As Sri, Sankara says: When the whole
universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman, and thus the existence
of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is
Atman.
If body is not the Atman/self, then the karma
theory has no meaning on the standpoint of the truth. Thus no second thing
exists other than Atman, therefore why to view the worldview on the standpoint
of the body as self [I] when the body [I] is the false self, and the
soul/Atman is the true self.
If body is not the self, then the birth, life,
death and the universe are bound to be illusion. If birth, life and death are illusion then
all conducts actions and their fruits are mere illusion. If body is not the
self, then the existence of god, heaven and hell is mere illusion. If body is not the self then all religious
beliefs of god is mere illusion. If body
is not the self but the Atman [soul] which is in the form of consciousness is
the true self, then there is no scope for second thing other than
consciousness, therefore
consciousness, which is Atman is Brahman or ultimate truth. The Brahman alone is real and eternal. Thus whatever is real eternal has to be
identified as god. To identify the real and eternal, one has to overcome the
ignorance caused by the illusion. To overcome the ignorance one has to acquire
the Self-Knowledge.
Essence of Astvakara Gita is: - Realizing soul or consciousness as self, the liberation
is possible in this very life right here and right now, not in the next life or next world.
Religion,
theories scriptures and concept of god are created as tool for conditioning the
mass mind set, to control their individualized mind, to self-judge, what is
good and what is evil, with the fear of conceptual god, who will in turn punish
them, or reward them with good or bad life, in life after life which is only
illusion. And this fear helps to
maintain peace and harmony in the society to some extent. But man and world
exist within the mind and mind is myth on the standpoint of the soul as self,
thus all the theories based on the false hood, have no relevance in the realm
of the nondual truth. Therefore,
individual actions and conducts are not the means to acquire Self-Knowledge.
There cannot be
delusion when oneness is realized. One
cannot know Truth if one has not mastered the analysis of the three states of
consciousness.
By reading and
reflecting, constantly on the subject matter, one understands assimilates the
hidden reality. Consciousness, the Supreme Reality, is the undifferentiated
One. Everything, in the final analysis, is reducible to the ultimate essence,
Consciousness.
