People, who did not recognize the authority of the scriptures, will be able to prove the truth of non-dualistic by means of reason alone.

Ultimate truth or Brahman can be established and conformed mentally by soul-centric reason independent of scriptures.  It is possible also to show the unreality of the objective universe even from well directed pure reasoning.

The scripture are for the ordinary man who are immersed in practical life within the practical world, who finds security in the idea of causality and thus in the idea of God. 

Those of superior intelligence, have no need of this idea of divine causality, and can therefore dispense with Vedas and arrive at the truth of Non-Dualism by pure reason.

People, who did not recognize the authority of the scriptures, will be able to prove the truth of non-dualistic by means of reason alone.   Ultimate truth does not need the support of any Scripture or Revelation like the Veda.  It is based, not upon the varying theological fancies, which are as numerous as the sands of the sea, but upon reason, the common heritage of all mankind, irrespective of colour or creed or clime.

In pursuit of truth neither lecturers, nor theses, not even books are of any avail in attaining the ultimate truth or Brahman. It is only one pointed soul- centric personal discussions by such as have an irrepressible passion for truth that can be of value.

 Seeker must have humility and patience in his temperament in pursuit of truth. In this world there are as many philosophies of truth as there are thinkers. Most of these philosophies are egocentric and to be no more than opinion not ultimate truth.

 In the world philosophy seeks the common ground of Truth. In world many thinkers have discussed ad infinitum such subjects without defining truth and nowhere have they come nearer to any agreement.

Most people are not in a mood to seek Truth because they have already accepted something else as truth. They seem to think that what they know is all the Truth that they need. They do not care for any verification regarding their accepted Truth. To such a mentality truth is a distant dream.

 Truth is never in a hurry to reveal itself. People do not seem to think that self-knowledge is not mere intellectual abstraction, but the most vital of all human achievements.

Ultimate truth is universal truth. Universal truth must be independent of religion that in personal god is only reality within the unreal world. The ultimate truth or Brahman is the only reality and has nothing to do with religion.

The main hurdle is in way of reasoning based on the ego which is the false self. To get over this hurdle one has to reason on the base of the formless soul, which is the true self. Then only seeker can come to final conclusions independently without the scriptures.

Ego is limited to individuality.

Ego is limited to individuality. Egos are always changing. As a boy one had different ideas to what he has now. The ego then was not the same as the ego now.

Psychologists glibly use the word personality but they do not see it is a term to be used with the greatest difficulty, because which of all the changing personalities of a man can be ascertained to be his real one? The truth is that a number of other things or thoughts have combined with the consciousness, the formless witness, and must be separated from it.

Realists or Dualist say they shall go to Heaven or they shall attain Brahman but they fail realize, ‘what is ‘I’?’  ‘I’ is the mind. Mind is in the form of universe and universe appears as waking or dream. Buddha was partly right in teaching that it was an illusion.

Once seeker understands the ego is false entity within the false experience, he will have understood 80% of non-duality. One must learn that the ego is different from consciousness, which is the innermost self. And innermost self is beyond form, time and space because it is formless timeless and space less.   

Homogeneity is the natural condition of the self. Through ignorance we create dissociation within it. The first dissociation is the ‘I’.

There is no such thing as the ego. Ego is only the physical self within the false experience.  Ego exists only within the waking or dream. Waking or dream both are false experience on the standpoint of the formless witness of the three states.  Therefore the understanding of the ego is not the self and its nonexistence in the realm of truth is of vital importance. 

The earliest ancient sages used the word ‘I’ to the witness of the three states not to the ego as moderns use it and think the ‘I’ without the body is self. The seeker has to understand the fact that the fact that ‘i’ is not the self but the witness of the ‘I’ is the true self, which is eternal. 

People think that the ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ is something different from the mind. They believe that the mind is really two. This is the confusion among religionists and intellectuals. If ‘Soul’ has any meaning, if ‘spirit’ has any meaning, so long as one thinks of them, they are merely ideas. No, Mind is the highest: it is consciousness, non-dual wisdom.

The individual is a bundle of memories, desires within the waking or dream. The memories and desires are part of the duality. Therefore the individual self is entirely part and parcel of the mirage. Peoples ideas of that they will go to some world after death, some astral plane or religious heavens will disappear as nonsense with the disappearance of belief in the reality of the ‘I’.  

Dualist sages could not distinguish between ‘I’ and ‘formless witness

It is impossible to be free from consciousness, for it is impossible for any thought to arise without it. One must analyze himself and see that whenever there is it waking experience, there must be that formless witness which is aware of it. When one sees this, he knows the consciousness the innermost self. Analyzing formless witness (soul or consciousness) and witnessed (mind or universe) is so fundamental and so difficult.

People wrongly think that the ego is the Witness, even though the ego vanishes along with waking or dream.

When one inquire deeply enough the ego disappears one  find there are no separate individuals at all, there is no variety of beings, all are really the undivided consciousness, which is the innermost self.

The birth, life, death and the world are mere appearance. Their reality is limited to the illusory waking experience alone.   That to which birth, life and death cannot be applied is the formless witness. It is the only thing known that does not vanish, because it is “the unborn.” But as everything that is seen and everything that is known within the waking or dream, is also consciousness, the innermost self. Thus the formless witness and the witnessed (mind or universe) are one in essence.

Therefore all things are really unborn, uncreated because they are mere created out of unborn material.

Seeker has to Look within, think deeply, and he finds that the consciousness, the knower is really the innermost self, and that what one regard as his self is ultimately the unborn witness.

