Modern science leads in the end to the discovery that the world is the mind
and that causality is non existent. Gaudapada and Sankara made precisely the
same discovery, because they had the spirit of science, the desire for ascertaining
facts and being sages of the highest order, saw the truth.
As one digs into the annals of the history of India one becomes aware of the fact that, Science
was pursued in ancient India but only the philosophical aspect of it, which
examined the matter and ultimately found it to be idea, which thrust aside
personal predilection in its investigation. India however ignored the practical
aspect of science and was not interested in the applications of science: hence
India was backward in applied science but far ahead of west in pure scientific method. For 2000 years
India has been a slave nation which has lost even this scientific knowledge
which it once possessed as it has lost its philosophy of truth. Today the gate
to Advaita must be modern science and nothing else.
The Hindu theory that the mind actually travels to an object is absurd.
Why does the mind get a different and a more correct impression as it
approaches nearer to a hill. Why did not the mind, if it traveled, bring a
correct report at the very first. Mandukya unpunished has rejected this theory, which is
unscientific. Scientific fact about
visual sensation is correct so far as it says the optic nerve communicates its
vibration to the brain. But how does the brain transmit it to the mind? Here
all is theory and confusion.
The same truths which modern science gives can be found in the declaration of the Sage,
Sri Sankara and Gaudapada. But the
Advaitic sages kept their supreme states of steady wisdom a secret.
Advaitic Sage, Sri, Sankara' gave religious, ritual or dogmatic
instruction to the mass but pure philosophy only to the few who could rise to
it. Hence the interpretation of his writings by commentators is often confusing
because they mix up the two viewpoints. Thus they may assert that ritual is a
means of realizing Brahman, which is absurd.
In the
commentary to "Brahma Sutras Sri, Sankara writes:- " "The highest
beatitude is not to be attained by Yoga." (Sacred Books of East Series
page 298 Vol.1.) And he also says Samadhi is the same as sleep (p.312).
---This indicates that
yoga is not the means to self realization. And yogic Samadhi is not non
dual wisdom.
Thoughts
and thinker are nothing to do with the formless witness. The witness is that
witnesses the thoughts and thinker together and remains always in the within
the waking or dream as their formless substance.
People
think that, more they think, the more they will get; but it is really an error.
It remains only a thought and gives them back only thoughts. Anything
seen, observed, cannot be the Self or the Witness.
Consciousness (soul) is the substance and the
witness of the duality. The duality is
present in the form of mind. The mind is present in the form of the 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
The earliest ancient
sages used the word ‘I’ to the witness of the three states not to the ego as
moderns use it and think the ‘I’ without the body is the self. The seeker has to understand the fact ‘I’
is not the self but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true self, which is
eternal.
People think that the
‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ is something different from the mind. They believe
that the mind is really two. This is the confusion among religionists
and intellectuals. If ‘Soul’ has any meaning, if ‘spirit’ has any meaning, so
long as one thinks of them, they are merely ideas. No, Mind is the highest: it
is consciousness, non-dual wisdom.
The individual is a
bundle of memories, desires within the waking or dream. The memories and
desires are part of the duality. Therefore the individual self is entirely part
and parcel of the mirage. Peoples' ideas of that they will go to some world
after death, some astral plane or religious heavens will disappear as nonsense
with the disappearance of belief in the reality of the ‘I’.
Sage 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.
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.
Even "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." (Gospel of Thomas 2)
"The Kingdom of God is inside you and all
around you, Not in a mansion of wood and stone.
Split a piece of wood and God is there, Lift a stone and you will find
God." (Gospel of Thomas)
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 (consciousness),
which is the innermost self.
Thus Advaitic sages
Sri, Sankara and Goudpada declared the non-dualistic truth as ultimate truth or
Brahman is rational truth and scientific truth.
