Everyone’s
inner work leads towards a new understanding and realization. When doubts crop
up and when one does not get a reasonable reasoning for his doubts from the
other source, then only he indulges in his own personal research, and try to
investigate, and then only he becomes aware of the truth. As he goes deeper and
deeper into the subject the truth will start to reveal.
At every stage of
life, wherever one turns or goes, ignorance meets him. One always worries what
is going to happen in the future to him, or to the world? What will happen to
the money if he deposits it, will it be safe? What is happening inside his
body? What is the ultimate condition of this world? He will not get answers.
Because futures have yet come, he is thinking of the past and future fears in
the present. The present is always built on the past and survives on the hopes
of the future. But when one becomes aware of the fact that time is mere
illusion and one which is aware of the time is timeless existence, which is the
consciousness. To overcome the sense of time one has to realize the one which
is aware of the form and space also is consciousness. Thus consciousness alone
is real and form, time and space are unreal because they are one in essence.
Adopting the
neutral, impersonal point of view of the Witness also helps us transcend form,
time and space. In fact, the memory of the past, knowledge of the present, and projection
into the future require the existence of
the consciousness which is in itself outside
form, time and space. By learning to view and judge the three states in witness
position can transcend a sense of form, time and space, which helps to reduce
its grip of the duality.
One has to reduce all the three states as mind. The first
effect of this practice is a lessening of the impact of individual experience.
In the next stage, one has to train himself to ask where the mind dwells. The
answer one arrives at is: in the soul, which is present in the form of the consciousness! The three states come and
go; what remains after they vanish is the consciousness . The source and the three states are one in essence. That essence is consciousness . Thus consciousness
alone is real.
Meditation remains
necessary only in preliminary stages, but meditation is not the means to
acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. The highest state
attainable by yoga is no better than deep sleep. Only the path of reason leads
one to the realization of ultimate truth
or Brahman.
As Sri,
Ramana Maharishi said: scriptural knowledge is conceptual divisions invented by
teachers of philosophy by their excessive analysis. Where do all these concepts
end? Why should confusion created and then explained away? Fortunate is the man
who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to
the source from which they all arise.
When Ramana
Maharishi indicated the direct path to the truth, is the source from which the
false arises. Thus the source is the soul or Atman, which is the true self.
Ataman itself is Brahman. Thus it is necessary to view and judge, the three states on the
base of the soul,which is the source to unfold the mystery of the mind. The soul,which is present in the form consciousness is the formless substance and witness of
the three states . Through soul-centric reasoning one can acquire the Self –knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana in lesser time and effort. The
unity in diversity is possible only through Self-knowledge or Bramha Gnana or Atma Gnana not by mastering the
Scriptural knowledge.
Orthodox and pundits
have “I know” attitude, therefore, they think others know nothing. They pretend
to be listening but they think others are in a primitive person who could not
possibly have anything to share with them.” This type of outlook is a great
obstacle in the pursuit of truth. The orthodoxy is the greatest hindrance in
realizing the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth
