The intense concentration required to grasp the non-dual truth

The intense concentration required to grasp the non-dual truth.  graping faculty has to be   fine and "sharp as the razor's edge. He must be able to keep all other thoughts away in order to perceive the Non-dual truth. One has to be able to rise above emotions if he wants to find truth. It is emotion which leads to religion and mysticism.

The proper qualifications must be possessed by the seeker; otherwise he will not meet with success. He must be bent on truth, knowledge, the removal of ignorance rather than peace only, for instance, and if he dogmatizes then truth is unattainable, he is also unqualified, and if he is merely curious he is unfit.

The qualifications required of the seeker are discrimination between real and unreal: this is the faculty of reason based on the soul as self, which discriminates truth from falsehood. Reason is not intellect, which is based on the ‘I’ the physical self. Inquiry means enquiry into the reason of everything.

Calmness of mind, freedom from worries and yogic peace, are qualities of greatest help in quest of truth. But yogic calmness alone does not directly yield knowledge: it is not the end; the seeker must make use of his brains also.

The personal qualifications of an aspirant must be supplemented by this perfect guidance, (b) study of F.P Blogs (c) leisure to carry on these studies and to think about consciousness [soul] as self.

Intellectuals must give up their conceit and vanity and seek Truth. Seeker of truth has to pursue spiritualistic based on the soul as self and inquiry to the logical end, whether it yields satisfaction or not. At one stage of the quest of truth seeker should not give it up half-way. There can be no understanding of truth unless he is determined wholeheartedly to get at it.

Seeker of truth only wants one theory. That is, what is the meaning of the all the three states, which appear and disappear in succession, the truth regarding life and existence? He wants to know the truth eternal, because everything else is perishable including man and his universe. Therefore one has to think calmly and consider what it is that he wants from life.

Yoga is intended to remove conflicts which exist, out of the mind and to keep out conflicts, doubts and passions. It means keeping the mind always calm and alert. Yoga is a psychological training which helps the beginners in path of inquiry.

Benefit of yoga is to give freedom of mind from worries, anxiety and troubles so that in short, to give the mind peace, so that it may pursue the higher quest undisturbed and able understands and assimilate the non-dual truth.

Verification is essential to in pursuit of truth, but not required by religion. Science seeks simpler explanations but in pursuit of truth everything is simplifies most when it reduces everything to Mind, and mind to Ataman.

A truth is verifiable in science if it can be tested and in logic if it can be proved. The weakness of science is that it has no idea, no definition of truth.

The facts upon which science must be based are the individual things and events which are found to occur. Science coordinates them by generalizing their significance into a hypothesis. The latter is then tested and verified. In pursuit of truth examines the hypothesis from the point of view of its ultimate truth. No human being can possibly study all available facts and sciences. Hence one has to take their generalizations, i.e. hypothesis based on facts.

Truth seekers need not learn modern science in order to acquire Self-Knowledge. Science helps us to ascertain truth of the things within the illusion. The science cannot go beyond the limits of physicality because beyond physicality has to be grasped mentally. Science is needed us to teach us precision, exactness and reliance on fact. The mind has to pass through various stages of growth as it progresses through disillusionment, enquiry, quest of truth, etc. to reason.

It is to find out the contradictions inherent in all discussion! To show that duality cannot yield truth. To prove that words and thoughts can yield only duality, never the true self. Non dual truth is not with personal interpretations or with views, but with facts.

Unless a fact is ascertained and verified, it has no place in pursuit of truth. The religion is based on speculation and imagination, and mere logic regardless of fact, but in pursuit of truth it must be based on facts.

If science pursues its researches and does not stop, if it seeks constantly also to ascertain truth, it will be led into mental journey through inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base because there is nowhere else for it to go. Modern Science does not travel to ultimate and universal questions. It provides the ascertained facts, however, for dealing with those questions.

The distance from Mumbai to Boston in one’s dream journey is only mental, within the mind. Similarly in the waking experience the same distance is also mental. The sense of form, time space is reality within the waking/dream.

Reason works upwards from lower to higher certainties in the practical world, mathematics being the highest of these stages but still does not reach the realm of non-duality. Reason based on the soul as self becomes conciousness  when it is by itself, chained to no other thoughts: when it to so chained, then it is reason.

The way out is not through mysticism, which is merely mind-exhaustion, but through the fuller use of reason

The great learned of scriptures who made big volumes, and delivered long lectures on the nature and workings of Gods and God, indulge in mere exuberance of words, in which they are lost. The more they argue and discuss, the most they attain is merely another thought which never cross the field of duality.

If one shows the proof of un-contradictable truth, one can accept," and if one do not give proof, then he do not know and hence say nothing.

The intellectuals will go on endlessly arguing. The way out is not through mysticism, which is merely mind-exhaustion, but through the fuller use of reason.

Science is truer than religion. Therefore it is gradually replacing religion. But Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana  is truer than science, and will replace it eventually.

Self-knowledge means fact, verified, proof of one’s true existence. Truth is that on which no two persons can disagree, in which there can be no contradiction, no difference and no doubts.

Science create smart weapons and bombs drop and destruct and wake up those who are asleep in religion or false belief, or who refuse to think and seek truth. Nature, God, Karma are behind this universal whipping.

One cannot say human reason can know ultimate truth, but only that human reason based on the soul as self can know there is an ultimate truth, that it is.

Physical laws are after all only one’s idea of things. The only real way to know these things is to become them. Hence scientific laws do not explain, they merely describe.

Correspondence Theory of Truth: All the objects one sees within the waking or dream are only mirage on the base of soul as self, because they are reality only on the base of false self (waking entity or ego). Therefore the Correspondence Theory is fallacious because one can only check one idea by another idea, not with any reality.

Logical necessity merely means that if one assumes the premise of causation, for instance, certain consequences will logically follow. Logic deals with causes whereas Reason based on the soul as self, deals with distinguishing between truth and falsehood. Reason is that which distinguishes truth from falsehood.

One sees all men and the world within the waking or dream

Scriptures are the experience only of the few; hence it is only individualized truth. Reason and universal experience must take precedence over it and over hearsay in the quest of ultimate truth regarding the three states. No scripture can help in pursuit of truth. People will be prejudiced by this man's or that man's view.

There are unfortunately so many different kinds of Yoga. But no yogi uses reason based on the soul. Yoga means killing reason, thus it is no use in to acquire non dual wisdom. Yoga is good as a preparation only.

Many People want to take as less trouble as possible and gain as much as possible. They disdain the hard labour of thinking needed in pursuit of truth and hope to get truth by doing nothing i.e. merely believing or refraining from thought in yoga.

Conversion can occur only in the sphere of religion, never in pursuit of truth. When one knows non dualistic or Advaitic  truth, he becomes free from sphere of imagination

If one’s reason is not sharp enough, then only religion and yoga can satisfy him. The seeker of truth examines both scientific and religious doctrines and discoveries and to evaluate them.

"All men are mortal" because they exist within the illusion (waking or dream). One sees all men and the world  within the waking or dream. If there is no waking or dream then there are no men and the world. Man exists within the waking  or dream and imagines on the base of physical entity or ego which is limited only to waking experience.

As logic is built upon more imagination, as assumptions, therefore it is no path to non-dual truth. It is like religion and mysticism. One postulate certain things and show they agree with others that he has already taken for granted. This is called the "coherence" theory of truth. But it is fallible.

When one trying to get rid of thinking in yoga he cannot get any truth. Thinking is a main tool in pursuit of truth. When anyone avoids thinking, runs after religion and yoga, he may be sure that they do not want to be troubled by effort to think.

Science stops in midway, if went to the very root; it would get non -dualistic  truth. All this science helps to make the reason clear, sharpens the mind, but it will take centuries for them to go to the very root.

Theology is based on imagination; scholasticism upon logic. The non-dual truth can be got only inquiry analysis and reasoning on the true base and not by millions of karmas (actions) as scriptures declare. Since man, world and universe is part and parcel of the illusion. Therefore, the karma based on the false self within the false experience is no use. It is unfortunate that people agree the body is not the self, but they refuse to accept the fact that the karma theory is based on false self ( waking entity or ego)  since they are still slaves of their samskara or  conditioning.

In Isa Upanishad says:

MANTRA 10

Avidya is Karma and therefore a hindrance. You perform Avidya - i.e., you perform Agnihotra and other sacrifices. This is a roundabout way of purifying the mind, and it is also groping in the dark. But it may not have as heavy a toll on your time and energy as the other.

Since ignorance is karma. And karma is possible only in ignorance. Therefore, the three states are reality only on the base of false self. Thus, whatever actions and conducts performed on the base of false self, with in the false experience, is bound to be false-hood. Thus the karma theory based on the false self has to be false theory.

One must deal only with the facts of experience, not of imagination.

Non dual truth is reasoned proved truth

Non dual truth is reasoned proved truth; mysticism relies on personal experience as truth; scholasticism takes private interpretation as truth. Pursuit of truth aims at the unification of the whole experience of diversity. Scholasticism is an excellent exercise for the mind but not as a means to truth.

Pursuit of truth is the opposite of Yoga, because it wants one to exercise his mind and get at non dual truth by discrimination. People are interpreting scriptures, faiths etc. by reason, more or less imperfect but emotionally are attached to the scriptures, and they get upset if anyone say anything about their scriptures. Such mind-sets are still in primitive stage, it takes a long time for them to understand the scriptures are not the means for self-realization.

The fullness of reason is the only final arbiter one possesses. "What is truth?" is the question he must put first. Hence definitions are essential because it carries different meanings to different minds. The mystic truth is individual truth not universal. Non dual wisdom is higher than mysticism.

Self- Knowledge is only is true knowledge not the absence of duality.  Self -Knowledge cannot destroy the world but it eliminates the ignorance and exposes the unreal nature of the mind or universe.

Non dual wisdom requires investigate in to the mind, analysing the mind, which appears as universe, realizing the fact that, the mind rises and subsides from formless source, which is consciousness.  The consciousness is the true self. Therefore, one has to learn to judge the truth from the standpoint of the source from where the mind rises and subsides, not from the standpoint of the waking entity, which is the false self.  

As one gets convinced, certain, of the truth that the world is nothing but consciousness, and there is no second thing, then he get conviction that, all the three states to be consciousness in the midst of duality.  Realizing the truth in the midst of duality is wisdom.

Seeker has to practice thinking that he is neither the doer nor the enjoyer and his existence as a person is limited to the waking experience.  Thus neither the waking entity nor the dream entity is the self.  The true self is that which witnesses the three states as a whole.  When he realizes the waking entity is not the self then he will gradually realize the fact that, whatever is seen as waking /dream is only mirage created out of consciousness. Therefore when he realizes the waking experience is   the mirage then he realizes the stuff from the mirage is made, which is consciousness to be real.