Pursuit of truth is not pursuit of argument. Until one makes his accepted truth as his
yardstick without verification, he will never will be able to cross the
threshold of duality because his understanding is based on the ego, is not matured enough to
grasp the non- dualistic truth, which is prior to his physical existence or mindwhich is in the form of universe.
The guru is not needed in pursuit of truth because
the truth has to be ascertained by seeker himself. Advaitic or Non-dual Wisdom
will not rise from intellectual spoon feeding but it arises only from deeper
self-search to the sincere and serious seeker who has an intense urge to know
the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Persons who are stuck with branded masters and guru
and takes their guru’s word as final without verifying the validity of their
Guru’s teaching. They are stuck with
their egocentric intellectuality, which is the greatest hindrance in realizing
the ultimate truth. Nothing has to be
accepted truth without verification.
The people who is stuck with path of love and
thinks love is the means and go out dancing and have fun. Love is essential in
practical life within the practical world but practical life within the
practical world itself is an illusion. There is no need to renounce practical
life within the practical world one can love the whole humanity and have fun
and dance like anyone else. But whoever
has inner urge his without disturbing his practical life can continue in his
inner journey. Path of love is path of individuality. The individuality is nothing to do with the
‘Self’, which is not an individual because it is formless and non-dual.
Until one thinks ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self, their
understanding is egocentric. The egocentric understanding is not realization of
ultimate truth or Brahman. They think by
observing silence within the duality they pretend to show they are in Brahmic bliss.
They fail to realize the fact that, truth is not an individual experience but
it is the basis of all that exist in the form of duality.
The truth is
hidden within the duality but it is without the duality. Until one considers
self is an individual he will remain in the realm of intellectuality.
Intellectuality belongs to individuality and individuality is falsehood from
ultimate standpoint. Thus it is no use arguing with such mind set
who are not ready and receptive to grasp and realize non dual truth because they
are stuck with their accepted truth as ultimate truth without verifying the
facts and remain like stagnant water in dirty pond. The guidance comes from any
form when the seeker is ready and receptive to take the mental [inner]
journey. The people who are stuck with
‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self are eaten only the
half cooked food are satisfied with
half-knowledge and they will not be able
to grasp digest the fullness or oneness
of the self or Brahman because their conviction about it is deep rooted . Thus they remain in ignorance thinking they know
everything without fully knowing what is what.
Some think
using the language without the words they will attain the state of oneness by
telling others not use words with words.
The oneness does not arise by observing silence or without using
language without words or trying to be in the thoughtlessness. The deep sleep
is the state of thoughtlessness,
silence, wordlessness, silence but it is not considered as state of oneness
because any one can take a sleeping pill and will be able to get the state of
oneness. Thus trying to imitate the state of oneness in duality by observing
silence, thoughtlessness, wordlessness or by yogic Samadhi or surrendering to
the physical guru the wisdom will not dawn. Without wisdom the ignorance will
not vanish. Thus getting rid of the ignorance through wisdom is the only way to
realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
If one has understood what ‘truth ‘really is “than there is no necessity
to know ‘Who am I? or ‘I am that’. ‘WHO
AM I?’ or ‘I AM THAT’ reveal only half-truth because they are limited to
individuality and reveals only the unreal nature of the ego. Ego is individuality whereas the self is not
an individual because self is formless consciousness. Thus the journey is incomplete. Seeker has to go much deeper know the full
truth about the ‘self ‘which is beyond form, time and space.
The bookish knowledge is not wisdom. The knowledge accumulated from
intellectual spoon feeding from the intellectual wise men is not wisdom. The persons who are propagating only half-truth
as absolute truth are playing with feelings of the seeker with ornamental
words. The people who are stuck with half-truth think
they have already realized and think that they are realized truth and they try
to snub others and expect to follow their own terms without realizing they have
not yet completed the journey.
People talk of the love, and
humanity in Atmic or non-dualistic discussion, which is not the subject matter
of pursuit of truth.
The individual life, love and
humanity are nothing to do with pursuit of truth because self is neither the
waking entity nor the dream entity because it is formless.
If one has understood 'I’ or ‘I AM ‘is not the self and what really is
‘I’ or ‘I AM’, there is no necessity for pursuit of truth. When in deeper self-search one becomes aware
neither the body nor the ‘I’ is self than one has to base the self on whatever
prevails without the body and without the ‘I’. Passing the opinion and judgment even after knowing the self is
not ‘I’, itself is erroneous. Thus
holding the ‘I’ as self and passing judgment and opinion based on the ‘I’ or
‘I AM’ is only a hallucinated judgment based on the false self. This because
they have taken the false self as real self and false experience as real
experience.
There is no doubt many masters have given valuable contribution to
seeking world but none of them take one to the ultimate end . Thus seeker has to verify on his own remove
the entire obstacle, which is blocking his realization on his own. There is no need to criticize any teacher or
Guru and waste time instead seeker has to utilize the same time to acquire self-knowledge through deeper
self-search.
