It is difficult to understand
assimilate the ultimate truth within some framework of some teaching or holding some philosophy as a
yardstick. one has to drop all our
accumulated dross to understand and assimilate and realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic
truth. I am highlighting some scriptural
citation only to show the seeker that the non-dual sages themselves declare that
scriptures, religion and idea of god are unimportant in pursuit of truth. It is easier to understand, assimilate and
realize the ultimate truth or non-dualistic truth by rationalizing our views
and understanding:-
One have dropped old conditioning by accepting new
conditioning by collecting new information. Information is not truth.
Verification of information leads one towards truth. Therefore, one has to de-condition
himself from all accumulated information, which is blocking him from
de-conditioning and assimilating the truth.
There is no difference between a religionists and Atheist,
because both are believers. Religionists believes in existence of God, and
Atheist believes in no God. Thus the common thing between religionists and
Atheist is the belief. The belief is belief, it not god or its no god. It is only
a thought. Holding certain thought as truth is not truth. This belief blocks them to overcome the conditioning.
Similarly, all the information collected without verification blocks one, and
it becomes an obstacle in assimilating the truth.
When one is not aware of the subject (soul or
consciousness) then he speaks on standpoint of the object (physical self or ego)as subject, due to ignorance of the subject. Until he becomes aware of the
subject he will remain in the grip of physical conditioning. One cannot overcome the physical conditioning without
the Self-knowledge. The knowledge
accumulated on base of the physical self or ego is mere intellectual speculation,
makes one egocentric intellectual not a Gnani.
When one is not aware of his own existence is not physical,
then how can he be aware of the awareness, which is called soul or emptiness or
nothingness or consciousness or self or Brahman or Christ. Therefore, one has come out of the physical
shackle, to overcome the physical conditioning.
Ego means physical conditioning. The conditioned ego is called man. When
man considers himself as self he becomes ignorant of the soul or
consciousness. Thus this physical
conditioning of the consciousness makes him believe the birth, life, death and
the world as reality. Until one believes
in birth, life, death and world as reality, the self-knowledge is impossibility
because he experiences the duality as reality.
Till one knows the existence of the soul or consciousness
through deeper verification, he will not be capable knowing the existence of
the soul or consciousness.
What is it that makes the body and the world exists for
you? It is awareness. Mind is this whole universe in which you, me and others
and everything that you, me and others know exists. The whole universe which
contains you, me and others is mental; therefore it is mind.
The universe [mind] is mere mirage or illusion created out
of the self, which is the soul/consciousness. One has to analyze the mind
through deeper thinking. Then only he becomes aware of the fact that, the mind
is not confined to the body; because the mind is the whole universe. The universe appears as mind and the mind
appears as waking or dream. And waking
or dream disappears as deep sleep. This fact has to be investigated and
assimilated first.
If the mind is whole universe, and the universe is in the
soul, which is the true self; then what is there to claim as mine when there is
nothing beside the soul, which is in the form of consciousness; when whatever
is, is the true self or the consciousness. Consciousness converted in to waking
or dream. And waking or dream is
converted into deep sleep. Thus the substance
of the three states is one and the same. Thus the substance itself is witness
of the three states. Therefore, the substance and witness are one in
essence. The essence is consciousness.
The consciousness is the ultimate truth.
Thus, whatever is claimed as me and mine is meaningless
from the ultimate point of view because there is no second thing exists other than
consciousness.
Consciousness is everything, therefore, there is nothing
exist other than consciousness. Lectures limit consciousness. If one wants to overcome the physical
conditioning of consciousness, then he has to realize the fact that, self is
not physical but it is formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness. So
there is room for duality in reality, therefore the birth, life, death and
world are mere illusion created out of consciousness.
