"If one knows That here, then there is Truth"--this is the most important thing said in the KENO Upanishad. You must see immortality in this birth.
YOGA VASISTHA "In all actions whatever, whether of commission or omission, there is nothing save the absence of attachment to distinguish the fool from the man of wisdom."
Vasistha Ramyana "Know that to be Maya and enjoy Maya, that is Gnana." Hence we may enjoy human life but be on our guard not to be deceived or destroyed by it.
MAHABHARATA: Why is the pilgrimage to Kailas enjoined? Mahabharata teaches that a plunge into Manasovar is the plunge into Manas wherein the whole world is seen, i.e. to perceive the world as idea. It is a difficult feat, as difficult as the pilgrimage itself. Mahabharata also says that when people are told to go there, they are to plunge deep into the mind, the whole world is made of Manas, mind. After that you reach Kailas and understand the truth. The bath comes first, it is the inquiry the arrival at Kailas comes second, it is finding realization.
BRIHAD. UPANISHAD: "The knower of Brahman wears no signs."
BRIHAD UP. Page 133 1st para points out that even yoga cannot give perfect concentration and that the only way to gain it is philosophical realization. This confirms Mandukya's statement that yoga can no more succeed than the ocean can be emptied with a blade of grass.
When everything in physical existence nothing but mind. The body, ego and universe cease to exist without the mind. Limiting the mind to the physical entity is cause of the ignorance and ignorance is cause of experiencing the duality is reality. Therefore it is necessary to know “what is mind” and “what is the substance of the mind?” and what is the source of the mind in order to move deeper in pursuit of truth. Until we think the mind is within the body we will not be able to assimilate the non-dual truth because deeper self-search revels the fact that, the body and the universe are within the mind. Therefore we have to remove the obstacle mentally to realize the mind, which is in the form of universe is mere myth.
"The Bliss of Self is always yours, and you will find it if you seek it earnestly. The cause of your misery is not in your outer life; it is in you, as your ego. You impose limitations on yourself and then make a v...ain struggle to transcend them. All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. What does it avail you to attribute the cause of misery to the happenings of life when that cause is really within you? What happiness can you get from things extraneous to yourself? When you get it, how long will it last? If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it, you would be free. If you accept it, it will impose limitations on you and throw you into a vain struggle to transcend them. That was how the 'thief' sought to ruin King Janaka. To be the Self that you really are is the only means to realize the Bliss that is ever yours." ~ Sri Ramana Marharshi
Scriptural citation may be quoted in pursuit of truth as authoritative only after one has verifies them deeply and shown the reality and proved the truth, for then he can point out that the texts teach the same thing. If one quotes them before having demonstrated truth, then it is scholasticism or pundithry.
Those that want Brahman will not practice control of mind. (See Mandukya p.231). That is Yoga for duffers. The others will inquire and practice discrimination
Each person sees in his own Samadhi whatever is uppermost in his mind. How does he/she or anyone know that what he/she or anyone sees is truth? Similarly each has intuitions agreeable to what is uppermost in his mind.
Believers who are anxious for a mystic or occult experience often get it. But it is only a mental construction of their own, suggested originally from outside.
Mystic may say that the spirit is the source of all good, but the question of questions is how does he know that it is the source? That is mere scholastic dogma until an attempt to show, to analyze and prove that it is the source, is made, then it becomes higher truth.
How is one to know that He is God suppose he sees God? His mere statement is not enough. He must have proof; he must show that what he saw is God. How can anyone sees God when whatever seen, known, believed and experienced as person of the world are reality within the waking experience but the whole waking experience itself is falsehood.Yogic six chakras and Seven Chakras in Raja yoga are based on fact and fiction. It was noted that there were nervous plexuses and nodules at intervals in the spine and other parts of the body. Upon this basis the yogis started imagining that if the mind is concentrated on each one a different mystic result would be obtained. But that is mere fancy. When self is formless the question chakras not arise. It is foolish to practice yoga after one becomes aware of the fact that self is not the body but the self is formless consciousness. The body based yogic or mystical theories are not the means for self-realization.
Without having firm Inner conviction that the self is not the form but the self is formless consciousness it is difficult to acquire self-knowledge. It is useless to argue on the standpoint form as self because self is not form but self is formless consciousness.Nobody can disprove when some mystics even claim that they have seen God by intuition. But the onus of proof is on those who make an assertion. Mystics are required to prove; the burden to disprove is not on their critics.
Mystical experience is ancient psychology and it is mind game. And its reality is limited to the physical existence or duality. The duality is mere illusion from the ultimate standpoint. Mystics experience is based on the false self therefore it reveals no truth. A mystic, touching people forehead and thus putting them into mystic trance is purely a physical or at best a psychological one; based on the power of suggestions it has nothing to do with formless self, with the question of truth. It is just a higher variation of the effect produced by patting a person on the shoulder to encourage him. The truth is not based on the individuality and individual experiences because the self is not an individual but it pervades in everything and everywhere in the universe as its formless substance and witness.Belief system is Successful in propagating the life after death theory: - what happens after death-- nobody can deny it because nobody has seen what happens after death it is mere assumption. When the self is formless than self is birth less and deathless. This theory based on the physical self is false theory because true self is not physical.
Thus experience of birth, life, death and the world, pleasure and pain and all actions good deeds, ritual, faith, good or bad conducts, worships, prayers , belief in conceptual Gods, ancestor worship and yogic Samadhi and practices are not the qualification for moksha, because the waking experience itself is as false from the ultimate standpoint .
People take to the belief system or of authoritarianism merely because they are the easiest ways. To seek for proof is troublesome and time-taking.
Belief system and mysticism are so much preferred to wisdom because one has only to imagine, not to inquire and reason. The first is easy, the second is hard.- faith, belief, actions, conducts, love, virtue, scriptural mastery, religion, rituals, prayers which are mere theories based on the false self are great hindrance in realizing the non-dual truth, which is ultimate truth.
All religious theories are meant for those who believe in the practical life within the practical world as reality because they are not verified the truth of their true existence.
When one verifies the fact about his true existence through deeper self-search than he becomes aware of the fact that, the self is no form but self is formless consciousness than he becomes aware of the fact that the practical life within the practical world is mere illusion created out of consciousness.
The practical knowledge within the practical world is meant is not wisdom but it is knowledge based on ignorance. The real wisdom is non-dual wisdom, which arise only when ignorance vanishes.
By holding the blind belief of conceptual God and trying to get freedom by observing religious code of conduct and leading the orthodox oriented life within the waking experience trying to get Moksha is like building the air castle in the sky because the waking experience itself is unreal. Same way as the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place the waking experience becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. 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 nondual 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.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.
John 1
New International Version (NIV)
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it.
OM Amen Aum
