Thursday, January 5, 2012

If Bhakti is limited to the belief or form of Krishna or Christ, then it leads to hallucination.





If one is seeking truth than the  the seeker of truth  has to becomes iconoclast and hold nothing sacred, and question the veracity of religious dogma and clear cobwebs of all doubts and confusions. without getting rid of all doubts and confusion  it is very difficult to understand, assimilate and realize the non-dual truth. Therefore it is necessary propound a new idea on existence in order to drop all accumulated knowledge based on the false self, and understand , assimilate and realize the ultimate truth in a new way in lesser time and effort.     

Only broad-minded parents, who rejected all customs and traditions  and encouraged their children to question preachers of religion and think for themselves to know the ultimate truth of their  true existence, will find it easier to understand and assimilate non-dual truth. It is in their childhood that parents start brainwashing their children and make them incapable of breaking free from the mental chains in which they are bound from infancy.

People who no noting about the truth impose their inherited out-dated belief system on their children is real cruelty in this modern world.  As far as belief system is concerned, everybody is lying. They all talk of God, heaven and hell, angels and all kinds of false-hood, without knowing anything at all.  "No one should lie -- to a child, at least -- it is unforgivable. Children have been exploited for centuries just because they are willing to trust.

 People lie to children very easily and they will trust them. If one is a father, a mother, they will think he/she is bound to be true. That's how the whole of humanity lives in corruption, in a very slippery mud of lies told to children for centuries. 

By doing, a simple thing -- not lie to children and to confess to them our ignorance -- then we will be truthful and we will put them on the path of truth. Children are innocent. One should not impose the religious truth and free from all religious code of conduct, which frees them from becoming religious fanatics, who indulge in violence, war and terrorism in the name of protecting their religion and god.   

One has to have courage of Buddha who rejected religion, concept of god and scriptures as false.  Follow Buddha not Buddhism to know the ultimate truth. Follow Sri, Sankara not Hinduism to know Brahman. Follow Christ, not Christianity to know thy truth, and that truth sets one free. 


  Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (brahmano hi pratisthaham, Bhagavad Gita 14.27)  

If one considers Krishna as  formless soul and soul as  Brahman [ultimate truth] then only there is unity in diversity. If Bhakti is limited to the belief or form  of Krishna or Christ, then it leads to hallucination. If formless witness is ever present then that itself is Krishna or Christ or Buddha or Allah.  Therefore, realizing the formless witness (Brahman or Krishna or Christ) as self is Self-Realization.    


  
The beliefs of god, religion, yoga are based on the false self; therefore they are nothing to do with the mental [inner] journey.   The religious, rituals, worships, devotion  prayers god and guru glorification may be useful in the worldly life, for those  who believes in the birth, life, death and the world as reality, but they are not useful tools in realizing the ultimate truth. Because the body is not the self, therefore, the experience of birth, life, death and world are mere illusion created out of Atman, which is Brahman.   

Only in waking we are aware of the deep sleep experience. In waking we are unaware of the nature of the true self [Brahman]. Consciously becoming aware of the true self [Brahman] in the midst of the waking experience and realize all the three states are myth, is self-realization or truth realization.  Yogic Samadhi and deep sleep are identical; they have no value in realm of truth. 

On the base of consciousness [soul] as self, everything other than the consciousness is mere mirage.  Thus, body, senses, ego, and the world and his belief of god and religion are part and parcel of the mirage created out of consciousness. 

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

This clearly indicates that religion, which is based on individual conduct, prescribes karma and Upaasana to people of lower and middling intellect, therefore religion is for the lower intellect. 

Wisdom is for those are capable of inquiring into their own existence to know and realize the ultimate truth, which is Brahman. 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.  

Self-knowledge cannot be attained by study of the Vedas and intellectual understanding or by bookish knowledge.  Therefore there is no use of studying the Vedas and other scriptures like Bhagavad-Gita, Bible or holy Koran, in order to acquire Self-know edge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana because the religion is based on the ego( waking entity) whereas the Self-Knowledge is based on the formless soul or consciousness, the innermost self. Soul ,   the innermost self  belongs to no religion because it is  ever formless and eternal.  

  That is why Buddha rejected the scriptures, and even Sri, Sankara indicated that, the ultimate truth lies beyond religion, concept of god and scriptures.

Living with Krishna means, living in duality.  Living in Duality means, living in ignorance. Living in ignorance means, living in illusion.  Living in illusion means, experiencing the duality as reality. The duality is mere illusion   the standpoint of the soul, which is the true self.  Thus living itself is mere illusion. If living illusion then the birth, life, death and world are also is mere illusion. 

When everything is created out of Krishna [soul], then nothing exist, other than Krishna (soul) which is in the form of consciousness. Krishna (consciousness or Brahman) alone is, all else [body, ego, senses, world] are mere illusion.  


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 Sri, Goudapada. 

One finds lots of differences between  traditional Advaita preaching and practice. There is need to bifurcate religion, concept of god and scriptures from Advaitic 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. 

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.


When Upanishad itself declares:-   sarvam khalvidam brahma - all this (universe) is verily Brahman. By following back all of the relative appearances in the world, we eventually return to that from which it is all manifest – the non-dual reality [ Chandogya Upanishad].  


Then it is no use going roundabout way, trace the Brahman which is the formless substance and witness of the universe, which is in the form of mind.  By tracing the source of the mind or universe one will be able to realize the Brahman. 


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.