Friday, 31 March 2017

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana or knowledge of the Spirit, the real God is hidden by the ‘I’, which is ignorance.*****


Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is not the knowledge of religion its religious Gods. Religion its religious Gods is nothing to do with Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana or knowledge of the Spirit, the real God is hidden by the ‘I’, which is ignorance.
 Isa Upanishads indicates that: ~ “By worshipping 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 same time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is the main goal. One cannot reach the nondual destination by glorifying God 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 in order to get Self-knowledge.
Ish Upanishad declares: - Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide.

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Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide, as it were, are doomed to enter those worlds after death.

This is a condemnation of people who do not try to attain Self-knowledge. They are, in a real sense, committing suicide, for what can be worse than being a slave to sense enjoyment, completely oblivious of the real purpose of life, which is to be one’s own master?

Ish Upanishads:-

MANTRA 10

Vidya and Avidya both are hindrances to Self-knowledge, but Vidya is even worse than Avidya. The word Vidya is used here in a special sense; here it means worshipping Gods and Goddesses. By worshipping Gods and Goddesses you will go after death to the world of Gods and Goddesses. But will that help you? The time you spent there is wasted because if you were not there you could have spent that time moving forward towards Self-knowledge, which is your goal. In the world of Gods and Goddesses you cannot do that, and thus you go deeper and deeper into darkness.

Avidya is Karma and therefore a hindrance. You perform Avidya - i.e., you perform Agnihotra and other sacrifices. This is a roundabout way of purifying the mind, and it is also groping in the dark. But it may not have as heavy a toll on your time and energy as the other.

Ishopanishad: ~ They are steeped in ignorance and sunk into the greatest depth of misery who worships the matter, instead of the All-Pervading God and those who worship things born of matter like trees, animals, man, etc. are sunk deeper in misery."

It is necessary for the seeker to do his homework, and verify the validity of all the claims, rather than blindly believe, what others expound as knowledge, till; the un-contradicted truth is obtained.
The seeker must have the courage of Bhagavan Buddha to accept the truth and reject the untruth. Since Bhagavan Buddha rejected religion, the idea of God and scriptures, therefore, it is evident that he has gone through every aspect and verified and found them to be inadequate and useless for the pursuit of truth.
 People’s observation is based on dualistic (matter or body or ego) perspective, whereas a Gnani’s judgment is based on the nondualistic (Soul or Spirit or consciousness) perspective.  There is neither the projection (the world in we all exist), nor the projector exists as a reality, when the Soul, the innermost 'Self' remains its own awareness.

  The Soul remains in its own awareness when wisdom dawns. The purpose of the spiritual pursuit is to realize the whole universe in, which we exist, is created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul is the innermost Self. On the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost Self, the three states are mere an illusion.  

God cannot be brought down to the domain of duality. There is only one being in reality, and it is the Soul, the innermost Self.  The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness pervades in everything and everywhere in all the three states. Thus, the Soul or consciousness is ultimate truth or Brahman. Brahman is God.  When one realizes the form, time and space are one in essence. And that essence is the consciousness, then he realizes there is no second thing exist other than the consciousness. Thus, everything is the consciousness. Thus, the consciousness is the ultimate truth. And ultimate truth is God. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar 

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