Self is 'that which is at first known as the soul in the human
experience, but which, in the end, is found to be identical with the supreme
Reality. The pursuit of truth or
spirituality is discovering the truth of the true existence as its goal the realization of one's
identity with the Ultimate Truth.
Seekers goal is always a
spiritual one. In fact, a true knowledge is said to be a science which shows
the way of approach, or rather of return, to the spirit, which is the true Self. There are no other paths other then the formless path by which a seeker
may realize the ultimate truth.
When one is in the realm of inner
equilibrium - that is, perfect co-ordination between the Spirit [soul] and the Matter
[mind]. In this balance lies the secret. When the seeker of truth has learnt to view
and judge the three states, on the standpoint of the soul as self, so to say,
and does not allow himself to be imprisoned in the grip of ignorance. This is a
very difficult thing to achieve, but it is an important aspect of pursuit of
truth, inasmuch as it paves the way to detachment and gives freedom from the
burden of experiencing the duality as reality.
The three states are external to the soul, which is the true self. The three states are dependent and the
soul/self is independent.
This Self is dearer than a son, dearer than
wealth, dearer than everything else, because It is innermost. If one holding
the Self dear were to say to a person who speaks of anything other than the
Self as dear, that he, the latter, will lose what he holds dear—and the former
is certainly competent to do so—it will indeed come true. One should meditate
upon the Self alone as dear. He who meditates upon the Self alone as dear—what
he holds dear will not perish. --Bhad Upanishad -8-p- -211-
Westerners come to India to learn Vedas and Upanishads from the
pundits. They accept them as gurus and
sentimentally get involved with them. By
studying Vedas they will become only pundits but not be able to go deeper in
their pursuit of truth and get nondual wisdom.
Sri, Sankara
says: one
must first know what is before him. If he cannot know that, what else can he
know or understand? If he gives up the external world in his inquiry, he cannot
get the whole truth.
In Brahma
Sutras Sri,Sankara says: Brahman
is the cause of the world, whereas in Mandukya he denies it.
This may be because that at the lower stage of understanding,
the former teaching must be given, for people will get frightened as they
cannot understand how the world can be without a cause, but to those in a higher
stage, the truth of non-causality can be revealed.
In dualistic philosophies the imaginary god is made as creator
basing on cause and effect theory. Then the doubt natural arises, who is the
cause of the creator. The creator is dependent on creation for his
existence. Without the creation the
creator ceases to exist. Thus the dualistic theory holds no water, because it
is based on mere imagination and speculation, which they try to prove it on
citing the mythological stories and doctrine of code of conducts. When the self
is not the body then all these dualistic ideologies hold no water. Therefore the devotional paths, which are
based on the human conducts, are not the means for TRUTH –REALIZATION.
Even the religious based non-dualism is not the means for truth
realization, because their preaching is
based on the non-duality but their practice is based on dualistic view
point. Therefore, it is difficult to get TRUTH
–REALIZATION from conduct based orthodox non-dualism. Thus it looks like
the real essence of non-dualism is lost or destroyed in the past by the
orthodox oriented priest craft and propagated and injected only priest-crafted
non-dualism, to the mass, the reason best known to the masters of the
past. Therefore, it is impossible to
come out of all these priest crafted confusions in one life time. Through
orthodox non-dualism it is impossible to get truth realization.
There is no need to
collect all these baggage of confusions, if one is seeking truth, nothing but
truth. The guru is necessary only in religious and yogic paths, but guru is not
necessary in pursuit of truth. Path of
truth is a personal path and it is the path of verification. But in religion
and yoga the verification is not allowed. Blind faith is main ingredient in belief
system and yoga. Gurudom is playing
with words because maybe the meaning is floating somewhere in between the
spaces of words...
People who think themselves to be in a position to air their
knowledge forget one basic fact, namely that they go by mere appearances.
Someone expounds knowledge and the one who receives it begins to ape the person
from whom he has received the knowledge.
They never question the validity of that knowledge.
Thus, whatever the guru wears, he will wear; whatever mannerisms
the guru affects, he will imitate. Thus,
they only learn to pretend. And all so-called accumulated knowledge" is
mere speculation based on the physical self/ego. This is how tradition became
established and traditional forms of worship came into being and passed it on
the one generation to the next. All
these have nothing to do with the Self- Knowledge.
Whatever One has heard, whatever he has been told, will have no
value as far as the ultimate point of view. Whether one accepts the fact that,
the only knowledge that he really has is the knowledge that he exists, that is
consciousness. Other than that, whatever knowledge he thinks he has as a
person, is part of the illusion, something acquired, based on the illusory
consciousness.
The realization of truth is not intellectual understanding.
Self- Realization is about realizing the fact that, the self is not physical,
but it is the formless soul or consciousness.
Intellectual, logical, analytical perspective is based on the false
self, will not help the seeker to reach his non-dual destination. The truth is
beyond intellectual understanding and only the serious seekers who are free
from preconceived accumulated ideas can get there.
The seeker of truth moves ahead by verifying the facts and by
removing all the obstacles and reaches his non-dual destination.
