Prayers and sacrifices belong to a
premature stage of development. However when no answers come to prayers,
struggle for existence presses man, and doubt arises again. Faith in religion weakens as the man pays more
attention to the facts of life and this world.
Reason is the common ground for
whole humanity in the modern age, whereas the appeal to scriptural relations
reaches only the sects. Those who argue
that truth is only in their religion are vain logicians, depending on mere ideas,
speculations and imaginations.
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.
Truth is bitter pill. It becomes
very difficult for the seeker to accept it at first; because of his inherited
conditioning. Gradually he will be able to grasp it as he moves on.
The illusion is present only in
ignorance where, 'I' and you are separate entities. In truth, there is neither
'I' nor you, nor, the illusion. Therefore there is no teaching, no teacher, and
no student in reality.
Truth pursuit is a very personal
journey. The seeker has to verify minutely on his own, “what is truth”, and “what
is not truth”, before accepting anything as truth. The illusion exists as
reality, only on the base of the ego, which is he false self within the false
experience.
For a Gnani, who is aware of the fact
that the self is not physical but self is consciousness, there is no illusion, even
though; he is in the midst of illusion, because he is fully aware of the fact
that, all the three states are consciousness.
Therefore he is conscious of consciousness in the midst of
the illusion.
The language of the duality,
invented by the within the duality, for use in the dualistic world, when used to
describe non-duality, produces these apparent contradictions, because there no
apparatus in non-duality, because noting exist other than the soul, which is in
the form of consciousness.
Words are needed until one
gets a firm conviction of ‘what is what. People need to read and hear the
words to think deeply and reach the ultimate end.
Non duality is the state of oneness
of existence and there is no scope for anything like non-existence in the realm
of non-dual truth.
