People dip into meditation, but they do not understand that that is not the truth and that this dipping is also a mental discipline for them to understand the true nature of the external universe, which understanding they must next get if they are to become a Gnani.
Ashtavakra says:~ "This is your bondage, that you practice Samadhi or meditation.”
The Samadhi is based on the false ‘Self’ within the false experience. When the ‘‘Self’ is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul then what is the use of the Nirvikalpa Samadhi. The Soul, the ‘‘Self’ ‘is the fullness of the consciousness. The nature of the Soul itself’ is Samadhi.
The experience and experiencer and the world are one, in essence. That essence is consciousness.
The path of religion, the path of yoga, and the path of wisdom were intended for different classes of people. The wisdom is for the advanced seekers of truth. It deals with the nature of the ultimate Truth and Reality. It is meant for superior aspirants who have an inner urge to know the truth which is beyond form, time, and space.
Sage Sankara says: ~ Yoga is not the means of liberation (page 132-133 - Commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad.
In Sutra Bashya and Manduka: ~ “The Samadhi and sleep are identical.
Brihad Upanishad: ~ does not advocate Samadhi.
Sage Sankara in the commentary to "Brahma Sutras: ~ " "The highest beatitude is not to be attained by Yoga." (Sacred Books of East Series page 298 Vol.1.) and he also says Samadhi is the same as sleep (p.312)'
~ this indicates that yoga is not the means to ‘Self’-realization. And yogic Samadhi is not non-dual ‘Self’-awareness.
Panchadasi shows the impossibility of yoga arriving at a successful end to its practices. (P.509 v, 109)
The idea of Self’-realization through yoga is not philosophic. Every yogi who shuts himself in a cave is not thereby freed from thinking.
Yoga can lead only to temporary peace because the world is subject to change.
Only Self- knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana can yield Advaitic awareness in the midst of the form, time, and space.
Remember:~
The Yoga Sastras say that the Sahasrara or brain is the seat of the Self. The Purusha Sukta declares that the Heart is its seat.
When the ‘Self’ is not the body then why you are thinking of the brain and the heart. The Soul, the innermost self is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The ‘Soul is not within the body, but the world in which you exist is within the Soul.
When you realize the world in which you exist is created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of the consciousness.
That is why Sage Sankara:~ VC~.63: "Without knowing and examining the external world, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.
Mundaka Upanishad 1.3:~ complete knowledge includes knowledge of the phenomenal world, the spirit behind it, and the source of both of them. When the cause of all causes becomes known, then everything knowable becomes known, and nothing remains unknown is Gnana.”
Sage Sankara says:~Yoga is not the means of liberation (page 132-133 of his commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad).
Ashtavakra says: ~ “This is your bondage, that you practice Samadhi or meditation.”
Meditation is not the means to Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Meditation is not the goal itself. It is an important and useful tool to quiet the body, mind, and emotions and allow one to enter a deep and quiet state of mind.
Once the turbulent tendencies of the body or ego and emotions are brought into harmony, clarity and renewed strength are available to meet and overcome each life challenge as it presents itself. Meditation will not eliminate our life challenges but can enable us to harmonize our body, mind, emotions, and spirit and to focus that energy like a powerful beam of light on the challenges that lie ahead in worldly life.
When one sits down to meditate, he is thinking first of sitting, i.e. his body; then he tries to have only thoughts of getting rid of the thoughts, with the thoughts of getting rid of the thought. Thus, he is thinking as a person within the world.
Thus, he remains as a person practicing meditation, thinking the ego alone is illusory, and the rest (universe) is a reality within the illusion. He only thinks of the object, within the object, as an object. But he is never aware of the formless subject.
The Self- realization is the prime goal. The seeker has to know the Atman or consciousness as self, to have an actual realization. Thus seeker has to drop religious ritual and dogmatic instruction if he has chosen the Gnana Marga or path of wisdom.
Sage Sankara definitely says that Yoga is not the means of liberation (on pages 132-133 ( commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad).
What happens when thoughts are stilled? It is not the Self that is found. It is only the mind. Through yoga, it is not possible to acquire Advaitic wisdom. Therefore, the yogi does not know the ultimate truth. Yoga is good to give peace and concentration, but only in order to start reasoning, i.e. thinking again to find the truth.
It is not enough to see a mere blank, in meditation. One has to see the body, ego, and the universe as consciousness. One is free from ignorance not when he sees nothing at all, as in meditation, but only when he sees the entire universe as consciousness. Hence one must know “What is the mind, which appeared as the universe?” in order to unfold the mystery of the mind.
Yogic Samadhi is not the goal but a means to an end, i.e. wisdom. Yogic Samadhi in itself is useless because the mind is withdrawn and there is no memory of it until after it is over and one returns to a waking state. Yogi who attains mind control: it is only sleep.
When Yogi comes out of Samadhi and immediately duality confronts him again. His peace goes, it depended on Samadhi -sleep. Hence no yogi attains true peace, but he imagines it.
Yogi is not Self-realized because the yogic Samadhi is not Self-realization. Only through Advaitic wisdom, one gets Self-realization. The yogic Samadhi cannot be considered as Advaitic wisdom. Therefore, there is a need to verify the facts.
If a Godman claim: “I am god “No one can disapprove. Similarly, with all other yogis who assert they know Brahman in Samadhi. There is no possibility of proof or disproof. Hence, these yogis assume or imagine they are god and they cheat themselves or others without knowing what God is in reality.
When one cannot know the world in front of him then how can he know God? He will only know his imagination of a God. How can he say his God is all-merciful when the god is formless and cannot be perceivable from physical eyes?
Sanyasins are enjoined not to accept anything or ask for anything in order to get established in Atman. Religion propagates that only Sanyasis can have Atma Gnana, but it is not so, anyone who trains himself to reason on the base of the true self will be able to acquire nondual wisdom. Blessings are religious fable. Only pretenders give blessings. A Gnani neither blesses nor curses.
The yogi fails to see non-duality in Samadhi because he believes there is bliss to come to him from Samadhi. That shows he does not know the truth but still seeks bliss as something apart from himself.
It is no use seeing God everywhere. One must see Atman, the same consciousness, the same self, everywhere, and then he will be able to accept all the three states alike (as consciousness), with sameness.
Inquiry, analysis, and reasoning must begin with the mind, which is in the form of the universe to inquire into. It will end with unity. The yogi tries to avoid this duality by ignoring the world. Hence, he gets a false unity only.:~Santthosh Kumaar
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