Pursuit of truth is not pursuit of argument. Until one makes his accepted truth as his
yardstick without verification, he will never will be able to cross the
threshold of duality because his understanding is based on the ego, is not matured enough to
grasp the non- dualistic truth, which is prior to his physical existence or mind,
which is in the form of universe.
The guru is not needed in pursuit of truth because
the truth has to be ascertained by seeker himself. Advaitic or Non-dual Wisdom
will not rise from intellectual spoon feeding but it arises only from deeper
self-search to the sincere and serious seeker who has an intense urge to know
the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Persons who are stuck with branded masters and guru
and takes their guru’s word as final without verifying the validity of their
Guru’s teaching. They are stuck with
their egocentric intellectuality, which is the greatest hindrance in realizing
the ultimate truth. Nothing has to be
accepted truth without verification.
The people who is stuck with path of love and
thinks love is the means and go out dancing and have fun. Love is essential in
practical life within the practical world but practical life within the
practical world itself is an illusion. There is no need to renounce practical
life within the practical world one can love the whole humanity and have fun
and dance like anyone else. But whoever
has inner urge without disturbing his practical life can continue in his
inner journey. Path of love is path of individuality. The individuality is nothing to do with the
‘Self’, which is not an individual because it is formless and non-dual.
Until one thinks ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self, their understanding
is egocentric. The egocentric understanding is not realization of ultimate
truth or Brahman. They think by
observing silence within the duality they pretend to show they are in Brahmic
bliss. They fail to realize the fact that, truth is not an individual
experience but it is the basis of all that exist in the form of duality.
The truth is
hidden within the duality but it is without the duality. Until one considers
self is an individual he will remain in the realm of intellectuality.
Intellectuality belongs to individuality and individuality is falsehood from
ultimate standpoint. Thus it is no use arguing with such mind set
who are not ready and receptive to grasp and realize non-dual truth because they
are stuck with their accepted truth as ultimate truth without verifying the
facts and remain like stagnant water in dirty pond. The guidance comes from any
form when the seeker is ready and receptive to take the mental [inner]
journey. The people who are stuck with
‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self are eaten only the
half cooked food are satisfied with
half-knowledge and they will not be able
to grasp digest the fullness or oneness
of the self or Brahman because their conviction about it is deep rooted . Thus they remain in ignorance thinking they know
everything without fully knowing what is what.
Some think
using the language without the words they will attain the state of oneness by
telling others not use words with words.
The oneness does not arise by observing silence or without using
language without words or trying to be in the thoughtlessness. The deep sleep
is the state of thoughtlessness,
silence, wordlessness, silence but it is not considered as state of oneness
because any one can take a sleeping pill and will be able to get the state of oneness. Thus trying to imitate the state of oneness in duality by observing
silence, thoughtlessness, wordlessness or by yogic Samadhi or surrendering to
the physical guru the wisdom will not dawn. Without wisdom the ignorance will
not vanish. Thus getting rid of the ignorance through wisdom is the only way to
realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
If one has understood what ‘truth ‘really is “than there is no necessity
to know ‘Who am I? or ‘I am that’. ‘WHO
AM I?’ or ‘I AM THAT’ reveal only half-truth because they are limited to
individuality and reveals only the unreal nature of the ego. Ego is individuality whereas the self is not
an individual because self is formless consciousness. Thus the journey is incomplete. Seeker has to go much deeper know the full
truth about the ‘self ‘which is beyond form, time and space.
The bookish knowledge is not wisdom. The knowledge accumulated from
intellectual spoon feeding from the intellectual wise men is not wisdom. The persons who are propagating only half-truth
as absolute truth are playing with feelings of the seeker with ornamental
words. The people who are stuck with half-truth think
they have already realized and think that they are realized truth and they try
to snub others and expect to follow their own terms without realizing they have
not yet completed the journey.
People talk of the love, and
humanity in Atmic or non-dualistic discussion, which is not the subject matter
of pursuit of truth.
The individual life, love and
humanity are nothing to do with pursuit of truth because self is neither the
waking entity nor the dream entity because it is formless.
If one has understood 'I’ or ‘I AM ‘is not the self and what really is
‘I’ or ‘I AM’, there is no necessity for pursuit of truth. When in deeper self-search one becomes aware
neither the body nor the ‘I’ is self than one has to base the self on whatever
prevails without the body and without the ‘I’. Passing the opinion and judgment even after knowing the self is
not ‘I’, itself is erroneous. Thus
holding the ‘I’ as self and passing judgment and opinion based on the ‘I’ or
‘I AM’ is only a hallucinated judgment based on the false self. This because
they have taken the false self as real self and false experience as real
experience.