Truth means certainty. If there is any uncertainty it is not truth. It
does not deal with imaginations. People do not have the scientific attitude
because they take things as presented to them. They have rather the emotional
and sentimental attitude. The correct attitude is to verify all the facts, to
see a problem in them, something to investigate and inquire into them.
Truth must be verifiable; unless it is verifiable it is of no value.
Those who lack the capacity to doubt are not fit for pursuit of truth.
Analogical, inductive and deductive reasoning are good only within the
physical existence; none are absolutely and universally infallible because they
are based on the physical self.
The religion is based on the blind belief. But in pursuit of truth the
Doubt is the main ingredient.
Most people have the desire to know the truth but the capacity to
understand and assimilate it is limited. The result is that people resolve the
conflict by jumping to the first and simplest and easiest conclusion as the
correct one, and smugly but unjustifiably thinking “I know”: Thus they commit
the fallacy of primitivity.
The seeker needs proof to accept
anything as truth. Every guru
intellectuals, pundit or yogi statements have to be verified before accepting
them as ultimate truth or Brahman. Their claims have to be verified before
accepting them as truth.
Ultimate truth or Brahman cannot be known by intuition but it can be
grasped from the reason based on the true self. Therefore, there is a need to
know first the self is not physical but the formless consciousness. Then start
reasoning on the base of the formless consciousness, all the clouds and
confusion starts clearing on its own and finally one will have no confusion left to say the
illusion as whole is spirit.
One knows everything within the waking experience is consciousness
because the waking experience itself is mere mirage created out of
consciousness. The physical apparatus is absent in deep sleep, so one
cannot know anything by intuition, because there is no duality in deep sleep.
This proves that the duality is present only in waking or dream. And also
it proves that if there be such a faculty as intuition it must be limited
to the physical self.
In Panchadashi:- Atman
The is the witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and
the world of separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in
a theatre, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with
complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal
their absence.
People speak the supra-mental
consciousness, who or what is there, to discover it because the mind is not
there? It is an absurd statement.
The psychological writings of mystics and the pseudo-scientific
explanations are not inferences from the facts of their mystic experiences but
mere imaginations.
The mystic who says he has cosmic consciousness implies that he has
astral traveled and seen that this consciousness was also there in the
astral world; even if we take his experiences as reality there is no truth in
it because it is also mirage within the mirage. Until the duality persists as reality
the non-dual reality will not be revealed.
Those who object that the means and ends of waking are different from
those of dreams, and therefore they are not on the same level, ignore that you
have time, space and causal relation in both experiences. These three things
make the waking experience real to everyone: and are its chief characteristics;
similarly they give the same sense of reality to dream. They say waking is real
and dream is illusory, but for the one who has learnt to view the worldview on
the base of Ataman, which is in the form of consciousness as self, both are
illusory.
Where is the need of a creator when one’s own dream experience offers
proof that, the true self bring into being a whole waking experience, which
contains world and persons, and if it can create a dream world, why
not also a waking world? Only seeker should not forget that 'Self ' does not
refer to the ego which is itself a produced thing but he must know the true
self is the formless Atman or consciousness.
The Advanced stages of pursuit of truth, resulting from the constant
practice of inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base leads to “awareness
of the true self”. One has to mentally
separate the self from the three states, know the three states to be the consciousness,
because the substance and witness of the three states is the consciousness.
The three states do not exist; that is not its point; what is felt as
real in each states is one and the same thing that is the consciousness, the
true Self.
Consciousness is
the true Self. Consciousness is within this universe but it is not of this
universe. It is in this universe, but not of this universe means it is the
formless substance and witness of the universe, which is in the form of the
mind [I]. The mind [I] appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.
The self who is in the form of consciousness is the formless knower of the mind,
which comes and goes. Consciousness is above; it is transcendental
to all the miseries, which are inevitable in this illusory universe.
Therefore, there is a need to realize the fact that, the mind, which is in the
form of universe is mere mirage created out consciousness. Thus,
the birth, life, death and world are mere mirage on the stand point of the
consciousness, which is the true self. Only on the base of physical self the
universe is reality. Thus the Self is within the universe but it is without
the universe.
Only a Gnani alone can actually create the awareness of the truth. He can enliven and illuminate others to get out of this ignorance by being transcendental to the illusory birth, life, death and the universe. Gnani tries to guide the seekers get rid of the inherited ignorance and, rise above the egocentric concepts, be in this universe, but not of this universe, be in tune with the consciousness, which is his true identity and the ultimate truth.
This material existence is mere mirage. It is like a wax in the candle
it will burn away. All attempts for freedom is possible only when one is
ready to overcome the ignorance. To overcome the ignorance is possible only
when one realizes the birth, life, death and the world are mere illusion created
out of consciousness. The consciousness is ultimate truth. And the one
who knows this truth knows the knower [consciousness] is free from the known
[mind].
Through Self-knowledge, all of one’s egocentric successes and all of his
credible accomplishments within the duality are ultimately evaporated and
consciousness alone will prevail as non-dual existence.
