Saturday, July 23, 2011

The ultimate truth or Brahman cannot be realized through hearing scholarly explanation of the discourses, not even by the intellect.



When the self is formless therefore it is birth less and deathless.  Thus the theory based on body, which is not the self is mere imagination and speculation. The belief system has all sorts’ myths and stories which are deep-rooted in the minds of people. People are sentimentally got involved in such myth. The pursuit of truth is to clear all the myth. This myth are add-onns and adulteration and non-Vedic. Scriptures indicate that people who indulge in such myth will enter in to darkness and suffer. But for that everyone has to investigate the truth of their own religion by peeping in to annals of the history of their own religion.  Thus what is the use of getting indulge in the religious prescription which brings suffering. 

Truth should not only be known but it should be proved, verified. Through Deeper self-search one become aware of the fact that there is ONE but it proves that there is no second thing. Thinkers started with one substance, or the Absolute; but where is the proof of the existence of this ONE or the Absolute. Hence they started with assumptions; whereas mere assumption is not proof, but the truth has to be proved mentally and accepted for one's own realization. 

Self-discovery does not even start with assumption of some truth; the discovery of the existence of consciousness comes only at the end of deeper self-search and not at the beginning.
 
This is the Great difference between religion and spirituality [path of truth].   Every religious   tenet may seem superior on their own accord but they are based on the false self within the false experience.

 Religions are created for the mass to regulate their life with religious code of conduct with fear of conceptual god and reward of heaven, hell, and rebirth, and sin, good and bad life in the next world or in next life.  

Pursuit of truth is pursuit of verification of every tenet; truth is proof, not poetry. Accepting either intuition or imagination as truth is disastrous in pursuit of truth. 

A man may say "I have seen God, I have realized the Absolute" cannot be accepted as truth because, such declaration are mere assumption based on the false self within the false experience. 
Truth is not physical proof but one has to trace it through deeper self-search mentally and realize it.  Similarly those  people who speak of the Author of the Universe are telling lies, for whoever could possibly have seen Him creating the world? They are merely using their imagination because they were themselves created later.

If one does not find reflection of his self when he is standing in front of the mirror but he finds his body and the background world in the mirror.  The one which is conscious of the body and the experience of the world is not the body but the consciousness, which is the inner most self. 

The relationship and love, hate happiness and misery of the practical life within the practical world are not connected to the soul [formless consciousness] which is his true self. The true self is beyond form, time and space and beyond birth, life, death and world.  

Thus rest in consciousness by recognizing it as our inner most self, which is god.  And realize the practical life within the practical world is mere mirage created out of consciousness. Consciousness is ultimate truth and ultimate truth is God. 

Getting rid of the physical shackle is necessary to overcome the burden and bondage of the illusory samsara. Love and relationship seems reality in practical life within the practical world but they are mere illusion from ultimate standpoint.   Thus the game of life is mere passing show. 
It is not possible to get rid of the ego through religious or yogic path. But one can get rid of the ignorance, which is the cause of experiencing the illusion as reality through Gnana or wisdom.  

That is why Sri Sankara, indicated  in Bhaja Govindam says: - [Jnana Viheena Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena] - one without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows. 

Thus it proves the religion is not the means to self-realization.

Katha Upanishad 1:2:23 The Soul cannot be realized through hearing scholarly explanation of the discourses, not even by the intellect.

Katha Upanishad 1:3:6Through the knowledge of the Soul, God, one is pure and clean constantly.” Neither by reading the book, nor by taking a bath at holy place has one become pure. Inner purity is possible when one remains in constant touch with the Soul. Constant Soul-Consciousness is the real purity.

Kena Upanishad 2:4 When it is known through every state of cognition, it is rightly known, for (by such knowledge) one attains life eternal. Through one's own self one gains power and through wisdom one gains immortality.

Kena Upanishad 2:5
If here one knows it, then there is truth, and if here one knows it not, there is a great loss. Hence, seeing the Real in all beings, wise men become immortal on departing from this world.
 
Mundaka Upanishad 1:2:8
“Remaining in the fold of ignorance and thinking “we are extremely wise and learned,” the fools with boastful nature ramble about like the blind led by the blind alone.”
 
