Sankara says:- Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor
by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that
Atman and Brahman are one in no other way.(1) VivekaChudamani v 56, pg
25
Sri, Sankara goes on to say:- A sickness of not cured by saying the word “medicine.” You must take
the medicine. Liberation does not come by merely saying the word
“Brahman.” Brahman must be experienced. Until you allow this apparent
universe to dissolve from your consciousness, until you have experienced
Brahman, how can you find liberation just by saying the word Brahman?
The result is merely a noise. Until a man has destroyed his enemies and
taken possession of the splendour and wealth of the kingdom, he cannot
become a king by simply saying “I am a king.”
A buried
treasure is not uncovered by merely uttering the words: “Come forth.”
You must follow the right directions, dig, remove the stones and earth
from above it, and then make it your own. In the same way, the pure
truth of the Atman, which is buried under Maya and the effects of Maya,
can be reached by meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual
disciplines but never by subtle arguments. (2)
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What is the
use of doing meditation on the base of waking entity, which is false
self within the false experience? Meditation is not the means to Self
–Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Meditation is not the goal itself because it practiced on
the base false self within the false experience.
Wisdom dawns
only when ignorance vanishes. Ignorance vanishes only when the waking
entity (ego) becomes aware of the fact that, it itself is not the self.
Thus by practicing meditation on the false self within the false
experience is like try to catch fish in desert sand. --FORMLESS PATH
Consciousness
is in everyone, consciousness is in everything .consciousness is one
behind many. Consciousness alone is. It means the universe is the
visible form of consciousness.
What is the use of doing
meditation on the base of waking entity, which is false self within the
false experience? Meditation is not the means to Self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana .
Meditation is not the goal itself. Meditation is an important
and useful tool to quiet the physical mind or ego and emotions and allow one to
enter a deep and quiet state of self. Once the turbulent tendencies of
the physical mind or ego and emotions are brought into harmony,
clarity and renewed strength are available to meet and overcome each
life challenge as it presents itself. Meditation will not eliminate our
life challenges but can enable us to harmonize our body, mind, emotions
and spirit and to focus that energy like a powerful beam of light on the
challenges that lie ahead in worldly life.
Most of the
dualistic sages approach was more practical, and they stuck with the
reality of the world, they took it as real. Whereas 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.
Sri, Sankara
says in Viveka Chudamani:- 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.
Yoga Vasishta, says: - that the world
is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of
consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and
eternal like consciousness itself.
--FORMLESS PATH
