Thus, his experience of the world and belief in religious God is merely an illusion from the standpoint of the Soul, which is the true Self. Thus, it is necessary to learn to view and judge the three states on the base of the Soul, the 'Self to realize the fact that all the three states are illusory.
Only after realizing the three states are illusory one can say the world is an illusion, not until then.
Remember:~
Only after realizing the three states are illusory one can say the world is an illusion, not until then.
Remember:~
Religion dogmatically assumes God's existence which is based on individual perception. One has to realize the fact that whatever is based on individuality is bound to be an illusion. Thus the physical body and the experience of the world and belief in religious Gods are part of the illusion. In reality, no second thing exists other than Atman. Thus Atman alone is a reality that is a formless substance and the witness of the illusion (three states).
All God's appearance through vision is a mere hallucination from the standpoint of the Soul, which is the true Self. Thus all the claims about the appearance of god are not truthful on the base of the Soul as the Self. Even if God appeared to anyone cannot be taken as real since the waking experience itself is unreal.
Thus, whatever is based on the individual and the world is bound to be a reality within the illusory waking experience. The waking experience is impermanent, which appears and disappears. The permanent is the formless substance and the witness of the three states.
No doubt the mystic had a vision, but it is his individual experience within the illusory experience (waking). Wherever there is individuality there is duality. Wherever there is an experience of duality the unreality is bound to exist as a reality. Therefore there is a need for careful observation to assimilate what is real and what is unreal to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
No doubt the mystic had a vision, but it is his individual experience within the illusory experience (waking). Wherever there is individuality there is duality. Wherever there is an experience of duality the unreality is bound to exist as a reality. Therefore there is a need for careful observation to assimilate what is real and what is unreal to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
The Seeker has to consider the waking/dream/astral is also a vision. The question is, what is it that witnesses these visions (waking/dream/astral). One gets deluded if he views and judges the reality on the base of the waking entity, which is limited to waking experience alone. When one does not know the truth, he can only guess, imagine, hence doubts and questions, and discussions arise.
People say God is light, or God is light within. Some people think God is energy and they are separate from that energy. Some contend that God is sound and say, they hear the divine sound, the sound inside in their meditation. Some say God is a fragrant smell and that beautiful scent comes in their meditation as the presence of God. All these differences of opinion, they can be endless, show mutual contradiction and general error, that is lack of certain truth. The seeker has to realize the fact that if one sees a Light he is seeing it as a person, a person is the cause of duality, and therefore there is no reality in his claim.
The Soul, the ‘Self is the Infinite God.
The Soul is the Self. God is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. God is the fullness of the consciousness without the illusory division of form, time, and space. Therefore, there is nothing apart from it.
Rig Veda: ~ 'Prajnanam Brahma'- Consciousness is the ultimate reality or Brahman or God in truth.
Do not accept any other God other than the Soul. The Soul is God in truth, Nothing is real but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Nothing matters but realize God in truth. God in truth is everywhere and in everything. Let these words be inscribed in your subconscious.
God in truth is hidden by the illusory universe. God in truth alone is real and eternal and all else is an illusion.
Brahman is merely a word to indicate the ultimate truth or God in truth. The ultimate truth itself is God in truth.
God in truth is Self-evident. God in truth is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny God in truth because God in truth is the very essence of the one who denies it. God in truth is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. God in truth is within the universe in which you exist, God in truth is without the universe in which you exist.
The Vedas confirm God is Atman (Spirit), the Self.
Yajurveda – chapter- 32:~ God is Supreme Spirit has no ‘Pratima’ (idol) or material shape. God cannot be seen directly by anyone. God pervades all beings and all directions.
Thus, Idolatry does not find any support from the Vedas.
People, who worship the belief in religious God, are hallucinating that they become one with such God.
Vedas itself says: May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman? Thus, to know the real God Self-realization is necessary. Self-realization is God-realization. Self-realization itself is real worship.
Rig Veda: ~ The Atman is the cause; Atman is the support of all that exists in this universe. May ye never turn away from the Atman the innermost self. May ye never accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman?" (10:48, 5)
How can you worship God? That implies two ~ the worshipper and the worshiped, whereas God is nondual. One can worship his idea of God only or realize his unity with it when he can’t worship it as apart.
When Upanishads and Vedas declare that, “God is in the form of the Athma, and God is indeed Athma itself” then why accept another God in place of the Atman nor worship other than the Atman.
God is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness, and intelligence, which is beyond form, time, and space. To which the Sages describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: ~ Brahman (God) is present in the form of the Athma, and it is indeed Athma itself.
Bhagavad Gita: ~ ‘All those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires, they worship many God s. (7- Verse -20)
Only the path of wisdom leads the seeker of truth on his journey to the ultimate realization of the true nature of the Universal Essence, which is the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.
Bhagavad Gita: 7: 19:~ "Such a man who has attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Atman, worships ‘Self’ as~ Atman (God) alone exists~ everything is Atman, there exists nothing except Atman. Such a man is extremely rare."
Bhagavad Gita: ~ Brahmano hi pratisthaham ~ Brahman (God) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).
When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.
The consciousness is ever-present. Without consciousness, the world, in which you exist ceases to exist. Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God.
All is consciousness. The whole universe is consciousness. From consciousness, the universe comes. When the universe disappears, consciousness still remains without form, time, and space.
Lord Krishna says Ch ~V: ~ “Those who know the ‘Self’ in truth.". The last two words (tattvataha) are usually ignored by pundits, but they make all the difference between the ordinary concept of God and the truth about God.
The dualistic worship of "God” is only for the ignorant populace. The God in truth is only Atman, the Self. In reality, there is no duality, no differentiation. Only Atman exists.
Third Mundaka - Chapter 1 (8):~ Brahman (Self) is not grasped by the eye, nor by speech, nor by the other senses, nor by penance or good works. A man becomes pure through the serenity of intellect; thereupon he beholds the 'Self' which is without parts.
Third Mundaka - Chapter 1 (8):~ Brahman (Self) is not grasped by the eye, nor by speech, nor by the other senses, nor by penance or good works. A man becomes pure through the serenity of intellect; thereupon he beholds the 'Self' which is without parts.
Yajur Veda:~ "They are enveloped in darkness, in other words, are steeped in ignorance and sunk in the greatest depths of misery who worship the uncreated, eternal prakrti -- the material cause of the world -- in place of the All-pervading God, But those who worship visible things born of the prakrti, such as the earth, trees, bodies (human and the like) in place of God are enveloped in still greater darkness, in other words, they are extremely foolish, fall into an awful hell of pain and sorrow, and suffer terribly for a long time."(Yajur Veda 40:9.)
"Na tasya pratima asti"
"There is no image of Brahman."[Yajurveda 32:3]
"Ekam evadvitiyam"
"Brahman is One only without a second." [Chandogya Upanishad 6:2]
"Na casya kascij janita na cadhipah."
"Of Brahman, there is neither parents nor lord." [Svetasvatara Upanishad 6:9]
"Na tasya pratima asti"
"There is no likeness of Brahman." [Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:19]
"shudhama poapvidham"
"Brahman is bodiless and pure." [Yajurveda 40:8]
"Na samdrse tisthati rupam asya, na caksusa pasyati kas canainam."
"His form is not to be seen; no one sees Him with the eye." [Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:20]
All this is referred to as Atman the innermost Self. Atman is the ultimate truth or Brahman. The ultimate truth or Brahman itself is God. Thus the Atman which is in the form of consciousness is God. Thus Self-Realization is Truth-Realization. Truth-Realization is God-Realization.
Only through deeper inquiry, analysis, and reasoning on the base of the soul as a self, one become aware of the fact that the individual gods propagated by religions do not exist in reality. God is impotent, incompetent, or lacking in intelligence--if he exists! However, all Religions are nothing but imaginations, because religion and its idea of god are a reality only on the base of ‘I’, which is the false self.
No one can know God other than his inherited belief. If anyone performs worship and meditation on God, it is only he who is worshiping/meditating his inherited belief. The belief is not God.
When the believer and his experience of the world are part of the illusion, then whatever he believed within the illusion is bound to be an illusion. Thus, the seeker must make sure of the fact that ‘I’ is not the self, to assimilate and realize the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Isa Upanishads indicates that: By worshiping gods and goddesses and going to the world of gods after death is of no use. The time one spends in ritualistic practices is wasted; one can spend the same time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is the main goal.
One cannot reach the non-dual destination by glorifying gods and goddesses and by doing that, one goes deeper and deeper into darkness. It surely indicates the fact that the seeker of truth has to drop the worshiping god and goddess to get Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. :~Santthosh Kumaar
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