Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Deeper understanding is necessary to understand and assimilate the truth about Gods existence, to know what is supposed to be the God.




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.