The Unchanging & the Changing
Vedanta is a finishing school.  The teachings start at the level of the heart chakra and go up.  Vedanta starts with nondual Truth.  It wants you to focus on Truth, not on the changing, or the seemingly true.  It teaches a resist-not-evil type of perspective: water the flowers, not the weeds.

Spiritual life begins with viveka, discrimination between the Unchanging and the changing.  Those who know and attain this are the true aspirants.  Before then, one is a pseudo, or pretend spiritual person.  We see so many of these latter these days, and too few of the former.

For those who think in terms of positive change, I ask you: How are you going to make real changes in an ever-changing world of unreal phenomena?  It would be a far better philosophy to change your mind from the changing to the Unchanging. Then you will have what the seers have named samadhi, satori, nirvana, kaivalya, nirvikalpa, asamprajnata, and on and on.....

Change may bring you excitement, joy; change may bring you happiness; but non-change brings you bliss.  Joy has an opposite; it turns to grief.  Happiness has an opposite; it turns to sorrow.  Bliss has no opposite. Once you have it, you have it for all times.  It is your true Nature – Ananda.

Tracing Origins
It is not enough to focus on klishta vrittis (thoughts that bind) and become healthy and good.  You have to trace the origins of the cosmic principles and processes.

If you do not know the workings of the universe, you cannot get free of it.

Name, form, time, space and causation — these, left unmeditated, create karma for the soul.

If you do not realize the interconnectedness of all things you will remain a bound soul.  If you do realize the interconnectedness of all things, yet do not seek to get free of it, you remain just a knower of the interconnectedness of all things who is still bound.

There is no mysticism in earth, air, fire, etc.  They hold no secret for you here unless you perceive their symbology in different vibrational spheres.  When you come to know that the billions of suns shining eternally in the night sky are only representations of the billions of intelligent particles resting in the vast, inward mental space of your own mind, then you will know the real secret of the macrocosm and the microcosm.

You can worship Brahma the Creator and Vishnu the Preserver but do not forget to worship Siva, the Destroyer, who takes apart all the worlds.  In other words, if you can dissolve objects and worlds in your meditation, then you can dissolve any problems you encounter with those objects in those worlds.

Enlightenment is a matter of digesting particles — an inward ascension through realms of subtler and subtler particles — from atomic particles, to particles of life force, to particles of thought, and particles of intelligence.  The atomic, then, is rather dull.  The Atmic is the "point."

Science, unbeknownst or not, has taken us from the external appearance of the object to the internal nature of the object (i.e. swirling particles).  But what we want from there is to go from the internal object to the true nature of our own consciousness.