If one claims that he has
seen individualized God and God is doing this or that he is hallucinating with
his inherited belief. He did not see God doing it? He is simply assuming.
God is only a settled fact for
believers, but for others God’s existence is problematic. The truth of
Organized Religion can only be proved by physical strength or by imagination,
or power of the weapon or power and force, never by reason.
Scientists yet to discover the mysteries beyond form, time
and space, they may discover something in the future.” Many mystics claim to know
the mystery unknown to science is known to them. Without proof it is foolish to
believe Mysticism is the fulfillment of science.”
Second-hand knowledge of the self, gathered from books or gurus can
never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied;
only direct realization will do that. Realize yourself, turning the ego
inward. It is time to introspect Am I in the right path to acquire Advaitic or Non-dualistic wisdom?
In this Hi Fi world many self-declared Spiritual
Gurus are born like mushroom amidst us and they are looked upon as a great solace
by the mass of gullible people, who are more ‘peace and wisdom hungry. Most seekers are looking for something beyond
their inherited belief system. Most of this dollar hungry gurus hankering
after titles and Honours and enjoying it like these modern day self-styled
gurus and they are connected to one or other controversies and scandals.
People get
stuck with these modern self-proclaimed gurus who claimed to be enlightened. Many of these Gurus have taken many new
“avatars” like Corporate Gurus, Universal Gurus, on line Gurus, Global Gurus, one
name it, he will find them. The honest
gurus and swamis never come to limelight and they remain minding their own inherited
divine business remains aloof from the publicity.
There are so
many gurus who have overnight become
Global Gurus. They only play with the feelings of people. Most of them are
propagating ancient yogic practices as if it is their own great new invention and
branding them or getting them patented, this is the height of the mockery of
spirituality. As long as innocent and ignorant people are there, these kinds of
Gurus can flourish their business to a peak height. They cannot only fool the
mass of people but also the people in political power.
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 the seeker alone.
Yoga needs a guru to guide its student to practice Samadhi.
Religion encourages the 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, then 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 the temple-idols. In this
way there might be at present in our country scores of individuals who are worshiped 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.
Yogic or religious truth is individual truth, not
universal. The mystics cannot claim that
they have experienced the whole. There is
no proof they have seen it, because the whole is not an individual experience. The
man and the world are within the whole.
If they say, “they
know from experience” they merely assume so.” mystic experience is based on
ego thus it is part of the illusion. Self realization is not an individual experience. The yoga and mysticism are
individualized truth. Since they consider the ‘I’ as self they cannot know the Universal
self or Atman or consciousness which is the innermost self . The consciousness is the cause of the universe in which we exist and it itself is uncaused. Thus the whole universe is created out of single stuff and that stuff is formless consciousness. Thus consciousness is ultimate truth and ultimate truth is God.
"Organized Religions place God as the unknown
reality”. Every Organized Religionists has a different idea of God. Everyone has
a different idea of reality or truth. Hence there is need of definition before
the study.
The fallacy of Religionists appeal to scripture lies in
the varying and conflicting interpretations of the same scripture, which
different men feel, entitled to give or hold.
The Yogi or mystic who sees or experiences something in his
meditation, which he takes as the highest is mere individual experience, within
the false experience (waking) “whatever is based on individuality is not the
ultimate truth or Reality.
God belongs to individuality. No one can prove the
existence of God. God cannot exist without the believer. Therefore god is dependent on man for his
existence. Thus there is a need to verify man’s existence in order to unfold
the mystery of one’s own existence.