Mundaka Upanishad 3:2:3
“The weak and timid cannot realize the Self. Self-Realization is not possible through intellect or hearing spiritual discourse. One who welcomes God in every activity, through a thorough controlled and disciplined life, to him also the Soul is revealed." 

Mundaka Upanishad 3:2:3
The Soul cannot be realized by the weak and timid.
 
That is why Sri, Sankara says in Viveka Chudamani:-
56. Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by the realisation of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means

58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar, but are no good for Liberation.

59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

60. The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest which merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.

61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae) and medicines to such a one?

62. A disease does not leave off if one simply utter the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct realisation one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.

63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman ? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

64. Without killing one’s enemies, and possessing oneself of the splendour of the entire surrounding region, one cannot claim to be an emperor by merely saying, ‘I am an emperor’.

Seeker of truth has to take the direct path and avoid losing precious time and effort loosing himself in philosophical studies. 

All the religionists  believe in god and goddesses [vidyaand performing rituals  and other sacrifices[Avidya] both are hindrance to self-knowledge according to Ish Upanishads,  then why the seeker of truth needs worshiping of  god and goddesses, when essence of Advaita  is Atman is Brahman [soul or self as ultimate reality]. 

 When the self is formless there is no need pada pooja [feet worship] Advaitin gurus to get freedom. A guru who preaches conduct as the means to freedom believes in birth, life death and the world as reality, whereas the Advaitic sage Sri, Sankara declares the world as unreal.  Therefore, how actions performed in unreal world can get moksha or freedom. Therefore there is need to know the fact that, the self is not physical in order to understand and assimilate and realize the truth beyond physicality.

 That is why Gaudapada says that: - The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upaasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

It means the people who follow religion and worship of guru and conceptual god are lower and middling intellect.  But in this modern world people are sharp enough to understand and assimilate ultimate truth or Brahman or god. Thus it is high time to discard the lower knowledge and move ahead to realize the ultimate truth, which is Brahman or God.   

They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Ataman. The ordinary man does not understand their way. [Chapter IV — Alatasanti Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada]

Therefore, if one is seeking truth he has to know his true self is not physical but it is the Atman, which is in the form of consciousness.  

Isa Upanishads indicates that: By worshiping gods and goddesses and going to the world of gods after death is of no use.  The time one spends in ritualistic practices is wasted; one can spend same time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is the main goal. One cannot reach the non-dual destination by glorifying god and goddesses and by doing that, one goes deeper and deeper into darkness. It surely indicates the fact that, the seeker of truth has to drop the worshiping god and goddess in order to get self-knowledge.

It also indicates that, Religious Rituals [Avidyais Karma [actionand therefore a hindrance. By performing Agnihotra and other sacrifices [Avidyais a roundabout way of purifying the mind, and it is also groping in the dark.

In addition, it indicates the karma is limited only to the religious rituals, not on the whole human life. This karma theory based on the human conduct must have been adopted from Buddhism and other theories based on human conducts. 

When it says: Perform the obligatory karmas without any attachment to the fruits, and at the same time worship gods and goddesses, again without any desire to go to heaven - then you can get the benefit of both, liberation and bliss. For those who are not yet ready to renounce, this path is recommended, it mean that the religion and its  idea of god and goddesses and code of conducts, and its rituals are meant for the mass who are incapable of thinking of the beyond.
In addition, it also speaks of heaven the abode of gods, where one goes after death, and it speaks of rebirth, this contradiction, seeker has to conclude that religion, rituals god and its code of conducts are meant for the mass that is not receptive to self-knowledge. 

When the self is not the body [‘I’] whatever one sees, knows, believes, experiences and feels on the base of the body [‘I’] as self is bound to be illusion.  Thus, the karma performed in illusion is bound to be illusion. The birth, life and death is happening within the illusion, therefore it is bound to be illusion. Thus, rebirth and reincarnation theories based on the false self within the false experience are bound to be illusion on the base of the true self. Only the witness of the illusion is real [Brahman].  Therefore, everything has to be viewed and judged, on the base of the Formless Witness [soul] in order to overcome the illusion/duality. 

