We are discussing about the formless truth in the realm of
untruth (duality). If we rectify
reasoning base form to formless then the words and concepts will become
meaningless. To travel from ignorance to wisdom one has to use the words and
concepts and as his understanding matures he has to drop them.
Everyone is not in same level of understanding, some are in
elementary level and some are in advanced stages. In elementary stages we have
to use more words and concepts to make them understand and also to overcome the
inherited conditioning, for advanced seekers are sharp enough to understand
assimilate the truth with lesser words.
Spiritual pursuit is a very personal journey. Seeker of
truth has to bifurcate everything which is based on the waking entity or ego, (false
self), such as religion, god, paths and theories and philosophy.
Seeker of truth should not indulge in condemning religion
and yoga or its gurus or gods and its code of conduct. But he has to highlight
its fallacy for his own information, which helps him to proceed deeper in
investigation.
Seeker of truth has to mingle and discuss with likeminded
people but never indulge in arguments about religious doctrines and teachers
and teachings and philosophies.
Religion and God and guru glorification and scriptural
studies or yoga are not needed in pursuit of truth. Only one must have the
intense urge to know the truth and courage to accept the truth and reject the
untruth, when un-contradictable truth is revealed through inquiry analysis and reasoning.
A receptive mind free from religious and yogic or any sort
of knowledge based on the ego is very much necessary to acquire the non-dual wisdom.
All the accumulated knowledge from religion and yoga and
paths and theories are mere dross in pursuit of truth. Religion and yoga are
helpful for the mass and the society but they are barricade in unfolding the
mystery of the mind.
Not by intellectual speculation but only by an awakening to the reality of his true existence he gets soulcentric vision. Soul, the innermost self’s nature is like state of deep sleep.
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.
Sri, Sankara says: one must first know what is before
him. If he cannot know that, what else can he know or understand? If he gives
up the external world in his inquiry, he cannot get the whole truth.
Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. (And after they have reigned they will rest)
When the seeker indulges in deeper self-search becomes aware of the fact that, the experience of birth, life, death and the world are mere illusion created out of spirit, he will be in fear of losing their physical identity and the experience of the world which he dearly attached. But gradually his conviction grows about the innermost self the mid becomes still and rests in consciousness, the innermost self, which is god or Christ.
Meher Baba said: - give no importance to creed, dogma, caste or the performance of religious ceremonies and rites.
Sri, Sankara says in Viveka Chudamani indicated that:-
56. Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by the realisation of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means.
58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar, but are no good for Liberation.
59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.
60. The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest which merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.
61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae) and medicines to such a one?
62. A disease does not leave off if one simply utter the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct realisation one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.
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.
64. Without killing one’s enemies, and possessing oneself of the splendour of the entire surrounding region, one cannot claim to be an emperor by merely saying, ‘I am an emperor’.
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.
66. Therefore the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.
Sri Sankara clearly indicated that: - yoga, intellectualism, scriptural mastery is not the means to self-knowledge. But by the realisation of one's identity with consciousness, which is ultimate truth or Brahman, freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality is possible, and by no other means.
Seeker of truth has to get rid of his doubts and confusions through deeper self-search on his own, to realize the fact that, the self is not the form but self is formless. Thus his analysis and reasoning has to be based on the formless not on the form. By simply go on believing and accepting whatever said by the punditry will not lead one towards path of wisdom. All the doubt has to be got rid of "by the sword of Self -Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana." The scriptures, yoga are not necessary if one follows the inner (formless) path. Religion and yoga are not the means to path of wisdom.
