Adyathmic discussion - 190

Q:- Whats your spiritual practices?

There is no practice as such but perfect understanding is needed.   Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning revels the fact that, the self is not physical but the self is formless consciousness. Therefore, all the accumulated knowledge, experiences and understanding based on physical self [ego or body as Self] are falsehood based on the false self, within the false experience [waking].   Thus, whatever is based on the waking entity is bound to be falsehood because waking experience itself is false hood.   Since many teachers and teachings are based on the false self [ego or body as Self] and they consider the false experience [three states] as reality, they are incapable of grasping the witness, which is within the three states, but it is without the three states.

 Thus, the formless knower of the three states has to be grasped mentally and realize the fact that, all the three states, which comes and goes, are mental.  They are impermanent. The formless witness or knower of the three states is permanent and eternal.  Therefore, there is a need to understand “What is Mind?” and “What is the substance of the Mind?” in order to understand and assimilate the non-dual truth.

 For this one has drop all his accumulate knowledge, which he is using as a yardstick and lands himself in pursuit of argument without reaching anywhere.  One has to think deeper and analyze and verify everything and accept only un-contradictable truth.  Nothing has to be accepted as truth because some great thinker says it or I am saying it.   

Those who lack the intelligence to discriminate between formless witness [subject] and three states [object] will not be able to grasp what is real and what is unreal. Both subject and object are consciousness, not subject alone.

The truth can never change. The nature of truth is, it can never be changed under any circumstances. It may be misrepresented. It must apply to the whole of existence, to the whole of the universe. It is in the object [three states] alone that one has all changes, as deeper analysis points out.

 The subject [formless witness] remains unchanged. The subject [formless witness], as such remains immortal. It can never die for it never changes. The body and world are an object, and goes, but the subject or knower of the body and the universe, can never go. Seeker has to take this principle as his guiding thread and non-dual truth becomes easy to grasp. The formless witness can never be subject to the changes of the object; it is unchanged. The mistake usually made is that subject becomes object, or that object is subject.

If one wants to have absence of contradictions, absence of duality, there must be one entity, one being. If one has experience which is an object [mind], there is contradiction between subject and object, for "mind” is an object.

The duality is reality on the standpoint of the false self [ego or body as Self].  The duality is mere mirage on the base of the true self, which is formless consciousness. This understanding comes only to the serious seeker, who has real urge to know the ultimate truth, which is beyond the all the teachings and teachers. There is neither teaching, nor teacher, nor student in the realm of truth.   

Consciousness is the only reality; this universe, which is in the form of mind, is not real; the mind is nothing else but consciousness itself because it is erupted out of consciousness.

Consciousness is the only reality; this universe, which is in the form of mind, is not real; the mind is nothing else but consciousness itself because it is erupted out of consciousness.

Formless Consciousness  is Absolute Principle, One without second, and a Totality emanating  oneness.  The supreme goal of Seeker is to discover the truth of his true existence. What is true nature of the mind and how liberation from mind, which is in the form of universe, can be achieved?

The consciousness neither born, nor lives nor dies because it is birthless. This truth not recognized by seekers because they were unable to lift their consciousness and realize the non-dual reality.

If the goal is the attainment of the non-dual truth, then a well-directed inquiry, analysis and reasoning is altogether sufficient.

Consciousness is an unchangeable Reality, eternal, in act, with no generation and extinction, free of cause-effect and form, time-space, devoid of contradiction, One-without-a-second; and, as Reality is constant and perfect Unity.  

Only when viewed from the standpoint of physical self, the all differentiation, multiplicity, impermanence becomes reality.

When viewed from the standpoint of "consciousness", which is ultimate truth, all differentiation, multiplicity, impermanence becomes unreality. Thus the universe is always in the nature of change cannot be the ultimate Reality but only appearance and its reality will prevail until ignorance dominates.  And when wisdom dawns the ignorance vanishes and the reality prevail.  

From the standpoint of the consciousness as self, which the One-without-a-second and a one comes to the conclusion that the consciousness is the ultimate truth: there is neither birth nor life and nor death, no universe, no aspirant to liberation and no liberated, no duality or diversity, everything is one and there is only oneness.

The true self is self-existing and free form all attributes and duality, which are pure Consciousness, Infinite and Fullness. It can be realized only by identifying the formless substance and witness of the three states as the self.

By holding the formless witness as true self and the negation of all the three states mentally, one become aware of the fact that, the changeable [three states] or, in other words, that belongs to the illusion or universe or appearance. This substrate is consciousness, which is reflected in all the three states as their formless substance witness, and is "One-without-a-second".

Once this self-knowledge arises, illusory reality becomes unreal.

Whatever takes form is false. Only the formless consciousness pervades the whole universe, which is in the form of “mind” endures. When one understands this truth of the true existence, the birth, life, death and the world are mere mirage. For conciousness is infinite, within the three states and without the tree states. As water is everywhere in the cloud and snow, so consciousness is everywhere, pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. 

