Moksha is freedom. Freedom is becoming free from experiencing
the illusion or duality as reality by realizing the fact that, the self is not
the form but self is formless. It is not possible to realize this truth without realizing
the fact that, the individual self or ego is reality within the false
experience. Thus all the knowledge
accumulated on the base of false self within the false experience is false knowledge. Thus whatever seen,known,believed and experienced as waking entity within the waking experience is falsehood.
People believe in old myths
propagated by their religion. Every religion has propagated its own myth. Every
religious belief contradicts other beliefs. It is mere blind belief accepted as
truth without verification and evidence. This causes division. Modern science has
exposed many Religious dogmas as myth. All these dogma were introduced in
primitive era before people had
the benefit of modern science. Science attempts to objectively discover how
life works, and religion makes one blindly believe and cast his burden on the blind belief without
verification, to live in peace and harmony
in worldly life.
Seekers main aim is to investigate both dual
and non-dual experiences to find and define the underlying truth in everything,
thereby realizing what the ultimate truth is. Because of so many beliefs propagated by
belief system, people think seekers of truth are atheists because they do not accept the belief
blindly. Seekers of truth believe the religionist and atheists both are
believers because religionist believe in the belief of god and atheists believe
in belief of no god.
Pursuit of truth is all about
accepting uncertainty and open questions and seeking for the things that are certainty.
Believers and nonbelievers will not accept anything other than their
inherited belief system or accepted truth. Atheists feel there is no proof for god’s
existence. So atheist chooses to just believe there is no such thing called
God. And religionists just believe in the existence of their conceptual
god. A Gnani is one who is fully aware
of the fact that, the existence or non-existence of God cannot be proven on the
base of physical self. Therefore Deeper
understanding is necessary to understand and assimilate the truth about Gods
existence, to know what is supposed to be the God.
In Vedas the God (Soul/Atman) has
been described as:-
The Self or Atman is God and God is Self or Atman.
Sakshi
(Witness)
Chetan
(conscious)
Nirguna
(Without form and properties).
The Soul/God further has been told as
Nitya
(eternal)
Shuddha
(pure)
Buddha
(omniscient)
Mukta (unattached).
It means the ultimate truth is god. That is Atman is Brahman. That is the true self is ultimate truth.
In Advaita Vedanta: - Brahman is without attributes and strictly impersonal. It can be best
described as infinite Being, infinite Consciousness and infinite Bliss. It is
pure knowledge itself, similar to a source of infinite radiance. Since the
Advaitins regard Brahman to be the Ultimate Truth, so in comparison to Brahman,
every other thing, including the material world, its distinctness, the
individuality of the living creatures and even Ishvara (the Supreme Lord) itself
are all untrue. Brahman is the effulgent cause of everything that exists and
can possibly exist. Since it is beyond human comprehension, it is without any
attributes, for assigning attributes to it would be distorting the true nature
of Brahman. Advaitins believe in the existence of both Saguna Brahman and
Nirguna Brahman; however they consider Nirguna Brahman to be the absolute
supreme truth.
Formless soul or Atman is the innermost self. The true self or Atman is in the form of
consciousness. Therefore Consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman and ultimate truth or Brahman is God.
