Wednesday, August 1, 2012

There is no scope arguments in pursuit of truth, because it is personal journey starts within the illusion(waking) and ends in realizing the truth



Till one thinks,  he an individual separate from the world he will not be able to assimilate the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana  because he feels he is the doer/Author.  The sense of doer ship is within the waking experience which is mere illusion.  The people who think they are born in this world and world existed prior to them have not gone into deeper self-search.   

They base themselves on the physical entity, and stuck to their intellectuality and accepted their accumulated knowledge as truth.  They will not accept anything as truth other than their understanding on the base of ‘I’ which is the false base.  They remain in  confusion and try to argue on the physical base such arguments has no end, because the truth is based on the formless and false is based on the form(ego or waking entity) .  Thus, whatever is seen known, believed and experienced on the false base has to falsehood.  Thus the birth, life, death and the world  which is based on the physical entity is part and parcel of the illusion. 

Intellectuality is limited to physicality.  Thus, the mind cannot cross the threshold of duality and they are stuck to finding the truth through sex, virtues, love, good deeds and compassion which is the attributes of the false self within the false experience.

Until one gets convinced that the ‘I’ is not self, he will remain in ignorance of the formless  soul the innermost  self . If self is formless then the experience of  birth life, death and the world   is bound to be illusion. Therefore it is necessary to know and realize the fact that,  the self is not the form but it is formless before indulging in the inner (mental) journey.
  
Inquiry is not the set of questions but clearing all the doubts and confusion through deeper reasoning on his own.   There is no scope arguments in pursuit of truth, because it is personal journey starts within the illusion(waking) and ends in realizing the truth. Thus the arguments based on the false self will not lead one towards the non-dualistic  goal. The seeker of truth has to share assimilation of knowledge and help and inspire the fellow seekers and divert their attention from outer to inwardness.
    
The inquiry is to know:-

v  “With what one knows himself and his experience of the world?

v  How he and his experience of the world have come into existence and with what?  

Till  one becomes aware of that,  that ,which is responsible for him to function as a person and perceive the world, he will not become aware of the fact that, the true  self is formless, nameless identity. 

It cannot be called anything and it cannot be approached, because it exits prior to waking or dream. And prior to the appearance of waking and dream there is nothingness or emptiness.  That emptiness or nothingness itself is the soul/spirit, which is the formless substance and witness of the three states.

Without this formless substance which is in the form of consciousness noting can exist. The soul, the innermost self is the centre of the physical existence.  When the centre is aware of the objects (waking or dream) it becomes mind or  ‘I’.  When the center is aware of its formless non-dual true nature it is soul, the innermost self. the soul is present in the form of consciousness.
Consciousness is the substance and witness of the duality.  The duality is present in the form of mind. Mind is present in the form of universe. The universe appears as waking or dream and diapers as deep sleep. The one which is aware of the coming and going of the three states is neither the waking entity nor the dream entity but the formless soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. When the soul becomes aware of its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of duality it is called self –awareness. It is foolish to limit the consciousness only to duality because the consciousness pervades all the three states

Till one reaches the source through deeper self-search he will not be able to reach and understand, assimilate and realize the self.

Accumulated knowledge is not the yardstick to judge what is truth and what is untruth. Till  one knows what is truth how he can know what is untruth. Therefore, being in illusion and inquiring on the base of false self within the illusion leads only to intellectuality.  Therefore, there is a need to indulge in deeper inquiry and know the  fact that the self is not the form but self is formless. If one gets the conviction that the self is formless, then he is ready and prepared for the inner journey. 

All the knowledge of the physical existence (man + world) is not based on the physical self or ego, because the self is not the physical. Therefore, it is necessary to know the self, which is not the physical, to know the self is independent and the body + world are dependent on the formless  soul or consciousness, the innermost  self to function itself and perceives the world. 

When the ultimate truth is rightly known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.

 Not by intellectual   speculation but only by an awakening to the reality of his true existence he gets soul-centric 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.