Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Without overcoming physical shackle it is impossible to understand and assimilate and realize the non-dualistic or Advaitic truth


 
The soul or consciousness, the innermost self is the witness-consciousness that experiences the action, the actor, and the world of separate things. It is like a light that illuminates everything in a theater, revealing the master of ceremonies, the guests, and the dancers with complete impartiality. Even when they all depart, the light shines to reveal their absence.

Only through deeper inquiry, analysis and soul-centric  reasoning one becomes aware of the fact that, the existence of  formless substance and witness of the  three states.

Only through inquiry, analysis and soul-centric reasoning  the truth will start unfolding.

v  What  is it that sees various objects, scenes and persons during the dreams without the physical apparatus?

v  If the dream world was without the witness, it is impossible to witness it. Then what witnessed the dream as a whole,  if ‘the witness of the dream is not the physical?

Therefore, one has to come to firm conclusion and then conviction through inquiry and soul- centric  reasoning.

The one that witnesses the dream as a whole is also witnesses the Waking experience as a whole, it is also aware of the deep sleep experience. The witness  is  within the three states apart from the three states because it is not an entity or identity within the waking or dream.

Man experiences the world within the mind, mind is in the form of universe. and universe  appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.  Therefore the formless witness of the three states is within the three states as their formless substance and it is without the three states as their formless witness.

Only through deeper inquiry, analysis and soul-centric  reasoning   the formless witness can be traced  and non-dual can be  grasped.
 
All the scriptures indicate that Atman(soul)  is Brahman, and Brahman is ultimate truth. Therefore the soul, which is in the form of consciousness, is ultimate truth.  Thus to realize the ultimate truth is the prime goal.   A well-directed inquiry, analysis and reasoning will lead one to his non-dual destination. 
Self-Realization is direct realization of the ultimate truth or real god, in contrast with traditional paths, which are indirect. And the other paths cannot lead to the ultimate destination because they are based on the false self, which they hold as real self and false experience as reality. 
Without overcoming  physical shackle it is impossible to understand and assimilate and realize  the non-dualistic or Advaitic  truth, which is beyond form,time and space.Soul or Consciousness itself is lord of itself though not of the universe and having nothing it has all.


It is the Self(soul) that is in illusion and it is the self (soul) that gets free from the bondage of the illusion




Deeper self-search reveals the fact that, waking entity is not the self and waking experience is mere illusion. Than it is not 'you' who has to get rid of the illusion because 'you' along  with  your world are  part  and parcel of the illusion. It is the  innermost Self(soul)  that is in illusion and it is the innermost  self (soul)  that gets free from the bondage of the illusion.

The illusion is present in the form of mind. Mind is in the form of universe. Universe appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep.  The individual experiences of birth, life, death and the world are within the waking experience.  The dream is parallel waking experience and waking is parallel dream.

Deeper self-search reveals the fact that the, self is neither the waking entity nor the self is the dream entity but the self is formless soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession without the physical apparatus.  This has to be mentally grasped and assimilated to realize the formless soul, the innermost   self is nothing to do with the three states. On the standpoint of the three states, the three states are mere illusion.

 Thus the practical life within the practical world, which is present as waking experience is mere illusion. If waking experience is mere illusion than the individual experience of birth, life, death and world are mere illusion.   If the experience birth, life death and the world are mere illusion, it means the form; time and space are mere illusion.  If form, time and space are mere illusion, it means the past, present and future is mere illusion. Thus it is necessary for the seeker to realize the fact that,   form, time and space are one in essence, in order to realize the three states are one in essence. That essence is consciousness.

 Thus all the diversity is created out of   formless consciousness. Thus no second thing exist other than consciousness, the innermost self. Seeker of truth has to constantly reflect on the subject in order to get firm conviction of the truth.  Seeker has to reflect on the same truth again and again until it becomes reality. One needs to constant reflect on the subject until he gets firm conviction of what is what. Words are needed until one gets firm conviction of ‘what is what. 

Seekers  need  to read and hear  the words to think deeply and reach the ultimate end.   Formless Path blogs and Inner Path blogs helps the seeker to remove the mental blockade, which is blocking his realization. And it also helps to dispel the all the inborn and inherited conditioning or samskara from the subconscious. FP and IP blogs will help  not only as information to move at right direction to reach ultimate end of understanding but also helps as subconscious suggestions, which is very much necessary to establish in non-dual reality.   

