To assimilate the “Self-Knowledge” it takes steady, unceasing zeal. Nobody can teach that that zeal. One has to develop that himself. "One can take a horse to water but he cannot make him drink." Yet when the horse is thirsty, it seeks out water with zeal. So, when one has an immense thirst for knowing the truth, when he will not give undue importance to the experience of duality --then it will starts revealing on it own.-- Nirakara
By focusing attention on the soul/self, one finds the non-dual -awareness. By learning to view and judge the three states on the standpoint of the soul, the innermost self, one finds freedom from experiencing duality as reality. By firm conviction of the truth, one goes beyond the experience of duality. By realizing, the soul as self, one finds the end of the way.
Sage Sri,Sankara said:-
Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please,
observe ceremonies and sing devotional hymns, but the liberation will never
come, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness.
Philosophy does not begin with the ultimate truth. Ultimate truth has to
be proved, not assumed. Hence, so-called philosophers who take Brahman for
granted are not philosophers at all.
Lots of Advaitin scholars will teach that all is yourself, but none of
them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none
can prove it. Rational proof is required, so that one arrive at knowing the
ultimate truth or Brahman i.e. Gnana. Theirs is mere dogma, parrotism,
repetition of what they read in scripture. Authoritarianism merely
assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.
Consciousness is that which knows everything, that which sees.
Consciousness alone remains after one gets rid of all thoughts and ideas by
identification with self. Consciousness is only the seer; it is not Brahman
that is an error. It becomes Brahman only after inquiry and reasoning.
The ‘I ‘or mind or
universe, waking or dream, duality are one and the same thing. Since, ‘I’ is
identified as self all the confusion. And taking ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as
self is the cause of confusion. Taking ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self is blocking the
realization of ultimate truth. The ‘I’ or universe is an object to the
formless subject. Thus it is necessary to include the universe in the inquiry
to realize the unreal nature of the ‘I’ or universe.
When
the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be consciousness, which
is the inner most self and thus the existence of everything else is negated,
where is then any room to say that the body is the self.
Without causing the objective universe to vanish
and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve.
Santana
Dharma meaning that has no beginning or an end, righteousness for ever. Today
going to a temple would make one a follower of Hinduism.
Orthodox
Advaitins must try to get more empathy and realize the fact that, mere Rituals
and expertise in Sanskrit do not leads one to Moksha.
Sage
Sri, Sankara ’says:- "Kuruthe
Ganga sahar gamanam Vratha paripal mathva dhanam. Gyana Vihine..Sarva Mathene.”
Gnana
is common to all religions. There is nothing like One Gnana for a Hindus and another for a Christians yet another for Muslims.
