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There are certain principles which are common to all Advaitic orthodoxy that are taken for granted. Advaitic Orthodoxy assumes that the doctrine of karma
is valid because they accept the experience of birth, life, death and the
world as reality.
If they accept the birth, life, death and the world as
reality than whatever Sri, Sankara declaration:
- Brahman is the
truth The World is Unreal everything is Truly Brahman and nothing Else , has any value.
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There are certain principles which are common
to all orthodox Advaitic thought, that are taken for granted. Orthodox assumes
that, the doctrine of karma is valid because they accept the birth, life, death
and the world as reality. If they accept
the birth, life death and world as reality than Sri Sankara s declaration: -
the Brahman is truth, the world is unreal and everything is truly Brahman has
no value because the judgment is based
on false self within the false experience.
Kabir views humanity as being caught up in illusion, searching for Ultimate
Reality in all the wrong places, always seeking It outside of ourselves in
various rituals, temples, forests and mountaintops, not realizing That for
which we seek is already hidden within us.
Without the self-knowledge it is impossible
to cross the illusory ocean of the pain and pleasure. There no vessel to ferry man across the ocean
of illusory form, time and space except Gnana.
What is Gnana? Gnana means the full and firm realization of
truth – a realization beyond all doubts, change and contradiction.
Neither the control of breath, or regulating the breath, nor the
performance of selfless service, nor by devotion to gods and gurus, not the
performance of penance, nor pilgrimaging, nor by yoga nor by scriptural
mastery, the ignorance will not vanish. But only through nondual wisdom the ignorance can be
eradicated. The three states are state
of ignorance. All the three states are falsehood. The formless substance and
witness of the three states is real and eternal.
Sri Sankara, in Bhaja Govindam says: - [Jnana Viheena Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena]
- one without knowledge does not obtain liberation
even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows.
The mind is in the form of Universe. Universe appears as waking
or dream. Waking as it presents itself is unreal, same way as the dream. Thus
waking or dream is simply illusion created out of consciousness. To the man within the universe it is not an
illusion because he has the conviction that he is an individual separate form
the universe and he is born in this universe and universe existed prior to
him. Until this conviction is there he
is bound to believe the birth, life, death and universe as reality. Only in deeper self-search he becomes aware of
the fact that, the mind is not within the body but body and the universe are
within the mind. And he also becomes aware of the fact that
mind itself is the whole universe ,which appears as waking or dream and
disappears as deep sleep.
To think once own body and his
experience of the world is an illusion is difficult matter, unless one realizes
the self is not physical but it is formless soul it is difficult to have
glimpse of truth.
When one realizes the fact that, the
self is not physical but the formless soul, naturally the body and universe
becomes illusion.
The mind [universe] is emanating from
soul [consciousness] means the mind is being effect from consciousness is not
different from it. Deeper analysis shows it. Analysis needs deeper thinking and
reasoning. Mind is whole universe thus it has a form. But where is the form in
consciousness [soul] because consciousness is like an ocean and mind is like
wave. The universe is same
consciousness, as the ocean produces the wave, so the consciousness produces
the mind [universe].
The moment one knows the mind
[universe] is consciousness, and then there is no ignorance. If one knows
consciousness as self then everything is consciousness, the consciousness is
second to none. The mind is consciousness
but due to ignorance one mistakes it for something else. One thinks the self is
within the body; but the self is without the body and the world.
Mind ceases to exist without the
matter. Without the matter mind ceases to exist as mind but it exists as
matter- less awareness or consciousness. Without the mind neither the world nor
its perceiver can exist.
Without the matter there is no
duality. Without duality there is no experience. Without experience it is
non-dual reality. Therefore, whatever prevails without the mind is ultimate
reality.
The true nature of the soul [consciousness] is camouflaged by
the illusion/duality. To know the truth
one has to discover and realize the formless substance of the mind or illusion.
One has to learn to view and judge the worldview on the standpoint the formless
soul as self. Self-Knowledge is the
prime goal of the truth seeker. This goal is hidden within the mind as its
invisible substance and witness. Therefore, it is necessary inquiry, analyze
and reason in to the nature of mind/ duality/illusion in order to unfold the
mystery of mind or duality or illusion.
The validity of the judgments which one continually pass on
events taking place around him is not denied but all these experiences are
happening within the universe [waking or dream] is mere illusion. It is true
that the phenomenal world is the outcome of ignorance, but it has a certain
relative reality but the relative reality is mere illusion from ultimate
standpoint. Thus the relative reality is
based on the false self within the false experience because there is no second
thing exist other than consciousness thus there is only non-dual reality.
The universe is real for him who has not attained to the
knowledge of the self. Just as the entire complex of phenomenal existence in
the dream is considered to be true until waking arises. Similarly, the entire complex of phenomenal
existence of the waking experience is considered as true so long as the nondual
wisdom has not arisen.
The worship and worshiper
and the deity are part of the ignorance. In the state of ignorance blind
beliefs and exercises are popular. They are meaningless and valueless on the
ultimate standpoint. The truth is no individualized god. If one believes there
is creator than worshiping the creation is ignorance. Thus there is a need to
know what truth, in order to know what God really is.
The worshipper of God as personal really does worship God bur
worships ignorance. And he who speaks of personal God as creator of the world speaks
is unaware of the truth.
The organized religions are based on the belief, because blind
belief is foundation of the organized region.
The religious theories are lower knowledge meant for those who are incapable
of going in to deeper self-search.
The religious truth is individual truth. The individual truth is
based on the birth, life, death and the world.
Thus individual truth is lower know-ledge based on the false self within
the false experience.
The ultimate truth is based on soul, which is the inner most
self. Whatever is based on the soul as self is real knowledge or wisdom.
