Until one is
ignorant of the true self [Atman], which is the formless substance and witness
of the duality, he is bound to experience the duality as reality.
The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Same way the
waking becomes unreal, when the non-dual wisdom dawns in the midst of duality.
When wisdom dawns in the midst of duality, one becomes aware of the fact that,
the whole experience of diversity [illusion] is created out of Atman, and
sustained by Atman, and finally dissolves as Atman. Thus, the true nature of
the true self [Atman] is not ego [I/my] but it is formless and non-dual.
This is my conviction
One has to go
beyond Vedas means go beyond religion. Go beyond religion means, go beyond
concept of god. Thus, going beyond Veda,
religion and conceptual god means going beyond illusion. That is end of Vedas [ Veda –antha]
When one goes
into the annals of the history it looks like the true Advith expounded by Sri
Sankara and his param guru, Goudpada was lost or mutilated by the orthodox,
because the preaching and practice does not match.
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.
The seeker must
have the courage of Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Since
Buddha rejected religion, idea of god and scriptures, therefore, it is evident
that, he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be
inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.
Even Buddhism is
mixed up with regional culture and traditions of the local religion, wherever
it existed. Thus to get the full essence from Buddhism is very difficult.
The scriptures
are for 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. 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 man pays more
attention to facts of life and this world.
Reason is the
common ground for whole humanity in 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.
The illusion is
present only in ignorance where, 'I' and you are separate entity. In truth,
there is neither 'I' nor you, nor, the illusion. Therefore there is no
teaching, no teacher, and no student in reality.
Truth pursuit is
a very personal journey. Seeker has to verify minutely on his own, “what is
truth”, and “what is not truth”, before accepting anything as truth. The
illusion exists as reality, only on base of the ego, which is he false self
within the false experience.
For Gnani, who is
aware of the fact that the self is not physical but self is consciousness,
there is no illusion, even though; he is in the midst of illusion, because he
is fully aware of the fact that, all the three states are consciousness. Therefore he is conscious of consciousness in
the midst of illusion.
The language of
the duality, invented by the within the duality, for use in the dualistic
world, when used to describe non-duality, produces these apparent
contradictions, because there no apparatus in non-duality, because noting exist
other than the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.
Non duality is
the state of oneness of existence and there is no scope in its philosophy for
anything like non-existence.
Gaudapada’s rational
exposition of Advaita: -Whatever is seen,
whether external or internal, whether by the ordinary persons or yogis, is unreal.
The essence of Mandukya's is: Do not be
satisfied with rituals, yoga etc. which are good in their own way, but inquire.
Inquire in to the nature of the mind. ? Brahman and Atman are things one can
never see. So seeker should not inquire into them. He has to inquire into the world around him,
which he can see. Analysis tells him it
is passing away every second. Everything is dying repeatedly. Where is it
going? Thus he follows up his investigation into what he can lay hands on. How
can he inquire into Atman which he cannot see? So first he must deal with the
known and seen, this inquiry leads up to the unknown in the end.
Mediocre minds waste their time on
arguing about unimportant matters. Accumulation of scriptural knowledge is
dangerous in pursuit of truth. Seeker has to establish in the truth of
Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. Seeker has to begin by defining
"What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the
right way to discuss, understand and assimilate self-knowledge.
Thus seeker has to remove all the hindrance in
order to acquire Self-knowledge.
