People think everything is energy but without the consciousness, how can one know it is energy. It is only intellectual speculation.+

People think everything is energy but without consciousness, how can one know it is energy.  It is only intellectual speculation.

The sun, the moon, the stars, planets shine because of the Soul or Spirit. The Soul shines and all things else shine as a result. Everything in the universe reflects but that light of the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness. Merely knowing the truth is not enough to escape from the tangle of illusion.

The mind is in the form of the universe. From the standpoint of the Soul the innermost Self the universe is merely an illusion.  The illusion arises from ignorance. Enlightenment comes with detachment from the illusion by realizing the experience of the form, time and space are one in essence.

Chandogya Upanishad:~ One who meditates upon and realizes the 'Self' discovers that everything in the cosmos-- energy and space, fire and water, name and form, birth and death, mind and will, word and deed, mantrams and meditation--all come from the Self.

Ignorance prevents one from knowing the truth which is beyond form, time, and space. The form, time, and space are the product of ignorance. The form, time, and space are present in the form of the mind. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as the waking or dream. Until one holds the 'Self' as ‘I’ he is in the grip of ignorance.

 If ignorance is present then the duality is present. If duality is present then the illusion is experienced as reality. If the illusion is experienced as reality then one is stuck with the reality of the practical life within the practical world.  

It is not that human memory is the cause of ignorance. The human memory is limited to form, time and space. The one which is in ignorance is not the waking entity, but the formless Soul. 

It is foolish to think you are in ignorance because you and your experience of the world are the product of ignorance.  Thus, without deeper self-search, it is impossible to realize ‘what is the truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. Without knowing ‘what is the truth’ it is impossible to know ‘what is untruth’.

People are stuck with some teaching or some teacher and hold them, as yardsticks which is the greatest hindrance in the pursuit of truth. People believe that guru or mystic or priest has got so many followers and therefore there must be some truth in their teaching, is a common fallacy accepted by the mass due to their inherited samskara or conditioning. It proves only an ignorant can find a number of greater ignorant to follow him.

That is why Buddha said:~Believe nothing because a wise man said it.  Believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be divine. Believe nothing because someone else said it. But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.

A true seeker is not content with the knowledge of spiritual realities based on hearsay... he insists on the direct knowledge."

Katha Upanishad 1:2:23:~ The Soul cannot be realized through hearing a scholarly explanation of the discourses, not even by the intellect.

A permanent view of the world as unreal can come only after soul-centric reasoning; such knowledge cannot change. Were the seeker is sufficiently sharp enough,  he could grasp the unreal nature of the world by soul-centric reasoning alone.  To know the whole truth, one must know the whole universe, otherwise, he gets only half-truth.  

The Soul is the formless substance and the witness of the three states. If the formless witness,  witnesses the waking experience and its attention are fixed to the waking experience then the waking experience is experienced as reality.

If the formless witness,  witnesses the dream and its attention, is fixed to the dream then the dream is experienced as reality. If the attention of the soul is on itself then it is called deep sleep in waking experience, which is the state of ignorance. If the soul consciously remains in its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of waking experience through wisdom it is called Self-awareness. 

The three states are an object to the formless soul which is the subject.  The three states are a state of ignorance. In all three states the soul, the innermost self is in ignorance of its own formless non-dual true nature. This forgetfulness is the cause of ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of experiencing the three states as a reality. 

The three states are the cause of experiencing individuality as a reality.  Individuality is the cause of experiencing birth, life, death, and the world as a reality. 

The three states are one in essence. In the realm of truth, the three states are non-existent.  In self-awareness, the three states are non-existent because they are one in essence.   

The seeker has to pursue this quest until all his doubts are cleared and all his confusions disappear and his conviction about the soul, the innermost self becomes crystal clear.

Doubt is the beginning of knowledge. One must verify his own ideas and concepts. He must put his imagination aside, and let the truth be verifiable by others.

The scholastic like all believers has to start with an assumption that there is some unseen Being or Power or World, and then they start to interpret this assumption. Whereas deeper self-search starts with the world, going up from the objective world to the truth by inquiry and soul-centric reasoning.

No assumption, no faith, is needed in pursuit of truth, the ultimate truth demands deeper thinking. People do not want to think: it is too troublesome. Why to worry about the ultimate truth, they say. This is their excuse, an alibi for being too lazy or incompetent to think. They do not want to be bothered to inquire and reason.

The reasoning is interpretable in two ways. The egocentric interpretation is to apply it only to the waking experience(mind). The soul-centric interpretation is to apply it to the three states. The latter leads to a final settlement of the problems because it takes all data into consideration. 

When the ultimate truth is rightly known and one attains eternal life thereby. Through soul, the innermost self he gains strength and through its knowledge immortality.

 Not by intellectual speculation, but only by an awakening to the reality of his true existence,  he gets the soul-centric vision. Soul, the innermost self’s nature is like a state of deep sleep.

Religion, yoga, and intellectualism are not the means to acquire self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.  Without getting rid of the ignorance and trying to get self-awareness through religion and yoga is like a sleeping man trying to know what he is about, without waking up. As sleep is to waking, so is ordinary life to the state of realization.:~Santthosh Kumaar