Self-knowledge
or Brahma Gnana frees the Soul from the cage of the illusory form, time and
space.
Due to ignorance, the Soul, the innermost Self
is in forgetfulness of its own true nature in the dualistic illusion. When the Soul wakes up from its sleep of
ignorance, the unreal nature of the
world, in which you exist, is exposed.
One has to go
beyond the Vedas, means go beyond the religion. Go beyond the religion means, go
beyond the concept of God. Going beyond the
Vedas, religion and the conceptual God, means going beyond illusion. That is the end of Vedas (Veda –antha).
When one goes
into the annals of the history, it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sage
Sri Sankara and Sage Sri, Goudpada was hidden from the populace. The seeker has
to discover the ultimate truth on his own.
That is why Sage Sri, Sankara says:~VC- 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 are to be attained through the instructions of a knower of
Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through
perverted arguments.
It is necessary for the seeker to do his
homework, and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly
believe, what others expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is
obtained.
The seeker
must have the courage of Bhagavan Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth.
Since Bhagavan Buddha rejected religion, the idea of God and scriptures, therefore, it is
evident that he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to
be inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.
Even Buddhism
is mixed up with regional culture and traditions of the local religion,
wherever it existed. Thus to get the full essence from Buddhism is very
difficult.
The scriptures are for
ignorant masses, who wholly accept the material world as it presents itself.
Wisdom is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they
seem. :~Santthosh Kumaar
