Consciousness is
like ocean and all the three states are like a wave. The consciousness is the
subject the three states are an object to the formless subject. It is neither
to be renounced nor to be accepted or destroyed. The
seeker has to realize the soul [consciousness] and the mind [universe] are one
is their essence, same way as the ocean and wave are one its substance. This
can be grasped only when one rectifies his reasoning base from form to
formless.
An intense desire
for truth -realization is itself the way to it. The Lord is the inner most Self,which is in the form of consciousness in Advaita.
Therefore, one need not accept anything other than the self, which is
consciousness. Thus consciousness alone is ultimate truth or Brahman that is
free from falsehood.
Advita[non-duality] and dwith[duality] is
state of the self. It is not some
intellectual theory. Religious based Advitins believe the Atman [soul] is
Brahman; and the world is illusion. Religious dwitins believes the body as
self, and they believe world is reality, and they believe in creator and
creation theory. In India Adivita and
Dwaith is mere a religious tradition, which they inherited from their
ancestors. No one questions their validity, because it is considered blasphemy
to question any guru and god-men or pundiths.
People who are attached to their
religious code of conduct and trying to
preach Advita , that is mixing the individual life, and concept of god, and all
mixed up hotchpotch religious doctrine
and feed the seeking minds, are themselves not aware of the fact that the individuality, and the worldly life is part of the illusion.
Buddha must have
verified religion, Vedas and concept of god and found them inadequate and
useless in pursuit of truth and rejected them and he got enlightened without
the aid of religion, Vedas and concept of god.
After studying and going through all the
rigorous training from the religious scholars in Theosophical Society, J.K was
confused about all these, and when he started verifying with deeper
introspection, he found everything was priest-crafted hotchpotch ideologies.
Thus, he refused to become the world guru, rejected it, and walked out and
condemned the priest craft. There is no need to condemn priest craft
because it is meant for those who are not seeking truth.
In Advith they
accept karma theory. If they accept the
karma theory, one will not be able to reach the nondual destination. If one
accepts 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
because if karma is accepted they are accepting the false self [ego or body] as
true self and false experience [universe or waking] as reality.
The birth, life
and death are part of the waking experience, which is mere illusion on the
standpoint of the true self. 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 witness of the three states is
real, which is our identity has no birth and death. That is why self-knowledge
is nothing to do with the religious based Advith, which is based on 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, which is the true self, pervades all the three states, as their
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.
When Sri,Sankara says: world is unreal . He
never said body is unreal. He would have said only birth and death is unreal but 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 think, what remain without
the body and the world as reality. How can the birth, life, 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 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 FW/soul/self, only 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]. Deeper inquiry and sound reasoning will help the seeker to
discriminate between what is real and what is unreal. It will start yielding fruits and start
revealing, when he starts thinking very deeply.
This is the inner process every serious seeker experiences. The inner dialogue will start and he will
start getting answers from inner core of his existence.
