There is no need to condemn any ones’ views
and ideas or writing, but without being judgmental, the seeker has to verify
whether the author is speaking on the standpoint of ego, or whether he is
speaking on the standpoint of the soul, the innermost self. If his views
are based on the standpoint of the physical self or ego, then there is
many doubts and confusion. If his views are based on the soul as self then
there is no confusion and doubts of any sort.
Nothing has to be accepted without verifying the
validity of any claim in pursuit of truth. Only the un - contradictable truth
has to be accepted as truth. There is no need to condemn any religion or
any saints or sages, but seeker has to think beyond religion, scriptures and
individualized gods.
The religious, yogic and worldly truths are
individual truth based on the ego. The spiritual truth is universal
truth, which is based on the self(soul or spirit or consciousness). The truth which is
based on the soul, the innermost self is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God or Christ or Emptiness.
The religion is based on the body (form) as self,
since it is based on the birth. Spirituality is based on the soul (formless).
Thus there is need to bifurcate the religion from spirituality. Religion views
and judges on the standpoint of the physical self/ego, whereas the in pursuit
of truth everything is viewed, judged and concluded on the base of the soul,
which is the true self. Whatever is based on the physical entity is not
spirituality because the soul has no form, so it has no religion. Therefore,
seeker of truth has to rectify the seeking base, from form to the formless, to
understand and assimilate the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Thus, viewing judging the ultimate truth on the
base of ego (false self) or accumulated knowledge will not unfold the mystery of
the mind/diversity. There is no need of religion, god glorification and
scriptures in pursuit of truth, since the Soul (Atman or God or Christ) is the doer and the
author of our dual and non-dual experiences.
Experience of diversity (form) becomes oneness in
deep sleep and Oneness (formless) becomes diversity in waking or dream.
Therefore, that which becomes diversity [form], and that which becomes Oneness
(formless) is not our physical entity, because the physical entity is present
only in waking and dream. The one, which is aware of all the three states, is
formless, apart and eternal which is the soul. The soul, which is spirit
itself, is the ultimate truth/Christ/Brahman/Buddha.
To realize this truth one has to realize
first “What is truth? and “What is untruth?” between the dual (waking/dream)
and non-dual experiences. Searching the truth on the base of inherited
religious conditioning and accumulated bookish/scriptural knowledge is not the
means to self/God /truth realization.
For the same reason Raman Maharishi said
fortunate are the one who do not lose themselves in the labyrinths of
philosophy. Bhagwan says: Take Vedanta, for instance: it speaks of 15 pranas
the names and functions of it which the student is asked to commit
memory. Will it not be sufficient if he thought only one prana does the whole
work of maintaining the body? Again the antakaran is said to think, to desire,
to will, to reason etc. Why all these details? Has anyone seen antakarana, or
all these pranas? Do they really exist? They are conceptual divisions invented
by teachers of philosophy by their excessive analysis. Where do all these
concepts end? Why should confusion created and then explained away? Fortunate
is the man who does not lose him self in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes
straight to the source from which they all arise. (GURU RAMANA
.By S.S Cohen -vii Danger of philosophy-Page -58-59)
The seeker has to overcome all the obstacles in
pursuit of truth on his own. They are so many scholars who mastered
philosophy. It is impossible to acquire self-knowledge through
theoretical philosophy. Because their preaching is based on spirit and
practices is based on ego or waking entity.
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