Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Pundits who take scriptures for granted are not Gnanis



 
Pundits who take scriptures for granted are not Gnanis. Pundits teach that all is your-self, but none of them can show that this is so, none has analyzed it scientifically, and none can prove it. Rational proof is needed, so that one arrive at knowing truth i.e. wisdom; punditry is mere dogma, parrotism, repetition of what they read in scriptures. Scriptures are not yardstick and scriptural truth is not proof.   Pundits take scriptures as authority.    

Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.
Pundits have to test truth in this world not in the next world.  There is no proof other than blind belief based on the scriptures, belief is not truth.  So, doctrines are not the means to realize the ultimate truth. There is no need to follow them. 

Doubts and Confusions arise when seeker finds the scriptures and yoga are inadequate or useless to quench his spiritual thirst.   Disappointments in religion or yoga or even science imply error or ignorance. 

How do the people who expound their knowledge know they have experienced the whole? Where is the proof they have seen it? When they say “I know from experience” they merely mean “I think so.” If they experience bliss, they cannot be egoless, for who is having the joy? And if they retain the ego they cannot know the Universal Brahman, the whole. Thus their individual experience is not derived from Gnana or Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  

Without knowing the nature of the mind or universe world, it is impossible to know the ultimate truth. What is the use of trying to find one’s inner self before he understands the mind or universe?  Thus it is necessary to investigate the truth about the world, which confronts him to realize this world which confronts him as being consciousness.

That is why Sage Sri, Sankara says:-  

VC- 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.

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. 

Whatever have appeared (birth, life, death and world) has appeared on its own and it disappears on its own.  Whether a person takes it as reality or illusion it all depends on his mental and intellectual conditions will determine the phenomenal world observed and experienced. The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. A Gnani viewing the universe (practical life within the practical world) different from the ignorant is viewing the same universe (practical life within the practical world). Each one of them interprets the universe he sees in term of his existing knowledge.    
The Gnani sees his body, his ego and his experience of the world as mere mirage created out of consciousness whereas the ignorant sees his body as body, his ego as ego and his experience of the world as world. 

 This doubt and confusion exists only for those who thinks external world already exists as real and who think their physical body also exists as real.  For person who is aware of the fact that he and his world exists only in waking experience, and waking is unreal. When one sees their unreality the problem collapses.

Gnani do not want anything, not even God or Heaven, because he knows that even Heaven and God are reality only on the base of waking entity. 

Unreality has different meanings, that which does not exist and that which is mistaken for something else. In pursuit of truth the meaning is the three states which appear in succession, which seem to exist as reality. Hence the first work in pursuit of truth is to learn to analyze the three states which appear and disappear. After analyzing the dream, one knows that it could not have been inside the small space of his physical body during sleep; hence it must have been a dream. The physical body would not have contained the dream world; hence the dream is unreal, because of its inconsistency. Hence on further analyses and examination he realizes it is only an idea. It is the fact of inconsistency which is emphasized here.

Seeker of truth is neither he is an atheist nor religionist; he sticks to God as non dual Truth and not to God as imagined by every religionist. He does not accept an unreal God. When he is dreaming he does not regard the objects as unreal; only after awakening. Many yogis are under the delusion that if world disappears in meditation they are having Brahmic wisdom. They shut their eyes to the non dual truth.