Seeker of truth has to know somewhere he is going wrong, and it is for the seeker to go on his own and remove the obstacle.  The greatest hindrance is mixing religion, god, scriptures, and yogic theories. Moreover, attachment to scriptures, personal god and religious code of conduct keeps one permanently in the grip of duality.
Seeker has to have courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth because most people will not be able to subscribe to path of truth because they sentimentally and emotionally involved with their inherited belief system and even if one does he has to overcome all his doubts confusion and despair.  These are problem for the seekers who are from religious back ground because of their conditioning and they are made to accept their blind belief as truth and their interest or insight is not deep.  Thus all my blogs are useful analyse these problems because they highlight the what is not truth according to their own religious scriptures  and make  them to accept the truth and reject all the false conditioning and move ahead in pursuit of truth.
It becomes difficult for the orthodox cult to accept anything else as truth other than their accepted belief, which they hold as truth. Although all religious followers are participants alike in the spiritual endeavour of the world, overzealous   followers of each religion are not prepared to accord equal status to other faiths and assert the superiority of their own. Thus universal brother hood is total impossibility because it is difficult to accept anything other than their inherited belief system.        
Most of the pundits are egoic and they try to snub others who question them.  They think they are unquestionable authority.  They quote the citation from the scripters as proof without verifying the validity.  All punditry is a great obstacle in realizing the Advaitic truth expounded by the Sri, Sankara and Goudapada. 
One finds lots of differences between Adavita preaching and practice. There is need to bifurcate religion, concept of god and scriptures from Adavitic philosophy to assimilate the essence of Advaita.   

Sri, Sankara says in Brahma Sutras: that Brahman is the cause of the world, whereas in Mandukya he denies it. This is because he says that at the lower stage of understanding, the former teaching must be given, for people will get frightened as they cannot understand how the world can be without a cause, but to those in a higher stage, the truth of non-causality can be revealed. 

Sri, Sankara himself has warned us not to use ambiguous words, and to practice semantic analysis in his book "Definition of one's own Self. [" Page 199, v.24 of "Sankara's Selected Works]

Sri, Sankara founded his Advaita Vedanta either on reason independent of sruti or on sruti confirmed by reason."   Sri, Sankara's commentary on the Mandukya Upanishad, II, 1:  This [the unreality of duality] is borne out by the Srutis ... But it is possible also to show the unreality of the object world even from pure reasoning, and this second chapter is undertaken for that purpose.

 Sri, Sankara himself had often said that his philosophy was based on Sruti, or revealed scripture.  This may be because Sri, Sankara addressed the ordinary man, who finds security in the idea of causality and thus in the idea of God—and Revelation is indispensable to prove the latter.  He believed that those of superior intelligence, have no need of this idea of divine causality, and can therefore dispense with Sruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason. 

Sri, Sankara, in debates with Buddhists and others who did not recognize the authority of the Vedas, had been obliged to prove the truth of Advaita by means of reason alone.  Mandukya Upanishad, a scripture which appealed to reason to the exclusion of Revelation. 

Non-duality does not need the support of any Scripture or Revelation like the Veda. For it is based, not upon the varying theological fancies, which are as numerous as the sands of the sea, but upon reason, the common heritage of all mankind, irrespective of colour or creed or clime.

Thus, self-knowledge is meant only for those who have intense urge, and courage to accept the truth with humility and reject the untruth. Since people start comparing with their scriptural knowledge, it becomes impossible to assimilate and realize the non-dual truth.   Therefore, there is no need to convince anyone other than our own-selves to get the firm conviction. 

The doer and doing are part of the duality



When the body is not the doer, how the karma theory, which is based on the physical self can be true because self is not form but self is formless consciousness.  The action is possible only in duality. The doer and doing are part of the duality. When there is no second thing exists other than the consciousness in reality, than  the duality is mere illusion created out of consciousness. 

