Truth has to be proved right here and right now

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.

When the self is not the body but formless consciousness then what the use of hearing the sound is, seeing light, feeling vibration in the spine.

MYSTICISM could lead to big trouble. MYSTICISM, for one thing, might result in endless rationalizations like "If I am god, then whatever I do is right," and so on. The result: More people justifying their violence in the name of god.  and it also  turns the people  into a sheepish mentality. The result: The duality or illusion  becomes reality.

In short, religion  builds a strong ego, though one may call it by different names, and also it destroys all freedom to reason. The path of  devotion, love keeps one in the grip of emotion  and emotion keeps one in the bondage of illusion.Illusion keep one in bondage of duality . duality keep one in bondage of ignorance.  ignorance makes one feel the experience of birth,life,death and the world reality.

 The ego keeps one in the prison of burden and bondage.  The only way to resolve it is to understand the fact that the  ego is not the "Self" before plunging into pursuit of truth.

For an inflated ego, Philosophy  merely acts as an opium, so the best thing to do would be realizing the  fact that, the ego is not the "self".   it is impossible  to destroy the ego because, ego is part of the illusion. The ignorance is the cause of the illusion. If one overcomes the   ignorance,  then  the wisdom dawns. When wisdom dawns the ego,body and the world becomes unreal on the standpoint of the true self , the innermost soul.    No philosophy  is essential in pursuit of truth  because, philosophies  are based on the ego or physical self.

Pursuit of truth  more important than all Philosophical  theories put together. So there is need to investigate the truth instead of arguing  about which philosophy is correct, why it  is flawed, or why  it is wrong and all that! 

When the self is not the body but formless consciousness then what the use of hearing the sound is, seeing light, feeling vibration in the spine.  When body, sound, feeling, sight and ego and the world are made of single stuff, and that stuff is formless consciousness, which is the innermost self.

 All these sound, light, vibration belongs to Yoga prescribed by the great yoga master Paramhansa Yogaananda [PY] and also in Radhaosomi.  I also used to get all that type of experience when I was practicing Yoga [PY] for many years. But all that body based practices did not satisfy my inner urge to the ultimate truth. 

 Experience belongs to individuality. And individuality is falsehood. There is neither individual nor his experience in reality.

Man and his experience of the world cannot exist without waking experience. Whatever we are discussing, we are discussing within the waking experience, which is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint.  Thus whatever is known, seen, believed and experienced as a person is bound to be falsehood.

The path of religion, path of yoga and path of wisdom is meant for different classes of people. Mixing up with one another is like mixing oil in water.

 

When soul or consciousness remains aware of itself, then it is non-dual self-awareness.

While man  has always known that he exists, but  he  never really investigated with what he is able to exist and perceive the world? 

Does the "Self "have a place where it starts?

Does  the "Self" have a place where it ends?

Does "Self"  appear to be bound by form, time and space? 

Is"Self" always the same or ever changing? 

Did "Self " get older as the physical  body aged?

Is it constant or moving or   it will ever be different?

Can anyone, even for a moment, get out of it?

If waking or dream vanishes  would the "Self"   still be present?

Does anything affect the 'self"? 

Is it  physical presence or is it just awareness?

The self exists as formless substance and witness of   illusion or universe or mind. The self  that one  know is there but it is not and entity or identity within the illusion,which appears  as waking and dream and disappears as deep sleep. 

One becomes aware of the fact that the soul, the innermost self  , what is being pointed to with words like formless, spaceless and timeless, is the formless stuff from which the whole experience of diversity is  made.

The  awareness is  the nature of the formless  soul ,which is present in the form of  consciousness. Formless soul or consciousness is the innermost self.  The  awareness is the formless substance of the experience of diversity. Awareness  is something that one is  sure of and there is no need or reason to question it but one has to be come aware of the fact that, awareness is one ,not many, and diversity is mere illusion on the standpoint of  the awareness as self. 

When soul or consciousness remains aware of itself, then  it is non-dual  self-awareness.