Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Till you hold ‘you’ as self you will never be able to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.



You are not the Self.  Till you hold ‘you’ as self you will never be able to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  You are the waking entity (ego).  You are the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking). You are part of the illusion. Self is nothing to do with you and your world. Self is not limited to waking entity and waking world because it pervades all the three states.  You disappear along with your world when waking disappears.  The one which witnesses the coming and going of the three states is not you but the formless soul or consciousness. The formless soul or consciousness is the substance and witness of the three states. The formless substance and witness of the three states are one in essence. Without the formless soul or consciousness, the three states are non-existent.  Therefore, the formless soul or consciousness is the innermost self.  On the standpoint of the formless soul, the innermost self, the three states cease to exist as reality. Thus you are part of the illusion. Thus identifying the self as ‘I AM THIS OR ‘I AM THAT’, without becoming mentally aware of the existence of the formless witness of the three states it is impossible to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.   
   
That is why Buddha said:-
Do not believe a spiritual teaching just because:-

1. It is repeatedly recited,
2. It is written in a scripture,
3. It was handed from guru to disciple,
4. everyone around you believes it,
5. It has supernatural qualities,
6. It fits my beliefs anyway,
7. It sounds rational to me,
8. It is taught by a respectable person,
9. It was said to be the truth by the teacher,
10. One must defend it or fight for it.

However, only when it agrees with your experience and reason, and when it is conducive to the good and gain of oneself and all others, then one should accept the teachings, and live up to them."

The truth does not require any tag of some guru or teaching, the serious seekers who are tired of all the theories, paths and practices and find them inadequate and useless, will turn towards the perennial springs of spiritual truth, to quench their spiritual thirst. For those who are advanced in the spiritual pursuit, will find the entire spiritual tags and branded paths and practices are inadequate and useless, in pursuit of truth.

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