   The karma or action can be performed on physical base with in the false experience. Thus, whatever karma or action performed within the false experience is bound to be false.  The individual experiences within the practical world are reality only within the waking experience but waking experience itself is mere illusion created out of consciousness. If the waking experience is mere illusion then practical life within the practical world is  bound to be an  illusion. Thus karma theory is not meant for those who have chosen the path of wisdom. The path of wisdom or Gnana  is independent path. The karma theory is noting do with the true self, which is ever formless.

Thus the experience of birth, karma and death are part of the illusion.  Thus karma theory based on false self within the false experience is bound to be illusion.  The Advaitic orthodoxy are stuck with the karma theory and rituals are stuck with the theory meant for the lower web  think by glorifying their guru and conceptual god and indulging in all sorts non-Vedic [Puranic]  rituals  they get Moksha.They propagate after indulging in path of belief and devotion one is qualified to take Gnana Marga through  their path also  leads to Gnana. such talks are mere religious fable.     


That is why Sri Sankara, indicated  in Bhaja Govindam says: - [Jnana Viheena Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena] - one without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows.
Thus it proves the religion is not the means to self-realization.


Sri Sankara  says in Aparokshanubhuti:-


   88. 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?

   89. O enlightened one, pass your time always contemplating on Atman while you are experiencing all the results of Prarabdha; for it ill becomes you to feel distressed.

   90. The theory one hears of from the scripture, that Prarabdha does not lose its hold upon one even after the origination of the knowledge of Atman, is now being refuted.

   91. After the origination of the knowledge of Reality, Prarabdha verily ceases to exist, inasmuch as the body and the like become non-existent; just as a dream does not exist on waking.

   92. That Karma which is done in a previous life is known as Prarabdha (which produces the present life). But such Karma cannot take the place of Prarabdha (for a man of knowledge), as he has no other birth (being free from ego).

   93. Just as the body in a dream is superimposed (and therefore illusory), so is also this body. How could there be any birth of the superimposed (body), and in the absence of birth (of the body) where is the room for that (i.e., Prarabdha) at all ?

   94. The Vedanta texts declare ignorance to be verily the material (cause) of the phenomenal world just as earth is of a jar. That (ignorance) being destroyed, where can the universe subsist ?

   95. Just as a person out of confusion perceives only the snake leaving aside the rope, so does an ignorant person see only the phenomenal world without knowing the reality?


   96. The real nature of the rope being known, the appearance of the snake no longer persists; so the substratum being known, the phenomenal world disappears completely.

   97. The body also being within the phenomenal world (and therefore unreal), how could Prarabdha exist ? It is, therefore, for the understanding of the ignorant alone that the Shruti speaks of Prarabdha.

   98. “And all the actions of a man perish when he realizes that (Atman) which is both the higher and the lower”. Here the clear use of the plural by the Shruti is to negate Prarabdha as well.

   99. If the ignorant still arbitrarily maintain this, they will not only involve themselves into two absurdities but will also run the risk of forgoing the Vedantic conclusion. So one should accept those Shrutis alone from which proceeds true knowledge.

The above proves that the karma is reality only on the base of false self, where one thinks body and the universes as reality. When one becomes aware of the fact that, the true self is formless soul, then the karma becomes part and parcel of illusion.   My point is that, if one accepts the karma theory as reality, he will never be able to come out of the ignorance. And ignorance makes him believe the cycle of birth, life and death as reality.  Thus the freedom which one is seeking will remain distant dream. For the one who accepts the birth, karma and death as reality, Self-knowledge is impossible.

People are ignorant and they are unaware of the reality of their true existence. Man and his experience of universe is simply a mirage created out of   the consciousness.

Consciousness is the real Self, the real Atman. Ataman is the ultimate reality or Brahman.

The rituals are meant for those who believe the particle life within the practical world as reality, who are stuck believing the experience of birth, life death and the world as reality. Thus they cannot cross the sea of samsara [birth, life and death] because they are stuck with their belief system.    

