Saturday, August 21, 2010

People who are emotionally and sentimentally involved with religion, god and scriptures and gurus and yoga should avoid indulging in pursuit of truth.


Until and unless the seeker of truth finds the fact that, the religion, scriptures, god/guru glorification or chosen paths are inadequate and useless, in quenching his spiritual thirst, and finds them all as method of dead words, and then only he will be able to grasp and realize the non-dual truth.

Truth pursuit is for those who has intense urge to know the truth of their true existence, and receptive mind, who has the courage to accept only un-contradictable truth, and reject the untruth. People who are emotionally and sentimentally involved with religion, god and scriptures and gurus and yoga should avoid indulging in pursuit of truth.

Religion, scriptural studies, theories, concept of god and yoga are valuable for those who do believe their present physical identity (ego or waking entity) as real, and world as reality. And it helps to manipulate the worldly life.

Since pursuit of truth is a very personal journey, and there is nothing is needed other than verifying “What is mind?” and “What is substance of the mind?” Religion, concept of god, scriptural knowledge becomes big obstacle in realizing the non-dual truth, because they are based on the body( ego or waking entity)as self, whereas the non-dual truth is based on the consciousness as self.


Since everyone is   viewing the worldview on the base of object as subject (body or waking entity) due to ignorance, they have to become aware of the fact  that ,the true subject, is consciousness by rectifying the reasoning base, from form, to formless, mentally in order to acquire the non-dual truth. 

Inquiry and reasoning on the true base revels the fact that,  self is neither waking entity , nor the self  the  dream entity   but the self is the formless soul,which is present in the form of consciousness.  the formless soul is  the formless witness  and the subsstence of the three states. 

 The three mental states of waking, dream and deep sleep are unreal, because they have no permanence. Man and his experience of the world is reality within the waking  or dream. But the point is, the waking is also as unreal as dream. They come and go.  Thus one has to realize the fact that ,there must be a knower  or witness of these three states which appear and disappear in succession.

One has to trace the source of the three states, from where they appear and disappear. The source is the witness and  and also it is the true self. This has to be grasped mentally by constantly reflecting on the source until one gets the firm conviction that, the source itself is the true self. The  the source is formless soul which is present in the form of consciousness.   Once this conviction becomes firm, then the true base is formed mentally. when this conviction becomes firm than   he will be able to view and judge the  three states  on the base of the formless  soul the subject. thus subject is formless and object is form(three states).

 On the base of formless subject (soul or consciousness), the three states becomes an object to the formless subject (consciousness). and one will be to view and judge the  three states  on the base of consciousness and realize the fact that waking  or dream ,which consist of man and world are unreal  on the standpoint of the formless witness. This is first step the seeker has to take. Once the true base formed mentally the truth will start unfolding on its own.

It takes a long time to form the base mentally, but for those who are free from religion; scriptural knowledge and concept of god and yoga can grasp it with lesser time and effort.