There is no doubt many masters have given valuable contribution to
seeking world but none of them take one to the ultimate end . Thus seeker has to verify on his own remove
the entire obstacle, which is blocking his realization on his own. There is no need to criticize any teacher or
Guru and waste time instead seeker has to utilize the same time to acquire self-knowledge through deeper
self-search.
Truth means certainty. If there is any uncertainty it is not truth. It
does not deal with imaginations. People do not have the scientific attitude
because they take things as presented to them. They have rather the emotional
and sentimental attitude. The correct attitude is to verify all the facts, to
see a problem in them, something to investigate and inquire into them.
Truth must be verifiable; unless it is verifiable it is of no value.
Those who lack the capacity to doubt are not fit for pursuit of truth.
Analogical, inductive and deductive reasoning are good only within the
physical existence; none are absolutely and universally infallible because they
are based on the physical self.
The religion is based on the blind belief. But in pursuit of truth the
Doubt is the main ingredient.
Most people have the desire to know the truth but the capacity to
understand and assimilate it is limited. The result is that people resolve the
conflict by jumping to the first and simplest and easiest conclusion as the
correct one, and smugly but unjustifiably thinking “I know”: Thus they commit
the fallacy of primitivity.
The seeker needs proof to accept
anything as truth. Every guru
intellectuals, pundit or yogi statements have to be verified before accepting
them as ultimate truth or Brahman. Their claims have to be verified before
accepting them as truth.
Ultimate truth or Brahman cannot be known by intuition but it can be
grasped from the reason based on the true self. Therefore, there is a need to
know first the self is not physical but the formless consciousness. Then start
reasoning on the base of the formless consciousness, all the clouds and
confusion starts clearing on its own and finally one will have no confusion left to say the
illusion as whole is spirit.
One knows everything within the waking experience is consciousness
because the waking experience itself is mere mirage created out of
consciousness. The physical apparatus is absent in deep sleep, so one
cannot know anything by intuition, because there is no duality in deep sleep.
This proves that the duality is present only in waking or dream. And also
it proves that if there be such a faculty as intuition it must be limited
to the physical self.
In Panchadashi:- Atman
The is the witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and
the world of separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in
a theatre, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with
complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal
their absence.
People speak the supra-mental
consciousness, who or what is there, to discover it because the mind is not
there? It is an absurd statement.
The psychological writings of mystics and the pseudo-scientific
explanations are not inferences from the facts of their mystic experiences but
mere imaginations.
The mystic who says he has cosmic consciousness implies that he has
astral traveled and seen that this consciousness was also there in the
astral world; even if we take his experiences as reality there is no truth in
it because it is also mirage within the mirage. Until the duality persists as reality
the non-dual reality will not be revealed.
Those who object that the means and ends of waking are different from
those of dreams, and therefore they are not on the same level, ignore that you
have time, space and causal relation in both experiences. These three things
make the waking experience real to everyone: and are its chief characteristics;
similarly they give the same sense of reality to dream. They say waking is real
and dream is illusory, but for the one who has learnt to view the worldview on
the base of Atman, which is in the form of consciousness as self, both are
illusory.
Where is the need of a creator when one’s own dream experience offers
proof that, the true self bring into being a whole waking experience, which
contains world and persons, and if it can create a dream world, why
not also a waking world? Only seeker should not forget that 'Self ' does not
refer to the ego which is itself a produced thing but he must know the true self
is the formless Atman or consciousness.
The Advanced stages of pursuit of truth, resulting from the constant
practice of inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base leads to “awareness
of the true self”. One has to mentally
separate the self from the three states, know the three states to be the consciousness,
because the substance and witness of the three states is the consciousness.
The three states do not exist; that is not its point; what is felt as
real in each states is one and the same thing that is the consciousness, the
true Self.
Consciousness is
the true Self. Consciousness is within this universe but it is not of this
universe. It is in this universe, but not of this universe means it is the
formless substance and witness of the universe, which is in the form of the
mind (I). The mind (I) appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.
The self who is in the form of consciousness is the formless knower of the
mind, which comes and goes. Consciousness is above; it is
transcendental to all the miseries, which are inevitable in this illusory
universe. Therefore, there is a need to realize the fact that, the mind,
which is in the form of universe is mere mirage created out consciousness.