All the scriptures indicate that Ataman is Brahman, and Brahman is ultimate truth. Therefore the soul, which is in the form of consciousness, is ultimate truth.  Thus to realize the ultimate truth is the prime goal.   A well-directed inquiry, analysis and reasoning will lead one to his nondual destination. 
Self-Realization is direct realization of the ultimate truth or real god, in contrast with traditional paths, which are indirect. And the other paths cannot lead to the ultimate destination because they are based on the false self, which they hold as real self and false experience as reality. 
Until and unless one overcomes physical shackle it is impossible to understand and assimilate the nondual truth, which is beyond the physical existence or the universe.  Consciousness itself is lord of itself though not of the universe. And having nothing it has all. 

Mundaka Upanishad:- 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.

Seeker of truth has to take the direct path and avoid losing precious time and effort loosing himself in philosophical studies. 

All the religionists  believe in god and goddesses [vidyaand performing rituals  and other sacrifices[Avidya] both are hindrance to self-knowledge according to Ish Upanishads,  then why the seeker of truth needs worshiping of  god and goddesses, when essence of Advaita  is Atman is Brahman [soul or self as ultimate reality]. 

 When the self is formless there is no need pada pooja [feet worship] Advaitin gurus to get freedom. A guru who preaches conduct as the means to freedom believes in birth, life death and the world as reality, whereas the Advaitic sage Sri, Sankara declares the world as unreal.  Therefore, how actions performed in unreal world can get moksha or freedom. Therefore there is need to know the fact that, the self is not physical in order to understand and assimilate and realize the truth beyond physicality.

 That is why Gaudapada says that: - The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upaasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

It means the people who follow religion and worship of guru and conceptual god are lower and middling intellect.  But in this modern world people are sharp enough to understand and assimilate ultimate truth or Brahman or god. Thus it is high time to discard the lower knowledge and move ahead to realize the ultimate truth, which is Brahman or God.   

They alone in this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the sameness and birthlessness of Ataman. The ordinary man does not understand their way. [Chapter IV — Alatasanti Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada]

Therefore, if one is seeking truth he has to know his true self is not physical but it is the Ataman, which is in the form of consciousness.  

Isa Upanishads indicates that: By worshiping gods and goddesses and going to the world of gods after death is of no use.  The time one spends in ritualistic practices is wasted; one can spend same time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is the main goal. One cannot reach the nondual destination by glorifying god and goddesses and by doing that, one goes deeper and deeper into darkness. It surely indicates the fact that, the seeker of truth has to drop the worshiping god and goddess in order to get self-knowledge.

It also indicates that, Religious Rituals [Avidyais Karma [actionand therefore a hindrance. By performing Agnihotra and other sacrifices [Avidyais a roundabout way of purifying the mind, and it is also groping in the dark.

In addition, it indicates the karma is limited only to the religious rituals, not on the whole human life. This karma theory based on the human conduct must have been adopted from Buddhism and other theories based on human conducts. 

When it says: Perform the obligatory karmas without any attachment to the fruits, and at the same time worship gods and goddesses, again without any desire to go to heaven - then you can get the benefit of both, liberation and bliss. For those who are not yet ready to renounce, this path is recommended, it mean that the religion and its  idea of god and goddesses and code of conducts, and its rituals are meant for the mass who are incapable of thinking of the beyond.

In addition, it also speaks of heaven the abode of gods, where one goes after death, and it speaks of rebirth, this contradiction, seeker has to conclude that religion, rituals god and its code of conducts are meant for the mass that is not receptive to self-knowledge. 

When the self is not the body [‘I’] whatever one sees, knows, believes, experiences and feels on the base of the body [‘I’] as self is bound to be illusion.  Thus, the karma performed in illusion is bound to be illusion. The birth, life and death is happening within the illusion, therefore it is bound to be illusion. Thus, rebirth and reincarnation theories based on the false self within the false experience are bound to be illusion on the base of the true self. Only the witness of the illusion is real [Brahman].  Therefore, everything has to be viewed and judged, on the base of the Formless Witness [soul] in order to overcome the illusion/duality. 

