To understand and assimilate one needs spiritual language of silence; one must speak from the standpoint of the consciousness and in the language of the soul – which is humility, intense urge of inner growth, listening and without arguing on some theoretical or some authority or some famous men‘s point of view.
Many intellectuals
have a tremendous intellect; most will agree with their theories based on the
ego, which is false self within the false experience. It does mean possesses Self
–Knowledge or non-dualistic Gnana? And knowledge based on the false self within
the false experience is limited to false experience (waking) therefore it is
certainly not self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Gnana is usually
translated as "knowledge" but that is because there is no equivalent
word in English. It is more accurately "content less consciousness"
or “self-awareness”.
Pundits who take
scriptures for granted are not Gnanis. Pundits teach that all is your-self, but
none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and
none can prove it. Rational proof is needed, so that one arrive at knowing
truth i.e. wisdom; punditry is mere dogma, parrotism, repetition of what they
read in scripture. Scriptures are not yardstick and scriptural truth is not
proof. Pundits take scriptures as
authority.
Authoritarianism merely assumes
as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.
Pundits have to
test truth in this world not in the next world.
There is no proof other than blind belief based on the scriptures,
belief is not truth. So, doctrines are
not the means to realize the ultimate truth. There is no need to follow them.
Doubts and
Confusions arise when seeker finds the scriptures and yoga are inadequate or
useless to quench his spiritual thirst.
Disappointments in religion or yoga or even science imply error or
ignorance.
When serious
seeker reaches a stage with all his baggage of accumulate knowledge, then
uncertainty haunts him. Whether he is
right?" Where is the certainty that he is proceeding on right lines?"
Thus doubts arise and the inquiring spirit comes and impels to search elsewhere
for truth where it will not be possible even to have doubt. The test is
therefore in experience. And only in non-duality, where there are no two to
argue about views or to have difference of opinion can such doubtlessness be
possible. Belief depends upon unstable
bases whereas certainty depends on proof.
Most think Consciousness usually implies
something, thoughts or things, but it is the formless non-dual nature of the Atman or the soul.
The consciousness
exists with or without the matter because without the consciousness the matter
ceases to exist because the matter is created out of consciousness. It exists as matter in waking or
dream. And when wisdom dawns it is
consciously aware of its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of matter,
as in deep sleep.
Proof is the main
thing in pursuit of truth, "How can God exists without man’s existence?”
how can the world exist without man’s existence. Thus man has to exist first to
say god and world exists. Thus seeker
has to verify about his own existence to realize the fact that, all the three
states are unreal, on the standpoint of the formless witness, which is the soul,
the innermost self.
