If
someone has acquired self-knowledge and shares his acquired knowledge with
others, they cannot say that there is nothing for them to do. Everyone has to
discover a fresh for himself by verifying all the facts. Each one has to grasp
assimilate and realize it until he gets a firm conviction of the ultimate truth
or Brahman.
The
mind appears due to ignorance. Without ignorance the mind ceases to exist. Thus mind is in the form of the universe and
appears as waking or dream. The waking
or dream is a state of duality. Thus seeker has to hold wherever there is
duality there is ignorance. If duality
is considered as reality than the experience of birth, life, death and the
world are considered as reality. If
experience birth, life, death and the world are considered as reality than the
form, time and space become a reality. If form, time and space becomes reality,
than there is diversity in unity. To
bring back the unity in diversity, one has to put the ego into reverse gear
until it reaches the ultimate end or source from where mind rises and subsides.
The
mind is in the form of the universe. Man
is within the world. Man is the physical entity within the universe. The
universe appears as waking or dream. The dream is parallel waking and waking is
parallel dream. The formless witness of
the mind or the universe or waking is real and eternal. The formless witness
itself is the formless substance of the three states.
The scriptures are for the ignorant masses, who wholly accept
the material world as it presents itself. Wisdom is for those who have begun to
realize that things are not what they seem.
Each sect concocts a God to suit its own purposes. Such concocted Gods have no value in pursuit
of truth. The man himself suggests that
there must be a God. It is an auto-suggestion.
Prayers and sacrifices belong to a premature stage of
development. However when no answers come to prayers, struggle for existence
presses man, and doubt arises again.
Faith in religion weakens as the man pays more attention to the facts of
life and this world.
People
take their gurus as their model. Many think that wisdom to be the matter of
theorizing. But it is not so. Non-dualistic or Advaitic
wisdom is nothing to do with practical life, which is limited to form, time and
space. Everyone has to experience
birth, life, death and the world within the waking experience. The dream becomes unreal when waking takes
place. And waking becomes unreal when the self, wakes up in its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of waking experience.
Egocentric theorizing does not lead to self-awareness. Water is
the root of the element of the snow and cloud, similarly, consciousness is the
root of the element of the universe. From consciousness the universe comes into
existence. In consciousness the universe resides. And into the consciousness
the universe is dissolved. Consciousness is the parent of all that is there.
All attributes based knowledge, which are inferior, have to be
bifurcated and excluded to know the ultimate truth. The seeker of truth has to drop all the
inferior knowledge based on the attributes and go beyond the Vedas to
understand assimilate and realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Reason is the common ground for whole humanity in the modern age,
whereas the appeal to scriptural relations reaches only the sects. Those who argue that truth is only in their
religion are vain logicians, depending on mere ideas, speculations and
imaginations.
Truth is bitter pill. It becomes very difficult for the seeker
to accept it at first; because of his inherited conditioning. Gradually he will
be able to grasp it as he moves on.
One has to go beyond Vedas means go beyond religion. Go beyond
religion means, go beyond the concept of god.
Thus, going beyond Veda, religion and conceptual god means going beyond
illusion. That is the end of Vedas (Veda –antha)
It is necessary for the seeker to do his homework, and verify
the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what others
expound as knowledge, till, the un-contradicted truth is obtained.
When self is not the waking entity than the experience of
birth, life and death is nothing to do with the formless soul, innermost self,
which is birthless deathless. The form, time and space are nothing to do with the
formless soul, the innermost self.
