Religious and Yogic truth is individual truth based on the
‘I’ as self which is the false identity therefore it is not universal. The
spiritual truth is universal on which the whole human experience that is
including the universe is based.
- v How do the mystics or yogi know they have experienced the whole?
- v Where is the proof they have seen it?
When they say “they know from experience” they merely mean
“they think so.” If mystics experience joy, they cannot be egoless, for who is
having the joy? And if they retain the ego they cannot know the Universal truth,
the whole.
There is need of definition before study because "Religions
place God as the unknown reality” intellectuals place it as the unknown
reality. Every religionist has a different idea of God. Every man has a
different idea of real. The fallacy of believers appeal to scripture lies
in the varying and conflicting interpretations of the same scripture which
different men feel entitled to give or hold.
The yogi or mystic who sees or experiences something in his
meditation which he takes as the highest truth, it is ultimate truth only on
the base of ‘I’ as self which is the false self”. The yogi and mystic s
experiences everything as a person therefore it is experienced within the
illusory Waking experience. Simply saying there is 'God' is of no use.
That is why
Buddha Said: - Believe
nothing because a wise man said it,
Believe nothing because it is generally held.
Believe nothing because it is written.
Believe nothing because it is said to be divine.
Believe nothing because someone else said it.
But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.
(from The Mystic Vision
Compiled by Andrew Harvey and Anne Baring)
Thus Seeker of truth
should not believe blindly his inherited religious belief without verifying all the facts from
every angle. One has to reflect through reasoning over and over again without
getting tired of the process.
“If there is God -—prove it. If there is no God --prove
it." Religionists dogmatically assume the existence of god and atheists
assume there is no God.
How one knows, that God who tells about himself in
meditation is truthful! He may tell one a lie! His statements must
therefore be tested. Supposing a mystic has a vision, which experience is true,
but he must prove that it is really what it purports to be, and that he is not
deluded.
When one does not know truth, he can only guess,
imagine, hence doubts and questions and discussions arise.
If one says God is in haven, others say he is within. Again
the God may take different form and name. Then which form and name of God is
correct? Some contend that God is sound and say one hears the divine sound
inside in meditation, still others say God is fragrant smell and that beautiful
scent comes in meditation as the presence of God. All these differences of
opinion, they can be endless, show mutual contradiction and general error, that
is lack of certain truth. Moreover if one sees form one is seeing a second
thing, a seen.
One should not try
to judge ultimate truth holding religious or yogic doctrine as a
yardstick. Religion and yoga is not the
yardstick to judge the ultimate truth because they are practiced on the base of
waking entity or physical self or ego.
The waking entity or physical self or ego is false self within the false
experience (waking). The non dualistic or Advaitic truth has to be viewed and judged
without scriptures, and on the base of the soul, the innermost self. This formless path is inner path is without
the religion or scriptures or god or yoga. The formless path is pathless path
is without guru and self – treading towards direct realization.
Ultimate truth is based on the soul therefore whatever
practiced on the base waking entity will not yield any fruit, because the waking entity is the false self
within the false experience. The religion and yoga are based on the form
therefore they are based on the matter (form) whereas the
spirituality is based on the spirit (formless). Thus religion and yoga are not spirituality,
hence there is need to bifurcate spirituality from matter (form) based religion
and yoga.
Advaita refers to non- duality. Non -duality is not a
theory or concept but it is the nurture
of the soul, the innermost self, which Atman
(soul or spirit or consciousness). Thus
whatever is based on the soul is spiritual. The soul is eternal identity which
has no birth, life and death, because it is the formless. Soul, which is in the form of consciousness,
is the formless substance and witness of the illusory experience of birth, life,
death and world.
The religion is based on the form. Without the form there
is no question of religion. The religion accepts the concept of God, and
believes the body itself as self, and injects theoretical code of conduct to
live in the world, whereas in spirituality, the soul or consciousness is the
true self and body, ego, world, conceptual god are part of the illusion created
out of consciousness.
From ultimate standpoint the soul,which is present in the form of consciousness is ultimate truth. Only ultimate truth can be considered as God. Thus consciousness(soul) is ultimate truth or Brahman. Brahman is GOD. thus there is no other god other than the consciousness(soul), the innermost self. the innermost self is God.
Upanishads confirms this:- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, which is a part of Vedas, Declares that:-Brahman is the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