Seeker of truth has to know somewhere he is going wrong, and it is for the seeker to go on his own and remove the obstacle.  The greatest hindrance is mixing religion, god, scriptures, and yogic theories. Moreover, attachment to scriptures, personal god and religious code of conduct keeps one permanently in the grip of duality.
Seeker has to have courage to accept the truth and reject the untruth because most people will not be able to subscribe to path of truth because they sentimentally and emotionally involved with their inherited belief system and even if one does he has to overcome all his doubts confusion and despair.  These are problem for the seekers who are from religious back ground because of their conditioning and they are made to accept their blind belief as truth and their interest or insight is not deep.  Thus all my blogs are useful analyse these problems because they highlight the what is not truth according to their own religious scriptures  and make  them to accept the truth and reject all the false conditioning and move ahead in pursuit of truth.
It becomes difficult for the orthodox cult to accept anything else as truth other than their accepted belief, which they hold as truth. Although all religious followers are participants alike in the spiritual endeavour of the world, overzealous   followers of each religion are not prepared to accord equal status to other faiths and assert the superiority of their own. Thus universal brother hood is total impossibility because it is difficult to accept anything other than their inherited belief system.        
Most of the pundits are egoic and they try to snub others who question them.  They think they are unquestionable authority.  They quote the citation from the scriptures as proof without verifying the validity.  All punditry is a great obstacle in realizing the Advaitic truth expounded by the Sri, Sankara and Goudapada. 
One finds lots of differences between Adavita preaching and practice. There is need to bifurcate religion, concept of god and scriptures from Adavitic philosophy to assimilate the essence of Adavita.    

Sri, Sankara says in Brahma Sutras: that Brahman is the cause of the world, whereas in Mandukya he denies it. This is because he says that at the lower stage of understanding, the former teaching must be given, for people will get frightened as they cannot understand how the world can be without a cause, but to those in a higher stage, the truth of non-causality can be revealed. 

Sri, Sankara himself has warned us not to use ambiguous words, and to practice semantic analysis in his book "Definition of one's own Self. [" Page 199, v.24 of "Sankara's Selected Works]

Sri, Sankara founded his Advaita Vedanta either on reason independent of sruti or on sruti confirmed by reason."   Sri, Sankara's commentary on the Mandukya Upanishad, II, 1:  This [the unreality of duality] is borne out by the Srutis ... But it is possible also to show the unreality of the object world even from pure reasoning, and this second chapter is undertaken for that purpose.

 Sri, Sankara himself had often said that his philosophy was based on Sruti, or revealed scripture.  This may be because Sri, Sankara addressed the ordinary man, who finds security in the idea of causality and thus in the idea of God—and Revelation is indispensable to prove the latter.  He believed that those of superior intelligence, have no need of this idea of divine causality, and can therefore dispense with Sruti and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason. 

Sri, Sankara, in debates with Buddhists and others who did not recognize the authority of the Vedas, had been obliged to prove the truth of Advaita by means of reason alone.  Mandukya Upanishad, a scripture which appealed to reason to the exclusion of Revelation. 

Nonduality does not need the support of any Scripture or Revelation like the Veda. For it is based, not upon the varying theological fancies, which are as numerous as the sands of the sea, but upon reason, the common heritage of all mankind, irrespective of colour or creed or clime.

Thus, self-knowledge is meant only for those who have intense urge, and courage to accept the truth with humility and reject the untruth. Since people start comparing with their scriptural knowledge, it becomes impossible to assimilate and realize the non-dual truth.   Therefore, there is no need to convince anyone other than our own-selves to get the firm conviction. 

 I am not trying to prove my views, but it is for every seeker who is in the path of truth to prove himself to know “What is truth, “and “What is untruth?” to assimilate the self -knowledge. 

Karma, Bhakti, Raj yoga are not the means to path of wisdom. And mixing them up and trying to assimilate ultimate truth is impossibility. 

There is no need to practice to devotion, karma and raja yoga because they are not the means to acquire non-dual wisdom.   There is no practice as such but perfect understanding is needed.   Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning revels the fact that, the self is not physical but the self is formless consciousness. Therefore, all the accumulated knowledge, experiences and understanding based on physical self [ego or body as Self] are falsehood based on the false self, within the false experience [waking].   Thus, whatever is based on the waking entity is bound to be falsehood because waking experience itself is false hood.   Since many teachers and teachings are based on the false self [ego or body as Self] and they consider the false experience [three states] as reality, they are incapable of grasping the witness, which is within the three states, but it is without the three states.

