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Religion
needs a guru to propagate its belief system, whereas in pursuit of
truth there is no need for a guru. The ultimate truth has to be
ascertained by seeker alone. Yoga needs guru to guide its student to
practice Samadhi.
Religion encourages one who can induce
himself to feel convinced that he has realized the Self, or has an
admirer who believes that he has done so, the it opens up for him the
way for the founding of a new sect based on Guru-worship. People, too,
have developed curious credulousness. Often they would install an
earnest seeker and devotee, or a pious saint, on the throne of God and
begin to offer him worship and homage even if he protested and resisted
such acts. They would lay prostrate, sing hymns, wave lights (arati) and
burn incense before him, and present to him food which was to be
returned by him as prasada, wash his toes and sip the wash. At times the
disciple would go to the length of getting food, fruit or a betel-nut
leaf chewed by him, and taking the morsel back from it.
They
would place his photo in the private temples of their homes and perform
all these rites and ceremonies which are usually offered to
temple-idols. In this way there might be at present in our country
scores of individuals who are worshipped as living God, with a following
varying in numbers.
If one is seeking truth one has to drop
all religious based dogmas and blind beliefs ritualistic baggage and
move forward in their pursuit of truth.
When Chandogya Upanishads :-
This universe comes forth from Brahman and will return to Brahman.
Verily, all is Brahman. A person is what his deep desire is. It is our
deepest desire in this life that shapes the life to come. So let us
direct our deepest desires to realize the Self.
If one is
seeking truth then it is necessary to bifurcate and drop the
traditional Advaitic path which is not the means to self-knowledge and
move ahead without the traditional baggage to get direct realization on
his own as suggest by the great sages.
Thus seeker of truth
has to know what this universe? What is this ultimate truth or Brahman?
in order to realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth?
No
one can escape the waking experience which is the very basis of the
physical existence. What was the waking experience before it appeared?
Was their existence before the appearance of the waking experience?
When the waking perishes, does the soul or consciousness survive alone?
Is there a self or soul? The seeker has to find answers for all these
doubts in order to realize ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’.
As one goes deeper in self-search one becomes aware of the fact that
the self is neither the waking entity not self is the dream entity but
self is formless substance and witness of the three states. And the
formless substance and witness of the three states are one in essence.
And that essence is consciousness. If the formless substance and
witness are one in essence, than there is second thing can exist, other
than consciousness? Thus consciousness alone is real and all else is
mere illusion created out of consciousness, which is the innermost self.
People who argue there is nothing beyond the universe; there
is nothing other than the matter; that the body was the man; and death
was end of all. According to them there is no truth other than the
practical life within the practical world, which they hold as reality.
Their only agenda is as long as they live in the world live happily with
all the pleasant things of life, who can demonstrate that there is
something left after the physical death. Beg, borrow or steal – but
live happily is their mantra.
There are also people who
believe strongly there was a sprit which defied the ravages of time,
which cannot be confined in space; that sprit transcends the limits of
this universe in which the body exists.
How one can decide what is truth, when he is bound by birth, life and death or form, time and space?
The consciousness is the innermost self. And nature of the
consciousness is formless and nondual. One should realize the
consciousness as whole universe without parts. To describe nonduality
as a system is erroneous because the dual and nondual is the nature of
the self. Duality is illusory nature of the self and non-duality is real
nature of the innermost self, which is consciousness. Ultimate truth
cannot be confined into a narrow set of ideas.
Non-dualistic
truth is supreme truth; all dualistic systems hold false self as real
self and false experience as reality. Non- dualistic wisdom is
culmination of all systems including theistic nonduality. The true
non-dualist will not quarrel and argue with any theoretical philosophy
because he is fully aware of the fact that, this orthodox theistic
non-dualistic scholars or pundits like Dualist sages could not
distinguish between ‘I’ and ‘formless witness.’ The 'I' was the witness.
Their highest was the Jiva. One is so much attached to the 'I' that he
do not want to think that 'I' does not exist. Again one is unable to
detach the ‘I’ from the Real witness.
There is need to study
the scriptures. One has to self-search the truth and realize it without
the scriptures. And then when he reads the scriptures he becomes aware
the scriptures are also saying the same thing but everything is
misinterpreted.
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The
'Void' of emptiness of Buddhism is only a stage. It cannot be ultimate.
It says there is really nothing. The mistake of Hinayana Buddhism is to
jump to assumptions where Buddha kept silent.
Zen
is quite alright in mentioning non-duality: it is the nearest to true
Advaita, but nevertheless it is still inferior because it fails to prove
non-duality, it illogically gives koan exercises as a means of
attaining That which is beyond attainment, because always here, and it
talks of insight or intuition to see Reality when sight involves a
second thing, duality.
Zen gives a high important place to
meditation practice. The truth is that Zen advocates the necessity of
meditation for those of its adherents who cannot grasp the absolute
truth.
ZEN is also on this lower stage of Yoga, because it depends on flashes of Intuition gained by meditation, not by reasoning.
ZEN Satori is not highest Advaitic or non-dualistic Gnana, because it
comes as flashes, it does not depend on seeing the world, and does not
depend upon mental sharpness so much as intuition. Zen Buddhists are
only mystics--they do not offer proof. How is their main method
different from that of Christian mystics, Hindu mystics, all of whom do
not seek to prove by reason, but by "I know," intuition?
