Soul-centric Reason is the highest means of attaining Self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

 

The religious seekers think genuine devotion, irrespective of labels and nomenclature, no doubt surcharged with it, but the devotion which is imagined on the false self and devotion to imaginary belief of god within the illusory Waking experience. Thus devotion cannot transport the seeker beyond the illusory state. The truth is within the Waking experience as its invisible substance and it is apart from the Waking experience as its invisible witness. Since it is not an entity or identity within the Waking experience it is apart from it.

In the ancient time, religious or  Yogic  or mystic discipline, which were not an end in itself, considered to be means for self-realization. But such discipline is almost impossible task for the modern man to adopt. Day by day modern man is becoming aware of the fact that, religion and yoga are nothing to do with spirituality because religion is based on the physical self or ego whereas spirituality is based on the soul or spirit.

 The modern mindset is pre-eminently scientific owing to the great progress that science has made. And the best method of freeing the mind from its inaccurate ways of thinking is to imbue it as fully as possible with the scientific spirit. It is therefore only one who possesses a clear knowledge of its methods and results i.e., who is able to make reason the highest means of inquiry that would be fit for self-knowledge or brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana .

Vedanta itself admits its highest Truth that is, Atman or Brahman cannot be reached by any path other than that of reason and unless the reason is sharper than the ‘Edge of a razor'.

Soul-centric Reason is the highest means of attaining Self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  Religion, theology, mystic practice and yoga are not the means to acquire non-dual wisdom.  Absence of reason is absence of wisdom.