 Thus, the formless knower of the three states has to be grasped mentally and realize the fact that, all the three states, which comes and goes, are mental.  They are impermanent. The formless witness or knower of the three states is permanent and eternal.  Therefore, there is a need to understand “What is Mind?” and “What is the substance of the Mind?” in order to understand and assimilate the non-dual truth.

 For this one has drop all his accumulate knowledge, which he is using as a yardstick and lands himself in pursuit of argument without reaching anywhere.  One has to think deeper and analyze and verify everything and accept only un-contradictable truth.  Nothing has to be accepted as truth because some great thinker says it or I am saying it.  

Those who lack the intelligence to discriminate between formless witness [subject] and three states [object] will not be able to grasp what is real and what is unreal. Both subject and object are consciousness, not subject alone.

The truth can never change. The nature of truth is, it can never be changed under any circumstances. It may be misrepresented. It must apply to the whole of existence, to the whole of the universe. It is in the object [three states] alone that one has all changes, as deeper analysis points out.

 The subject [formless witness] remains unchanged. The subject [formless witness], as such remains immortal. It can never die for it never changes. The body and world are an object, and goes, but the subject or knower of the body and the universe, can never go. Seeker has to take this principle as his guiding thread and non-dual truth becomes easy to grasp. The formless witness can never be subject to the changes of the object; it is unchanged. The mistake usually made is that subject becomes object, or that object is subject.

If one wants to have absence of contradictions, absence of duality, there must be one entity, one being. If one has experience which is an object [mind], there is contradiction between subject and object, for "mind” is an object.

The duality is reality on the standpoint of the false self [ego or body as Self].  The duality is mere mirage on the base of the true self, which is formless consciousness. This understanding comes only to the serious seeker, who has real urge to know the ultimate truth, which is beyond the all the teachings and teachers. There is neither teaching, nor teacher, nor student in the realm of truth.  

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.

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/dream originates from the soul.

There is no use of arguing with those who are stuck up with their own idea of truth.



It  is no use of arguing with those who are stuck up with their own idea of truth. Argument will not yield any fruits. Egocentric arrogance is a  hindrance in pursuit of truth. Seeker must have humility and patience. He has to  verify through deeper self-search  and than only  accept only  un-contradictable truth reject if it is contractible truth, without being judgmental .  one should never indulge in pursuit of argument  because pursuit of truth is pursuit of verification. Passing perverted  opinion based  on logic  is the attitude of the some  intellectuals who think the false self as real self and  practical life within the practical world as reality.  They are pleasure hunters not truth seekers.  
     
There is no need to criticize  the religion, concept of god and scriptures  and  the religious gurus,  but one has to know how they block one's realization.  There is need to drop the ignorance.  Once the ignorance is dropped one becomes aware of judging what truth is, and what is untruth. 

There is no sense of or purpose in doer ship.  The individual experiences are happening on its own accord, within the false experience.  Things do not happen because anyone is doing it.  Since the body, ego and the world are mere an experience within the waking experience. The waking or dreams are like movie. The projector light is needed to project the movie. Similarly Atman or consciousness is needed for projecting the three states. The waking is the first show and dream is second show and deep sleep is the interval.   Without the projector light the projection of the movie is impossible. Similarly without consciousness the three states cease to exist.  Thus the three states are not important but the consciousness is most important.

In Panchadashi:-  Atman The is the witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theater, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

Man is doer within the duality thus man is author of his doing within the waking or dream .but self is not the doer but self is the formless witness of the waking or dream. Thus the doer, doing and the doer ship belongs to duality, which is mere illusion form ultimate standpoint. 

Body is not the self; the soul, which is in the form of consciousness, is the true self.  Thus, man cannot take the authorship the three states, which is mere illusion because the man and his experience of the world are within the waking experience.    Thus, it is necessary to acquire the self-knowledge in order to unfold the truth.  

