Vedanta itself admits its
highest Truth that is Atman or Brahman cannot be reached by any path other than
that of reason and unless the reason is sharper than the ‘Edge of a razor'.
Reason on the true base is
the highest means of attaining self- knowledge.
Religion, theology, mystic practice and yoga are not the means to
acquire nondual wisdom. Absence of reason
is absence of wisdom.
There is no body, no
ego and no experience of the world in realm of truth because the body and the
world are one in essence. That essence is consciousness.
The one
who has the firm conviction that, he is an individual separate from the world
and world existed prior to him and he is born in it afterwards is
egocentric. And he is unfit to grasp the
ultimate truth or Brahman.
Seeker has to trace
the source of the mind or universe to realize the fact that, mind and its
formless substance and the source are one in essence.
The truth is hidden
within the mind which is in the form of universe and it requires deeper
self-search mental excavation, the removal of the ignorance, which is the cause
of experiencing the illusion or duality as reality.
Grasping the
transparent Truth of the self, which is hidden by illusion or waking or
universe, is to be attained through soulcentric reasoning, followed by
reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted egocentric arguments.
People think Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is very difficult to achieve or understand. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana 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. Religion is based on the form and spirituality is based on formless.
Therefore, spirituality is nothing to 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
mind set 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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