Religion, yoga and intellectualism
are not the means to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Without getting rid of the ignorance and
trying to get self-awareness through religion and yoga is like a sleeping man
trying to know what he is about, without waking up. As sleep is to waking, so
is ordinary life to the state of realization.
It
is better to bifurcate religion, mysticism and yoga from spirituality. Since
spirituality is based on the formless entity. Religion,mysticism and yoga are
based on the physical entity. The religion and its ideology and its theories
are true only in experience of duality.
Religion,
mysticism and yoga is for the people, who believe their physical entity, as
true self, and who accept the experience of duality as reality.
Religion
and yoga and concept of god are valuable tools in worldly life. But is not of
any use in pursuit of truth.
Since,
there are many religious devotees in the this forum and one has to respect
their feelings and their individual views and opinions.And their individual
experiences and opinions are most valuable to those who are in religious and
yogic and mystical paths.
Spirituality
is a personal journey,it is not for condemning religion and its idea of god and
its saints and sages or their practices.Spirituality is for: to find and
realize the truth to overcome the experience of duality.
Since,
spirituality is based on the beyond, and it is a journey towards beyond. And the
seeker of truth has to reject the untruth, and accept only truth, in the pursuit
of truth. And it is no use of mixing religious and yogic ideology.Since,
Spiritualists consider non dual truth[self] as a god. And other than the true
"Self", the rest is all illusion.
By
mixing up religion and spirituality, it neither helps the religious people, nor
yogis,nor the truth seekers. Since all are based on the different base of
understanding.Mixing anything with spirituality, is like dancing teacher
teaching maths, who has no knowledge of maths.
By studying various scriptures one cannot be established in
the true self, which is consciousness (soul) unless he drops all accumulated
knowledge. Scriptures and yoga are preliminary steps but they are not the means
to acquire self-knowledge or non- dual truth.
Getting certainty and irrefutable proof of our true
existence without dogmatic assertion and assumption and speculation is the
attitude of true seeker. One has to know the self in the truth.
All the study of scriptures and texts and teachings has to
be dropped when one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not physical
but self is the soul (consciousness).
One must think of always of the soul (consciousness) the witness of the
three states; rather than the three states.
One may enjoy work or practice meditation but he will still
yarn of that which is beyond all imagination ,all thinking and the objects and in which all the desire are extinguished. The subconscious goal of one’s search can only
be non-duality.
Many seekers are unhappy because they exert themselves by
running one teacher to another, one scripture to another, one teaching to
another and when they don’t find the truth, they are in uncertainty, they are
unable to accept anything else as truth, because they are sentimentally and
emotionally involved with the teacher or teaching. And they are unable to drop
them, and also unable to accept any new truth. They are interested only which please or
attracts them and they do not make an effort to know the higher truth, which
requires mental effort to understand and assimilate. They prefer the teachings
which are based on imagination because there is no strain of thinking deeply.
Both Gnani and the ignorant outwardly exerting and acting,
the difference is the Gnani is soul- centric and the ignorant is egocentric. Gnani thinks his body and the world are
unreal because he is fully aware they are created out of consciousness.
The ignorant thinks
he is an individual separate from the world, and world existed prior to him,
and he is born in the world afterwards. Until he has this conviction he will
not be able to assimilate nondual truth.
Activity begets attachment; and abstention from it
aversion. The one who is soul –centric is free from pair of opposites, like a
child, and is thus established in the consciousness (soul/true self). The nature of the soul is equilibrium. The
psychology proves that ego comes later in life than birth, thus the child
consciousness is free and not at egocentric.
One who is egocentric is attached to the world wants to
renounce it in order to avoid the miseries of life. But one who is soul-
centric – he is in the world but not of it.
The one who is ego-centric feels even towards liberation
and considers even the body as his own he is neither Gnani nor yogi he suffers
the physical life as reality.
Until one forgets all the accumulated knowledge he cannot
be established in ultimate truth.
One has to master the self-knowledge by his own thinking,
his own experiences through inquiry analysis and reasoning on the true base.
One may learn the doctrines and master them but he will not
be able to realize them that is for certain, not hear say.
A Gnani does not identify his self with body but
he considers the self to be the soul, which is in the form of consciousness.
The one who considers his-self as body with the name will
not be able to cross the threshold of duality and he keeps experiencing the
duality as reality. Therefore, he
refuses to accept the physical existence as illusion because he is in the
intoxication of its reality.
