Direct realization of the ultimate
truth or Brahman leads to freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality. The
seekers of truth can constantly reflect on this non-dual truth to get a firm conviction.
Seekers who are after truth can
propitiate through constant reflecting on the true self, which is
consciousness, and attain their desired aim of reaching.
Only consciousness is perennial, all
others are impermanent, arriving at such a conviction, is truly the capacity
for discrimination.
Knowledge is never attained
without reflection, like an object is never seen without a bright light.
The inquiry, analysis through deeper reasoning that needs to be done is:-
1. Why
man and his experience of the world are present only in waking or dream?
2.
Why the universe is present only
when the mind is present?
3.
With what the mind has it been
made?
Thoughts like “I” and “I am” will not cease until one understands What is ‘I’. One has to understand the fact that, the thought will not rise without the waking or dream, therefore, the waking or dream has to be there prior to the real thought process. Thus thoughts are nothing to do with the formless witness of the waking or dream. Thoughts are concerned to the individual, not to the formless witness. Thus whatever is part of the mind has to be a falsehood. Thus the thoughts, which arise to the false self within the false experience are bound to be a falsehood. Thus it is erroneous to trace the source of the thought instead on has to first realize the fact that the ‘I’ is not the self. And ‘I’ is not limited to the physical entity but ‘I’ is the whole universe, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.
If ‘I’ is there then the mind is
there. If the mind is there then the universe is there. And the universe is present
only when waking or dream is present.
One see the differences between things
because of ignorance, all these differences would vanish when one gets wisdom
and the various thoughts arise because one considers ‘I’ as self.
The cause for this ignorance and the universe is subtle and one
without second and unchanging existence, Similar to the water being the cause of
clouds and snow.
One must be desirous of knowing
the ultimate truth. The pursuit of truth is the most difficult. But it is not difficult
for those serious seekers who want nothing other than the truth. Receptivity is needed in pursuit of truth.
Accumulated knowledge or scriptural mastery or logical conclusions are not
yardsticks in pursuit of truth.
One cannot imagine the truth and
imagination is not the truth. Imagination is possible only when there is duality.
Duality is falsehood. All our
individual experiences are part and parcel of the duality. Therefore our individual experiences of
birth, life, death, and the world are falsehood. To realize it is falsehood one
has to realize the fact that, the self is neither the waking entity nor the
dream entity but the Self is the formless substance and witness of the three
states.
Getting rid
of the world does not mean that it must become imperceptible to the senses. It
means that one must know that it is destructible, it is ever-changing. One must
know its real nature; its unreality. He must give up the notion that it is
real. The knowledge of consciousness cannot destroy the objective world, but
can only give him the idea that it is unreal.
Modern science proves that everything is changing every moment.
Spirituality has to consider and answer the questions: How that which changes,
appears to be, changeless? :~Santthosh Kumaar
