Innumerable people all over the
world have been killed and being killed in the name of religion and god. This
is because people are not aware of the ultimate truth of their true existence.
People take their inherited belief as ultimate truth without verifying the
validity of their belief. Without
realizing the fact that, man and his world is reality with in the waking
experience. the waking is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint.
The dream entity and dream world are reality within the
dream. Similarly the waking entity and the waking world are reality within the waking experience. The three states are not the experience of the the waking entity nor of the dream entity but of the formless soul, the innermost self.
The
formless soul is in the form of consciousness . The consciousness is the innermost self. Consciousness is the substratum and the witness of the three
states. Thus, it is erroneous to view
and judge the ultimate truth on the base of the waking entity, because the whole waking experience appears and disappears, same way as the dream. Thus whatever appears and disappears are impermanent. The formless witness of the three states is permanent and eternal. Thus it is necessary to trace the source of the mind (I) or universe to realize the three states are mere illusion.
The source of the waking or dream is the Soul the innermost self. Therefore, the source itself is the self. Thus, the truth has to be based on the source of the three states. There is no man, no world; no god exists on the standpoint of the soul , the innermost self, because the waking experience is a mere mirage created out of the soul,which is in the form of consciousness.
The source of the waking or dream is the Soul the innermost self. Therefore, the source itself is the self. Thus, the truth has to be based on the source of the three states. There is no man, no world; no god exists on the standpoint of the soul , the innermost self, because the waking experience is a mere mirage created out of the soul,which is in the form of consciousness.
Belief, actions, conducts, love, virtue, scriptural mastery, orthodoxy, rituals, prayers which are mere theories based on the false self are
a great hindrance in realizing the non-dual truth, which is the ultimate truth.
All religious theories
are meant for those who believe in the practical life within the practical
world as reality because they have not verified the truth of their true
existence. When one verifies the fact
about his true existence through deeper self-search then he becomes
aware of the fact that, the self is not the form but self is formless soul (consciousness)
then 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 nondual
wisdom, which arise only when ignorance vanishes.
By holding the blind belief of conceptual God and trying to get
freedom by observing a 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.
Thus the 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(mind) itself is as myth 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.
Belief system and mysticism is a species
of mesmerism affecting weaker or impressionable people. Thus the panoply of a religious
Guru's religious robes and religious oriented life style create unconscious
suggestion in weaker minds of a superior power or magical knowledge, Similarly
visitors to ashrams are suggested into thinking they are experiencing great peace
because they are unconsciously hypnotized into believing that will happen. But
when a strong disciplined rationalistic mind meets a yogi, religious guru or
visits an ashram, he is entirely unaffected.
Scriptures are being added to from time
to time. This process will go on. There is the final authority among them? One
contradicts the other: duality reigns supreme.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad says:
- In that unitive state there is neither father nor mother,
neither worlds nor gods nor even Scriptures. In that state there is neither
thief nor slayer, neither low caste nor high, neither Monk nor ascetic. The
Self is beyond good and evil, beyond all the suffering of the human Heart.
The 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 a mere imagination based on the false self(ego or waking entity) . When the self is formless than
it birth less and deathless. This theory based on the physical self is false
theory because true self is not physical.
It is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana with religious belief, god, guru glorification, and scriptural studies. Religion,
God and guru glorification and scriptural studies are barricades in unfolding
the truth. Religion, God, guru and the scriptures are based on the waking entity or ego. Thus, it cannot transport the seeker to the reality, which is beyond form,time and space.
The seeker has to confirm the fact that,
the self is not the physical body, and self is not the mind (’I’). The mind is the whole experience of duality,
which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep(non-duality). That is the duality(waking or dream) appears and disappears as non-duality(deep sleep). This basic knowledge is very essential in pursuit of truth. Inquiry, analysis and reasoning is the tool for the attention
of the seeking mind back to its primal state, which helps it to realize the
fact that all the three states are mere mirage created out of the soul, which
is in the form of the conciousness.
Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana puts an end to the
ignorance, which is the cause of the experiencing the duality as reality. Experiencing the duality or waking, as reality is the cause of the misery. Therefore, it is necessary for the seeker to mentally trace the formless substance and witness of the three states to overcome the
ignorance. Only when the seeker overcomes the ignorance than he realizes the fact that, the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness, the innermost self.
The seeker has to realize through
deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning the fact that, ‘I’ is
the mind. The mind is in the form of the universe. And the universe appears as waking or dream.
When the seeker gets a firm conviction the
self is the soul, then he becomes aware of the fact that, viewing and judging the
three states on the waking entity or ego is erroneous. The judgment based on the waking entity or ego
is wrong , because the waking entity or ego is the false self within the
false experience.
Mundaka Upanishad says: The rituals and the sacrifices described in
the Vedas deal with lower knowledge. The sages ignored these rituals and went
in search of higher knowledge. ... Such rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing The
sea of samsara, of birth and death. Doomed to shipwreck are those who try to
cross The sea of samsara on these poor rafts. Ignorant of their own ignorance,
yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men Proud of their vain learning go
round and round Like the blind led by the blind.