached and what progress has already been made on the path and what still remains to be done. It sets up criterion for Self-judgement. There are millions in search of truth but one in million will be able to grasp it.
Without Sage, Sri, Sankara there is no Advaita (nonduality). Since it was mixed up with orthodoxy there is a lot of confusion.
I am highlighting all the obstacles, which is blocking one from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman. There are so many non-dualistic masters of the east and also from the west who expound Advaitic or non-dualistic knowledge but none of them are helpful to reach the ultimate end.
One has to one has to know and realize his innermost Self is Soul and identify it as his true identity to find liberation from the bondage of the illusion of birth, life, death and the world(duality). The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with our Soul, which is our innermost Self.
If you are serious and sincerely seeking truth then that very seriousness sincerity will help you to realize what is truth and what is the untruth. Self-discovery leads to self-awareness.
Upanishads:~ Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking they wise and erudite, go around and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. (Upanishads Nikilanada - Ch II-5 P-14)
The Scriptures mastery, the force of religious merit--none of these leads to the realization of that Ultimate Truth or Brahman. The ultimate truth is revealed in the clear understanding and realization of ‘what is truth and ‘what is untruth'. When one realizes the untruth (universe) is created out of single stuff, the ‘Self’-awareness rises in the midst of duality exposing the unreal nature of the form, time, and space.
People think by studying Vedanta thoroughly, they are under the delusion and conclude that they have become Gnanis. By Becoming adept in Advaita Vedanta does not mean that one has become Gnani. One gains thereby a mere intellectual understanding of the truth. The truth is e beyond the intellect.
Sage Sri, Sankara said:~ ‘Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way.(1) Vivekachoodamani v 56, pg 25
Fortunate seekers are the one who does not lose themselves in the labyrinths of philosophy. conceptual divisions invented by the Advaitic Gurus of the east and the west by their excessive analysis. there is no end for concepts, they create more confusion. the serious seeker is the one does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy but searches the 'Self' independently and realizes it.
Among thousands of people, scarcely one strives for perfection; and of those who strive and succeed, scarcely one knows the ‘Self’ in truth. The truth is beyond the form, time and space.
Come ye slow, or come ye fast; it is but the Soul that reveals itself at last.: ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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