Different
paths will not converge to the same Ultimate Reality because they are based on
the false self. They are not the different stages in the same path. People
fight about the differences and greatness of their chosen paths but only
through wisdom one can realize the Ultimate Reality.
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 mind
inward. – NIRAKARA
Seeker has to choose the right path to acquire Advaitic or
Non-dualistic wisdom. The right pat is the inner (mental) path.
Swami Vivekananda said: -
“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you
spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
In this hi fi world many self-declared Spiritual Gurus are born like mushroom amidst us and they are looked upon as 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 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, online
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 at political
power.
One has to
have perfect understanding and march a head, surely and steadily, towards that
Ultimate Reality, which is consciousness or Brahman or Christ or Buddha. One
becomes limited to the concepts, names and forms within the waking/dream.
Waking or dream originates from the soul.
The
soul is the innermost self. The soul is in the form of consciousness.
Realizing the consciousness as the true self is truth realization.
Consciousness is formless, limitless, permanent and unchanging, and by its
nature non-dual and universal. The consciousness is the formless knower of the
mirage [universe] which comes and goes. The knower[self, which is in the form
of consciousness] and the known[three
states] are one in essence, therefore there is no second thing exists other
than consciousness.
Realize Brahman or ultimate truth here and now, in
this very life, not in next life and in the next world by realizing the fact
that, this life within the waking
experience itself is illusion because the waking experience is itself is
an illusion.
