Many people think and discuss of the authors of the books or gurus. As seekers of truth one has to know where the author or guru has got stuck in assimilating the self-knowledge for once own research. There is no need to criticize authors and gurus. A realized mind becomes aware how far they have reached in their understanding and realization of the non-dual truth.
The value of Self –Knowledge is not to be found in books. Those are just the external appearances of self; they're not the realization of “Self” as proof. If one realizes the “Self” then he realizes the formless substance of the mind, and he sees the truth in it. When the truth becomes apparent then it cuts off the stream of delusion. Their writings are pointers to truth, not truth-in-itself. That's why merely believing in their books is pointless.
People judge others by their own limited understanding. Their understanding is limited to physicality /intellectuality.
When one go deeper and deeper reasoning to all the Advitic writing, it reveals the fact that, their understanding is based on intellectuality, and it never takes one to finality. But the seeker of truth is on his own and he has to realize the fact that, someone’s cooked food may be tasty but when he learns to cook on his own he will be able to grasp the truth on his own.
Intellectual judgments will always haunts with doubts and debate fastened to their tails, if not denials. Direct spiritual perception alone free and lone conveys complete certitude. The reason based on the soul as self, frees one from physical based logic and theories.
Until one knows the truth one goes on inquiring and reasoning. One, who thinks the physical self as true self and the experience of the world as reality, will not indulge in pursuit of truth. He accepts the duality as reality and experiences the birth, life and death as reality. When the birth entity is accepted as self then whatever is seen, known, believed and experienced on the base of birth entity accepted as reality. On the base of birth entity the body, world and belief of god seems to be real.
The realization of truth is not intellectual understanding but Self- Realization is about realizing the fact that, the physical self is not the self, but the self is the formless soul/spirit. Intellectual and logical / analytical perspective is based on the false self, will not help the seeker to reach his non-dual destination. The truth is beyond intellectual understanding and only the serious seekers who are free from preconceived accumulated ideas can get there.
The seeker of truth moves a head by verifying the facts and by removing all the obstacles and reaches his non-dual destination.
As the conviction of formless witness of the three states grows stronger and firmer, the moment of sense of ‘I’ becomes weaker and finally it totally disappears. When there is no sense of ‘I’ in the midst of experience of duality, one will realize the fact that the seer [formless witness] and the seen [three states] are one in essence. Hence there is no second thing other then the formless witness, which is in the form of spirit. Thus, one has to drop all the accumulation and meanings of the things within the duality, which loses all its meaning in the realm of "non-dual self".
Santthosh
