All religions of the world and all philosophies of the world are based
on the individuality or ego; find no answers for many questions. Truth seekers
all over the world are trying to find answers for themselves, and they imagine
and write articles and books of their ideas and others will read and blindly
accept them as truth.
There is no need to condemn any ones’ views and ideas or writing,
but without being judgmental, seeker has to verify whether the author is
speaking on the standpoint of ego, or whether he is speaking on the standpoint
of soul, the innermost self. If his views are based on the standpoint of
the waking entity or ego, then there is many doubts and confusion. If his
views are based on the soul as self then there is no confusion and doubts of
any sort.
Nothing has to be accepted without verifying the validity of any claim
in pursuit of truth. Only un-contradictable truth has to be accepted as truth.
There is no need to condemn any religion or any saints or sages, but
seeker has to think beyond religion, scriptures and individualized
gods.
The religious, yogic and worldly truths are individual truth based on
the ego or waking entity. The spiritual truth is universal truth, which
is based on the self/soul/spirit/ consciousness. The truth which is based on
the soul, the innermost self self is the ultimate truth/Brahman/Christ/Emptiness.
The religion is based on the body [form] as self, since it is based on
the birth. Spirituality is based on the soul [formless]. Thus there is need to
bifurcate the religion from spirituality. Religion views and judges on the
standpoint of the physical self or ego, whereas the in pursuit of truth everything
is viewed, judged and concluded on the base of the soul, which is the true
self. Whatever is based on the physical entity is not spirituality
because the soul has no form, so it has no religion. Therefore, seeker of
truth has to rectify the reasoning base, from form to formless, to
understand and assimilate the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Thus, viewing judging the ultimate truth on the base of ego/false self
or accumulated knowledge will not unfold the mystery of the mind/diversity.
There is no need of religion, god glorification and scriptures in pursuit
of truth, since the Soul is the author of our dual and non-dual experiences.
Experience of diversity (form) becomes oneness in deep sleep and Oneness (formless)becomes diversity in waking or dream. Therefore, that which becomes
diversity (form), and that which becomes Oneness (formless) is not our physical
entity, because the physical entity is present only in waking and dream. The
one, which is aware of all the three states, is formless, apart and eternal
which is the soul. The soul, which is spirit itself, is ultimate
truth/Christ/Brahman/Buddha.
To realize this truth one has to realize first “What is truth? and
“What is untruth?” between the dual [waking/dream] and non-dual
experiences. Searching the truth on the base of inherited religious
conditioning and accumulated bookish or scriptural knowledge is not the means to
self or god or truth realization.
For the same reason Raman Maharshi said fortunate
are the one who do not lose themselves in the labyrinths of philosophy. Bhagwan
says: Take Vedanta, for instance: it speaks of 15 pranas the names and
functions of it which the student is asked to commit memory. Will
it not be sufficient if he thought only one prana does the whole work of
maintaining the body? Again the antakaran is said to think, to desire, to will,
to reason etc. Why all these details? Has anyone seen antakarana, or all these
pranas? Do they really exist? They are conceptual divisions invented by
teachers of philosophy by their excessive analysis. Where do all these concepts
end? Why should confusion created and then explained away? Fortunate is the man
who does not lose him self in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight
to the source from which they all arise. (GURU RAMANA .By S.S Cohen -vii
Danger of philosophy-Page -58-59)
Upanishads Nikhilananda:-
Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go
round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind. [Ch II-5 P-14]
Seeker has to overcome all the
obstacles in pursuit of truth on his. They are so many scholars who
mastered philosophy. It is impossible to acquire self-knowledge through
theoretical philosophy. Because their preaching is based on spirit and
practices is based on ego or waking entity.
Katha
Upanishad:-
This Atman cannot be attained by the study of the
Vedas, or by intelligence, or by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To
such a one Atman reveals Its own form. [Katha Upanishad Ch-II -23-P-20]
It is very difficult to talk to
people about ultimate truth/Brahman because everyone thinks he knows the
ultimate truth/Brahman. This- I know business is dangerous. And whatever
his reached conclusion is second hand stuff. Therefore, accepting
accumulated knowledge without verification will lead the seekers to
hallucinated realization based on the ego. One may have some flashes of
truth when someone tries to indicate it through fewer words. But it takes
nearer to truth not realization.
Upanishad's
say "He who thinks he knows, does not know." This means that to know
anything implies a second, an object of knowledge, hence duality, i.e. no
Gnana.
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 realisation will do that. Realise yourself, turning the mind inward. – Tripura Rahasya,
18: 89
The pursuit of truth is a mental journey. Deeper self-search makes
one aware of what truth is and what is untruth and the subconscious will
be able to reject the untruth after knowing, what is Truth. Whatever prevails
after rejecting the untruth is the ultimate truth.