By repeated reading and reflecting FP and IP blogs helps the seeker. FP and IP blogs are not teaching or theory. It only helps the seeker to remove the all the obstacle in the path of truth and reach the ultimate end in lesser time and effort.   

Soul is unborn, eternal, everlasting and always existed.





Soul, is the innermost self . Soul is in the form of formless consciousness. Soul is  not born, nor does it  die. Soul  did not come from anything else, nor were made out of something other than itself. Soul is unborn, eternal, everlasting and always existed. soul is not slain, though the body is slain.

The truth is eternal and  the untruth is impermanent. These two lead man to very different ends. He who chooses the truth attains freedom from experiencing illusory experience of  the birth,life,death and the world as reality. He who prefers the untruth is caught up in experiencing illusory birth, life, death and world as reality. Gnani is not deceived by the attractions of the illusory reality. Gnani is the one who has  chosen the path of  the truth. Ignorant are snared into the mere illusory reality and perish experiencing the illusory experience of birth, life, death and the world as reality.

Self-knowledge  or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana will interest only few people; the rest are interested in Religion, yoga other paths and pleasure hunting.  

It is not the body that has to get freedom but it is the self that is seeking freedom from experiencing the birth, life, death and universe as reality. Only when self-wakes up from the sleep of ignorance by realizing its formless non-dual true nature the freedom happens. For this it has to drop the inborn samskara or conditioning of ‘I’ or ‘I AM’ by realizing it not ‘I’ or ‘I AM’.   
 
Thus it is erroneous to think on the body base when the self is not the body. The self is not the body; therefore the individual life is nothing to do with the formless self. The experience of birth, life, death and the universe are part and parcel of the illusion.  Thus one need not here enter into any account of the course that the soul with its ignorance takes after death—along the way of the fathers, or of the gods, or being debarred from either, according to its works and knowledge. Nor need one enter into any of the other psychological-questions connected with the state of the soul after the death of the body.  The self is not an individual and self is birthless, deathless, therefore it is erroneous to base the truth of the individual experience of birth, life, death, god and universe.  

Suffice it to say that the round of samsara remains for all except those who have attained the higher knowledge. He who has attained to the knowledge of the identity of the self with consciousness, which involves the distinction of the self from its ignorance and consequently its freedom from them, has thereby attained Moksha, or freedom. This is a freedom for which one has not to wait till after death, but it may be possessed even in this very life. 

Advaitin orthodox hold virtue and individual conduct  is essential for the attainment of Moksha or freedom. But when the self is not and individual this question is hardly a relevant one. It is not quite just to interpret the knowledge which brings freedom as if it were of the nature of a purely intellectual intuition. 

As one goes in deeper self –search one becomes aware of the fact that: - The Upanishads are self-contradictory. Different scholars give different conflicting interpretations of them. Final authority therefore is using our own reason. This does not mean one need to give up the scriptures, but he should apply his reason to them. Reason is common to all, whereas orthodoxy belongs to separatist.

The scriptures are for ignorant masses, who wholly accept the material world as it presents itself. Gnana is for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem.

Scriptural citations may be quoted only after one has shown the reality and proved the truth, for then he can point out that the texts teach the same thing. If one quotes them before having demonstrated truth, then it is scholasticism.

Scriptures are of value only when dealing with persons who are incapable of understanding truth. They have no value as authority for those who use reason.

Reason is the common ground for all humanity, whereas the appeal to scriptural relations reaches only groups. Because all the religions are based on the false self and the false experience,  there are   so many conflicting ideas , many changes, divisions and subdivisions ,which leads to all sorts of  doubts and confusions.  When one meets with suffering and disappointment doubts arises. Doubts are absolutely necessary to make one inquire. Pursuit of truth is for getting rid of all doubts.  The pursuit of truth begins with doubt, that doubts one’s own self, one’s own beliefs.

The true Self is not perceptible to the senses. It is perceived by Reason. It is not perceptible as a thing with form and attributes. To those whose attention is fixed on the body and the world, it is very difficult to attain Self-knowledge. It is also very difficult for them to see the consciousness as self. The attention towards the universe [mind] should be lessened by realizing the self is not the body. The attention has to be focused on the formless substance and witness of the universe [mind] should be increased. So long as the attention is directed towards the universe, the experience of birth, life and death will prevail as reality. But when the attention is directed towards the formless substance and witness of the mind, the ignorance vanishes and the sense of reality of the duality will disappear. Then there is unity in diversity. 

 This subject is vast and it has to be grasped only through deeper self-search.