Samsara is
practical life within the practical world. Liberation is freedom from
experiencing the samsara or universe as reality.
The
practical life within the practical world appears to be monotonous or
troublesome only because we are unaware of the truth and we experience it as
reality.
We make
samsara or universe as living aspect and freedom as a goal. But what everyone
fails to understand is that the seeker, world, his path and his destination are
one in essence. That essence is consciousness. Just as the water is the main
essence of the snow and clouds the consciousness is the essence of the mind,
which is in the form of universe. The mind or universe appears as waking or
dream and disappears as deep sleep. The
substance and witness of the three states is consciousness. Thus the three
states are created out of single stuff, which is consciousness. Thus all the
things, forms and names of the waking or dream are mere mirage created out of
consciousness. The nothingness or emptiness of deep sleep is also
consciousness. Therefore there is nothing exist other than consciousness.
Thus truth
realization is most essential to live in freedom from experiencing the falsehood
as reality in the midst of false practical life within the practical world.
Freedom is
the nature of the soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Thus it is the
soul, which is seeking freedom from falsehood not the man who perceives the
world because the man and his experience of the world [waking] are part of the
mirage or falsehood.
Where
everyone err is that instead of realizing the waking entity is not the self
they try to experience the truth as a person of the world. Everyone is seeking what is already there
without realizing the seekers is not the body but the seeker is formless
consciousness. Until one realizes the seeker and seeking and realization are
mere happening within the falsehood, prevails as reality. Until the duality prevails as reality it is
impossible to get realization of the ultimate truth or Brahman. The one who realized the ultimate truth or
Brahman is Gnani.
A Gnani encourages the seekers to
think in a different way. Everyone whether religious or non-religious, whether
they have perception or none, he tries to bring them toward the boundless
freedom from experiencing the duality as reality. He never claims himself to be a Gnani. He never indulges in pursuit of argument.
He tries to sow the seed of
nonduality, which grows subconsciously and at right time it will start maturing
and starts yielding fruits. The nondual seed creates the doubts and confusion
and one starts thinking on his own to find answers for all his doubts and
confusion which creates an urge to know the truth of his true existence. Thus the inner journey begins.
Why vast majority of seekers are not
liberated even after their chosen paths, gurus’ guidance, scriptural mastery,
yogic practice and theoretical philosophy because all these are inadequate and
useless in pursuit of truth.
A
common error amongst follower of the Godmen is to jump to the conclusion that
he possesses miraculous powers because unusual coincidences happen in a few
cases, which they universalize.
Everyone
likes Religion because it belongs to the world of sentiments, emotions.
Religion changes as it appeals to different emotions. One will find at one pole
the nude sadhu is admired; at the other the gorgeously-robed swami or guru is
revered.
People
get carried away by miraculous powers of the
Godmen. Such powers have no value from
ultimate standpoint. What is the use of all the miraculous powers which is not
useful in stopping all the calamities like epidemics, starvation, earthquake
and tsunamis? Why to collect money from the people if their miracle power
produces everything other than the money. Why to build super specialty hospital when
they cannot cure people with their power all these doubts arise to the people
who are in search of the truth. From ultimate standpoint whatever miracles
performed and whatever miracles experienced is part of the duality, which is
mere illusion therefore whatever is experienced in the false hood is bound to
be falsehood.
Most of the gurus who pretend to be Gnanis and
illustrate the ‘I know’ attitude adopted because their guru told them so, both
of them not knowing really. They are certainly brilliant intellectually in their other spheres, in the worldly plane , but
remember the truth that most of these pretending Gnanis keep the quest of truth in watertight
compartments apart from the other sections of their brain.
Most
people apply reason admirably to their worldly business, but drop it and use
feeling or emotion only when trying to philosophize.
People
magnify every minor coincidence or every petty fact where these yogis were
concerned, and they see miraculous or esoteric significance therein. They are duped because they are unaware of the
fact that, all experiences takes place in the waking experience and waking
experience also a dream. Therefore, it
is necessary to realize the fact that, self is neither the waking entity nor
the dream entity but the self is the formless seer of all the three states. All
the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness, which is the
true self. Holding the consciousness as
self and dropping the mirage[three
states] mentally one is the realm of
non-duality.
Religious
or yogic truth is individual truth. The ultimate truth is not individual
because the self is not an individual it is universal.” This means religionist
and yogis takes their feeling and experience as truth whereas the Gnani takes
his reasoned judgment, which will be the same under test everywhere in the universe.
If
one has still attachment to his religion and concepts then he is not ripe
enough to take the inner journey. Only
when one finds his inherited belief system is inadequate and useless in
quenching his inner thirst ten only he will be able to take the inner
journey. Thus it is no use of forcing
anyone to path of truth because the urge to know the truth has to come from
within.
It is not of any use criticizing any
guru or his teaching. By criticizing any guru or teaching nothing will be
gained but one has highlight how they are inadequate and create obstacle in
pursuit of truth. Seekers main aim is
to acquire self-knowledge, not indulge criticism or indulge in argument. Lot of patience and humility is needed in
pursuit of truth. All discussion based on accumulated knowledge is unnecessary
and it is waste of time. Same time can
be utilized to unlearn what has been learnt and accumulated and start again as
a fresh.
No one has been liberated with the
egocentric spiritual paths and practices. Even anyone claims that they are self-
realized that is only hallucinated realization. It is
because no Gnani who is truly compassionate holds ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ self, and who thinks self is
limited to individual. Thus the all the practices which hold the individual
experiences such as bliss and Samadhi as self-realization are mere
hallucinating through their imagination.
Until one finds satisfaction with
the meaning of ornamental words they will be in the prison of emotion. The emotions and sentimentalism is the
greatest obstacle in realizing the fact that the self is not form but self is
formless, because, the emotion and sentimentalism belongs to the realm of
form. To overcome the emotion and
sentimentalism one has to realize the fact that, the self is not form.
People get involved with some teacher
and teaching and emotionally involved and leave their further search in the
name surrendering to the guru. Such surrender will not yield any fruit. It is
mere religious fable. Surrendering
within the duality to some person is not surrender because the duality is not
reality. When the form and names are
falsehood by surrendering to false entity is false surrender. The guru and god is inner most self. One has
to trace the formless self and realize it as his true identity, is real
surrender.
Self is the seer of all the three
states and it is ever free. Because it is not an entity or identity within the
waking or dream but it is formless substance of all the three states.
If one sees the seer as physical then
he is in the clutches of duality thus he is in the bondage of experiencing the
duality as reality. Thus one has to
trace the formless witness to realize the fact that, the self is not the form
but self is formless.
Only when
one becomes aware of the fact that, universe [which contains all the names and forms forest, ocean, hills,
sky, earth, stars and planets] is nothing but mirage created out of
consciousness then there is nothing to realize because whatever one has seen,
known, believed and experienced as person of the universe is mere mirage. Thus
consciousness alone is real all else is mere mirage created out of consciousness. Thus realizing the consciousness as self,
which is real and eternal is self-realization.
