Adyatma means the study of Atman or spirit or
consciousness. Atman means the Soul, which is in the form of consciousness within
constitutes the most basic and fundamental study of what constitutes the real
self of every Human experience.
Ego
is the physical self. The soul is the eternal self. The best scientists and
thinkers have failed to understand this cosmic phenomenon since they see all
from the eyes of their bloated ego. Result ... they all see one aspect of the
issue never arriving at the right conclusion. One has to penetrate the
veil of duality and farther into the domain of reality.
For a Gnani the truth is totally opposite of the duality. He knows the fact that the soul is the true self and the three states are mere myth on the standpoint of the soul, which is the true self.
That
alone is called ultimate truth, which is a fact that can never be changed under
any circumstances. One must make an effort to know the ultimate truth or
Brahman. The soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is there
always. Consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three
states. Consciousness is the permanent thing and all else is a mere illusion.
There
is nothing new to be acquired; only they have to be sharp enough to grasp and
understand and assimilate it, when told about it. But there is a difference
between understanding and realization. Effort is required for this
understanding only, whereas once understood no special effort is needed to
remember his understanding: until then he only has an idea of the soul, he only
partially understands it. But once he thoroughly grasps what it is and that all
these things are soul, he will then constantly find it present everywhere
without further effort, because he will perceive the ultimate truth by
understanding, even in the midst of worldly existence.
When
there is only one thing that is soul, then there is nothing to
change, nothing to appear or disappear; when one speaks of remembering or
forgetting soul that implies he believe in the existence of something else,
i.e. a second thing, which is to be remembered. That would show he doesn't know
that all is one. But knowing it, there is no second, consequently no
intermittent perception of the soul, but a permanent effortless understanding
and assimilation that it alone is.
When
one gets a glimpse of truth he has to try to repeat it a number of times in
order to establish it. The soul, the innermost self must raise itself by
the soul, the innermost self.
The
difference between a physical truth and a spiritual truth, the former can
evolve or change; the latter is ultimate and final.
The seeker has to verify and accept the truth and
reject the untruth. When Buddha verified Vedic religion, god and
scriptures and found them they are not the means to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana and rejected them. Then he was on
his own and found the truth through deeper reasoning and got enlightenment.
Without being judgmental about your views, I am expressing my views derived
from deeper self-search.
It is impossible to prove the existence of God by any
reasoning: one can only believe or assume. Religious believers see visions of
gods and goddesses and adepts according to their own impressions remaining
unconsciously in the mind from the inherited conditioning. This entire concept
based confusion and doubts are present only till the ignorance is there. Once
one discovers the fact that, the self is not physical but it is the soul, the
innermost self then there is no scope for duality, which he experienced as
reality.
"It
is this Supreme Oneness which alone is real, since there is nothing else but
the Self. Verily, there remains no other independent entity in the state of
realization of the highest Truth."
First seeker must inquire into the nature of the physical
body i.e. matter. Second he must inquire into the nature of the mind.
Observe at everything
in nature because in everything there is consciousness. One should not avoid
them, do not shut himself to Nature; and he should not shut himself away from
the world which is as much consciousness, as anything else because the
consciousness is the cause of the three
states and it itself is uncaused.
To say this world is
illusion without first examining them and inquiring into them thoroughly is to
delude himself. The world is reality within the waking experience. Same way as
the dream world was reality within the dream.
The person, who stamped their foot on the ground to refute
to show the world, is real, ignore that in dream he would do exactly the
same--stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real.
