People who are caught up with idea of reincarnation and rebirth theories are not qualified for Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because they accepted duality as reality

People who  believes  in reincarnation and rebirth theories  are unaware of the fact that , their belief is based on   waking entity,which is the false self within the false experience. The waking entity itself is false self within the false experience,  it means the present experience of birth,life,death and the world is falsehood.  Thus whatever is seen,known, believed and experienced as waking entity is bound to be falsehood because the soul or consciousness the innermost self is birthless because it is formless. Therefore the rebirth and reincarnation theory based on the false self is bound to be falsehood. 

Accepting  in rebirth and reincarnation theory as reality  is accepting false self(waking entity or ego)  as real self and false experience(waking) as reality. Self-realization is impossibility  if one accepts the present waking entity as real self because the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity but the self is formless soul ,which  witnesses  the coming and going  of the  three states without the physical apparatus. 

 The three states are impermanent but the soul or consciousness ,which is the witness of the three states  is permanent and eternal.  in reality the three states are one in essence. and that essence is consciousness. therefore there is no second thing exists other than consciousness.  Thus consciousness(Soul)  is second to none. 

Deeper self -search reveals the fact that , the waking experience itself is illusion. It means the present experience of birth,life,death and the world are illusion. Thus the reincarnation theory based on the false self within the false experience is  bound to be falsehood. when the waking entity is not the self than whatever theories  is based on the waking entity imagined theory. 

 This imagined theory based on the waking entity or ego  is  for those lower mind set who are incapable of  grasping the ultimate truth or Brahman.

People who are caught up with idea of reincarnation and rebirth theories are not qualified  for Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because they accepted duality as reality . Birth implies duality and  duality is falsehood from the ultimate standpoint.

Ish Upanishad declares: - Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide

10/11/12

Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds after death.

This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain Self-knowledge. They are, in a real sense, committing suicide, for what can be worse than being a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life, which is to be your own master? In order to be your own master you have to realize that you are identical with Atman, the true Self, that you are Pure Consciousness, ever free, without name and form, and unconditioned.

You are not subject to any modification, without beginning and end, beyond thought and speech. You are Existence Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, Bliss Absolute. When you know this you are free. You no longer swing between birth and death. If you do not try to know who you really are, you are indeed committing suicide. You are inviting the ignominy of a slave's life in this world and a similarly unfortunate fate after death. The Self, is one without a second, complete in itself.

 It never moves. It is always still, always the same, yet it moves faster than the mind. It is the power that moves everything, and it makes the whole world go the way it does. It gives those who mechanically perform sacrifices [avidya] go into darkness that is like being blind. But those who merely worship gods and goddesses [vidya] go into a deeper darkness. [IX]

"Blinding darkness' here implies ignorance. And those who worship gods and goddesses go into a deeper darkness because they seek rewards for their worship. As long as there is the sense of "I' and "mine' within us, there can be no Self-knowledge. When you say "me' and "mine' you automatically identify yourself with your body-mind complex. This shows that you are ignorant of your real Self, which is Pure Consciousness and which is also the Self of all.  The sign of an ignorant person is in the way he uses the words "I' and "mine'. He says: "I am so and so. I own this much property,' and so on.

An ignorant person has many desires in his mind, and because of these desires he is born again and again. He has to have a body; otherwise he cannot satisfy his desires. But the more he tries to satisfy them, the more they grip his mind. This goes on endlessly. But it is given to a human being to think, reason, and discriminate. Thus he soon comes to realize that the path he has been following cannot give him peace of mind. He understands that he has to choose another path the path of renunciation. As long as he does not practice renunciation, he gropes in the dark like a blind man and he suffers.

There are two types of such people who grope in the dark. One type worships avidya (ignorance) that is, they mechanically perform the prescribed sacrifices without any thought as to why they are doing them. No wonder they grope in the dark. They are doomed unless someday the truth dawns on them that to save themselves they must seek Self-knowledge.

Worse, however, is the situation of the other type those who worship vidya. The word vidya ¸ usually means "knowledge', but here it is used to mean "gods and goddesses'. Some people worship gods and goddesses so that they may someday attain the same status. They may get their desire fulfilled, but this will only delay their liberation. That is why the Upanisad says that they will be in deeper darkness.

Scholars say that the path of avidya [performing aganihotra and other sacrifices] and the path of vidya [worshipping gods and goddesses] produce different results. Wise men confirm this. [X]

Vidya and avidya both are hindrances to Self-knowledge, but vidya is even worse than avidya. The word vidya is used here in a special sense; here it means worshipping gods and goddesses. By worshipping gods and goddesses you will go after death to the world of gods and goddesses. But will that help you? The time you spend there is wasted, because if you were not there you could have spent that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is your goal. In the world of gods and goddesses you cannot do that, and thus you go deeper and deeper into darkness.

