When one is searching for truth he is not aware of
the fact that, he is searching for the truth within the false experience with his
the false identity. There is no me or
you or us, no seeker, no enlightenment, no disciple and no guru, no teaching, when
one becomes aware of the fact that the true self is not ‘i’ but the
soul or spirit or consciousness . There is no birth, life
and death, no purpose of life, and nothing that has to be achieved when one
realizes and becomes aware of the fact that, his physical identity and its
experience of the world are mere illusion.
All that appeared as three states/illusion is the soul/consciousness. Soul is the source.
All that apparently manifests in the illusion creates ignorance and ignorance
creates separation – man and his the world, his belief of god, the search for truth
is part of the illusion. The ignorance makes one appearing as two. Absent of
ignorance absent of duality. Whatever prevails without duality is non dual
reality.
All past, present and future are reality in
ignorance. Absent of ignorance absent of diversity/illusion. The wisdom brings
unity in diversity. Destiny is part of the illusion, because birth, life and
death itself is illusion.
All the happenings are part of
the illusion. Seeker has to discover the
source. The source is the soul/spirit
which is uncaused, unchanging, formless and non-dual.
Non dual truth is
reasoned proved truth; mysticism relies on personal experience as truth;
scholasticism takes private interpretation as truth. Pursuit of truth aims at the unification of
the whole experience of diversity. Scholasticism is an excellent exercise for
the mind but not as a means to truth.
Pursuit of truth
is the opposite of Yoga, because it is mental exercise his mind and get at
non dual truth by discrimination. People
are interpreting scriptures, faiths etc. by reason, more or less imperfect but emotionally
are attached to the scriptures, and they get upset if anyone say anything about
their scriptures. Such mind-sets are still in primitive stage, it takes a long
time for them to understand the scriptures are not the means for
self-realization.
The fullness of
reason is the only final arbiter one possesses.
"What is truth?" is the question he must put first. Hence
definitions are essential because it carries different meanings to different
minds. The mystic truth is individual
truth not universal. Non dual wisdom is
higher than mysticism.
Scriptures are
the experience only of the few; hence it is only individualized truth. Reason
and universal experience must take precedence over it and over hearsay in the
quest of ultimate truth regarding the three states. No scripture can help in
pursuit of truth. One’s mind will be prejudiced by this man's or that man's
view.
There are
unfortunately so many different kinds of Yoga. But no yogi uses reason based on
the soul. Yoga means killing reason,
thus it is no use in to acquire non dual wisdom. Yoga is good as a preparation
only.
Many People want to take as less trouble as
possible and gain as much as possible. They disdain the hard labour of thinking
needed in pursuit of truth and hope to get truth by doing nothing i.e. merely believing
or refraining from thought in yoga.
Conversion can occur only in the sphere of
religion, never in pursuit of truth. When one knows non dual truth, he becomes
free from sphere of imagination.
If one’s reason
is not sharp enough, then only religion and yoga can satisfy him. The seeker of
truth examines both scientific and religious doctrines and discoveries and to
evaluate them.
"All men are
mortal" because they exist within the illusion [waking/dream]. One sees
all men and the universe within the waking/dream. If there is no waking/dream then there are no
men and the universe. Man exists within the waking /dream and imagines on the
base of physical entity/ego which is limited only to waking experience.
As logic is built upon more imagination, as
assumptions, therefore it is no path to non-dual truth. It is like religion and
mysticism. One postulate certain things and show they agree with others that he
has already taken for granted. This is called the "coherence" theory
of truth. But it is fallible.
When one trying
to get rid of thinking in yoga he cannot get any truth. Thinking is a main tool
in pursuit of truth. When anyone avoids thinking, runs after religion and yoga,
he may be sure that they do not want to be troubled by effort to think.
Science stops in
midway, if went to the very root; it would get non dual Truth. All this science
helps to make the reason clear, sharpens the mind, but it will take centuries
for them to go to the very root.
Theology is based on imagination; scholasticism
upon logic. The non-dual truth can be
got only inquiry analysis and reasoning on the true base and not by millions of
karmas /actions as scriptures declare. Since man, world and universe is part
and parcel of the illusion. Therefore, the karma based on the false self within
the false experience is no use. It is
unfortunate that people agree the body is not the self, but they refuse to
accept the fact that the karma theory is based on false self [I] since they are
still slaves of their conditionings.
In Isa Upanishad says:-
MANTRA 10
Avidya is Karama 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.
Since ignorance
is karma. And karma is possible only in ignorance. Therefore, the three states are reality only
on the base of false self. Thus,
whatever actions and conducts performed on the base of false self, with in the
false experience, is bound to be false-hood. Thus the karma theory based on the
false self has to be false theory. One must deal
only with the facts of experience, not of imagination.
The one which wakes up dreams and sleeps is not the soul/self. The one
which is aware of the waking/dream and deep sleep is the true self, which is in
the form of consciousness. Thus the waking/dream and deep sleep is mere mirage
on the standpoint of the soul, which is aware. The soul/Christ is ever aware and is aware of
the three states [illusion] which comes and goes in succession.
The waking or dreams are unreal on
the base the soul/Christ/Brahman. The reality wills not the reveal until one
becomes aware mentally of the formless witness and substance of the three
states. Therefore, the practices and theories based on the physical self/ego
are not the means to self-knowledge. If the meditater thinks he is the doer of
the meditation and takes the authorship of meditation then it is not
meditation.
The body is not the doer. The body
is mere an experience within the experience. The one which knows itself as body
and perceives the world is not the body, but the soul. Without the soul the
experience of diversity [waking/dream] is non existent. The soul, which is the
true self can exist with or without the experience of diversity [waking/dream],
the illustration is deep sleep. [In deep sleep the soul witnesses its formless non-dual true nature.]
Thus consciously being aware of the self is
soul in the midst of experience of diversity/waking will lead to non-dual/
meditative awareness of the soul in the midst of duality. Thus all meditation practiced on the false
self /ego is preparatory practices to reach the ultimate state, which is frees
one from experiencing the duality [birth, life and death] as reality. The formless substance and witness of the
three states is not physical but the Spirit/Christ/Brahman.
Thus seeker of the truth has to verify the fact that whether his practice
of meditation is based on the physical self/ego or through deeper inquiry,
analysis and reasoning. This is possible
only when one feels, his present practice of meditation is inadequate and
useless. This feeling comes only after
years and years of meditation practice.
