What
is the use of doing meditation on the base of the waking entity, which is the false self within the false experience?
Meditation is not the means to Self–Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Meditation is not the goal itself because it is practiced on the base
false self (waking entity or ego) within the false experience (waking). Meditation
is not the means to Self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Meditation
is a good and valuable tool in practical life within the practical world to
overcome the stress of practical life. It is
an important and useful tool to quiet the physical –mind or ego and emotions.
Once
the turbulent tendencies of the physical mind or ego and emotions are brought
into harmony, clarity and renewed strength are available to meet and overcome
each life challenge as it presents itself in practical life. Thus meditation
and yoga are useful as preparatory stages in pursuit of truth.
Meditation
will not eliminate our life challenges but can enable us to harmonize our physical
–mind or ego and emotions and to focus that energy like a powerful beam of
light on the challenges that lie ahead in practical life with the practical
world. But seeker has to realize the fact that, the
practical life within the practical world is nothing to do with the formless
soul, the innermost self, which is beyond form, time, and space.
Wisdom
dawns only when ignorance vanishes. Ignorance vanishes only when the waking
entity (ego) becomes aware of the fact that it itself is not the self. Thus by
practicing meditation on the false self within the false experience the ignorance
will remain deeply rooted.
Thus, all
physical-based paths and practices are not the means to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Thus trying
to acquire Self-Knowledge through meditation and other yogic practices is like
trying to catch fish in the desert sand.
Most of the dualistic sages approach was more practical, and
they stuck with the reality of the world, they took it as real. Whereas Sage Sankara says: one must first
know what is before him. If he cannot know that, what else can he know or
understand? If he gives up the external world in his inquiry, he cannot get the
whole truth.
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Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth
of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word
Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.[ Sage Sankara says in V C]
Yoga Vasishta, says: - that
the world is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of
consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal
like consciousness itself.
One
becomes many and many become one. One exists as, ultimate truth or Brahman. That
ultimate truth is formless Soul or consciousness. The Soul becomes the universe and the universe becomes the Soul. Thus the soul or consciousness is
not limited to a physical entity within the universe because it pervades everything and everywhere in all three states. Thus limiting the soul or consciousness to
the physical entity is the cause of ignorance. All the teachers and teachings of the world
stuck up limiting the Soul to the physical entity or ego and base their theories on
the physical entity alone.
Even in Buddhism: - Buddhist teaching has
itself become a kind of interactive and self-evolving process, much like its
idea of pratityasamutpada. However, the end goal is still Nirvana, which is an
experience ultimately beyond all concepts and language, even beyond the
Buddhist teachings. In the end, even the attachment to the Dharma, the Buddhist
teaching, must be dropped like all other attachments. The tradition compares
the teaching to a raft upon which one crosses a swift river to get to the other
side; once one is on the far shore; there is no longer
any need to carry the raft. The far shore is Nirvana, and it is also said that
when one arrives, one can see quite clearly that there was never any river at
all.
The scriptures and theories and teaching based on the ego are
not yardsticks. Using them as a yardstick to understand and assimilate the
truth will lead one towards the pursuit of arguments. The seeker of truth has to
discover on his own, the truth of his true existence by inquiring “what is
mind?” and “what is the substance of the mind?” and move forward.
The ultimate
truth is one without the second, the one is not in the sense half or two, but
the one that remains forever One, without the second. The consciousness is all-pervading. There is
no place where consciousness is not.
Consciousness
is in everyone, consciousness is in everything .consciousness is one behind
many. Consciousness alone is. It means the universe is the visible form of
consciousness.:~Santthosh Kumaar
