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.
