Each sect concocts a God to suit its own
purposes. Such concocted Gods are mere belief. Faith in religion weakens as man pays
more attention to facts of life and this world. People, who argue that truth is
only in their religion, are vain logicians, depending on mere ideas,
imaginations.
Kabir views humanity as being caught up in illusion, searching for Ultimate
Reality in all the wrong places, always seeking It outside of ourselves in
various rituals, temples, forests and mountaintops, not realizing That for
which we seek is already hidden within us.
Without the self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana it is impossible to cross the illusory ocean of the
pain and pleasure. There no vessel to
ferry man across the ocean of illusory form, time and space except Gnana or wisdom.
What is Gnana? Gnana means the full and firm realization of
truth – a realization beyond all doubts, change and contradiction.
Neither the control of breath, or regulating the breath, nor the
performance of selfless service, nor by devotion to gods and gurus, not the
performance of penance, nor pilgrimaging, nor by yoga nor by scriptural
mastery, the ignorance will not vanish. But only through nondual wisdom the ignorance can be
eradicated. The three states are state
of ignorance. All the three states are falsehood. The formless substance and
witness of the three states is real and eternal.
Sri Sankara, in Bhaja Govindam says: - [Jnana Viheena Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena]
- one without knowledge does not obtain liberation
even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows.
One must make an effort to know the
ultimate truth. Self, which is in the form of consciousness, is there always. One
has got it, there is nothing new to be acquired, only have the sharp enough to
see and understand and assimilate it, when told about it. But there is a
difference between understanding and realization.
Belief system and mysticism are so much
preferred to wisdom because one has only to imagine, not to inquire and reason.
The first is easy, the second is hard.
Belief system and mysticism is a species
of mesmerism affecting weaker or impressionable people. Thus the panoply of a religious
guru's religious robes and religious oriented life style creates unconscious
suggestion in weaker minds of a superior power or magical knowledge. Similarly
visitors to ashrams are suggested into thinking they experience great peace
because they are unconsciously hypnotized into believing that will happen. But
when a strong disciplined rationalistic mind meets a yogi, religious guru or
visits an ashram, he is entirely unaffected.
Scriptures are being added to from time
to time. This process will go on. There is the final authority among them? One
contradicts the other: duality reigns supreme.
Belief system is Successful in
propagating the life after death theory: -
what happens after death-- nobody can deny it because nobody has seen
what happens after death it is mere assumption. When the self is formless than
it birth less and deathless. This theory based on the physical self is false
theory because true self is not physical.
Nobody can disprove when some mystics even
claim that they have seen God by intuition. But the onus of proof is on those
who make an assertion. Mystics are required to prove; the burden to disprove is
not on their critics.
Each person sees in his own Samadhi
whatever is uppermost in his mind. How does he/she or anyone know that what he/she
or anyone sees is the ultimate truth? Similarly each has intuitions agreeable to what is
uppermost in his mind.
Believers who are anxious for a mystic
or occult experience often get it. But it is only a mental construction of
their own, suggested originally from outside.
Mystic may say that the spirit is the
source of all good, but the question of questions is how does he know that it
is the source? That is mere scholastic dogma until an attempt to show, to
analyze and prove that it is the source, is made, then it becomes higher truth.
How is one to know that He is God
suppose he sees God in his vision ? His mere statement
is not enough. He must have proof; he must show that what he saw is God. How can anyone sees God when whatever seen,
known, believed and experienced as person of the world are reality within the
waking experience but the whole waking
experience itself is falsehood.