Thus, the birth, life, death and world are mere mirage on the stand
point of the consciousness, which is the true self. Only on the base of
physical self the universe is reality. Thus the Self is within the
universe but it is without the universe.
Only a Gnani alone can actually create the awareness of the truth. He can enliven and illuminate others to get out of this ignorance by being transcendental to the illusory birth, life, death and the universe. Gnani tries to guide the seekers get rid of the inherited ignorance and, rise above the egocentric concepts, be in this universe, but not of this universe, be in tune with the consciousness, which is his true identity and the ultimate truth.
This material existence is mere mirage. It is like a wax in the candle
it will burn away. All attempts for freedom is possible only when one is
ready to overcome the ignorance. To overcome the ignorance is possible only
when one realizes the birth, life, death and the world are mere illusion
created out of consciousness. The consciousness is ultimate truth. And
the one who knows this truth knows the knower (consciousness) is free from the
known (mind).
Through Self-knowledge, all of one’s egocentric successes and all of his
credible accomplishments within the duality are ultimately evaporated and
consciousness alone will prevail as non-dual existence.
In Orthodox Advaita they accept karma theory. If they accept the
karma theory, one will not reach the non-dual destination. If one accept 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.
The birth, life and death are part of the waking experience, which is
mere illusion on the standpoint of the true self (consciousness). 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 substance and witness of the three states is real, which is
our true identity. The Self which is in the form of
consciousness has no birth and death. The ultimate nothing to do with the
religious based Advaita, which is based on Vedas. That is way the
Upanishads declared the truth cannot be realized by studying 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
pervades all the three states, as its 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. Unity in
diversity is not possible through bookish knowledge.
Sri, Sankara declared: - The world is unreal. He never said body is
unreal. He would have said only birth and death is unreal, 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 conclude, what remain
without the body and the world as reality.
How can the birth, karma, 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 true 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 non-dual 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 non-dual destination.
Seeker has to learn to view and judge on the standpoint of formless
witness/soul/self. 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).
Seeker will have enough material stored in his subconscious by
reading F.P BLOGS; all will start yielding fruits and start revealing, when he stars
thinking very deeply.
F.P blogs are not teaching, they are only sign post for those who are
seriously seeking truth. This is the inner process every serious seeker
experiences. The inner dialog will start and he will start getting
answers from inner core of his existence.
Every teaching has to be thoroughly verified through deeper
discrimination. If the teaching is egocentric than drop it as useless. If it is
purely soul- centric than accept it as truth. If it is mixed with both
then also it has to be dropped.
ZEN Buddhism Satori is not highest
wisdom, because it comes as flashes, it does not depend on seeing the world,
and does not depend upon mental sharpness so much as intuition. Zen Buddhists
are only mystics--they do not offer proof. How is their main method different
from that of Christian mystics, Hindu mystics, all of whom do not seek to prove
by reason, but by "I know," intuition?
ZEN may get a flash of peace but that is not the same as Vedantins who
realizes that the whole world is yourself. Zen is mysticism.
Zen is quite alright in mentioning non-duality: it is the nearest
doctrine to true Advaita outside India, but nevertheless it is still inferior
because:
v It fails to prove non-duality
v It illogically gives koan exercises as a means of
attaining That which is beyond attainment, because always here
v It talks of insight or intuition to see Reality
when sight involves a second thing, duality.
When one says "Nothing is" what is the meaning of
"is"? "Sunya" is something which exists: one cannot prove
that consciousness does not exist.
Zen Buddhism gives
a high important place to meditation practice, but then so does the Advaita.
The truth is that Zen advocates the necessity of meditation for those of its
adherents who cannot grasp the absolute truth.
ZEN BUDDHISM is also on this lower stage of Yoga, because it depends on
flashes of Intuition gained by meditation, not by reasoning.
ZEN: Suzuki's "Zen Contributions to Japanese History" now
causes to revise unfavorably the former good estimate of Zen. It is presented
there as largely mysticism, while the present day life in Japan plus China war
reveals no trace of Zen influence.
Has the Void a meaning? If so then it is only one’s imagination.
Buddha gave up yoga after practicing it for six years. He saw it could
not yield truth.
