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The world is nothing but the mind. Apart from the mind can there be a world?--Raman Maharshi
Ramana
Says: The self is fullness of consciousness. Therefore, there is
nothing apart from it. Ramana would humorously say that if god were to
be separate he would be self-less. As for Sadguru his individuality is
dead. It is merged in the self like waves in the sea. So, he is the
Self. The guru and god are not different for their essential nature as
unlimited consciousness is the same. [Page-8 – Practical Guide To Know
Yourself].
There
is no doubt the value and achievements of yoga and the benefit it
confers, but one also has to recognize its limitations and disadvantages
when pursued to excess.
Seekers quest has bring him to a clear
perception that there is something higher than yoga and mysticism.
Therefore he has been compelled by his love of truth to devote his
further attention to these further explorations for he has devoted all
too large a portion of his life in discovery of ultimate truth.
Seeker also been compelled by growing experience to realize that his
earlier estimates of the character and attainments of yogis and mystics
and god men about whom he has faith were excessive and extravagant
and ought to be revised.
When one realizes the fact that ‘I’
not the self, as a seeker after truth he does not deviate his iota from
its quest. But now he knows how far yoga leads and now he sees what has
to be done after passing its bounds.
Many of those who have
pushed their pursuit of yoga to extremes have got hallucinated blankness
which they call it Samadhi. The yogic Samadhi is not wisdom. Deeper
self-search supports his conviction that ultimate truth lies beyond
yoga.
Every man thinks he has got truth. For some art and
music provides their way to heaven and ecstasy. For them that is truth.
The Yogi thinks in precisely the same way of his Samadhi. Both are
carried away by their blissful feelings which they imagine to be truth.
None inquire but both accept their feelings as truth.
We all get what we get, from getting what we got, in the first place!
Yoga
has its place rather than its value and that its value is for a certain
type of mind. Yoga will give steadiness of mind, education of mind, but
never Truth because it ignores the world which confronts everyone.
One cannot live without the physical world; it is the basis of one’s
life, so it must be the starting point of one’s inquiry. Facts not
Imagination is material to realize the ultimate truth or Brahman.
Yoga shuts its eyes against the world and then has the temerity to
declare that it knows the world to be Atman! Because yogi has not
inquired into it, he knows nothing.
The whole of life has to be resolutely weighed, and accurately, observed in Spirituality by seeker of truth. He must ask:-
What is this world?
What Am I?
Why the world and I are present only in Waking experience?
Hence deeper self-search is a necessary foundation. Hence too, the
Yogi who looks only inside and ignores the world throws away part of the
materials needed to find truth.
Without knowing the nature of the
Waking experience, it is impossible to know truth. What is the use of
trying to find one’s inner self before one understands the Waking
experience.
If one does not analyze three states which appear
and disappears, the experience of duality, one is only drawing on his
imaginations. Then he says “The Atmanundefined is like this, or like that." but it will be only his mental construction.
First one must inquire into the nature of the physical body that is
matter. Second one must inquire into the nature of the mind and realize
the fact that the whole Waking experience which contains the person and
the world is mind. And mind itself is matter.
Analyze the three
states and realize the fact that the witness of the three states which
appear and disappears in succession is apart but the witness is within
the three states as its invisible substance.
Look at the three
states because in everything there is Atman as its invisible substance
and witness. Seeker should not avoid them.
Keen powers of
observation are desirable and will help, not hinder one’s pursuit of
truth. Seeker has to take experiences as they come to him, and he should
not run away from the worldly life in ascetic fear or shyness of them.
To say they are Illusion without first examining them and inquiring
into them thoroughly is to delude one’s self. This universe is common to
everyone; therefore one must begin our inquiry with it and not flee. It
is only after one has inquired into the nature of the objective world
and realizes the fact that the world and its perceiver are within the
Waking experience, that one should inquire into who is the Invisible
Feeler of the Waking experience. If, however one inquiries into the
Invisible Feeler before the inquiry into the universe, then it is mere
mysticism. What is the world? Must proceed” What is ‘I?” in pursuit of
truth.
How
to resolve the contradiction when “One part of one’s scriptures say
Atman is changing, another that it is immortal. Hence even by faith one
cannot arrive at fixed notions of certitude. It is possible only by
reason. Scripture can be interpreted in many different ways and hence
can never finally determine truth. Every Realized Mind has different
interpretations for example. Most people take their own interpretations
and call it philosophy.
The scriptures are self-contradictory.
Every religious scholar gives conflicting interpretations of them.
Common-sense says that the final authority therefore is using one’s own
reason. This does not mean one need to give up the scriptures, but one
should apply one’s reason to them. Reason is common to all, whereas
religion creates diversity in unity.
Yoga
and religion are only for beginners; for the more advanced there is
reason. Yoga kills the ability to know intelligently, so that when one
believe or are told by Guru or God men that he e has seen God, there is
no means of his understanding whether this is so. This is because Yoga
suppresses thinking.
Path of wisdom will interest only few
people; the rest will say "they have a religion, why do they have to
bother about wisdom?" Religion is that teaching which pleases minds
which lack vigor.
The scriptures are for ignorant masses, who
wholly accept the Waking experience as it presents itself. Wisdom is for
those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem.
When religionists say that God has sent him his needs through human instruments, how do they know? It is only his imagination.
My
sex energy has long ago been transmuted into Kundalini Force. I AM
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Masters! I AM nothing, I have no ego to bruise! OM
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