Yoga and meditation is beginning of
one’s spiritual journey. The real
journey begins inwardly when one finds all the outer journeys are inadequate and
useless in quenching his spiritual thirst.
The real renunciation is renouncing the ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of experiencing
illusory duality as reality. Yoga and meditation and god and guru glorification
are not the means to acquire non dual wisdom. Without wisdom freedom from
duality is impossible.
A real spiritual retreat is where there is no
compulsion of any sort: no set programme to be followed, no meetings of saints,
no god glorification and prayers or worship so that the seeker is spared from the
unnecessary strain which is of no use in the pursuit of truth.
In pursuit of truth there is no need to frame rules and regulation and code of conduct to control the mind of the seeker, because these rules and regulations and code of conducts are useful only in practical life, not in the pursuit of truth. The seeker can attain the highest wisdom without common enforced discipline and discover the self evident truth, through deeper inquiry and reason and analysis on the base of the soul,which is in the form of consciousness. The consciousness is the innermost self. The realization surges up by a free impulse when the seeking mind becomes receptive enough to accept the truth.
While it is true that not all the seekers are ripe enough thus need for constant reflection on the true self, which is Consciousness,which is the innermost self ,through inquiry and reasoning on the base of soul as self until the mind is capable and receptive to receive the knowledge of true self, which is the soul.
The religious theory that : This seemingly boundless universe stretching far beyond human imagination and consisting billions of stars, planet, solar systems and galaxies has not come into existence all by itself. It has to have a creator, and that creator is God.
Every nook and corner of this entire universe is governed by identical laws of nature. Hence there are no many gods but only one god. This creation and creator theory seems to be true when man is unaware of the true self and views and judges the three states as `I' as self which is false self within the illusory Waking experience.
It is
the formless soul, the innermost Self that is in illusion and it is the self that gets free from the bondage
of the illusion. The illusion is present in the form of mind. The mind is in the
form of the universe. The universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep
sleep. The individual experiences of
birth, life, death and the world are within the waking experience. The dream is a parallel waking experience and
waking is parallel dream.
Deeper
self-search reveals the fact that the, self is neither the waking entity nor
the self is the dream entity but the self is formless soul, which witnesses the
coming and going of the three states in succession without the physical
apparatus. This has to be mentally
grasped and assimilated to realize the formless soul, the innermost self is nothing to do with the three states.
On the standpoint of the three states, the three states are mere illusion.
The
practical life within the practical world, which is present as waking experience,
is mere illusion. If waking experience is mere illusion than the individual
experience of birth, life, death and the world are mere illusion. If the
experience birth, life death and the world are mere illusion, it means the form;
time and space are mere illusion. If
form, time and space are mere illusion, it means the past, present and future
is mere illusion. Thus it is necessary for the seeker to realize the fact that, form,
time and space are one in essence, in order to realize the three states are one
in essence. That essence is consciousness. Thus all the diversity is created
out of formless consciousness. Thus no
second thing exists other than consciousness, the innermost self. Seeker of
truth has to constantly reflect on the subject in order to get a firm conviction
of the truth. The seeker has to reflect on
the same truth again and again until it becomes reality. One needs to constant
reflect on the subject until he gets a firm conviction of what is what.
