Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Self-Knowledge or Brahma or Atma Gnana is nothing to do with religion



People think Self-Knowledge or Brahma or Atma Gnana  is very difficult to achieve or understand. Self-knowledge or Self-Knowledge or Brahma or Atma Gnana which has to be acquired carefully and gradually, through deeper self-search.

In the past, spirituality was treated not as a separate subject but as a part of religion, but it is not so. Religious knowledge   is based on the form and Self -Knowledge or Brahma or Atma Gnana is based on formless. Therefore, Self-knowledge or Brahma or Atma Gnana is nothing to do with religion.  Spirituality is a rational inquiry regarding all that is known to exist. Every one, each to the extent to which one's reasoning power admits, is by nature free to exercise this faculty, at whatever stage one may be. One is able to devote himself exclusively to a pursuit of the highest Truth, by means of reason.

In the ancient time, religious, Yogic or mystic disciplines, which were not an end in itself, considered to be means for self-realization. But such discipline is almost impossible task for the modern man to adopt. Day by day modern man is becoming aware of the fact that religion and yoga are nothing to do with pursuit of truth. .


 The modern mindset is pre-eminently scientific owing to the great progress that science has made. And the best method of freeing the one from his inaccurate ways of thinking is to imbue him as fully as possible with the scientific spirit. It is therefore only one who possesses a clear knowledge of its methods and results i.e., who is able to make reason the highest means of inquiry that would be fit for Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana . 

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