Page.70/71 "Buddhism In Translation” by Warren quoted as showing
how Buddha gave up his austerities of yoga as impossible and useless. Thus
Buddha got enlightenment only after he gave up Yoga. Unless one exercises his Reason--there
is no chance of getting the non- dualistic truth.
Buddhism has not proved the truth of Non-duality. Buddha pointed out
unreality of world, we agree. He told people they were foolish to cling to it.
But he stopped there. He came nearest to non-duality in speech but
not to non-duality fully.
Most of the modern thinkers teaching seems essentially negative,
a potent but bitter medicine for those imprisoned by institutional cults. They
break the seeker’s bonds, but then lead him to a vast desert where they abandon
him. The ultimate state of consciousness they describes is that of the
traditional sage or fully enlightened being, but he does not show us the
process leading to the realization of this state. They describe marvelously
the goal, but do not indicate the steps to be taken: their recurring phrases
"unified consciousness" or ‘I AM THAT’ and "let go" are not
a road map to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
The PURANAS
The PURANAS, including Vishnu Purana and Siva
Purana, are based on false idea of personal God, because the writers have
thought of Him as glorified man and woman.
The translations made till now of Indian
philosophical works have represented religion and mythology, not philosophy.
The greatest pundits do not understand it, for they do not understand science.
What has this mythological teaching done for India? Look at its state today.
Look at the conversions. Imagining that God has ashes on his forehead or
blazing like the sun-- that is all poetry and depends only on faith.
The Saiva Siddanta sect is dualistic,
unphilosophical religion like Ramanuja's sect.
Why did not Ramanuja and Madhva write commentaries
on the Upanishads (as Sankara did to establish Brahman) but stop, content with
writing commentary on Vysa Sutras, and culling some paras only from the
Upanishads with convenient vagueness to establish their God and Theology?
Indians are more religious than other people.
The six systems of Indian Philosophy are really six systems of Indian
speculation. For there is only one Truth.
The ancient Hindu tenet borrowed by
theosophists of universe appearing and dissolving, days and nights of Brahma, entering
into pralaya etc. is intended for mediocre intellects who cannot rise to truth.
It is a convenient fable representing the philosophic truth that the whole
universe dissolves in your mind in deep sleep, thus entering pralaya, and rises
again next morning, i.e. it is all imagination, idea. The Brahma-God has
nothing to do with it.
NIHILISM
NIHILISM, the 'Void' of
Sunyavada Buddhism is only a stage. It cannot be ultimate. It says there is
really nothing. The mistake of Hinayana Buddhism is to jump to assumptions
where Buddha kept silent.
How is one to
know the real self? To think of the self is an object, as something that can be
known and experienced is fallacy. All that is known within the waking or dream
is fallacy because the three states are an object to the soul (nothingness), which
is the subject. The subject (soul) is within the object but it is without the
object. It (soul) is always no one (formless) because it is not an entity or
identity within the waking or dream but consciousness /soul (nothingness) pervades
in everything and everywhere in all the three states.
People think that to withdraw from all sense-activity, from all thoughts,
all life-experiences, i.e., to cease to be active, is the highest state.
All the senses, thoughts and individual experiences and the world are
present only in waking or dream. Waking or dream (duality) disappears as deep
sleep non-duality. Thus what becomes dual and non-dual experience is most
impotent than inquiring ‘WHO AM I?’ or
saying ‘I AM THAT’ or affirming I AM
BRAHMAN.
The self is not an individual because ‘Self’ is
formless. If the self is formless than where is the body, where are the senses,
where is ego, where is universe. If the self is not physical body than it
proves the fact that, man is not the self, but the formless knower of the man
and the world is the true self. Thus
knowledge based on man as self is false knowledge within the false experience.
One has to go
beyond Vedas means go beyond religion. Go beyond religion means, go beyond
concept of god. Thus, going beyond Veda,
religion and conceptual god means going beyond illusion. That is end of Vedas [Veda –antha]
When one goes
into the annals of the history it looks like the Gnanic Advaita expounded by
Sri Sankara and his param guru, Goudpada is not orthodox Advaita, which is
adulterated with add-ons time to time.
It is necessary for the seeker to do his
homework, and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly
believe, what others expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is
obtained.
The seeker must
have the courage of Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Since
Buddha rejected religion, idea of god and scriptures, therefore, it is evident
that, he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be
inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.
That is why BUDDHA SAID: - Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
Even Buddhism is
mixed up with regional culture and traditions of the local religion, wherever
it existed. Thus to get the full essence from Buddhism is very difficult.
