Monday, April 19, 2010

The spiritual truth that leads to freedom, is the truth that we belong not to the world but to the spirit.



True freedom is the freedom from  experiencing duality as reality. To reach that freedom requires real courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth, when one becomes aware of the fact that, the physical existence is mere mirage. Since man is bound by so much the personal, political, economic, social, and religious powers surrounding him.  Man is in bondage and he is dependent on them in practical life within the practical world in one way or the other. This bondage makes his prisoner of physicality and he accepts the duality as reality and bases himself on the cycle of birth, life and death, and fails to identify his true identity is not physical, but the spirit(soul or consciousness).  

The spiritual truth that leads to freedom, is the truth that we belong not to the world but to the spirit.  Through deeper self-search , one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the self is dream entity but the self is formless soul ,which witnesses the coming and going of the three states without the physical apparatus.   By reflecting constantly on the soul ,which is the formless substance and witness of the three states, one will gradually get freedom from experiencing the illusion(waking) as reality.  

One becomes forever free when he renounce the ignorance and breaks away from the physical prison of "I," "me," and "mine" to be united with the soul. This is the ultimate truth. Seeker has to attain  this, and pass from illusory death to immortality.
The whole universe  in which the physical self is present is just an illusion, unless one  realize this truth and  he will remain in duality,  by holding the object as subject   in forgetfulness  of the real  subject  he will remain in duality and  judging  the truth on the base of imagination and speculation and intellectuality.
Seeing through the physical eyes one becomes blind to the truth, which is hidden in the illusion, which he is experiencing it as reality.  If one effectively understands the fact that, the self is not physical but it is the soul or spirit this, he will become free from experiencing the illusion as reality. If he doesn’t understand this fact, then he will remain ignorant of the true self and experiences the birth, life and death as reality.

The realization of the truth is right here in this waking experience and right now that is not in next life.



Before indulging in pursuit of truth seeker has to:-
1        The first step is to rectifying the reasoning base mentally from form to formless.
 
2        Then analyzing the three states on the base of the formless soul, the innermost self.
 
3        Analyzing and discriminating between three states and the formless soul, which is the substance and witness of the three states.
 
Seeker has to learn to view and judge the three states on the base of the soul as self.

Seeker has to reject all the religious, yogic, and intellectual theories as they are based on the ego or waking entity ( physical self. This is possible when the he rectifies its reasoning base.
Soul neither rises nor subsides. Soul is formless and non-dual in its nature and it is substance of the mind.  Mind is present in the form of universe. Universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. Mind rises and subsides is  mere illusion. The substance and witness of the illusion is the formless  soul,which real and eternal.
Just as the witness of the dream does not go, anywhere only the dream appears and disappear likewise  the waking experience also appears and disappears. It is appears to the formless witness  which is the soul and disappears as soul. Therefore, the substance and witness of the mind is soul ,which is present in the form of consciousness. Thus the mind(universe) and soul (consciousness)  are one in essence.
Soul is in the form of spirit or consciousness and it pervades in  everything and everywhere in all the three state. All the three states are illusory on the standpoint of their formless substance. If the soul is in its formless and non-dual true nature then there is no mind and no duality.  All the confusions and doubts arise when the three states are viewed on base of  ego or waking entity(physical self0. If soul (consciousness or spirit)  is not the witness of the three states than one would not had the idea of deep sleep and dream in the Waking experience.
When one has the firm conviction that the formless soul is the substance and witness of the three states  than he renounces them three states mentally by realizing their unreal nature,  but does not abandon them. And he views them on the standpoint of the soul as self, which clears the fetter created due to viewing on base of the ego or waking entity( physical self).  Therefore,  the realization of the truth is right here in this waking experience and right now that is not in next life.

On the standpoint of the physical self the three states appears to exist as reality.




On the standpoint of the soul, the three states are non-existent.  On the standpoint of the physical self the three states appears to exist as reality.
It is erroneous to view and judge the truth on the standpoint of creator or god without verifying the fact ‘Self’ is not physical but it is the soul.  It is impossible to assimilate truth on the physical base.
Because people are having the strong conviction of their experience of the  birth, life, death and the world  as reality,   they are ignorant about the fact that, their   experience of the   the birth, life, death and the world  are  within the Waking experience.  from ultimate standpoint the waking experience is mere illusion created out of  the soul,which is present in the form of consciousness.

All the individual   experiences happenings within the waking experience are only illusion because the Waking experience itself is illusion.  Therefore, there is need to trace the formless substance and witness of the illusion to grasp and realize the non-dualistic truth.
There is no second thing other then soul or consciousness  because all the three states are created, witnessed and subsides as Soul  or conciousness. Constant reflecting on the witness of the three states leads  the Seeking Mind to non-dual self-awareness.
Whatever position, power, pleasure and wealth one may possess within the dream,  is only an illusion. Same way whatever pain and suffering and misery one has in waking experience also illusion.
When the waking or dream subsides as deep sleep, then the duality vanishes. Therefore, the formless substance of the waking experience and deep sleep are  one in essence.  By discovering and realizing that formless substance and witness as innermost self  –the duality will not remain as reality.
When the formless substance and witness, is discovered and realized than  the sense of duality will vanish. Absent of duality absent of experience.  Absent of experience absent of illusion. The illusion is present when the there is experience. When there is experience then there is   ignorance. When there is ignorance then there is duality. When there is duality then the birth, life, death and the world  becomes reality.
All the individual experiences are possible only within the waking experience. One has to become aware of the fact that, the three states are not witnessed by the waking entity but  they are witnessed by the formless  soul, which is  in the form consciousness.  thus the witness is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity.

Consciousness is the formless substance and witness of the three states. When this conviction becomes firm then one will be able to rectify his reasoning base from form to formless. When one establishes on the formless base then gradually the sense of reality of   experience of duality starts receding.

 The person and world co- exist within the waking or dream experience. Absent of mind is present of the  soul . Without the soul or consciousness,  the mind is non-existent. The mind, which rises and subsides as waking and dream, cannot be real. It is totally illusory. Therefore, the formless source where the mind rises and subsides itself is the self. 

When the source is formless then the diversity, which rises and subsides is also created out of formless stuff. Therefore, realizing the fact that the birth, life and death which take place within the mind  or universe or waking are mere illusion created out of single stuff. That single  stuff is the soul or consciousness .  Realizing the fact that, formless soul or consciousness  is the true self and all else  mere mirage created out of consciousness truth realization.   
Religion is not based on the spirit or soul, but it is based on the physical self. Therefore, religion is based on the birth, life,  death and the world  not the truth.    Spirituality is pursuit of truth of the beyond the physical existence.   In pursuit of truth the religion and its conceptual gods and scriptures are not necessary because all of them are based on the physical self.  All the physical based philosophies and theories, paths and yogic practices or logical and intellectual conclusion will help to unfold the truth.