Knowing this universe is like foam, realizing its nature --a mirage-- cutting it out through the sword of wisdom, the mind becomes one with the nondual essence, which is consciousness.

The whole universe, which is in the form of mind,   is indeed consciousness. The consciousness is ultimate truth.  If one realizes consciousness as self the duality ceases to be reality.   The nature of the consciousness is formless and nondual.  The self-knowledge is the only tool to overcome the ignorance, which is the cause of duality.

  The ultimate Truth is that which is eternal. That which is the truth has to be eternal and the eternal thing is nothing but the truth alone. In this sense, consciousness alone is truth because that is the only which is aware of the coming and going of the mind, which is in the form of universe.  The universe which appears as waking or dream is mere mirage created out of consciousness.

The universe is mere illusionary appearances on this consciousness. These appear due ignorance. The ultimate truth is only one and that is consciousness. To assimilate this, one has to analyse the three states.

If one looks at the universe on the standpoint of the ego (ignorance) then the world appears to be real. This is called "Apparently real" as the knowledge of this universe (mind (I)) vanishes on the rise of knowledge of its substratum i.e., consciousness. Though universe was cognized in the consciousness to be truly existent, a closer inspection revealed its nature to be illusory. Thus it is only "apparently real". Here the universe (mind) is merely superimposed on the consciousness though in truth, it never existed there.

The whole universe with its diverse names and forms is a mere superimposition on consciousness; as the knowledge of the substratum (consciousness) arises, the illusory appearance of universe is destroyed.

Once the knowledge of the consciousness arises, this entire universe, which is I the form of mind, is realized to be a mere illusion. Hence the universe [mind] which will continue to exist as reality, till the rise of the knowledge of the consciousness.

The consciousness is the absolute reality as it never gets altered in any divisions of time – past, present or future. This neither has a beginning nor an end. This is beyond names and forms. It cannot be described as "This is ultimate truth".

 Ultimate is that which remains after negating the falsehood. Hence, in truth, the body, ego universe   are the same as the consciousness and all the objects within the universe [mind] are   nothing but consciousness.

 Illusion is the cause for the notion of diversity. The nature of the illusion cannot be ascertained. It is a mysterious energy whose nature cannot be determined to be either truth or untruth. It is the cause for this ignorance. And ignorance is cause of experiencing the duality as reality.

Illusion appears to be real only till the knowledge of the consciousness arises. Once this self-knowledge arises, illusory reality becomes unreal. The entire universe along with its cause disappears at the rise of the self- knowledge. Because the self, which is consciousness becomes fully aware of its formless nondual true nature and finds itself in everything and everywhere in the illusion.  

Thus consciousness alone is real. The entire universe, which is in the form of mind is mere mirage created out of consciousness. The mirage is non-different from the consciousness. Realizing the consciousness as true self is freedom. 

The formless substance and witness of the form,time and space is apart , real and eternal.

Ultimate Truth or Brahman is no theory, no speculative system of philosophy, no intellectual insight. Ultimate Truth or Brahman  is exact correspondence with reality. For human, the ultimate truth is the unshakeable knowledge of his real nature, his true Self.

When one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not the form but self is formless,  then idea of "Moksha “ introduced by religion  is falsehood, because it is mere an idea or imaginary "thing" introduced in the past by people who were tired of war/greed. It was also an attractive mirage for the the people who failed many times. So the rulers and priest craft of the past used it as a tool to lure mass towards religion.  The religion is based on the false self within the false experience.   The true self, which is the formless soul has no religion and no god . 

The true self, which is in the form of consciousness pervades everywhere and in everything in all the three states.  Thus, the true self is beyond limits of form,time and space.  The  formless substance and witness of the form,time and space is apart , real and eternal.

 

 Religion and its code of conduct are out dated and some religions are forcing and trying to impose its old law and code of conducts on people, in the name of protecting their religion and god by indulging in war and violence.   

Some organized religion teaches very passive life which is not possible in present era. All Religions books are full of interest. Many religion have noble poetry in them; and some intellectual fables; and some violent history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. 

People are groomed in such an imaginary society where there is no room for the investigation interrogation, and scientific analysis. They just believe what they have inherited from parental grooming societal and religious imposed conducts they never try to explore the truth. A blind faith is prevailing all around. 

It is high time the people who find their belief system is inadequate and useless to quench their spiritual thirst to think about their belief system, think about the truth of their true existence. Many people read books or hear from someone and accept it accept them as truth.  And some people accept only the truth derived from logical thinking or intellectual understanding. Some accept only the truth, which comes from self-experience. But the non-dual truth comes only from reasoning based on the true self, which is formless consciousness. 

People believe that they are spiritual, and talk about the ultimate truth. But the problem is they don’t even know the truth about their true existence, which is basic. Many People don’t read scriptures; they don’t?' know what scriptures contain. They just believe that they contain everything. 