The scriptures
are for ignorant masses, who wholly accept the material world as it presents
itself. Wisdom is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what
they seem.
Each sect
concocts a God to suit its own purposes.
Such concocted Gods have no value in pursuit of truth. Man himself suggests that there must be a
God. It is an auto-suggestion.
Prayers and
sacrifices belong to a premature stage of development. However when no answers
come to prayers, struggle for existence presses man, and doubt arises
again. Faith in religion weakens as man
pays more attention to facts of life and this world.
Reason is the
common ground for whole humanity in modern age, whereas the appeal to
scriptural relations reaches only the sects.
Those who argue that truth is only in their religion are vain logicians,
depending on mere ideas, speculations and imaginations.
Truth is bitter
pill. It becomes very difficult for the seeker to accept it at first; because
of his inherited conditioning. Gradually he will be able to grasp it as he
moves on.
The illusion is
present only in ignorance where, 'I' and you are separate entity. In truth,
there is neither 'I' nor you, nor, the illusion. Therefore there is no
teaching, no teacher, and no student in reality.
Truth pursuit is
a very personal journey. Seeker has to verify minutely on his own, “what is
truth”, and “what is not truth”, before accepting anything as truth. The
illusion exists as reality, only on base of the ego, which is he false self
within the false experience.
For Gnani, who is
aware of the fact that the self is not physical but self is consciousness,
there is no illusion, even though; he is in the midst of illusion, because he
is fully aware of the fact that, all the three states are consciousness. Therefore he is conscious of consciousness in
the midst of illusion.
The language of
the duality, invented by the within the duality, for use in the dualistic
world, when used to describe non-duality, produces these apparent
contradictions, because there no apparatus in non-duality, because noting exist
other than the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.
Non duality is
the state of oneness of existence and there is no scope in its philosophy for
anything like non-existence.
Gaudapada’s rational
exposition of Advaita: - that whatever is seen,
whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is
unreal.
The essence of Mandukya's is: Do not be
satisfied with rituals, yoga etc. which are good in their own way, but inquiry.
Inquire in to the nature of the mind. ? Brahman and Atman are things one can
never see. So seeker should not inquire into them. He has to inquire into the world around him,
which he can see. Analysis tells him it
is passing away every second. Everything is dying repeatedly. Where is it
going? Thus he follows up his investigation into what he can lay hands on. How
can he inquire into Atman which he cannot see? So first he must deal with the
known and seen, this inquiry leads up to the unknown in the end.
Mediocre minds waste their time on
arguing about unimportant matters. Accumulation of scriptural knowledge is
dangerous in pursuit of truth. Seeker has to establish in the truth of
Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. Seeker has to begin by defining
"What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the
right way to discuss, understand and assimilate self-knowledge.
Thus seeker has to remove all the hindrance in
order to acquire Self-knowledge.
In deeper
self-search one becomes aware of the fact that, many things what we consider as
truth and hold on to it, becomes meaningless. We have to hold on to the
formless witness of the three states, not the three states which are mere
illusion. Mentally holding on the formless witness and by negating the three
states as illusion, then the witness alone will prevail.
Truth which has
no basis is usually religion or a mere catalogue of ignorant opinions; people prefer
it because it can be got more easily. A religious philosophy based on the
physical self/ego is worthless from the standpoint of truth.
Truth is
incomplete and inaccurate without reasoning. Truth means certain and exact
knowledge. The science which limits it to its practical applications such
modern machines, are wrong because science is only physical based wisdom. There
is no need to learn any practical science in order to get the ultimate truth.
Science is very helpful to give more comforts for mankind. But the ultimate
truth is beyond physical based science.
But one has to have certain knowledge of the fact that, the self is not physical
before indulging in pursuit of truth.
Only through
reason based on the formless consciousness as self, one gets the exactness and
certitude of knowledge therefore he acquires the Self-Knowledge/Non-dual
wisdom. When one has an exact and certain knowledge of un-contradictable truth
he can utilize it for the guiding the fellow seekers. The people who assume without any proof, have
untrained reason.
What is it that makes the body and the world exists for you? It
is awareness. Mind is this whole universe in which you, me and others and
everything that you, me and others know they exists. The whole universe which contains
you, me and others is mental; therefore it is mind.
