When one goes into the annals of the
history it looks like the true Advaita expounded by Sri Sankara and his param
guru, Goudpada was lost or mutilated by the orthodox, because the preaching and
practice does not match.
It is necessary for the seeker to do his homework,
and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what
others expound as knowledge, till, the un-contradicted truth is obtained.
The seeker must have the courage of
Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Since Buddha rejected
religion, idea of god and scriptures, therefore, it is evident that, he has
gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be inadequate and
useless for the pursuit of truth.
Even Buddhism is mixed up with
regional culture and traditions of the local religion, wherever it existed.
Thus to get the full essence from Buddhism is very difficult.
The scriptures are for ignorant
masses, who wholly accept the material world as it presents itself. Wisdom is
for those who have begun to realize that things are not what they seem.
Each sect concocts a God to suit its
own purposes. Such concocted Gods have
no value in pursuit of truth. Man
himself suggests that there must be a God. It is an auto-suggestion.
Prayers and sacrifices belong to a
premature stage of development. However when no answers come to prayers,
struggle for existence presses man, and doubt arises again. Faith in religion weakens as man pays more
attention to facts of life and this world.
Reason is the common ground for
whole humanity in modern age, whereas the appeal to scriptural relations
reaches only the sects. Those who argue
that truth is only in their religion are vain logicians, depending on mere ideas,
speculations and imaginations.
Truth is bitter pill. It becomes
very difficult for the seeker to accept it at first; because of his inherited
conditioning. Gradually he will be able to grasp it as he moves on.
The illusion is present only in
ignorance where, 'I' and you are separate entity. In truth, there is neither
'I' nor you, nor, the illusion. Therefore there is no teaching, no teacher, and
no student in reality.
Truth pursuit is a very personal
journey. Seeker has to verify minutely on his own, “what is truth”, and “what
is not truth”, before accepting anything as truth. The illusion exists as
reality, only on base of the ego, which is he false self within the false
experience.
For Gnani, who is aware of the fact
that the self is not physical but self is consciousness, there is no illusion, even
though; he is in the midst of illusion, because he is fully aware of the fact
that, all the three states are consciousness.
Therefore he is conscious of consciousness in the midst of
illusion.
The language of the duality,
invented by the within the duality, for use in the dualistic world, when used
to describe non-duality, produces these apparent contradictions, because there
no apparatus in non-duality, because noting exist other than the soul, which is
in the form of consciousness.
Non duality is the state of oneness
of existence and there is no scope for anything like non-existence in the realm
of non-dual truth.
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