Advaita (non-duality) and Dwita (duality) is
state of the self. It is not some
intellectual theory. Advaita declares the Atman [soul] is
Brahman; and the world is illusion. Orthodox Advaitins and dwitins believe the
body as self, and they believe world is reality, and they believe in creator
and creation theory.
In orthodox Advaita and Dwita are mere a religious tradition, which they inherited from their ancestors. No one questions their validity, because it is considered blasphemy to question any guru and god-men or pundits.
People who are attached to their religious code of conduct and trying to preach Advaita , that is mixing the individual life, and concept of god, and all mixed up hotchpotch religious doctrine and feed the seeking minds, are themselves not aware of the fact that the individuality, and the worldly life is part of the illusion.
After studying and going through all the rigorous training from the religious scholars in Theosophical Society, J.K was confused about all these, and when he started verifying with deeper introspection, he found everything was priest-craft hotchpotch. Thus, he refused to become the world guru, rejected it, and walked out.
Every Upanishad says something as truth and prescribes some practice. If one Upanishad say the yoga is the tool to realize the truth, another says the breath is everything, yet another say following ardently religious code of conduct in day today life is the only way, and yet another say something else. All Upanishads are interpreted by both the Dwitins and Advaitin and also Vishita- Advaitins. Moreover, their argument never reaches the end, each one trying to prove their views are right and ultimate.
Buddha rejected Vedas concept of god and religion, after verifying the facts and found them useless and got enlightenment. Religion is are meant for the worldly mass who are immersed in practical life within the practical world , to live in the religious regulated life, with the fear of god, to live in peace and harmony in the world. However, they are not the means to self-realization.
When body is not the self, what remains is the soul, thus the soul is the self, and the formless soul has no religion, because it has no form, no ego. It is ever free. Soul is our true identity. The ‘I’ is mere illusion. Thus arguing the ultimate truth on the base of false self, (ego) is like our own shirt is arguing itself as self. The waking experience is mere shirt to the formless soul, the innermost self. The waking experience is as insentient as our shirt without the soul, the innermost self. Considering the ‘I’ as self, is considering the insentient as self. Until this is properly understood and grasped, it is impossible to assimilate the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
One may be a great sage, king, dictator in waking experience, but in sleep all his individuality and his experience of the world vanished, everything has become one with the whole. That is why there is need to understand the fact that, all the three states are unreal just mental. The one, which is aware of the unreal, is consciousness, which alone is real.
Therefore, one has to know what becomes dual (waking or dream)and what becomes non-dual (deep-sleep). When the body is not the self, what is it that sleeps? and what is it that wakes up? and what is it that dreams? Judging the truth on the waking entity, which is physical, and concluding the truth and accepting as truth is erroneous. Thus seeker has to make sure the fact that the soul is the true self and learn to judge the truth on the base of soul as self to realize the fact that , there is no second thing exists other then the soul or consciousness , hence it is non-dual. Since there is only soul or consciousness nothing ever exited, never existing and will exist in future. Thus soul which is in the form of consciousness alone is real. whatever is real and permnent is Brahman.
In orthodox Advaita and Dwita are mere a religious tradition, which they inherited from their ancestors. No one questions their validity, because it is considered blasphemy to question any guru and god-men or pundits.
People who are attached to their religious code of conduct and trying to preach Advaita , that is mixing the individual life, and concept of god, and all mixed up hotchpotch religious doctrine and feed the seeking minds, are themselves not aware of the fact that the individuality, and the worldly life is part of the illusion.
After studying and going through all the rigorous training from the religious scholars in Theosophical Society, J.K was confused about all these, and when he started verifying with deeper introspection, he found everything was priest-craft hotchpotch. Thus, he refused to become the world guru, rejected it, and walked out.
Every Upanishad says something as truth and prescribes some practice. If one Upanishad say the yoga is the tool to realize the truth, another says the breath is everything, yet another say following ardently religious code of conduct in day today life is the only way, and yet another say something else. All Upanishads are interpreted by both the Dwitins and Advaitin and also Vishita- Advaitins. Moreover, their argument never reaches the end, each one trying to prove their views are right and ultimate.
Buddha rejected Vedas concept of god and religion, after verifying the facts and found them useless and got enlightenment. Religion is are meant for the worldly mass who are immersed in practical life within the practical world , to live in the religious regulated life, with the fear of god, to live in peace and harmony in the world. However, they are not the means to self-realization.
When body is not the self, what remains is the soul, thus the soul is the self, and the formless soul has no religion, because it has no form, no ego. It is ever free. Soul is our true identity. The ‘I’ is mere illusion. Thus arguing the ultimate truth on the base of false self, (ego) is like our own shirt is arguing itself as self. The waking experience is mere shirt to the formless soul, the innermost self. The waking experience is as insentient as our shirt without the soul, the innermost self. Considering the ‘I’ as self, is considering the insentient as self. Until this is properly understood and grasped, it is impossible to assimilate the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
One may be a great sage, king, dictator in waking experience, but in sleep all his individuality and his experience of the world vanished, everything has become one with the whole. That is why there is need to understand the fact that, all the three states are unreal just mental. The one, which is aware of the unreal, is consciousness, which alone is real.
Therefore, one has to know what becomes dual (waking or dream)and what becomes non-dual (deep-sleep). When the body is not the self, what is it that sleeps? and what is it that wakes up? and what is it that dreams? Judging the truth on the waking entity, which is physical, and concluding the truth and accepting as truth is erroneous. Thus seeker has to make sure the fact that the soul is the true self and learn to judge the truth on the base of soul as self to realize the fact that , there is no second thing exists other then the soul or consciousness , hence it is non-dual. Since there is only soul or consciousness nothing ever exited, never existing and will exist in future. Thus soul which is in the form of consciousness alone is real. whatever is real and permnent is Brahman.
