Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God in truth) is in the form of
the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
The Soul, the God is Self-evident. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the Soul because it is the very essence of the one who denies It. The Soul is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. The Soul is within, the Soul is without; the Soul is before, the Soul is behind; the Soul is on the right, the Soul is on the left; the Soul is above and the Self is below. The Soul alone is real, all else is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Advaita means not the non-existence of a second thing, but its non-existence as other than the Soul is present in the form of the consciousness. One must know it is of the same substance as the objects.
Nondual Truth is possible only in duality when there is both the knower and a known. Hence, the truth is one’s idea of a thing. The reality is the fact, the thing itself. The truth is used for communication about reality. The ultimate truth is beyond all doubt and contradiction. It is not an assumption or idea but the Reality itself. Hence, the ultimate truth and ultimate realities are one and the same.
It is impossible to know that God is everywhere. What is God? God cannot exist without duality. In non-dual reality, there is no man, no world, and no belief in god. God has no meaning in the realm of truth. It is a mere imagination or assumption.
The Soul, the God is Self-evident. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny the Soul because it is the very essence of the one who denies It. The Soul is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. The Soul is within, the Soul is without; the Soul is before, the Soul is behind; the Soul is on the right, the Soul is on the left; the Soul is above and the Self is below. The Soul alone is real, all else is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Advaita means not the non-existence of a second thing, but its non-existence as other than the Soul is present in the form of the consciousness. One must know it is of the same substance as the objects.
Nondual Truth is possible only in duality when there is both the knower and a known. Hence, the truth is one’s idea of a thing. The reality is the fact, the thing itself. The truth is used for communication about reality. The ultimate truth is beyond all doubt and contradiction. It is not an assumption or idea but the Reality itself. Hence, the ultimate truth and ultimate realities are one and the same.
It is impossible to know that God is everywhere. What is God? God cannot exist without duality. In non-dual reality, there is no man, no world, and no belief in god. God has no meaning in the realm of truth. It is a mere imagination or assumption.
The Soul, which is in the form of consciousness, is the formless substance and witness of the mind, which appears as waking or dream. The dream is a parallel waking experience and the waking experience is a parallel dream.
One cannot prove the existence of any God that is everywhere apart from consciousness. Thus, for the seeker of truth, the consciousness, which is the ultimate truth itself is God. In non-dual reality, neither the universe is reality nor the man nor the idea of God because there is no second thing exists other than consciousness because everything is consciousness.
Deeper Self-search is the only tool to reach the non-dual destination. The thoughts arise only when the Self is considered as the form. Thoughts cannot rise without form. Without the duality, the thoughts will not form. The duality will not form without the ignorance of the Soul, which is the innermost Self.
Till man thinks of himself as the doer he will remain in ignorance. Until he is ignorant and he will not be able to believe that birth, life and death are an illusion. Until he realizes the three states are unreal he will not be able to accept birth, life, and death as an illusion.
Until he thinks of illusion(duality) as a reality he will not be able to assimilate Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Remember:~
People who stuck to their religious beliefs and think scriptural authorities as the ultimate truth will not be able to assimilate Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Soul, which is the true Self, is nothing to do with religion and its code of conduct. Observing and following the religious code of conduct are accepting the false Self as the true Self.
Accepting so-called spiritual laws is accepting the illusion as reality. The laws are a reality within the dualistic illusion or Maya.
Deeper Self-search is the only tool to reach the non-dual destination. The thoughts arise only when the Self is considered as the form. Thoughts cannot rise without form. Without the duality, the thoughts will not form. The duality will not form without the ignorance of the Soul, which is the innermost Self.
Till man thinks of himself as the doer he will remain in ignorance. Until he is ignorant and he will not be able to believe that birth, life and death are an illusion. Until he realizes the three states are unreal he will not be able to accept birth, life, and death as an illusion.
Until he thinks of illusion(duality) as a reality he will not be able to assimilate Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Remember:~
People who stuck to their religious beliefs and think scriptural authorities as the ultimate truth will not be able to assimilate Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. Soul, which is the true Self, is nothing to do with religion and its code of conduct. Observing and following the religious code of conduct are accepting the false Self as the true Self.
Accepting so-called spiritual laws is accepting the illusion as reality. The laws are a reality within the dualistic illusion or Maya.
The one who thinks of existence and spiritual laws is accepted as a person perceiving the world that is accepting himself as the doer. When the man is not the doer, how the actions are done on the base of false identity can yield fruits.
The seeker has to think when he is a false entity within the false experience, the religion he follows, the belief he believes, the truth he has accepted, the knowledge he has accumulated, or whatever he has seen known, or experienced as a person bound to be a falsehood.
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 from the standpoint of ego, or whether he is speaking from the standpoint of the formless Soul, the Self.
The seeker has to think when he is a false entity within the false experience, the religion he follows, the belief he believes, the truth he has accepted, the knowledge he has accumulated, or whatever he has seen known, or experienced as a person bound to be a falsehood.
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 from the standpoint of ego, or whether he is speaking from the standpoint of the formless Soul, the Self.
If his views are based on the standpoint of the physical Self or ego, then there are many doubts and confusion. If his views are based on the Soul as Self then there are no confusion and doubts of any sort.