There is a need to
bifurcate spirituality from the religion. Since most people from the west think
that Hinduism is a religion but it is not so. The Indus [Sindu] valley culture
is named as Hinduism by the Muslim
invaders in the past, who were not able to pronounce Sindu they called Sindu
culture as Hindu culture. Thus name Hindu came into existence. Hinduism is mere culture not religion. This
Hindu culture consists of different caste, creeds, ideologies, beliefs and way
of life in different regions of India.
Santana
Dharma was
pure Vedic religion prior to the existence of the present day Hinduism. Hinduism is not pure Vedic religion; it is
hotchpotch mixture of many ideologies adopted by other ideologies, cultures and
traditions.
As one goes deeper in annals of the history he becomes aware of the fact that, the so
called present Hinduism has adopted many things from Buddhism, religion of
Abraham, Jainism and Islam. If one
goes deeper enough he will become aware everything is mixed up and messed up in
time.
No one is taken pains to
rectify it because; because people have been inherited them, from their
ancestors and they think it is blasphemy even to hear anything against their
inherited religion and belief. Once one gets involved with the religious class
it is the end of the pursuit of truth.
J.K and Osho went deep in
to it and exposed their fallacies to some extent, but it is only in surface
level. Maharishi, Dayananda in his book Satyarth Prakash clearly mentions what
is Vedic and what is non-Vedic. But the orthodox class still wants to maintain
the inherited falls legacy as supreme truth.
Thus, there is no use of arguing or convincing the people who accepted
their false legacy and propagate them as truth. Since, the pursuit of truth is
a very personal journey; and it is not the pursuit of argument, there is no
need for to indulge in convincing others, seeker of truth has to get convinced
for him-self to drop all conditioning, which he has inherited from his belief
system.
Prior to Sri, Sankara in 8th century there was no Advith in
Santan Dharam. The duality came only in 12 th century. The Advith and Dwaith
were add- ons. Both Advith and Dwith schools based on Vedas and they condemn
each other with Upanisads and Puranic citations and prove one is right and
another is wrong.
Only pretenders show such external works or claims. People who
do not understand the scriptures generally misinterpret all scriptures
references to the ‘indifference’ of the sage as meaning sitting idle, remote
from worldly concerns. "Though the scripters speak of a direct knowledge
of ultimate truth by a study of the holy texts it does not become
established..." It is therefore not enough to say one understand the
theories of Advaita; you may grasp idealism and Mandukya but it is not enough.
The citations from scriptures are not proofs. The ultimate truth has to be proved without
the scriptures. The ultimate truth is
universal truth and it does not belong to any religion. The religion causes diversity in unity,
whereas, the ultimate truth brings unity in diversity.
It is impossible to bring unity in diversity through religion.
The religion is the cause of the wars and violence in the world. If ultimate
truth injected propagated to the mankind the fallacy of the religion is exposed
and people will know “what truth” is and “what is untruth” and find the
universal peace, which is the very nature of their true identity.
After Osho’s death now they are realizing what he said about
many things was right, but they do not want accept it in the name of protecting
their Religion and its culture. We have to thank Sri, Sankara for hiding the
truth within the religious based Advith, which has to be discovered by the
seekers of truth on their own by bifurcating religion/ god /gurus/
scriptures/yoga.
There is no need to
condemn the any religion but one has to know the fact that, it is meant for the
mass mind set and it is not the means to Self-Realization/Truth
Realization. There is no need to
study religious doctrine in order to acquire Self-Knowledge.
The religion and yoga are meant for preparatory stages, but they
are not the means for Self-Realization.
The mind cannot be stilled other than acquiring the non-dual
wisdom. People try all the mental and physical acrobatics to still the mind.
Until they are based on the body the thoughts will go on appearing. Until
thoughts are there the stillness is impossible. The thoughts will stop only
when there is perfect understanding through non dual wisdom. The thoughts
cannot arise without the form, feeling, perception, mental formation and
consciousness. If one of these is missing the thought will not form.
To make the mind still
one has to have the perfect understanding of the whole experience without
mixing up with accumulated ideas from the religion, scriptures and yogic ideas
and theoretical knowledge based on the logic.
The mind becomes still only when one accepts the fact that consciousness
is the true self, and rejects ‘I’ as self mentally. There is no use of seeking truth on the base
of ‘I’ which is not the self. This base
can be rectified through deeper Self-search through perfect understanding and
assimilating. Though it may look difficult at first gradually the serious seeker
will get a hang of it, and will start feeling the non-dual tranquillity. This is possible only through constant
mental effort through reflection on the formless witness of the three states.
The word illusion is
used as suggestion to the subconscious to bifurcate the real from the unreal.
Since truth pursuit is completely a mental journey, suggesting the right
suggestions to subconscious is the only way. The word illusion scares many, but
there is no need to get scared, nothing is lost, only the ignorance will
disappear and one will be able to view and judge the birth, life and death on
the base of consciousness, thus the burden of the duality will be shifted from
form to formless thus one gets freedom from experiencing the duality which he
is experiencing as reality right here and now, consciously living within the
duality, until it disappears on its own and become one with the eternal
identity.
