Most
people think what they have accepted as truth is ultimate truth. And also they have attitude that “What they
know is right and what others know is wrong.” This unfortunate vanity is common to
all men and prevents realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman. One must begin by doubting his own knowledge, and
then only he will be able to know 'what is what'.
Only when doubts begin to
arise the quest of truth begins. And such doubts usually first start verifying
the validity of all his accumulated knowledge.
With the ancients truth seeking began with wonder, with moderns
it begins with doubts. How one has to know that his estimate of life is a
correct one?
Everything has to be
investigated and believed on reason
based on facts, and then only may one accept it as truth in order to know that
others have reached the same conclusion. But when a man depends on scriptures
and opinions and uses it as proof very extensively it is because of his
inferiority complex. Only one has to
highlight the scriptural citation which will help the seeker in his inner
journey after deeper verification.
Seeker must go to the very
fundamentals, to the root of thinking, to “grasp the principles and not merely
repeat the words of scriptures or intellectual’s opinion. Since the scriptures an intellectual base
their theories on the waking entity or ego, which is the false self, whereas
the ultimate truth is based on consciousness, which is the innermost self
“Self”. Thus egocentric opinions have no value in pursuit of truth.
Whatever is based on the formless soul or consciousness as self has to be accepted as truth.
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How do
seeker know what others says is true?
This question must come to the seekers mind whenever a doctrine
is presented. That truth is known only by intuition is wrong. It is known by soul-centric Reason.
Whatever one knows that
what he has seen by the intuition which he praise as the highest faculty, to
accept as true that is a difficult question. That all his doubts are cleared,
he means his doubts on every question about his true existence. Ultimate truth
cannot be realized if one not begun by having doubts about the physical
existence.
Doubts and confusions can be overcome by the
sword of wisdom; it does not mean that one
should give up his doubt and
believe, as the religionists interpret it, since the religionists and yogis
interpret it on the base of waking entity or ego.
The truth has to be verified on the base of soul
as “Self”. But that if one keeps on thinking about his doubts on the base of waking
entity or ego as self he never be able to solve. The seeker has to mentally
rectify his reasoning base then only trying to discriminate. Seeker should
cultivate to view and judge the worldview on the standpoint of consciousness,
which is the innermost self. He should
inquire and reason on the standpoint of consciousness as self and should not
stop until this point is reached.
One
has to realize the fact that, the whole universe that confronts him is consciousness.
Unless the world is there in one’s realization, there is no ultimate truth or
Brahman.
Ignorance
cannot go through merely knowing the consciousness, for it is known in sleep
and Samadhi. It can go only by knowing consciousness. If one can say that in his
yogic Samadhi he saw the universe and
knew it as consciousness , than one could agree that Yoga leads to truth, but in
Samadhi one is unaware of the universe,
and hence of consciousness.
To
talk of ultimate truth without knowing the meaning of the word is utterly
meaningless. How does the yogi know that what he finds in Samadhi is consciousness?
He can know it only by soul centric inquiring and reasoning. He may see a beast
in his Samadhi, but how does he know that beast is consciousness because he still
in the realm of duality? He has not aware of the fact that, his body and ego
and his experience of the world too is consciousness, because he takes them to
be real. Thus his body based Samadhi is
mere an experience based on false self within the false experience.
When
the waking experience itself is as false as dream then how the yogic Samadhi
experienced within the falsehood can be true. Whatever experienced as a person within the
falsehood bound to be falsehood. First
of all he must give the meaning of consciousness! There is the evidence? Until
he defines his body, ego and his experience of the world he cannot say what he
means.
It
is not enough to see a mere blank yogic Nirvikalpa. One has to see the consciousness,
which the innermost self is the universal self. The innermost self is free from ignorance not when one see nothing at all, as in yogic Samadhi but only when one see all this universe is consciousness, which is innermost self. Hence seeker
must ask the question “What is this universe?” The attention must be drawn to
the practical world. Thus Gnana will make one feel for the universal welfare.
This is the highest aim and test.
