Monday, July 30, 2012

Atman itself is Brahman.




Because of the inherited conditioning an average person cannot accept anything else as truth, other than his inherited truth.  Only the seekers who have intense urge and receptive and sharpness to grasp will be able to reach their inner destination. The rest will remain in the illusion (outer) experiencing the birth, life, death and the world as reality.     

It is necessary to for the seeker of truth to inquire on his own and realize the non-dual truth without any scriptures in this very lifetime, and make sure of the fact that, the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness and consciousness alone is real and eternal.     

 Thus by quoting one authority from one scripture, and other authority from another scripture, and trying to prove and realize the truth is like, trying to drain the ocean drop by drop.

Scriptural knowledge is conceptual divisions invented by teachers of philosophy by their excessive analysis. Where do all these concepts end? Why should confusion created and then explained away? Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the source from which they all arise.

The direct path to the truth is by tracing the source from which the false arises. Thus the source is the soul or  Atman, which is the innermost  self. Atman itself is Brahman.  Thus it is necessary to view the three states  on the base of the source, which the true self, and formless substance and witness of the experience of diversity. Thus deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base, one can acquire the self –knowledge in lesser time and effort.  The unity in diversity is possible only through self-knowledge not by mastering the scriptural knowledge.