All the
penances are external because they are based on the individuality.
Investigating the mind, alone leads to self-realization. To know what is mind,
profits much rather than searching the truth in external world moving from one
ashram to another and one guru to another and one mountain to another. When one starts investigating the universe
that confronts him will mentally move inwards and will reach the ultimate end
and become fully aware “What is truth?”
and “What is untruth?” in his own home or city and establish in truth by realizing what is
untruth.
Man is like
caged animal. He cannot get out of the inherited conditioning very easily.
Ignorance makes him experience duality as reality. The religion makes him to
accept blind belief as truth pushes him in the prison of slavery to belief
based ideas or theories. Scriptures and scholars of every belief system differ
widely on every point and there is no universality in religion. Thus religion
is a useless raft to cross the ocean of ignorance because the religion is based
on individuality and it can yield only individual truth. individuality is
falsehood from ultimate standpoint.
When one is
not aware of the fact that that, the true self is not waking entity but the
formless knower of the three state than
how Can he say he know
the existence of God which is mere
assumption based on the false self within the false experience. Thus whatever one see, knows, believes and
experiences as a person of the world within the waking experience is bound to
be false hood.
Without the knowing
the fact that self is not the form but the self is formless it is foolish to argue,
judge and conclude on the base of the form [waking entity], which is not the
self.
Without
knowing what is Self, holding ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ as self because they have read it
or someone has told them or they think it is ultimate truth without
verification through deeper inquiry, analysis and sound reasoning is mere
assumption or speculation. Such assumptions and speculation blocks one from
realizing the non-dual truth fueling the egocentricity.
No one can
honestly say that he knows the ultimate truth unless he is soul centric. Yet mystics’
god men glibly say, "I know God." And “I AM GOD”.
If there is
Brahman-—prove it. If there is Atman--prove it right here right now. Religious
so-called philosophy dogmatically assumes both.
The god who
appears to the mystic in meditation or penance is mere hallucination because
whatever is known, seen, believed and experienced as a person within the waking
experience is falsehood because waking experience itself is falsehood. From
ultimate standpoint there is no value for such claim.
When one does
not know truth, than he can only guess, imagine, hence doubts and questions and
discussions arise.
One says God
is Light. Again the light may take
different colors, then which color is correct? Some people contend that God is
sound and say one hears the Aum sound, sound inside in meditation, still others
say God is in the form of fragrant smell and that beautiful scent comes in
meditation as the presence of God. All these differences of opinion, they can
be endless, show mutual contradiction and general error, i.e. lack of certain
truth. Moreover if one sees a light he is seeing a second thing, or
duality. Where there is duality there is
no reality.
God is impotent,
incompetent or lacking in intelligence--if he exists! But all god propagated by
belief systems are nothing but imaginations.
There is
nothing so absurd which men have not worshiped in religion, every imaginable
face has been given to God. If god is
creator then it is foolish to worship anything as god from his creation because
the creation is apart from the god.
One has to know
‘What is truth?’ One cannot get rid of it by shutting his eyes to it. It is
only by inquiry, analysis and reasoning one becomes aware of ‘what is truth?’
and “what is not truth’.
Every belief
system has its own idea and conviction of god.
Thus every belief system is based on the false self. Therefore, whatever is based on the false
self has to be falsehood? Thus the idea of god of any belief system has is mere
assumption and speculation based on the false self.
It is foolish
say I know god and he is everywhere because he has read it or heard from
someone. How does he know God and how does
he know that he is everywhere? Appearances and quotations have nothing to do with ultimate
truth.
The difference between knowledge: - that knowledge
will be determined by the nature of the object to be known, whereas meditation
will be determined by the nature of the meditator.
