The consciousness is the subject the three states are an object to the formless subject. It is neither to be renounced nor to be accepted or destroyed. The seeker has to realize, the soul [consciousness] and the mind [universe] are one is their essence. Same way as the ocean and wave are one their substance,which is water. This can be grasped only when one rectifies his reasoning base from form to formless.
An intense desire for truth -realization is itself the way to it. The Lord is the Self in Advaita. Therefore, one need not accept anything other than the self, which is consciousness. Thus consciousness alone is ultimate truth or Brahman that is free from falsehood.
Advita[non-duality] and dwith[duality] is state of the self. It is not some intellectual theory. Religious based Advitins believe the Ataman [soul] is Brahman; and the world is illusion, but their practice is based on creation,which is mere illusion. Thus there is no difference between Advaitins also indulge in glorifying gurus and gods like Dwaitins, which is non-Vedic according to Yajur Veda. From such dualistic conditioning and mind set, it is impossible to assimilate the pure essence of Advaitic or non-dual truth.
Dwitins believes the body as self, and they believe world as reality, and they believe in the theories such as rebirth, karma, creator and creation, heaven, hell and sin. In India Adivita and Dwaith is mere a religious tradition, which they inherited from their ancestors. No one questions their validity, because it is considered blasphemy to question any guru and god-men or pundits.
Dwitins believes the body as self, and they believe world as reality, and they believe in the theories such as rebirth, karma, creator and creation, heaven, hell and sin. In India Adivita and Dwaith is mere a religious tradition, which they inherited from their ancestors. No one questions their validity, because it is considered blasphemy to question any guru and god-men or pundits.
People who are attached to their religious code of conduct and trying to preach Advita , that is mixing the individual life, and concept of god, and all mixed up hotchpotch religious doctrine and feed the seeking minds, are themselves not aware of the fact that, the individuality,
and the worldly life is part of the illusion. and all these inherited hotchpotch is passed on one generation to the next by imposing their inherited idea without verification. this makes them sheepish mentality and they remain stagnant water.
Buddha must have verified religion, Vedas and concept of god and found them inadequate and useless in pursuit of truth and rejected them and he got enlightened without the aid of religion, Vedas and concept of god.
Buddha must have verified religion, Vedas and concept of god and found them inadequate and useless in pursuit of truth and rejected them and he got enlightened without the aid of religion, Vedas and concept of god.
After studying and going through all the rigorous training from the religious scholars in Theosophical Society, J.K was confused about all these, and when he started verifying with deeper introspection, he found everything was priest-crafted hotchpotch ideologies. Thus, he refused to become the world guru, rejected it, and walked out and condemned the priest craft. There is no need to condemn priest craft because it is meant for those who are not seeking truth and who treat their inherited conditioning [samsakaras] as sacred.
In religious Advith they accept karma theory. If they accept the karma theory, one will not be able to reach the nondual destination. If one accepts karma theory then it is impossible to treat the world as illusion. All the pundits’ explanation of karma theory carries no weight on realm of truth because if karma is accepted they are accepting the false self [ego or body] as true self and false experience [universe or waking] as reality.
The birth, life and death are part of the waking experience, which is mere illusion on the standpoint of the true self. It is no use of saying that, we are not born, we do not die because, because we all were born and we all are going to die. However, the birth, life and death are part of the illusion, which comes and goes as waking experience. The formless witness of the three states is real, which is our identity has no birth and death. That is why self-knowledge is nothing to do with the religious based Advith, which is based on Vedas.
A Gnani will never say we are not born; we are not going to die. Only to the mediocre who nod their head, he will say this to inspire them to think of the formless true identity, which is birth less, deathless. Thus, it is wrong to say we are not born and we do not die by limiting the self to the physical entity. If one limits the self to the physical entity alone, one gets only half-truth. The consciousness, which is the true self, pervades all the three states, as their formless substance and witness. The formless substance and witness, which is our true self [true identity]. Without knowing the true self-mere saying, we are not born, we do not die is not the knowledge, which has come from depth, it is mere bookish knowledge.
When Sri,Sankara says: world is unreal . He never said body is unreal. He would have said only birth and death is unreal but he did not say that, he said the world is unreal. He meant the world including the body, because the body and world appear together and disappear together [waking/dream]. Then we have to think, what remain without the body and the world as reality. How can the birth, life, death, rebirth, and reincarnation, which take place in unreal world [waking/dream], can be true. The one, which is aware of the birth, life death, rebirth and reincarnation [illusion/unreal], is formless reality, which is the true self/true identity. The formless self is your true identity, which is birthless and deathless but it is the witness of the birth, life and death and rebirth [illusion/unreal].
On the standpoint of identity the birth, life, death, rebirth and reincarnation theory is part of the illusion/unreal. The body cannot reincarnate, the body and the world are created out of the same formless stuff. Until one views and judges on the base of flesh, bone and blood [five elements], he will not be able to grasp the nondual truth. Thus, one must know on what standpoint we are not born and we do not die thoroughly, just by hearsay views, it will not lead anyone to the nondual destination.
Seeker has to learn to view and judge on the standpoint of FW/soul/self, only then he will be never having any confusion. When one thinks deeply then only the inner revelation starts and start burning the dross [confusion/doubts]. Deeper inquiry and sound reasoning will help the seeker to discriminate between what is real and what is unreal. It will start yielding fruits and start revealing, when he starts thinking very deeply. This is the inner process every serious seeker experiences. The inner dialogue will start and he will start getting answers from inner core of his existence.
