People are still primitive thinking fall into faulty reasoning through their inherited conditioning, such faulty thinking and reasoning make them accept the experience of birth, life, and death as a reality; taking what one sees through the senses as real, taking what is apparently obvious and superficial as true because it is less troublesome.
Tuesday, 24 December 2024
Many people adopt the attitude that what they know is the truth. And they think what others say is false.+
By criticizing the religion religious God, religious Gurus, and religious rituals wisdom will not dawn.
The seekers' aim is to discover and realize the truth not to indulge in condemning or criticizing the religion. The seeker must know the falsity of the religion and yoga for his own information.
The seeker must know that religion has nothing to do with spirituality. Do not mix religion and yoga in spirituality. Religion and yoga are based on myth because religion and yoga are based on blind belief, not truth.
Spirituality is based on the Spirit the God in truth.
The Bible says: ~ “God is a Spirit, and they that worship God must worship God in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit.
So, the religious Gods are not God in truth but they are based on imagination by the founders of the religion.
The seeker has to realize that religion religious God, religious Gurus, and religious rituals are not the means to acquire Self-knowledge.
There is no need to indulge in criticizing the religion, religious God, religious Gurus, and religious rituals but there is a need to realize, that the religion, religious Gods, and Gurus are meant to serve the ignorant populace. They are not the means to Self-realization.
The religion, religious God, religious Gurus, and religious rituals have nothing to do with the ultimate truth or Brahman. The religion religious God, religious Gurus, and religious rituals are a great hindrance in realizing the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.
Mundaka Upanishad says: ~ The rituals and the sacrifices described in the Vedas deal with lower knowledge. The sages ignored these rituals and went in search of higher knowledge. ... Such rituals are unsafe rafts for crossing The sea of samsara, of birth and death. Doomed to shipwreck are those who try to cross The sea of samsara on these poor rafts. Ignorant of their own ignorance, yet wise in their own esteem, these deluded men Proud of their vain learning go round and round like the blind led by the blind.
There is a need to drop ignorance. Once ignorance is dropped then one becomes aware of judging ‘what truth is, and what is the untruth.
It is impossible to find and realize the truth via religion and scriptural study. Even Upanishads confirm this.
Katha Upanishad: ~ This Atman cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas, or by intelligence, or by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one Atman reveals Its own form. (Ch-II -23-P-20)
Mundaka Upanishad: ~ This Atman cannot be attained through the study of the Vedas, nor through intelligence, nor through much learning. He who chooses Atman—by him alone is Atman attained. It is Atman that reveals to the seeker Its true nature. ( 3 –page-70 )
When the Upanishad says:~ the human goal is to acquire Self- Knowledge and they indicate the personal Gods, scriptures, worship, and rituals are not the means to Self –Knowledge, then why anyone should indulge in it.
Religion, the concept of an individualized God, and scriptures are the greatest obstacles to Self-realization because they are based on a false self. The seeker of truth has to search for the ultimate truth without losing himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, through deeper, inquiry, analysis, and reasoning, and assimilate and realize it.
That is why Sankara, indicated in Bhaja Govindam says:~(Jnana Viheena Sarva Mathena Bajathi na Muktim janma Shatena) - one without knowledge does not obtain liberation even in a hundred births, no matter which religious faith he follows.
Then it is no use going a roundabout way, tracing the Brahman which is the formless substance, and witness of the universe, which is in the form of the mind. By tracing the source of the mind or the universe, one will be able to realize the Brahman or God in truth.
Self-knowledge is meant only for those who have an intense urge, and courage to accept the truth with humility and reject the untruth. Since people start comparing with their scriptural knowledge, it becomes impossible to assimilate and realize the non-dual truth. Therefore, there is no need to convince anyone other than our own selves to get a firm conviction.
So they clearly indicate rituals and theories are not meant for those who are searching for higher knowledge or wisdom. The path of wisdom is the only means. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
Buddhists believe in emptiness but they are unaware that emptiness is the nondual nature of the Soul, the Soul.+
Dalai Lama said:- Buddhism need not be the best religion though it is most scientific and religion and inquisitive. But Buddhism has no answer to certain questions like the existence of Atama (Soul) and rebirth. Dali lama said that as an individual he believes in rebirth as he had come across a few cases of rebirth. Modern science, Dalai Lama hoped would unearth the mystery behind the rebirth. (In DH –dec-212009-Gulbarga).
Santthosh Kumaar:~ Abiding in emptiness without knowing emptiness is the nondual nature of Athma is a foolish venture.
The Guru-disciple concept belongs to religion and yoga. Gurudom is nothing to do with Spirituality or Adyathma.+
Those who follow I-centric Gurus and their teaching are blocking themselves from the truth, which is hidden by the ‘I’.+
All Gurus and their teaching of the past and present Glorified the ‘I’ and made seekers permanently remain in ignorance.
Most seekers are sentimentally and emotionally involved with ‘I-centric Gurus and their teaching and refuse to accept anything other than their Guru's teachings. Such seekers who follow 'I-centric Gurus and their teaching are blocking themselves from the truth, which is hidden by the ‘I’, which itself is ignorance.
Yoga Vasistha says: ~ Self-knowledge or knowledge of truth is not had by resorting to a Guru (preceptor) nor by the study of scripture, nor by good works: it is attained only by means of inquiry inspired by the company of wise (Gnani). One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.
The Guru is useless so long as the ultimate truth is unknown, and the Guru is equally useless when the ultimate truth or Brahman has already been known.
That is why Swami Vivekananda said: ~ “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, and none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher, but your own Soul.”
A Guru is needed for the religious and the yogic path. There is no need for a Guru to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Swami Vivekananda: ~Jñāna Yoga is divided into three parts. First: hearing the truth--that the Atman is the only reality and that everything else is Maya. Second: reasoning upon this philosophy from all points of view. Third: giving up all further argumentation and realizing the truth. This realization comes from being certain that Brahman is real and everything else is unreal.
The ‘I’ becomes ‘I’-less in deep sleep and the ‘I’-less appears as waking or dream (duality). The one that appears as the ‘I’, and the one that disappears as the ‘I-less, is the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness. The ‘I’ (mind) and ‘I-less (Soul) both are one in essence.
From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the three states are merely an illusion. The ‘I’ never exists in reality.
The ‘I’ is impermanent. The ‘I’ comes and goes as waking or dream, and disappears as deep sleep. There must be something permanent, to register the coming and going, of the ‘I’. The ‘I’ itself is an illusion. The Soul is the witness of the ‘I’ is permanent and eternal.
The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness pervades everything and everywhere in all three states.
It is for the seeker to go on his own and remove all the obstacles, which are blocking the realization of the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space.
The greatest hindrance is mixing religion, God, scriptures, and yogic theories. Moreover, attachment to scriptures, personal God, and religious code of conduct keep one permanently in the grip of the dualistic illusion or Maya.
Embark on the journey of the truth; it frees the Soul from the illusion of form, time, and space.
When you finally realize the ‘Self ‘ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Remember:~
Self-inquiry is to realize the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ but the ‘self is the ‘I-LESS Soul’, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Sunday, 22 December 2024
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The thought, ‘I AM’ is the dualistic prison’. The thought ‘I AM’ is the cause of ignorance.+
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