The
religious based realist will not be able to grasp, understand, assimilate and
realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth because they are egocentric. The religious realist rejects the all talks
of illusion. The realist believes in a vast
universe of material things, there are an infinite numbers of finite conscious
souls inhabiting material bodies and there is God. They are incapable of
grasping non-dual awareness because of their awareness is limited to
physicality. And they take their physical experience as reality without
verifying the fact that, the self is not physical. Until their reason is based
on the physical self they will not be able to realize the non-dualistic truth.
In
addition they follow the path of devotion to the imaginary entity as god and
love for the imagined God. Devotion demands distinction between devotee and the
Deity. Thus the duality prevails. Until
duality is there is no reality because duality hides the reality. Thus, they will remain believing the false
self as real self and false experience as reality and get in the bondage of
birth, life, death and the world and permanently remain in the prison of
ignorance believing the ignorance as reality.
They hold
that universe of souls and material objects, the very universe one can see
through see with himself as he turns his gaze inwards, is actually body of the God.
Just as the human soul is the animator and controller of its body, so the God
is the animator and controller of the universe. God penetrates every atom of
it; he is inseparable from it.
Furthermore, there is no other reality anywhere besides this all-pervading
god.
For
realist the souls and things are essentially different from God, not just apparently,
and they will always be different. As realist think god is immeasurably raised above
all possibility of anyone being equal or superior to God. God besides pervading all, love all. God
delights in attracting souls to Himself. God’s mercy extends to all cast down
to the lowliest. All one has to do is surrender his will to the god. And sooner
or later every soul will—in the end no soul will want to resist his free grace.
Thus realist believes in universal salvation. This belief is consistent with their view that
all soul starts with the same spiritual apparatus. None is privileged when brought forth into
manifestation. What differentiate one from another is choices
each makes, their respective actions, over the course of many lives. And just
as they all start out the same, they end up the same when finally from cycle of
birth and death. They think no soul is
superior to another.
All these
religious realist theories based on the false self (ego) considering the false
experience (waking) as reality. All
these theories are good for the mass mind-set that is incapable of verifying
the validity of their own existence.
Deeper
inquiry, analysis and reasoning revels the fact that, the self is not physical
but the self is the formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Therefore, on the base of soul (consciousness) as self the physical existence (mind or universe) is mere mirage created
out of consciousness. Thus consciousness
alone is real and alleles are mere mirage.
Thus, by
accepting himself as devotee of a deity or disciple of some guru one has
accepted himself as an individual separate from the world. By accepting himself
as an individual he remains ignorant of the reality, which is hidden within the
mind which appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). The one which is aware of the appearance and disappearance of the
mind is not the form but it is formless. The formless knower is consciousness. The consciousness is the formless substance
and witness of the mind (I).
One who has immersed in the intoxication of ignorance has to overcome the intoxication of illusion by seeking truth directly by inquiring into the nature of the mind and learn the truth of the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.