In pursuit of truth one should not accept anything blindly without verifying their validity. There is nothing metaphoric, scriptures are straight forward. They contain good as well as bad stuffs.

People think that they are spiritual because they believe on religion and its scriptures. Spirituality is the search of the ultimate truth or Brahman.  blind belief  cannot lead one to non-dual destination.   Truth cannot be found through imagination and gullibility. Truth can only be found through reality. Not only believers, non believers are also in the same boat. Without study, without inquiry, analysis and reasoning they just reject everything.

Inquiry and reasoning based on true self will lead to realize the ultimate truth. The inner path should be the the path of reality, the path of actuality. This is real spirituality.

The search must be made within to attain this supreme peace, by investigating what is mind and what is the substance of the mind

Everyone is seeking eternal peace and misery is most unwelcome to all creatures. Every living creature is engaged in some activity or the other only in search of eternal peace. But they have not   attained this peace because they are not aware of their formless true identity.  Instead they have gotten themselves entangled only in pain and pleasure because they are not aware of the fact that, the self is not form but the self is formless.  They have not been able to get this non-dual peace because they seek physical happiness from external objects, while the truth is that, non-dual peace is within the mind and the search must be made within to attain this supreme peace, by investigating what is mind and what is the substance of the mind.

All the pleasures that are derived from the world are trifles compared to that non-dual peace which is the Supreme. Hence, it would the greatest help if one could show the way to this eternal peace. The Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana  is the tool to non-dual peace which is the nature of the true self, which is in the form of consciousness.

In the state of non-duality where there is complete cessation of sense “I am the doer ", "the objects that are seen / perceived are different from the self, which is consciousness", so on and so forth. In this state, there is no misery or delusion in the realm of non-dual truth. There is delusion or misery for the one who has realized this non-dual truth. “Because he is fully aware the experience is mere mirage created out of consciousness.  Thus man and his universe is mere experience within the mirage.  In realm of truth there is no mirage only non-dual reality.

The mixture of pain and pleasure is inevitable to all beings that are born within the illusion,without being aware of the fact that they are product of illusion. the illusion is   in the form of universe.

 Until man thinks he is the doer he is action oriented. In the realm of action he thinks he is an individual separate from the world. As an individual he has the conviction that, he is born in this world and world existed prior to him. Until this conviction is there it is very difficult to grasp the non-dual truth.   

Deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning revels the fact that,  the self is not the form [body or ego] but formless [soul or consciousness].  Therefore, if the self is formless, then, one which is born, lives and dies is not the self. If the self is birth-less then whatever seen, known, believed, experienced on the base of birth entity is mere myth.  Thus the birth entity and its experience of the world is myth hence the world where the birth, life and death takes place is myth.

 The universe which is in the form of mind comes and goes as waking or dream is unreal on the standpoint of the true self ,which is formless soul ,which is in the form of consciousness.  The substance and witness of the mind or universe is consciousness.   Since, the formless substance and witness are one in essence there is no scope for existence for second thing.   Hence it is nondual.  Thus consciousness alone is real all else is mere mirage created out of consciousness.

  As long as one believes the body as self, he is bound to believe his body as the doer. Until he thinks the body as the doer, he is bound to believe that, birth life, death and the world as reality. Until he believes the birth, life and death as reality he is bound to experience the illusion as reality. Without the consciousness the body and the world crease to exist.  

The birth, life, death and universe are reality within the waking or dream.  The waking or dream is unreality on the base of the true self, which is consciousness.    Hence if one wishes to overcome the experience of birth, life, death and universe [illusion], he has to realize the fact that, the self is not physical but the self is consciousness.

This awareness of the consciousness without physicality is possible for the individual,  only if the root cause for the ignorance is completely destroyed. Ignorance arises only if one sees the objects of the world as external to him.  If there is no second object other then consciousness, then there is no room for any ignorance at all! Absence of ignorance leads helps one to overcome the illusory cycle of birth, life and death. Once a soul, the innermost self is out of this illusory cycle, there is no scope for experiencing the illusion as reality.  Hence this self-awareness is known as "Liberation" or “freedom”.

To get freed from illusory reality, following the same track, one must get rid of the 'Notion of diversity' which is the root cause of experiencing illusion as reality. This is the road to non-dual peace, which is the nature of the true self.

How does one know that, there is no diversity at all, when we have the cognition of this entire universe with all varieties in its creation?

The truth which is consciousness is the only reality and that the apparent notion of diversity (the root cause of all miseries) is only due to ignorance. If this ignorance is destroyed once then the knowledge of consciousness arises. Then one becomes fully aware of the fact that the consciousness is ultimate truth.

Once this self- knowledge arises, one is able to disconnect identity with the ego and identify with the true self, which is the consciousness. Thus consciousness is ultimate reality.