The universe (mind) is mere mirage or illusion created out of
the self, which is the soul. One has to analyze the mind through deeper
thinking. Then only he becomes aware of the fact that, the mind is not confined
to the body; because the mind is the whole universe. The universe appears as mind and the mind
appears as waking or dream. And waking
or dream disappears as deep sleep. This fact has to be investigated and
assimilated first.
If the mind is whole universe and the universe is in the soul,
which is the true self; what is there to claim as mine when there is nothing
beside the soul, which is in the form of consciousness; when whatever is, is
the true self or the consciousness. Consciousness converted in to waking or
dream. And waking or dream is converted
into deep sleep. Thus the substance of
the three states is one and the same. Thus the substance itself is witness of
the three states. Therefore, the substance and witness are one in essence. The essence is consciousness. The
consciousness is the ultimate truth.
Thus, whatever is claimed as me and mine is meaningless from the
ultimate point of view because there is no second thing exist other than
consciousness.
Consciousness is everything, then there is nothing exist other
than consciousness. Lectures limit consciousness. If one wants to overcome the physical
conditioning of consciousness, then he has to realize the fact that, self is
not physical but it is formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness. So
there is room for duality in reality, therefore the birth, life, death and
world are mere illusion created out of consciousness.
Having renounced the three states [illusion] mentally, one
perceives the ultimate truth, through non-dual wisdom. Whatever prevails without the three states is
the ultimate truth.
Man thinks he is apart from the universe. It is not so. He and his experience of the universe appear
together and disappear together. Man exists within the universe. For the universe to exist man have
to exist first. For god to exist man has to exist first. Therefore, it is necessary to verify the
facts about your own existence first, to unfold the mystery.
Name is given to the body. The name is not the self. One did not have this name before
christening. Only when one started
identifying with his name and form, all these burden and bondage of the duality
arises. Man and his experience of the
universe exist only in waking experience. Same way as the dream entity and the
dream universe exists in dream. The dream becomes unreal when waking takes
place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal, when you realize the self is not
the body with name, but the self is the formless knower of the body with the
name. Thinking the universe as something
separate from the body is cause of the individuality.
Seeker has to become
aware of the fact that, his individuality and his individual experience of the
universe are reality within the waking experience. Thus all his fear desire and
ups and downs of life are reality within the waking experience. Waking
experience appears and disappears same way as the dream appears as
disappears. One doesn’t consider the
dream as reality when it disappears, because he is in waking experience. one has to realize the fact that, waking experience is
also as unreal as the dream, because the witness of the three states is
formless and apart.
This is possible only when one mentally trace the knower
[formless witness] of his body and his experience of the universe
together. Therefore, the one which knows
one’s body with the name, and his experience of the universe is apart from the
knower, which is formless. The knower has to exist prior to knowing. Therefore, your body with name and its
experience of the universe is something known. Therefore, the knower is not the
name, but the formless knower of the name and his experience of the
universe. Therefore, it is erroneous to
view and judge and conclude the truth on the base of the name, because the one
which knows and his experience of universe is formless and apart. If one thinks as a person then it leads to intellectuality and
imagination.
If one try to verify the facts of his true existence through
deeper enquiry by peeling the known [mind] from the knower (soul) then he will
realize self is not body with the name but self is formless consciousness.
One has to renounce the ignorance of accepting the body with the
name as self. By accepting himself as person
is the cause of experiencing the birth, life, death and the world as reality.
Now what is body with the name and the experience of the
universe? Body with the name and her experience of the universe is too
consciousness (soul). Therefore, the whole experience of diversity is created
out of single clay and that clay is consciousness, which is formless. When everything is consciousness, then there
is no second thing exists, other than consciousness (soul). Hence it is non-dual.
Thinking the self as body with the name is the cause of the
ignorance. By realizing self is not body with the name but self is formless consciousness the
physical structure built on the false base of body with the name will become a mere mirage created out of
consciousness.
Therefore it is necessary to learn to view and judge the
worldview not on the base of body with the name as self but on the base of
consciousness (soul) as self to realize our physical existence which is full of
pleasure or pain is mere illusion.
It takes a long time because you have conditioned to view and
judge the worldview as a person within the world. To overcome physical conditioning you have to
renounce the ignorance and realize the self is not body with the name but it is
formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Only by perfect understanding one will become
aware of the ultimate reality. Thus all
your fear and anxiety are reality within the illusion, because man and his experience
of the universe are reality within the illusion.
One has to learn to think on the base the formless knower (soul)
of the three states, not as waking entity, then all his doubts and confusion
will get cleared.
