That alone is called Truth which is
a fact that can never be changed under any circumstances.
The God seen in vision by anyone is mere illusion. He
may be seen outside anyone’s body, may appear as a totally distinct figure, yet
still be only illusion. Man is not the creation of God; God is the creation of
Man. Without man's existence God ceases to exist. There is no God but God because God is not entity or identity or thing within the illusion. The illusion is created ,sustained and finally dissolves as formless spirit (soul or consciousness). The spirit(soul or consciousness) pervades in everything and everywhere in the illusion (mind or universe or waking) . Thus everything is spirit or soul or God,which is the innermost self. Thus believing in conceptual God propagated by belief system blocks one from realizing the ultimate truth or Brahman or real God. Thus it is necessary to know the truth of your own self and that truth sets the self free from experiencing the illusion as reality.
Seeing nothing, having a blank in
the mind, as in Yogic Samadhi is on a level with deep sleep for value. The
objective world is in the mind and must be understood, and must be perceived to
be understood.
Yogic Samadhi is not Self-Awareness. It comes only after Samadhi, using the latter as a preparation. Hence yogic
claim for realization through yoga is merely a bait to seekers to adopt his
preliminary state, but it is not literally true. Yoga cannot give non dual
wisdom.
One who is not receptive to Self-Knowledge tire soon and cannot keep up the concentrated inquiry into
truth, the three states etc. without which he cannot grasp non duality and
their real meaning.
Yoga helps one to keep out unnecessary ideas;
hence it helps to keep up a train of concentrated thought. This is its value as
preparation for pursuit of truth. Those who grasp quickly the non-duality,
when explained to them are sharp enough to acquire Self-knowledge or Brmah Gnana or Atma Gnana.
By shutting one’s eyes in Samadhi he
does not know the nature of the universe. Hence the nature of the universe
can’t be known as Atman through yoga alone. One is in a non-dual condition in
sleep or Samadhi, One without a second, true, but he did not know it at the
time. One
says only in the waking experience
later on. Hence there must be inquiry so that he finds non-duality whilst he is
awake, so that he can see non duality at the time not later on. Hence too the
need of inquiring into the nature of the universe and knowing it as consciousness(soul) whilst one is awake, and not during sleep or Samadhi.
When can one say there is no error in his knowledge?
When he sees all the three states in Atman or consciousness; then there will be no doubt.
Hence one must see the waking or dream, if he is to see them in the Atman(consciousness) .
But deep sleep and Yogic Samadhi does not show them to him. Hence their
knowledge is not perfect, not free from error and doubt.
When the yogi enters Samadhi, he
will at once enter deep sleep. This will
make plain to him after he wakes, that the inner self he sought and found the Atman(consciousness), because he is not aware of the fact that all the three states are the Atman(consciousness), and Atman(consciousness) is not limited to his body alone because it pervades in everything everywhere in all the three states. Only
when one reaches this understanding then only all his accumulated
dross will be burnt, then he becomes aware the soul is the true self, which is
one without a second.
However the yogi must later wake up, emerge
from Samadhi and there is duality again, the objective world confronts him. Thus, he cannot go beyond duality, unless he
gets the conviction that the waking or dream is experience of duality as a
whole. The individual experiences within the waking or dream is nothing to do in pursuit of truth.
Seeker has to work on the next
stage which is to find consciously in the waking experience the same
non-duality that he unconsciously knew in deep sleep. This is done by learning
to view and judge worldview on the standpoint of the soul, which is the innermost self, and then only the world becomes illusion. Only at this final stage the
seeker becomes aware of the fact that, the mind(universe) and the soul(self or consciousness) are one in
essence.
Yogic samadhi has no truth, hence it
cannot tell yogi about the universe. The yogi who emerging from Samadhi and
says he found Non duality there, says it to a second man, hence there is
duality again. If he were a real Gnani, there would be nobody for him to tell
that he had experienced Non duality.
There are two different Samadhi, spiritualistic
Sahaja Samadhi which is the highest and it derived after acquiring the non-dual
wisdom. Sahaja Samadhi is Self-awareness. In Sahaja Samadhi one is in full
wakefulness, and one is fully aware the waking is mere mirage created out of Atman(consciousness). The world is seen in this Sahaja Samadhi. Whereas Yogic Samadhi is just
like deep sleep, where one is unaware of anything, not even the world.
All yogic
experiences, visions, astral experience however wonderful will pass away; they
go as they come. They have the value of dreams. They are not truth which is
unpassing and beyond change.
Seeker of truth does not seek God
in the quest; his only object is non-dual Truth. If he finds that Truth happens
to be God, all right, he must accept it; but he cannot pre-judge the
issue.
The mystic who talks of finding himself in other forms
thereby acknowledges that there is otherness, that other exists whereas the
Gnani knows only the One.
So long as one is speaking he is in the world of
duality: so long as he ceases to speak, he is in non-duality. Non duality is
the nature of the soul which is non-dual silence; no physical system exists in that
non dual silence. But the study and speaking of non-duality and the soul is
helpful so long as we have not reached wisdom.
Non duality means
"not-two", the absence of mind or universe or waking. He, who thinks there is
a God separate from him, cannot get truth. The nature of truth is same for all people and
as un-contradictable. The truth is characterized by Universality, i.e.
non-duality.
It is the attachment to the form of
separate objects which keeps one from apprehending their unity, not the seeing
of them. One has to think of both form and essence, by practice he must get to
the stage where he can think of both simultaneously. This is done by knowing
that the form is made of soul or consciousness, the innermost self only. This requires sharp intelligence and
constant repetition of practices of seeing both form and essence at the same
time.
False and true knowledge exists only when one talk on
the base of ‘I’: when one knows the truth, however, such classifications cannot
arise because everything is then known to be the formless soul or consciousness, the innermost self and no questions of
where and how or why can arise.
The seeker must make an effort to
know the Atman(soul or consciousness) . Atman(soul or consciousness) is there always. One has got it, there is
nothing new to be acquired, only have the sharpness to grasp and understand it,
when told about it. But there is a difference between understanding and
realization.
Effort is required for this
understanding only, whereas once understood no special effort is needed to
remember understanding: until then he only have an idea of Atman(soul or consciousness),
he only partially understand it. But once he thoroughly grasp what it is and
that all these things are Atman, he will then constantly find it present
everywhere without further effort, because he will perceive Atman (soul or or consciousness)
by understanding, even in the midst of waking experience.
When there is only one thing
(Atman) known, there is nothing to change, nothing to appear or disappear; when
one speaks of remembering or forgetting Atman(soul or consciousness) that implies he believes in
the existence of something else, i.e. a second thing, which is to be
remembered. That would show you have not known that all is one. But knowing it,
there is no second, consequently no intermittent perception of Atman, but a
permanent effortless understanding that it alone is.
When one gets a glimpse of truth mentally try to repeat
it a number of times in order to establish it. The self must raise itself by
the Self."
