If one is seeking truth then
it is necessary for him to move beyond narrowly orthodox attitudes of
superiority.
Every religion possesses its own set of virtues and vices. From the ultimate standpoint, the worldly
life means little: an illusion within an illusion! And also the suffering
humanity which is part of the illusion does not expect our help, nor does the Gnani
sees any service to render to a world which does not exist as reality for him.
One can mentally reduce everything
to an entirely homogenous, sole Reality-- Consciousness. The body, ego, the experience of the world,
are nothing but mind, which is mirage. Mind in turn, reducible to pure
Consciousness, the only Reality.
The "direct road" of non-dual wisdom, Knowledge, leads to
the realization of this ultimate truth.
The "cosmological path,” that of religion and yoga, also leads to
hallucinated reality. And they are more indirect and lengthy road, because they
consider the world, the soul, and a personal God as real.
Seeker must be desirous to knowing the ultimate
truth. The ultimate truth frees the
self from experiencing the illusion as reality. It is most difficult to grasp
it in the beginning but if the seeker is sincere and serious to take inner journey
to know the truth, it will start starts revealing on its own.
Pursuit of truth is only for those who want to
realize ultimate truth. What one do not
like may contain truth? Thus deeper
investigation is necessary to unfold the mystery of one’s existence.
The wave and the ocean cease to exist without the
water. Until we are ignorant of the water we identify it as ocean and its
waves. Same way all three states cease to exist without the consciousness.
Until we are ignorant of the consciousness we will experience the three states
as reality. Thus, by getting rid of
ignorance with sword of Self-knowledge one becomes aware of the fact that, the
consciousness alone is real and all the three states are mere mirage created
out of consciousness. All the diversity
is part of the mirage. The unity in diversity is possible only when we get rid
of the ignorance.
The consciousness is neither the body, nor the ego
nor the universe. In order to attain liberation from experiencing the
individual experience along with the universe as reality one has to know the
self is not the form but formless consciousness, which is the formless
substance and witness of the waking or dream in which man experiences birth,
life, death and perceives the world as reality.
Thus the self is the witness of the three states,
which is in the form of consciousness. The mind is in the form of universe,
which comes and goes as waking or dream.
The thought
of the witness comes only when one inquires in to the witnessed
[universe]. The consciousness is the
one witness of the whole and is really ever free. Because one sees one self as
not as a formless seer but see the self as form is the cause of the bondage and
bondage is the cause of experiencing the pain and pleasure as reality.
Self is only one. The word witness is got at by
eliminating the witnessed. One has to burn down the ignorance with self
–knowledge by realizing the self is not an individual but the self is consciousness
that pervades in all the three states.
If anyone could imagine a
consciousness which does not objectify anything but remains in its own native
purity, a happiness beyond which it is impossible to go, and a self which is
unvaryingly one and the same, he would have the correct idea of the true self.
Every living being is a
prisoner within the realm of this illusory duality. Self-knowledge will releases one from bondage of
experiencing the illusory duality as reality.
This can be accomplished if the seeker who aspiring to know the truth of
his true existence. Only by realizing
the fact that his individual experiences of birth, life and death within the
world are mere mirage created out of consciousness, which he has been unaware.
When he becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not the form but the self
is formless consciousness then he wakes up in reality to realize his body and
his experience of the world are mere mirage created out consciousness, which is
his true identity. Dream becomes unreal
when waking takes place, so also the waking becomes unreal when one wakes up
with his formless true identity.
Until there is Ignorance the world will prevail as
reality. Until the world is considered as real the experience of birth, life
and death will prevail as reality.
Ignorance is the cause of experiencing the duality as reality.
Ignorance
keeps one in the grip of the individuality.
Ignorance makes one think he is an individual separate from the world
and world existed prior to him and he is born is in afterwards. Until this
conviction is there it is very difficult to overcome the duality. Without
overcoming the duality it is impossible to know and realize the ultimate
reality.
There is illusion because there is Ignorance. The illusion will prevail as reality until the
self –knowledge is acquired. The freedom
from illusory reality is the goal of every truth seeker. But this freedom is
only through knowledge. Without
knowledge there is no emancipation. He, who knows the true self is not the form
but formless consciousness, overcomes grief of experiencing the illusion as
reality. He, who knows that consciousness as self, becomes consciousness. He,
who knows consciousness as self, attains the freedom from experiencing the
illusion as reality. Freedom is the absence of false knowledge based on the
false self [ego] within the false experience [waking].
The nature of all reality is
spiritual. Until and unless one drops all the accumulated
baggage of traditionalism it is impossible to grasp, assimilate and realize the
knowledge of the self here and now.
The religion and spirituality
are like oil and water. Religion is
based on blind belief, whereas the spirituality is the truth which is not
ascertained yet. Whatever is based on the false self [ego] is not spirituality. Thus religious ideas are not spiritual. They cannot be mixed together. One will have
to make his choice between them if he wish to progress in his pursuit of truth and
not to remain stagnating.
The pursuit of Truth is the highest of aim. The ultimate truth is to be
found within our experiences of three states, and not in the world, which is
limited to experience, since, Authentic Gnanis to guide
towards non-dual destination are
extremely rare.
From the physical standpoint,
that which splits the world into two co-existing realities, consciousness and mind. The ultimate standpoint annihilates the
division of consciousness and mind by uniting both mentally, by realizing they
are one in essence.
