When one finds disappointment in religion, yoga or mysticism and
he is in confusion and uncertainty, whether he is right or wrong. There
is no certainty that he is proceeding on right lines?" Thus doubts arise
and the inquiring spirit comes and impels to search elsewhere for truth where
it will not be possible even to have doubt.
Some philosophers and the theologians strongly believe in the
existence of God. They use different names for Him, Her or it. God can be
Christ, Allah or Brahma. They regard God as a creator of the whole
universe. The doubt naturally arises in every seeking mind,
if god is the creator if that is so, who created Him. The truth is that from
ultimate standpoint there is neither creator nor creation. The universe
was not created by any person by whatever name you call Him or Her. There
is no creator because there is no creation. Because the creation is a mere
illusion created out of consciousness. The consciousness is only reality
and all else is mere illusion. It is not the God created creation but man
created God and creator and creation theory.
Only in non- duality, where there are no two to
argue about views or to have difference of opinion can such doubtlessness be
possible. Belief depends upon unstable bases whereas certainty depends on
proof.
Seeker has to get rid of his doubts by soul-centric reasoning.
Seeker of truth should not simply go on believing everything, which has come
from his grooming and whatever he is been heard, read and told without
verifying their validity. Seeker has to get rid of the doubts by the
deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning."
Yoga, Theology, mythology, religion, poetry all belong to the
same class--appeal to belief, fancy, imagination, not truth. When one cannot
fully know the truth about the physical existence then, how can he hope ever to
know God, who is dependent on human existence? Then why bring in the
belief system, without investigating the truth of the physical existence.
Yogi shuts his eyes the world confronts him and
then has the temerity to declare that it knows the world to be Brahman! Because
he has not inquired into it, he knows nothing.
Yoga helps the yogi by giving him the feeling that the world is
not worth bothering about, it detaches him from world; it makes him treat the
world as a dream. It does the same to his ego to some extent because he becomes
indifferent to what happens to him. But this is only feeling, he feels these
things only but does not know that the world is mere mirage. Such knowledge can
come only after soul-centric inquiry and in no other way.
That is why yogi cannot be Gnani. It is the difference between
feeling and knowledge. Feeling of the yogi that the world is unreal may change
tomorrow because all emotions are liable to change; and the fact is that yogis
do change, as when going after women they lose their sense of world unreality
though previously they felt it.
A permanent view of world as unreal can come only after
soul-centric reasoning; such knowledge cannot change. Were the seeker who is
sufficiently sharpness he could grasp the unreal nature of the world by
soul-centric reasoning alone. To know whole truth, one must know the
whole universe, otherwise he gets only half-truth.
Sanyasa is not the means to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma
Gnana. Renouncing the worldly life and accepting sanyasa or monk hood
means incapacity to think deeper, an impotency to inquire and reason.
The spiritual healing is not the power of the god which is mere
belief. The healer and the healing takes place in illusion. There is
neither the individualized god, nor the healer not healing in the realm of
reality. One man gets cured and speaks and spreads the fame of the
healer. Why he got cured he does not know; whilst many others may fail to
receive a cure and their cases are not talked about. The individual
experiences within the experience of duality are nothing to with the witness.
The witness of the experience of duality [waking/dream] is always apart and
unaffected. The experience of duality, which comes and goes, is
impermanent whereas the formless witness is permanent.
Whatever experienced in the presence of a God men or yogi is due
to prior suggestion inherited from the grooming. The God men of one religion
are not considered as revered by people belonging to other religion.
People accept only the God men or holy men of their own religion.
The words of God men will fail to impress the mass if the god men
belonging to other religion.
The religion ceases to exist without the idea of God or
Guru or saint or prophet. Some worship their Guru as God some individualized
God and some worship and pray to the formless God. The idea of God is
based on the physicality and physicality is not reality. In reality there is
only non- duality, and there is no scope for any second thing.
There is no second thing to say there is god or no God. Therefore,
the true self which is the spirit is ultimate truth.
The teachings of Pseudo-gurus who claim mystic teaching is
immoral are ignorant on the base of the true self. The orthodox people
always craving for religion and indulge themselves in godly business, because
they think their religion has come as their inheritance from their ancestors
and passed on from one generation to the next. And they feel it is their
duty to protect their inherited customs, traditions and beliefs. The fear
propagated by priest craft that, if one does not to follow its rites and dogmas
will bring punishment and misfortunes and they will not be qualified for
enjoyment in the next world or next life creates fear and makes them incapable
of accepting anything other than their accepted truth.
People’s inability to give up the beliefs of its truth, even when
their reason demonstrates its fallacies and absurdities are merely forms of
mild obsessions, i.e. a thought constantly repeating itself automatically in
their subconscious; hence it is mental disease created out of hallucination.
The concept of god, karma, heaven and hell are ideas created by
religion, to help for those who are incapable of grasping. The concept of god
and goddesses and karma are part of the ignorance. By worshiping god and
goddesses one accepts the false self as true self, thus he is unfit for
self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana . Therefore concept of god is not
the means to acquire the self-knowledge. That is why Buddha rejected concept of
God.
Devotion is meant for those who are unable to think deeply and
more interested in worldly life to manipulate the worldly life with the belief
of individualized god. Thus the belief is part of the illusion.
Therefore, the devotional path is limited to duality/mind.
Unless one give up the ideas of sin, karma, heaven and hell, non-dual
truth is impossible to grasp. The truth of the theory of karma, sin,
heaven and hell must be proved here and now, not in the next world. If this
cannot be done, then it is not possible to hold such idea, as existence of
heaven and hell as true. Mere speculation on basis of scriptural authority is
not the proof.
