In pursuit of truth the ultimate truth
has to be proved, not assumed. Pundits who take scriptures for granted are not
Gnanis. The intellectuals by questioning
others and trying to provoke others are unaware of the fact that, the ultimate
truth will not be reveled through intellectualism but it reveals only through soul-centric reasoning. It is foolish to argue on the base of waking entity,
which is not the self.
If
one says that he speaks to God everyday therefore he is sure that God exists always
implies he must also exist always. Without his existence the god who speaks to
him cease to exist. Thus he has to exist for his God to exist.
The
inner revelation flash without any process of thought to mark the intervening stages;
still they are ideas, mental phenomena in their full nature. When they project
themselves into the mind or universe as an object then one becomes aware of the
subject object relation and also the fact that the object is mere mirage
created out of the formless subject, which is consciousness.
Self-knowledge
or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana cannot come if anything is left out. All the
three states must be included in his inquiry in order to realize the three states are one in essence. Only when all is known can all be known to be
but ideation. Hence yogis Samadhi cannot lead to self-knowledge or brahma Gnana
or Atma Gnana.
The
thought, the ego, the body the world belongs to the waking experience. The intellectual
may get the knowledge that the ‘witness is separate from witnessed , but he will never
know the ultimate truth without
inquiring into the world confronting him, because he is giving up the world,
and hence cannot discover his unity with the world because man and his experience
of the world are one in essence. The
Gnani regards everything in the world as consciousness; the intellectual rejects
the world. Thus there is a fundamental difference. The Gnani is soul-centric whereas the intellectual
is egocentric.
Without
inquiry into the world, which confronts one and its nature i.e. matter, there
can be no such thing as self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Yogi who
says he has experienced mystic exaltation, trances, meditations and peace is
his individual experience thus it cannot be accepted as truth because the self
is not an individual because it is formless. Thus Yogic experiences are not Self-Knowledge
or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. It vanishes when he comes out of trance or Samadhi
because it was not the highest insight. A Gnani, however never loses his Gnana.
Once one has thoroughly assimilated the truth he simply can't fall away from
it.
Yogi enjoying mystic exaltation and
peace, but whether it passes away soon or endures the whole of life, it is not Self-knowledge
or brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, because it did not come through striving to
investigate the nature of the world confronting him, it came only through
meditation on the self; that is the yogic reward for such meditation but it is
only one half.
That is why Sri, Sankara
says in (VC) :-
63. 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.
65. As a treasure
hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction,
excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and
(finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name,
so the transparent Truth of the self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects,
is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by
reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.
The
individual experience within the dream is reality with in the dream. Therefore
waking reality is also is reality within the waking. This waking is parallel
dream and dream is parallel waking. Only when self-wakes up in waking the dream
becomes unreal. When the self-consciously wakes up in its formless non-dual true
nature in the midst of waking experience
then all the three states are mere
mirage created out of its formless non-dual true nature.
The form
time and space within the dream are falsehood when waking takes place.
Similarly the form, time and space of the waking are also falsehood when wisdom
dawns. The wisdom dawns only when one realize the self is neither the waking
entity nor the dream entity. Thus it is erroneous to judge and reason and
conclude the ultimate truth on the base of waking entity and waking world
because waking experience itself is illusion.
Suppose
you were holding the same view in the dream, all your experiences and views are
reality within the dream. The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place.
Similarly the waking becomes unreal when you become aware the fact that, the
self is not an individual. Thus whatever
individual experiences experienced within the waking is as unreal as dream.
Until one thinks body as body and world as
world it is impossible to grasp non-dual truth, because his views and judgments
are bases on waking entity with the waking world . The individuality is reality with the waking
experience but the waking experience itself is false hood. Thus holding the
view as an individual within the false experience is erroneous on the ultimate
stand point. The waking is parallel
dream and dream is parallel waking experience.
A
Gnani not only gets such inner peace but
also truth because he has turned outwards also and grasped the truth about
matter, which is as much consciousness as his innermost self.
