Mediocre minds waste their time arguing about
unimportant matters. Accumulation of scriptural knowledge is dangerous in
pursuit of truth.
A donkey with a load of holy books is still a donkey. A person who mastered scriptural knowledge is still a scholar, not a Gnani.
Ashtavakra:~There is no wisdom whatsoever in the scriptures-just a collection of words.
The seeker should not bother about finding the meaning of what is written in the scriptures.
The seeker has to establish the truth of Non-duality by sheer
reasoning alone. The seeker has to begin by defining "What is real?"
"What is unreal?" etc., because that is the right way to discuss,
understand, and assimilate self-knowledge. Thus, the seeker has to remove all the hindrance in order to acquire Self-knowledge
The truth which has
no basis is usually religion or a mere catalog of ignorant opinions; people
prefer it because it can be got more easily. A religious philosophy based on
the false self (ego) is worthless from the standpoint of truth.
Mundaka - Chapter 2 (8) ~ Fools, dwelling in darkness, but wise in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind men led by the blind.
Ish Upanishad declares:~ Those people who have neglected the attainment of Self-knowledge and have thus committed suicide 10/11/12
The religious orthodox 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?
He, who does not desire to realize the truth, cannot find any interest in the Atmic path. The Atmic path is not a discussion or exchange of views but it searches after the truth of our true existence. Atmic thinking leads to Atmic wisdom. Knowledge of the Soul leads to Self-awareness. Self-awareness is the ever homogeneous, unexcelled eternal.
In Self-awareness, the world in which we exist (dualistic illusion) all its luster and appears as a glow-worm in the presence of the sun.
When the Soul, the ‘Self’ remains in its own awareness in the midst of the dualistic illusion it is free from the illusory bondage of the form, time, and space.
People are unaware of the fact that their existence is limited to the domain of form, time, and space. Without the form, time, and space they cease to exist. Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is necessary to realize, the man is not the ‘Self’ but the ‘Self’ is the Soul or the Spirit or the consciousness.
Do not search the ‘Self’ in the world in which you exist. The ‘Self’ is not an entity or an identity within the world, in which you exist. The Self is the cause of the world in which you exist and the ‘self’ itself is uncaused.
The world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the ‘Self, which is the Soul or Spirit.
The seeker will find his own way when you realize the fact that the ‘Self’ is not him but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Until the seeker strives to understand the truth which is hidden by the dualistic illusion or Maya the 'Self' will not be realized.
Without a perfect understanding of ‘what is what,’ it will take the seeker nowhere. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