Man has the great attachment to his individuality, but he is fully ignorant of the fact that, he and his experience of the world are reality with in the false experience. Once he becomes aware of the fact that the three states are unreal on the base of the soul/self, he becomes aware of the fact that, the individuality is part of the illusion.  

Only when the seeking mind realizes the fact that, the soul is the true self, it becomes aware of the fact that, whatever it has seen, known, believed, experienced is mere mirage.  Thus, birth life and death, and pain and pleasure are part of the mirage.  Therefore basing the truth on the physical entity is erroneous.  There is neither creation nor creator on the standpoint of the soul as self. Therefore, the cause and effect has no meaning on base of the soul as self.

Self-Knowledge or Knowledge of Brahman puts an end to the ignorance, which is the cause of the experiencing the duality as reality.





Deeper self- search reveals the fact that,  the judgment based on the ego or waking entity will not reveal the truth.  Because the waking entity is not the self. Only the judgment based on the Atman or consciousness as self, reveals the ultimate truth or Brahman.  One has to mentally trace the existence of the formless substance and witness of the three states in order to realize the fact that the formless substance and witness of the three states are one in essence.   That essence is consciousness it is the source of the illusion, which appears as waking or dream.

When the consciousness remains without the illusion it is non-dual reality. The non-dual reality is like deep sleep but deep sleep is not real because there is no self-awareness in deep sleep.    The self-awareness rises in the midst of duality [waking experience] when wisdom dawns.  Thus Advaitic awareness brings unity in diversity.   

 Formless witness of the three states is the ultimate key to unfold the truth locked in the three states.    On the standpoint of the soul / self, there can be no religious discord. The soul/self has no religion.  The truth is universal. Therefore, the self-knowledge is for everyone. Truth is not what they think but it is with what they are able to think.  

Since people are not prepared to verify the facts about their own belief, system they are unable to understand and assimilate the self-knowledge. Until one has urge to know the truth and prepares the ground properly and consistent in his efforts to know the truth, he will not be receptive to receive self-knowledge. 

The intellectual children who are stuck up with their accumulated knowledge based on waking entity or ego, think what they know is truth with second-hand knowledge based on what they have read and heard  is ultimate truth   are in pursuit of arrogance . They are trying to become a guru or master or teacher by introducing their own lecture and teaching without verifying the facts ultimate truth cannot be got from any teaching or theories but only through deeper self-search by seeker alone.  Intellectual children are not the seekers of wisdom or Gnana.  The intellectual children are playing with the feeling of seekers with their ornamental words and make the seeker they are nearer to the truth but the truth is not truth in itself.  

Logic is intellectual conclusion.  Intellectual conclusions are practical truth and they are truth in practical world,   but practical world itself mere illusion from ultimate standpoint.  That is why Sri, Sankara says; the world is unreal the Brahman alone is real and everything is Brahman.  
Thus seeker has to realize:-

v  On what basis the world is unreal?

v  What is Brahman? 

v  How everything is Brahman?

:  in order  transcend to self-awareness from false physical awareness. 

It is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge 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 scriptures are based on the physical entity/ego.  Thus, it cannot transport the seeking mind to reality, which is beyond duality.  

Seeker has to confirm the fact that, the self is not the physical body, and self is not the mind, which is in the form of universe.  The mind is the whole universe, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as 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 consciousness.  

Self-Knowledge puts an end to the ignorance, which is the cause of the experiencing the duality as reality. Experiencing duality/waking, as reality is the cause of the misery.  Therefore, it is necessary for the seeking mind to trace the invisible witness of the three states to overcome the ignorance.  Only when the seeking mind overcomes the ignorance, realizes the fact that, ‘I’ is not the self but the soul is the true self, and learns to view and judge the three states on the base of the soul as self, the truth will start unfolding.   

Seeking mind has to realize through deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning the fact that,  the sense of  ‘I’ is the mind. Mind is the whole universe, which appears and disappears as waking or dream.   When seeking mind gets a firm conviction the self is the soul, which is in the form of consciousness it becomes aware of the fact that, viewing and judging the three states on the physical entity or ego is erroneous.  The judgment based on the physical entity /ego is false judgment, because the physical entity or ego is the false self within the false experience.