Avidya is karma and therefore a hindrance. You perform avidya - i.e., you perform Agnihotra and other sacrifices. This is a roundabout way of purifying the mind, and it is also groping in the dark. But it may not have as heavy a toll on your time and energy as the other.

A Gnani is free from experiencing the illusion [body + universe] as reality, he is fully aware of the fact that, his body and his experience of the world as consciousness, which is ultimate truth.  

People who are incapable to inquire and reason are tending to follow some philosophy without verification. Therefore the more ignorant they are the easier to get them into a religious fold. Religion is so strong and popular because it makes no demand on the intelligent; it simply requires belief in guru and his teachings. 

It never strikes believer to doubt whether his inherited belief system is true. They never use their reason because they start and conclude that their belief system   alone is true, because they never question the validity of their inherited belief.  

Gaudapada says: - the merciful Veda teaches karma and upasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

So they clearly indicate rituals and theories are not meant for those who are searching for the higher knowledge or wisdom.   The path of wisdom is the only means.  

All the orthodox Advaitins indulge and immersed themselves in ritualistic oriented life style and follow the path of karma and upasana which is meant for lower and middling intellect   and not for realizing the Advaitic truth.  Many chose these orthodox scholars as their gurus. But these gurus are good to learn the conceptual Advaita meant for those orthodox who believe their conduct oriented life style leads to Moksha [liberation].  But religious based Advaita is not   the means to acquire self –knowledge or non-dual wisdom.  Those who are seeking truth have to do their own homework in order to acquire Self-Knowledge.

Orthodoxy believes in  experience of  birth, life death and the world as reality.  That means they accept the false self as real self and false experience as reality whereas   Orthodox Advaita  (monosim)  that is inevitable ; the people of thoughtful temperament cannot find peace and quietude until they do so. Moksha(liberation ) is in the realization of oneness with God. they speak of God Goddesses , devotion and devotee, only in an in accurate way only from the standpoint of  dualistic standpoint .  after realization oneness with God , there is no distinction between god  and devote and the word "devotion"  has no meaning. 

  So they do not accept the idea of no incarnation and accept the reincarnation theory.  orthodoxy  propagates on both incarnation and no incarnation theories. Deeper inquiry revels the fact that, waking entity  is not  the Self.   Therefore, all the accumulated knowledge based on the ‘waking entity ’, which is the false self, within the false  is bound to be falsehood.  

The orthodoxy is greatest hindrance in pursuit of truth because it makes the inborn samskara or conditioning more and stronger. Until this conditioning prevails it is impossible to grasp, assimilate and realize the non-dual truth. The orthodoxy is egocentric and egocentricity is greatest obstacle in path of truth.    The orthodoxy is indulging non-Vedic rituals because of add-ons and adulteration and such rituals leads one nowhere and it is waste of time and effort.   Thus orthodoxy is not for those who are seeking truth nothing but truth.  Mixing orthodoxy and preaching non-duality is foolish venture.

There is no need to indulge in blame game and hold one philosopher is right and another is wrong.  One has to indulge in deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning and find for himself what is right and what is wrong or what truth is and what is untruth. 

There is no life after death on the standpoint of the soul as self. As man and world are part and parcel of the illusion, it is erroneous to base the truth on the false physical entity, which is the part of the illusion. There is no end the argument based on the false self [‘I’]. No one reaches the realization of the truth when one bases himself on the false self and try to realize the truth. 

No scriptures or holy books are needed in pursuit of truth other then knowing “What is “Mind?” and “What is no Mind? 

He who has realized the ultimate truth or Brahman transcends the duality or mind where he sees no second thing other than consciousness.   Yogi who sees the universe as reality may try to deny it because he thinks thoughtlessness is Brahman.  The yogi sees the universe as a second thing and he wants to banish the universe in Samadhi, because he does not know that in non-duality there is no need to deny the universe. But he has to realize the fact that, universe is not something different from the self, which consciousness. Those who cannot grasp and realize this position, misunderstand it, and wrongly hold it be yogic Samadhi where there is only blankness.  

The presence of the universe is no obstacle to Gnani‘s realization; he does not need yogic Samadhi.  But yogi has imagined Brahman as blankness or thoughtlessness thus he is still in the grip of duality.  Thus Yogis Brahman is but a thought.  Brahman is not a thought but Brahman is prior to any mind or universe.  Thus one has to know what is prior to waking experience.