Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Searching the truth within illusion with the illusory Self, within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion.+


The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly,  the waking becomes unreal when Advaitic wisdom dawns. The Advaitic wisdom dawns when you realize that, the Self is not you but the ‘Self is the formless ‘Soul’. 

Love, hate, and the universe in which we exist are created out of single stuff.  That single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit. 

Realizing the Spirit as the Self is truth-realization or Self-realization or God-realization. 

Love, hate, and the world in which we exist are part of the dualistic illusion or Maya.  The dualistic illusion or Maya has nothing to do with the Self, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space.  

Within the illusion, we have to love and live in harmony. Love is very much necessary in practical life within the practical world.

It is erroneous to mix practical life and the practical world in the pursuit of truth.  The ups and downs of the practical life within the practical world have nothing to do with the Soul, the Self. 

In Self-awareness, nothing disappears on the dawn of Advaitic wisdom, but the unreal nature of the waking is exposed in the midst of the dualistic illusion or Maya. 

One sees his body as consciousness, his ego as consciousness, and the world as consciousness. Thus there is a unity in diversity in his understanding. In Self-awareness, the unknown restlessness has disappeared.  Self-awareness brings stillness of the mind in the midst of action or duality.    

Thus, searching for the truth within the illusion with the illusory Self, within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion. 

The illusion is created and sustained and finally dissolves as the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.  Since there is no second thing other than the Soul or consciousness; consciousness itself is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. 

Advaitin Sage and Maya

The King of the Hoysalas was a dualist and was greatly incensed at the doctrine taught Advaitin sage that everything here below is an illusion. He wanted to teach the exponent of this doctrine a lesson. So he invited the then Advaitin sage to his palace. That Advaitin sage went there and stoutly maintained that everything in this world was an illusion. The king had arranged to let loose an infuriated elephant against, Advaitin sage. The beast rushed at Advaitin sage who took to a precipitate flight to save himself.

'Oh, Venerable Sir,' shouted the king, 'why do you run so fast seeing that the elephant is only an illusion?'

'Oh, king,' said Advaitin sage in the course of his flight, 'my running too is an illusion. Everything in this world is an illusion.’
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Similarly, the practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion. All our hopes and desires or pleasure and pain are reality within the illusion.  

We all are searching for truth within the illusion, not being aware of the fact that the illusion is created out of a single stuff which is the Soul or consciousness. 

The Soul is the Self.  When the waking entity realizes it is not the Self in the midst of the waking experience it enters the nondual Self-awareness, which is free from form, time, and space. 

A Gnani is fully aware of ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth’. A Gnani e is fully aware that the experiences of pleasure and pain within the waking experience are merely an illusion because the waking experience itself is an illusion.

Thus, life within the waking experience will go on, on its own.  It has nothing to do with the Soul, the Self.  The waking or dream is merely an object to the formless witness. The Soul is the Self. 

The Soul is the witness. The Soul the witness has nothing to do with the three states because it is the witness of the coming and going of the three states or illusion.  
: ~ Santthosh Kumaar

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