Katha Upanisad (1.2.5) says; - "Caught in the grip of ignorance, self-proclaimed
experts consider themselves learned authorities. They wander about this world befooled,
like the blind leading the blind."
Each sect concocts a God to suit its own
purposes. Such concocted Gods are mere belief.
Faith in religion weakens as man pays
more attention to facts of life and this world. People, who argue that truth is
only in their religion, are vain logicians, depending on mere ideas,
imaginations.
One must make an effort to know the
ultimate truth. Self, which is in the form of consciousness, is there always. One
has got it, there is nothing new to be acquired, only have the sharp enough to
see and understand and assimilate it, when told about it. But there is a
difference between understanding and realization.
Only Mental Effort is required for this
understanding and assimilation only, whereas once understood and assimilated
than no special effort is needed to remember one’s understanding and
assimilation: until then he only has an idea of the ‘Self’, which is
consciousness , , he only partially understands it. But once he thoroughly
grasps what it is and that all these things are consciousness, he will then
constantly find its present everywhere without further effort, because he will perceive consciousness, which is ultimate
truth by understanding, even in the
midst of worldly existence.
When there is only one thing [consciousness]
known, there is nothing to change, nothing to appear or disappear; when one
speaks of remembering or forgetting ‘consciousness ‘[ true Self] that implies one
believes in the existence of something
else, i.e. a second thing, which is to be remembered. That would show one has not
known that all is one. But knowing it, there is no second, consequently no
intermittent perception of self or consciousness, but a permanent effortless
understanding that it alone is.
When one gets a glimpse of truth
mentally he has to try to reflect on it a constantly in order to establish it.
The self must raise itself by the Self.
One need not renounce the world by
taking sanyasa To remove doubts we ought not to one has to wrestle with them until he conquers.
If one says that he knows God exists
always implies he must also exist always. It would be correct to say on this
point, I do not know.
The inner revelation flash without any
process of thought to mark the intervening stages; still they are ideas, mental
phenomena in their full nature. When they project themselves into the mind or
universe as an object then one becomes aware of the subject object relation and
also the fact that the object is mere mirage created out of the formless
subject, which is consciousness.
Arjuna says in Verse 63, Chap.18, Gita: - that
all his doubts are cleared, he means his doubts on every question. But this
happy state could not have been reached if he had not begun by having doubts
and asking questions and demanding proofs.
Krishna tells Arjuna: - to overcome doubt by the sword of
wisdom, he does not mean that Arjuna should give up his doubt and believe, as
the Pundits interpret it, but that he should keep on thinking about his doubts
until they are solved; that he should not stop until this point is reached.
Nondual truth is ultimate truth. Yogis, mystics and religious teachers do not
accept the path of wisdom because it pries into the truth, the source and the
validity of the knowledge they claim. Therefore it is the most difficult part
of the study of nonduality.
Ashtavakra Gita page
224:- It
is not the absence of buddhi that can grasp Advaita but the man who possesses
the highest intellect. Brains are necessary. Such a man, by merely hearing the
truth mentioned will know it.
The action, love and virtue are very much necessary in practical
life within the practical world. But they are not qualification for
self-realization. The freedom arises only when one becomes aware
of the true existence, which is beyond form, time and space. Thus whatever is based
on the form is illusion from the ultimate standpoint.
The one which is aware of the form, time and space is not the
form but formless. The intellectuality
based on the form is not wisdom. Thus one has to use his reason and base it on
the formless self to understand, assimilate and realize the non-dual truth,
which is ultimate truth. Thus all intellectual theories based on the form, time
and space are mere imagination based on the form, which is false self [ego]
within the false experience [universe or waking].
Thus, there would be no
freedom without understanding facts
about the Mind or universe. Intellectuality is limited to form, time and
space. Thus reason based on the formless self has to be used to grasp the
truth, which is beyond birth, life, death and the world.
