The quest of truth is a mental journey, it goes beyond the physical existence. One will not come to much understanding with the bookish knowledge. One has to do his own homework to assimilate and realize it.
One has to realize the fact that, the soul is the true self , then he will be able to know what untruth is.
The soul has to become the center not the body. The truth is contained in the physical existence, as its formless substance.
The truth is not in theology or religion. Truth does not concern about the conceptual God. The truth is the source of the mind from where it rises and subsides. one who talks on the base of the soul is a Gnani. The ultimate truth is not a theory to be proved, disproved . The ultimate truth is his very essence of the mind or illusion.
To understand a Gnani , seeker has to be ready for the mental journey . Only then, one be able to grasp and realize the truth. The truth cannot be grasped through collecting information from one book to another become informed; the information will not help.
Unless one know, nothing is going to help. So if these blogs create a thirst in one to know, a desire to know, and quench the spiritual thirst.
There is
no need to practice to devotion, karma and raja yoga because they are not the
means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
There is no practice as such but perfect understanding is needed.
Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning revels the fact that, the self is not
physical but the self is formless consciousness. Therefore, all the accumulated
knowledge, experiences and understanding based on physical self or ego or waking
entity are falsehood based on the false self, within the false experience (waking).
Whatever is based on the waking entity is bound to be falsehood because
waking experience itself is false hood. Since many teachers and
teachings are based on the false self (ego or waking entity) and they consider
the false experience (three states) as reality, they are incapable of grasping
the witness, which is within the three states, but it is without the three
states.
As per the scriptures the three "Ashrams" or
stages in life were originally intended for three grades of intelligence thus:-
Religion:
low intellects had to do 'karmas' works, ritual actions, chanting of mantras
and indulging in bajans and prayers etc.
Middle
intellects: Yoga: taking yellow robes,
going to caves, ashrams etc.
High
intellects: Philosophy: who wanted truth are concerned with no external rites
or sanyasa but depend solely on intelligent inquiry for their path.
Gaudapada says that:- The merciful Veda teaches karma and
Upaasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to
those of higher intellect.
This clearly indicates that religion, which is based on individual
conduct, prescribes karma and Upaasana to people of lower and middling
intellect, therefore religion is for the lower intellect. And wisdom is for
those are capable of inquiring into their own existence to know and realize the
ultimate truth, which is Brahman.
As indicated in ISH Upanishads: - By worshiping gods and
goddesses you will go after death to the world of gods and goddesses. But will
that help you? The time you spend there is wasted, because if you were not
there you could have spent that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge,
which is your goal. In the world of gods and goddesses you cannot do that, and
thus you go deeper and deeper into darkness.
It clearly indicates that:-If the human goal is to acquire
Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana then why one has to indulge in rituals and glorifying the
conceptual gods, goddesses and gurus[which is karma] to go in to deeper darkness. Instead spend that time moving forward towards
Self-knowledge, which is one’s prime goal.
