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Q: The term "void" is used in certain scriptures. I’d like to know your thoughts on it ultimately, rather than mid-way - i.e. do you see all things being resolved back into Atman, or does the world of form, in a sense, constitute the Atman or brahman ? I think the psychology is helpful to go beyond duality?
Q: The term "void" is used in certain scriptures. I’d like to know your thoughts on it ultimately, rather than mid-way - i.e. do you see all things being resolved back into Atman, or does the world of form, in a sense, constitute the Atman or brahman ? I think the psychology is helpful to go beyond duality?
Ans:- All these confusion
are bound to exist on the base of ‘waking entity or ego’ as self.
However, when one becomes aware of the fact that, ‘waking entity or ego ’ is not the self
but the formless soul or consciousness is the innermost self, and he is able to view and judge on the base
of soul, then he also become aware of the fact that, nothing is exiting , nothing ever existed. But to
come to this understanding, it takes time, because one has to do lots of home
work to mentally burn unnecessary accumulated dross.
Through deeper self-search one has to eradicate the foundational
ignorance, Self -Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana alone is the means to the attainment of liberation
from illusion. Only Self -Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana destroys the ignorance.
WHAT IS ‘I’?
The ‘I’ disappears as deep sleep, so
what is the use of being attached to it? It is impermanent and illusory.
There is really no ‘I’ which in the form
of mind. And mind is in the form of universe. And universe appears as waking or dream. The ‘I’ or mind
or universe or waking or dream dies disappears as deep sleep. Thus one that appears as ‘I’ or mind or
universe or waking or dream is consciousness and it disappears as deep sleep is
also consciousness. In deep sleep it is
in its formless non dual true nature. The
one, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states, is also
consciousness. Thus the witness and witnessed are one in
essence.
Thus the universe is reality on the base of
individuality and universe is unreal on the base of the consciousness, which is
the innermost self. The seeker gradually will grasp and realize the unreal
nature of the universe or mind. Individuality is illusory because the self is
not an individual because self is formless and it pervades in everything and
everywhere in all the three states. .
Dualist’ sages have written big volumes
about the soul. Yet they are quite ignorant of the fact that the ‘I’ about
which they write itself comes and goes and has no permanent existence, is only
an idea after all.
One has to unlearn whatever he has learnt and accumulated on the base of
‘I’.
Until the self identifies with the flesh and blood, and
material world, it is caught up in psychological apparatus, and believes the
duality as reality. The truth is beyond psychology.
Until one considers ‘I’ itself as self, he cannot go beyond
psychology, because psychology is based on ‘I’ as self. Thus one has to understand the psychology is
limited to the physical apparatus, it cannot go beyond the physicality.
