Friday, November 25, 2011

FORMLESS PATH - FACEBOOK POSTINGS




  • The various thoughts rise because of ignorance. The ignorance is because of experiencing the illusion as reality. Illusion will prevail till one is remains in the prison of his accumulating knowledge. The accumulated knowledge makes one more and more egoic. And the egoic attitude will block one from acquiring the non-dual wisdom. The truth cannot be bought in the spiritual super market, but seeker has to acquire it with his own mental effort by constant inquiry, analysis and reasoning. Patience, humility and receptiveness are needed in pursuit of truth.
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  • Consciousness persists through all three states. One has to mentally negate all the three states in order to realize the fact that the witness is within the three states and it is without the three states. It is within the three states as their formless substance and it is without the three states as their formless witness.

    The true existence is consciousness without the form, time and space. Therefore the self is nothing other than the consciousness. However, this consciousness is not the flux of states, a stream of consciousness.

    Consciousness is the knower, knowledge, the known. It is infinite, transcendent, the essence of absolute knowledge. And it is also -illumined, free, and real. Thus the consciousness is the knower of all and all else is known other than consciousness. The known is mere illusion created out of the formless knower. Therefore, the knower and the known are one in essence. In reality there is neither the knower nor the known but only oneness.
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  • Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer." ~Rainer Maria Rilke
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  • People make their accumulated knowledge as a yardstick and argue on their own standpoint. Such discussion will not lead anywhere because all the accumulate knowledge are based on the ego and the truth is based on the soul. Thus such discussion will not lead anywhere because they are totally based on different pole. Our reasoning and judgment has to be soul centric not egocentric. It is foolish to accept the truth without verification.
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  • Blind beliefs without verification and argument and interpretation on the base of false self[ego or waking entity] are not verified knowledge therefore it is not truth.

    v What is the use of arguing on base of the birth entity, which is not the self?

    v What is the use of knowing what happens after death when the self is birthless?

    v What is the use of thinking of the heaven and hell when the self is not an individual and it is never born and never dies?

    When formless consciousness, is the innermost self, which pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states, what value the theoretical philosophies and scientific inventions which are based on individual intellectuality will have.

    The consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman. Consciousness is ground of the universe, the consciousness is the first cause of the universe and it itself is uncaused.

    Ultimate truth cannot be defined in positive terms because any definition would mean limitation. One has to realize the fact that, the universe and all its contents are mere mirage created out of consciousness. That means the mind and the soul, which is the innermost self are one in essence.
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  • Direct realization of the ultimate truth leads one to freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality. The seekers of truth can constantly reflect on this non-dual truth to get 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 enquiry, 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 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 falsehood. Thus the thoughts, which arise to the false self within the false experience is bound to be 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 the limited to the physical entity but ‘I’ is whole universe, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.

    If ‘I’ is there then the mind is there. If mind is there then the universe is there. And the universe is present only when waking or dream is present.

    One see differences between things because of ignorance, all these differences would vanish when one gets wisdom and the various thoughts rises 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.
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  • All appearance has not appeared to the physical entity, but to the soul. Man and the world are mere appearance. That is, the illusion is mere appearance. Thus man cannot be considered as witness, since man and his experience of the world are within the illusion. Thus the witness of the illusion is within the illusion but it is apart from the illusion. It is with is within the illusion as its formless substance and it is apart from the illusion as its formless witness. The formless substance and witness is the soul or consciousness. The soul or consciousness is the true self. Realizing the soul as self is Self -Realization. Therefore, the soul alone is real and all else is mere illusion. By Learning to view and judge the three states on the base of soul, which is the innermost self, leads to nondual self-awareness.
    · · · Wednesday at 3:09am
  • The god and guru are part of the illusory world; therefore the devotee and disciple also are also part of the illusion. Accepting the birth, life and death as reality, is accepting the illusion as reality. Accepting illusion as reality is the cause of the ignorance. Ignorance makes one feel the duality as reality. The duality makes one feel he is an individual separate from the world. This separation makes one feel the birth, life and death as reality. The person who bases on the birth, life and death is trying to find the meaning of life. There is no meaning or purpose of the life, because the life is mere happening within the illusion. Thus the karma based on the physical entity is based on the birth, life and death, which is part and parcel of the illusion.
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