Many people quote Advaita without understanding it really in its highest aspect. They declare themselves as Gnanis, but their knowledge really mysticism.*****

Long before Socrates’ injunction: ~  “Know Thy "Self”, Indian sages of truth have been exploring for long the question of the truth of the man and his experience of the universe. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is fundamental since all other knowledge is dependent upon this knowledge. It is important for one to know “what is truth” to realize “what is untruth”.

Many people quote Advaita without understanding it really in its highest aspect. They declare themselves as Gnanis, but their knowledge really mysticism.

Sage Sri, Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, in something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.

Seeker of truth should not believe blindly in traditional orthodox nonduality without verifying all the facts from every angle. One has to reflect through reasoning, over and over again without getting tired of the process.

There is no hope for those who call themselves realists because they are unwilling to make inquiry into what is real. The true seeker of truth analyses and inquires, not relying on first impressions, and hence he is fit for the path of Advaitic wisdom.

They have to know that what they are saying is true. There are so many conflicting teachings by many gurus, one get confused as to which are true.

They will be unable to prove because they do not know the proper test of truth they preach what is written is books with their own interpretation without verifying them.

Why do one start with assuming that anything he knows is true? Many things he regards many things unconsciously as true because he enjoys them or is pleased or satisfied by them. But without verification, nothing has to be accepted as truth. Advaitic wisdom gives uncontradictable truth which is the rational truth, scientific truth, and ultimate truth.

To realize the Advaitic truth is the seeker's aim, which is quite different from the opinions of dualistic egocentric schools. Advaitic truth is Soulcentric truth and uncontradictable truth. All the various views are mere opinions and have nothing to do with the ascertainment of the ultimate truth, which is beyond the experience of the birth, life, death and the world.

In the Advaitic path, the seeker of truth has to analyze the whole world; think consistently on it. He has to exercise his thinking faculty and inquire continually; discrimination is essential; this practice is the only way to grasp the Advaitic truth.

Gnana is that knowledge, knowing which everything else becomes known. Truth can be known by its being impossible of any contradiction and depending entirely on what is not the self. The seeker of truth has to go to the very root of things. He rejects everything which is untrue by Soulcentric reasoning.

Katha Upanishad (1.2.5) says; -"Caught in the grip of ignorance, self-proclaimed experts consider themselves learned authorities. They wander about this world befooled, like the blind leading the blind.

Perfect understanding and assimilation of ‘what is what’ helps you to unfold the mystery of your true existence.

A permanent view of ‘what is unreal’ and ‘what is unreal’ can come only after Soul centric reasoning; such knowledge cannot change. Were the seeker who is sufficiently sharp enough,   he could grasp the unreal nature of the world by Soul-centric reasoning alone.  To know the whole truth, one must know the whole universe, otherwise, he gets only half-truth. 

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the object (world), observed and experienced.  The commoner viewing the world will see differently from a Gnani viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, he sees the world in which he exists as a reality, whereas a Gnani sees everything as the consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing exists other than the Soul or the consciousness (subject). Thus, all the objective observation has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is beyond form, time and space. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar