People start their spiritual practices for accomplishing their needs in
the worldly life as they think fulfilling such needs will give them peace of
mind. But gradually they come to know that actual spiritual practices are for
realizing the fact that, birth, life and death are mere mirage on the standpoint
the true self which is the soul.
Truth cannot be got in external world. The truth is hidden within the
three states as their formless substance and witness. Running away from worldly
life to Himalayas to acquire non dual truth is a foolish venture. The true self
is not an entity or identity within the waking experience but it is the source
of the three states from where the three states erupt and subsides.
The intellectuals say
only children or idiots make no distinction between waking and dreaming. The
point is when one analyzes the three states neither the dream is real, nor the
waking is real. Waking is parallel dream. Dream is parallel waking experience.
People say they had flashes at moments of the truth. When
one is old, he finds his childhood and youth are like shadows. The runs he
scored that in his youth years are unreal. His dating with his teenage girlfriend is mere
memories. He cannot touch them. What has become of them? It looks like a dream
to him now. Thus even experience teaches a man that many things that he looks
upon as real are mere ideas.
"Illustration" here means that having seen the
individual experiences within the dream then all having proved unreal, one draw
the general conclusion that they are all unreal. One cannot have referred to
the dream if one had not seen the objects.
All the confusion and doubts arise because one does not know what is
seeking. He thinks “I” is self and he is trying to acquire self-knowledge on
the base of ‘I’, which is false self. He thinks truth is something accomplished
from the external experiences. So instead of verifying it through deeper
inquiry, analysis and reasoning tries one tries to regulate his human
attributes and tries to acquire the self-knowledge. However, the action and
deeds are not the means to acquire non-dual wisdom. Truth is not something to be sought. It is something that has to be
realized.
