Yogi takes for granted that
there is an Iswara--God, gives it to people for concentration purposes, and
then they naturally find God in their meditations. But it is only his imagined
God.
Mystics see what they are
looking for or that whose existence they presuppose. Therefore Yoga belongs to
religion, not Philosophy.
God is mere belief; no one has
proved that there is a God. No one has proved that the individual is God or
Brahman. Personal experience which is
not universally valid is no proof, neither is ecstatic feeling.
What one knows must be tested,
to see if it be true or not. Experience must be taken, checked, analysed and
corrected. It is the characteristic of all human beings to believe they
understand, even when they do not. Otherwise he may be merely imagining as he like.
The reasoning base has to be
rectified from form to formless to get faultless judgment. The defective interpretation is to apply it
only to waking state. The correct interpretation is to apply it to the three
states. The latter leads to final settlement of the problems because it takes all
data into consideration. Opinions belong
to scholasticism. And opinions are of no use in pursuit of truth.
If one has a belief, it is
because somebody else believes it; or the majority believes it--or it is his own
experience. Is it religious authority or religious sanction or is it based upon
a feeling of certainty?
People believe it merely because
it is for them to believe and very difficult for them to reason. The belief makes one more and more ignorance
of the true self. Without realizing the true self is not the physical but the
formless soul, the true will not be revealed.
The belief system rests on the belief because it is based on the belief.
The truth is based on the reason not on the belief. Nearly all people want their own imagination,
not truth.
Therefore, if one wants to acquire Atma Gnana
or Bramha Gnana or Self- Knowledge or
knowledge of consciousness one has to drop all ritualistic and orthodox baggage
to move forward in their pursuit of truth.
Most people who write
books on non-duality are borrows idea from punditry have commercial interest to
sell their books or ideas. They have not expounded anything new other than presenting the eastern concepts to
suit the western seekers in ornamental words.
Authoritative and
orthodox egoic attitude is out-dated and not suit for the modern mind-sets who are capable of
thinking using their own reason. It is
no use of arguing with people who live in self-imposed orthodox prison and who
impose their false inherited baggage to the next generation. It is high time for the orthodox cult to
wake up and indulge is self-search their belief to realize the non-dualistic
truth expounded by the great sage scientists, Sri, Sankara and Goudpada.
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.
When
sages themselves found rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing The sea of
samsara, of birth and death and ignored them and they the Mundaka Upanishad
further suggest that, such rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing the realm of
duality those who try to cross The realm of duality on these poor rafts
are Doomed to shipwreck are. Ignorant of
their own ignorance, yet wise in their own esteem, these deluded people
[punndiths] proud of their vain learning go round and round like the blind led
by the blind.