That which blocks the way of acceptance of non-dualistic truth even the most thinkers is the ego. If thinkers realize the fact that ,  their  body, ego and their experience of the  world are created out of  single stuff than  it is possible for them to   grasp the non-dualistic truth  in lesser time and effort .

The main reason why egocentricity prevents such understanding is that it causes a person to be strongly attached in the belief that consciousness is the support of the individual.

People who talk of ultimate truth based on the bookish knowledge are not Gnanis.

Pursuit of truth begins with inquiring into the mind, which is in the form of universe. The ultimate truth has to be proved, not assumed. People who talk of ultimate truth based on the bookish knowledge  are not Gnanis.

Understanding based upon the egocentricity distorted by ignorance is not ultimate truth or Brahman.  For realization of ultimate truth, objectified consciousness which is full of emotional fervor is not suitable. By emotionality belongs to individuality. And individuality makes one in immerse in sentimentality and attachment that is full of craving. Even though one has urge to know the truth he will not be able to focus his attention on his pursuit of truth. 

Many pundits and so-called gurus will preach that all is yourself, but none of them can show that this is so, none have analyzed it scientifically, none can prove it because they are not verified the validity  of their accumulated knowledge.

 Rational proof is necessary, so that one arrive at knowing truth i.e. Gnana or non-dual wisdom.  Many have inherited mere dogma, parrotism from their teacher or gurus and   what they read in scripture.  Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.

Wisdom is the direct means to the attainment of self -realization, it is necessary to keep in mind the means-end relation. The tool that one chooses must be suitable and appropriate to the end, which he wants to attain. It is not the case that through any tool any end can be attained. On the contrary, what tools has to be chosen and how far it is relevant and appropriate to the end we have in view, must be considered from the point of view of the nature of the end which is to be attained.

 The tool must be warranted by the end. In other words, the choice of the tool as well as its suitability and appropriateness is determined by the end. This point must be borne in mind in understanding and assimilation of non-dual or Advaitic  truth.

Mistaking one thing for another or superimposing the attributes of one thing on another is due to ignorance. Not knowing the real nature of the Self which is non-dual, which is existence, knowledge and infinitude, which is free from attributes, which is free from activity, which is neither an agent nor an enjoyer, the ignorance is superimposed on it. 

The ignorance is cause of experiencing the illusion as reality.  Ignorance is the root cause of our bondage. So in order to put an end to our bondage and attain liberation from experiencing the illusion as reality, ignorance which is the root cause has to be destroyed; and ignorance can be destroyed only by attaining the self-knowledge, discriminating it from the illusion. Wisdom is the means by which Self -Realization is desired to be attained. Self-realization is the highest end of man since it destroys the root of the ignorance, the cause of the entire universe.  

Through deeper self-search one has to eradicate the foundational ignorance, Self -Knowledge alone is the means to the attainment of liberation from illusion. Only Self -knowledge destroys the ignorance.

WHAT IS ‘I’?

The ‘I’ disappears as deep sleep, so what is the use of being attached to it? It is impermanent and illusory.

There is really no ‘I’ which in the form of mind. And mind is in the form of universe. And universe   appears as waking or dream. The ‘I’ or mind or universe or waking or dream dies disappears as deep sleep.  Thus one that appears as ‘I’ or mind or universe or waking or dream is consciousness and it disappears as deep sleep is also consciousness.  In deep sleep it is in its formless nondual true nature.  The one, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states, is also consciousness.   Thus the witness and witnessed are one in essence.    

Thus the    universe is reality on the base of individuality and universe is unreal on the base of the consciousness, which is the innermost self. The seeker gradually will grasp and realize the unreal nature of the universe or mind. Individuality is illusory because the self is not an individual because self is formless and it pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. .

Dualists’ sages have written big volumes about the soul. Yet they are quite ignorant of the fact that the ‘I’ about which they write itself comes and goes and has no permanent existence, is only an idea after all.

Evolution theory deals only with matter

Evolution theory deals only with matter. One material form changes into another. Spiritual evolution deals with the Spirit or Soul. But nobody has seen the Spirit or Soul. 

It is an imagination based on the ego(waking entity), which is the false self within the false experience. One cannot distinguish the Soul from the body. 

Man + world = mind. the mind is present in the form of matter.  thus the whole universe is matter. the matter is created out of spirit. on the nondualistic perspective, the universe is merely an illusion. it means the matter is mere illusion. 

It is impossible to show where consciousness starts in the universe because it pervades in everything and everywhere in the universe. Since the universe (matter)  is created out of consciousness the universe (matter) is a consciousness that means everything that exists as the matter is consciousness thus matter is consciousness.  Thus the matter is consciousness. Therefore, no second thing exist other than consciousness because matter also is consciousness.  Thus consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman.  Thus from the ultimate standpoint, there is no evolution because no second thing exists other than formless consciousness. Thus the spiritual evolution is mere theory based on the false self (waking entity or ego) within the false experience(waking).

Thus evolution theory based on the false self (ego) and false experience (universe or waking)   is part of the illusion.

Intellectuality can never get at ultimate truth that way because it leads to endless thoughts. It is because intellectuals ignore the existence of the formless witness. Till they become aware of the existence of the formless witness of the three states it is difficult to find the ultimate reality.  There is no need to give up intellectual investigations into objects; they are useful empirically, but only that one should not delude himself that all theoretical paths are the correct path to final reality.