Nothing has to be accepted without verifying the validity of any claim in pursuit of truth. Only uncontradictable truth has to be accepted as truth. There is no need to condemn any religion or any saints or sages, but the seeker has to think beyond religion, scriptures, and individualized gods.
Remember:~
The religious, yogic, and worldly truths are individual truths based on form. The spiritual truth is the universal truth, which is based on the Soul, the innermost Self. The truth which is based on the formless Soul, the Self is the ultimate truth or Brahman or Christ or Emptiness.
Religion is based on the body (form) as the Self since it is based on birth. Spirituality is based on the Soul (formless). Thus, there is a need to bifurcate religion from spirituality. Religion views and judges from the standpoint of the physical Self (ego), whereas 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, the seeker of truth has to rectify the seeking base, from form to formless, to understand and assimilate the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Thus, viewing judging the ultimate truth on the base of the ego (false self) or egocentric accumulated knowledge will not unfold the mystery of the mind or universe. There is no need for religion, god glorification, and scriptures in pursuit of truth since the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is a dream entity but the Self is the Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
The experience of diversity (form) becomes oneness in deep sleep, and Oneness (formless) becomes diversity in waking or dream. Therefore, that which becomes the 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 present in the form of consciousness itself is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God
To realize this truth, one has to realize first “What is the truth? and “What is untruth?” between the dual (waking or dream) and non-dual experiences. Searching for the truth on the base of inherited religious conditioning and accumulated bookish or scriptural knowledge is not the means to Self or god or truth realization.
Remember:~
Nondual wisdom can be attained by anyone ~ be the criminal or a person from any walk of life -if he will only pursue it to the end, for he will rise by stages until he reaches the level of understanding non-causality when the highest stage will open before him. Only his own dullness of intelligence can prevent him from attaining nondual wisdom.
The most advanced seeker is the one who exercises his rational thinking when desires or attractions present themselves, whereas the least advanced is unable or unwilling to distinguish between primitive desires which arise from his unconscious and the paths laid down for him by his reason.
One must give some time to reflect upon this inquiry, and if he cannot find the time, if his mind is too distracted by activities or worries then he must go to yoga or meditation and get peace alone.
For the seeker must direct the whole of his attention, his whole mind, to the subject of inquiry and reasoning on the true base. Discrimination means reasoning or inquiry.
Seekers of truth should not be disheartened, try over and over again. When he sees that authoritarianism does not give him the truth, he goes further. He must have the determination to get at it. Experience tells him that every time he attempts, he progresses.
Nothing has to be accepted without verifying the validity of any claim in pursuit of truth. Only uncontradictable truth has to be accepted as truth. There is no need to condemn any religion or any saints or sages, but the seeker has to think beyond religion, scriptures, and individualized gods.
Remember:~
The religious, yogic, and worldly truths are individual truths based on form. The spiritual truth is the universal truth, which is based on the Soul, the innermost Self. The truth which is based on the formless Soul, the Self is the ultimate truth or Brahman or Christ or Emptiness.
Religion is based on the body (form) as the Self since it is based on birth. Spirituality is based on the Soul (formless). Thus, there is a need to bifurcate religion from spirituality. Religion views and judges from the standpoint of the physical Self (ego), whereas 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, the seeker of truth has to rectify the seeking base, from form to formless, to understand and assimilate the Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Thus, viewing judging the ultimate truth on the base of the ego (false self) or egocentric accumulated knowledge will not unfold the mystery of the mind or universe. There is no need for religion, god glorification, and scriptures in pursuit of truth since the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is a dream entity but the Self is the Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states.
The experience of diversity (form) becomes oneness in deep sleep, and Oneness (formless) becomes diversity in waking or dream. Therefore, that which becomes the 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 present in the form of consciousness itself is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God
To realize this truth, one has to realize first “What is the truth? and “What is untruth?” between the dual (waking or dream) and non-dual experiences. Searching for the truth on the base of inherited religious conditioning and accumulated bookish or scriptural knowledge is not the means to Self or god or truth realization.
Remember:~
Nondual wisdom can be attained by anyone ~ be the criminal or a person from any walk of life -if he will only pursue it to the end, for he will rise by stages until he reaches the level of understanding non-causality when the highest stage will open before him. Only his own dullness of intelligence can prevent him from attaining nondual wisdom.
The most advanced seeker is the one who exercises his rational thinking when desires or attractions present themselves, whereas the least advanced is unable or unwilling to distinguish between primitive desires which arise from his unconscious and the paths laid down for him by his reason.
One must give some time to reflect upon this inquiry, and if he cannot find the time, if his mind is too distracted by activities or worries then he must go to yoga or meditation and get peace alone.
For the seeker must direct the whole of his attention, his whole mind, to the subject of inquiry and reasoning on the true base. Discrimination means reasoning or inquiry.
Seekers of truth should not be disheartened, try over and over again. When he sees that authoritarianism does not give him the truth, he goes further. He must have the determination to get at it. Experience tells him that every time he attempts, he progresses.
Advaitic Truth may be as bitter as poison, but he must like it as nectar. Those who can not do this are unfit for Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
The right kind of seeker of truth will accept and search for truth whether it brings bitterness or sweetness, whatever it tastes like, for its own sake. He must be prepared to find God as impersonal and to lose his own individuality for the sake of Advaitic truth.:~Santthosh Kumaar
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