Many
people claim that they spoken to God but they are unaware of the fact
that, no conceptual God can exist, apart from formless soul consciousness, the innermost self.
People are not aware of the fact that, there is no individual God can
exist, apart from soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Thus the
soul or Consciousness is the true self. If there is no
consciousness, then there is no body, no ego, no universe, no religion and no conceptual god.
People think that there must be a creator of this universe. If one
thinks physical entity or ego as self, then there is a creator, but if
one thinks the consciousness or consciousness as the Self, then there
is nothing exists other than the consciousness, which is the true self.
If one objectifies and sees a universe, then he is bound to see many
things beside himself and postulate a God, the creator. Body, God and
world rise and set together from, and into, the soul or consciousness,
the innermost self. If God is apart from the ‘Self ‘, then He would be
Self-less, that is, outside existence, that is, non-existent.
Atman is Brahman and Brahman is GOD.
Brahman is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the
basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (brahmano
hi pratisthaham, Bhagavad Gita 14.27)
In Advaita Vedanta: -
Brahman is without attributes and strictly impersonal. It can be best
described as infinite Being, infinite Consciousness and infinite Bliss.
It is pure knowledge itself, similar to a source of infinite radiance.
Since the Advaitins regard Brahman to be the Ultimate Truth, so in
comparison to Brahman, every other thing, including the material world,
its distinctness, the individuality of the living creatures and even
Ishvara (the Supreme Lord) itself are all untrue. Brahman is the
effulgent cause of everything that exists and can possibly exist. Since
it is beyond human comprehension, it is without any attributes, for
assigning attributes to it would be distorting the true nature of
Brahman. Advaitins believe in the existence of both Saguna Brahman and
Nirguna Brahman; however they consider Nirguna Brahman to be the
absolute supreme trut
People make their accumulated
knowledge as a yardstick and argue on their own standpoint. Such discussion
will not lead anywhere because all the accumulate knowledge are based on the
ego and the truth is based on the soul. Thus such discussion will not lead
anywhere because they are totally based on different pole. Our reasoning and
judgment has to be soul centric not egocentric. It is foolish to accept the
truth without verification.
Only when one becomes aware of
that he is in bondage, when he gets the idea of the soul. He tries to know the
soul, which is inner most self. When he
becomes aware of the fact that, the inner most self is not the form but it is
formless, then only the urge of liberation arises. Once this urge arises then
it is impossible to get rid of it. Thus he becomes restless until he becomes
aware of the truth he is seeking for.
The soul, which is the innermost
self, is in the form of consciousness. The self is prior to all, bondage and
liberation, truth and falsehood. Its existence is self-proved, it cannot be
doubted, for it is the essential nature of him who doubts it.
It is known in immediate
perception, prior to all proof. Self is eternal, immutable and complete.
Bondage is its association with the three states through ignorance. The self is neither the waking entity nor the
dream entity but it is the formless witness of the waking or dream as the
whole. Until one is ignorant he thinks on the base of his waking entity or ego
as self and judges on the base of the ego or physical self. This is cause of
ignorance and cause of all doubts and confusion. Therefore, his reasoning base
has to be rectifies from form to formless in order to know what is truth and
what is untruth.
Soul is the true self. The true
self is in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is something other than the
physical existence because it cannot be traced as thing or an object. It
pervades in everything and everywhere in the whole physical existence. It is the cause of the physical existence and
it itself is uncaused.
Consciousness persists through all
three states. One has to mentally negate all the three states in order to
realize the fact that the witness is within the three states and it is without
the three states. It is within the three states as their formless substance and
it is without the three states as their formless witness.
The true existence is
consciousness without the form, time and space. Therefore the self is nothing
other than the consciousness. However, this consciousness is not the flux of
states, a stream of consciousness.
Consciousness is the knower,
knowledge, the known. It is infinite, transcendent, the essence of absolute
knowledge. And it is also -illumined, free, and real. Thus the consciousness is
the knower of all and all else is known other than consciousness. The known is
mere illusion created out of the formless knower. Therefore, the knower and the known are one
in essence. In reality there is neither
the knower nor the known but only oneness.
The various thoughts rise because
of ignorance. The ignorance is because of experiencing the illusion as reality.
Illusion will prevail until one is remains in the prison of his accumulating
knowledge. The accumulated knowledge makes one more and more egoic. And the egoic attitude will block one from
acquiring the non-dual wisdom. The truth
cannot be bought in the spiritual super market, but seeker has to acquire it
with his own mental effort by constant inquiry, analysis and reasoning. Patience, humility and receptiveness are
needed in pursuit of truth.
