There is no need of scriptures or guru in pursuit of truth. The soul, the innermost self is the real guru. There is no need wasting your money or time to search for the truth. accepting anyone as guru or accepting your self as someone's disciple is the greatest obstacle in pursuit of truth. The non-dual truth will be reveled only when the seeker drops the accumulated dross. Seeker of truth has to have the courage to reject religious ideas ,God and guru glorification and Scriptures to become receptive to non dual truth.
When the ultimate truth is rightly
known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he
gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.
Not by intellectual speculation but only by an awakening to the
reality of his true existence he gets soul-centric vision. Soul, the innermost
self’s nature is like state of deep sleep.
Religion, yoga and intellectualism
are not the means to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Without getting rid of the ignorance and
trying to get self-awareness through religion and yoga is like a sleeping man
trying to know what he is about, without waking up. As sleep is to waking, so
is ordinary life to the state of realization.
The one who identifies
himself as swami, guru or yogi is not a Gnani. A Gnani never identifies himself
as swami, guru, pundit or yogi. Swami, guru, pundit or yogi belongs to
religious and yogic path not to path of truth or wisdom.
Swami
Vivekananda said: - “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you,
none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
Sri, Sankara's commentary:-
Page
489: "The knower of Brahman (self-realized or Gnani) wears no signs. Page 500 asks in effect "Tell us what
you know, show it, and let us examine it under the mental microscope." It
means we must bring notions and beliefs out of vagueness into clearness. It
also criticizes the mystics who claim superior knowledge but who cannot
communicate it for purposes of verification.
On
page 482: On Gnani: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs. Gives up the
insignia of a monk's life,…his signs are not manifest, nor his behavior."
Truth has to be proved right here(in this very life) and right now(not in the next life or in the next world). Seeker of truth should not accept anything blindly without verifying through deeper inquiry. Mental chewing is necessary by sound reasoning on the on the base of the soul,which is the true self. It takes time to learn to view and judge the worldview on the base of the soul as self. If one is serious in his pursuit it matters very little. seeker should not accept what I say as truth, without verifying through deeper inquiry and reasoning. Think deeply and reflect constantly , then only the inner revelation will start, and you will start getting answers from within and you will be able to move ahead in your inner journey.
