Nisargadatta Maharaj : - If you seek reality you must
set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of
thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being a man or woman, or even human
should be discarded.
A multitude of forms and colours are the occurrence of Illusion.
Illusion breaks, but the soul, the innermost self is unbreakable, always just
as it is.
The entire animate and inanimate creation is all Illusion. The one
Supreme God (soul or consciousness) pervades everything inside and out.
Through deeper inquiry into the nature of the mind one can unfold the
mystery of the mind. When wisdom
dawns, one gets freedom from experiencing the illusory form, time and space as
reality. When one realizes the self is neither the waking entity nor the self
is dream entity but the self is the formless soul or consciousness, which
witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession, one can
attain liberation.
Swami Vivekananda:_ Space, time, causation are all delusions. It is your disease that you
think you are bound and will be free. You are the Unchangeable. Talk not. Sit
down and let all things melt away... they are but dreams. There is no
differentiation, no distinction; it is all superstition. Therefore be silent
and know what you are... You are the essence of Bliss.
The Spiritual Law
belongs to duality. From the ultimate standpoint the duaity is mere an illusion.
Law of
karma holds good only on the base of false physical identity, within the
illusory Waking experience. Waking experience is as real as a dream.
When
the body is not the ‘self’ than the birth, life and death become a mere
illusion. The waking entity is an experience within the waking experience. Thus
the waking entity is not the experiencer of the waking experience.
Therefore it is necessary to know the formless witness of the
waking experience in order to unfold the mystery behind the dual (waking
or dream) and non-dual (deep sleep) experiences. From the ultimate
standpoint the theories and laws hold no water because all the theories and
laws are part and parcel of the duality. The duality is mere an illusion.
Therefore
it is necessary to realize the fact that, the 'self' is neither the
waking entity nor the 'self' is the dream entity but the 'self' is the formless
soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
When the 'self' is not the waking entity then whatever is based on
the waking entity is bound to be falsehood because the waking entity is the
false self within the false experience.
The so
called spiritual laws are mere imagination based on the false self (waking
entity or ego). When the mind itself is a myth, it means the whole Waking
experience is a myth, because without the mind the waking experience is
non-existent. Thus it is necessary to know how the mind is a myth. And on what
base the mind or waking experience is a myth? To unfold the mystery of the
existence.
There is
no body, no ego and no experience of the world in the realm of truth because
the body and the world are one in essence. That essence is consciousness.
The one
who has the firm conviction that, he is an individual separate from the world
and world existed prior to him and he is born in it afterwards is
egocentric. And he is unfit to grasp the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The seeker
has to trace the source of the mind or universe to realize the fact that, mind
and its formless substance and the source are one in essence.
The truth
is hidden within the mind which is in the form of the universe and it requires
deeper self-search mental excavation, the removal of the ignorance, which is
the cause of experiencing the illusion or duality as reality.
Grasping
the transparent Truth of the self, which is hidden by illusion or waking or
universe, is to be attained through soulcentric reasoning, followed by reflection,
meditation and so forth, but not through perverted egocentric arguments