When
one says "Nothing is" what is the meaning of "is"? "Nothingness” is
something which exists: one cannot prove that consciousness does not
exist.
Has the Void a meaning? If so then it is only one’s
imagination. Buddha gave up yoga after practicing it for six years. He
saw it could not yield truth.
Buddha gave up his austerities of yoga as impossible and useless. [Page.70/71 "Buddhism in Translation” by Warren]
Thus Buddha got enlightenment only after he gave up Yoga. Unless one
exercises his reason--there is no chance of getting truth.
Buddhism has not proved the truth of Nonduality. There is no doubt
Buddha pointed out unreality of world. He told people they were foolish
to cling to it. But he stopped there. He came nearest to Advaita in
speech but not to Advaita fully.
When
one says "Nothing is" what is the meaning of "is"? "Nothingness” is
something which exists: one cannot prove that consciousness does not
exist.
Has the Void a meaning? If so then it is only one’s
imagination. Buddha gave up yoga after practicing it for six years. He
saw it could not yield truth.
Buddha gave up his austerities of yoga as impossible and useless. [Page.70/71 "Buddhism in Translation” by Warren]
Thus Buddha got enlightenment only after he gave up Yoga. Unless one
exercises his reason--there is no chance of getting truth.
Buddhism has not proved the truth of Nonduality. There is no doubt
Buddha pointed out unreality of world. He told people they were foolish
to cling to it. But he stopped there. He came nearest to Advaita in
speech but not to Advaita fully.
Buddhist
Idealism: speaks only of ideas. But they are unaware of the knower of
these ideas? It is a thought. The thinker of these thought are part of
the duality without the thinker there are no thoughts. Without form
there is no thinker.
Buddha kept silent, refusing to answer
questions on the ultimate. Therefore he was the wisest man in refusing
to commit himself.
There is no other guru but the formless consciousness, which the innermost self.
If someone has acquired self-knowledge and shares his acquired
knowledge with others, they cannot say that there is nothing for them to
do. Everyone has to discover a fresh for himself by verifying all the
facts. Each one has to grasp assimilate and realize it until he gets
firm conviction of the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Mind appears
due to ignorance. Without ignorance the mind ceases to exist. Thus
mind is in the form of universe and appears as waking or dream. The
waking or dream is state of duality. Thus seeker has to hold wherever
there is duality there is ignorance. If duality is considered as
reality than the experience of birth, life, death and the world is
considered as reality. If experience birth, life, death and the world
is considered as reality than the form, time and space is becomes a
reality. If form, time and space is becomes reality as reality than
there is diversity in unity. To bring back the unity in diversity, one
has to put the ego in to reverse gear until it reaches the ultimate end
or source from where mind rises and subsides.
Seeker has
to grow from the inside out by soulcentric reasoning. None can teach him
none can make him to reach the ultimate end. There is no other guru but
the formless consciousness, which the innermost self.
Mind is in
the form of universe. Man is with in the world. Man is the physical
entity within the universe. Universe appears as waking or dream. Dream
is parallel waking and waking is parallel dream. The formless witness
of the mind or universe or waking is real and eternal. The formless
witness itself is the formless substance of the three states.
The scriptures are for ignorant masses, who wholly accept the material
world as it presents itself. Wisdom is for those who have begun to
realize that things are not what they seem.
Each sect concocts a God
to suit its own purposes. Such concocted Gods have no value in pursuit
of truth. Man himself suggests that there must be a God. It is an
auto-suggestion.
Prayers and sacrifices belong to a premature stage
of development. However when no answers come to prayers, struggle for
existence presses man, and doubt arises again. Faith in religion
weakens as man pays more attention to facts of life and this world.
People take their gurus as their model. Many think that wisdom to be
the matter of theorizing. But it is not so. Nondual wisdom is nothing
to do with practical life, which is limited to form, time and space.
Everyone has to experience birth, life, death and the world within
the waking experience. The dream becomes unreal when waking takes
place. And waking becomes unreal when the self, wakes up in its formless
nondual true nature in the midst of waking experience.
Egocentric theorizing does not lead to self-awareness. Water is the
root of the element of the snow and cloud, similarly, consciousness is
root of the element of the universe. From consciousness the universe
comes into existence. In consciousness the universe resides. And into
the consciousness the universe is dissolved. Consciousness is parent of
all that is there.
All the add-ons and attribute based
knowledge, which are inferior, have to be bifurcated and excluded to
know the ultimate truth. The seeker of truth has to drop all the
inferior knowledge based on the attributes and go beyond Vedas to
understand assimilate and realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Reason is the common ground for whole humanity in modern age, whereas
the appeal to scriptural relations reaches only the sects. Those who
argue that truth is only in their religion are vain logicians, depending
on mere ideas, speculations and imaginations.
Truth is bitter
pill. It becomes very difficult for the seeker to accept it at first;
because of his inherited conditioning. Gradually he will be able to
grasp it as he moves on.
One has to go beyond Vedas means go beyond
religion. Go beyond religion means, go beyond concept of god. Thus,
going beyond Veda, religion and conceptual god means going beyond
illusion. That is end of Vedas [Veda –antha]
It is necessary for
the seeker to do his homework, and verify the validity of all the
claims, rather than blindly believe, what others expound as knowledge,
till, the un-contradicted truth is obtained.
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Swami
Vivekananda said: - “You have to grow from the inside out. None can
teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but
your own soul.”
