All teachings and philosophies is inadequate or useless to quench his spiritual thirst.+

 

All conceptual divisions were invented by teachers of philosophy by their excessive analysis on the dualistic perspective. All these dualistic concepts lead to more and more doubts and confusion. First, they create confusion and then explained spinning the yarn of their imagination.

Fortunate is the seeker who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy but investigates the source from which the universe rises and subsides. 

Only when one finds whatever he has read and understood of any teaching and philosophies is inadequate or useless to quench his spiritual thirst then he tries to find it on his own.  

Sage Sankara says: ~VC-162- There is no liberation for a person of mere book-knowledge, howsoever well-read in the philosophy of Vedanta, so long as one does not give up the false identification with the body, sense-organs, etc., which are unreal.

Bhagavan Buddha also rejected religion, scriptures concept of god when he found them useless to realize the ultimate truth.  The truth pursuit is a personal journey and a journey of verification of facts.   

No teachings are required in pursuit of truth. Ultimate Truth has to be discovered, assimilated, and realized by deeper inquiry, analysis, and reasoning.  Ultimate Truth can be only found through soulcentric reasoning. People throng to teaching and bookish knowledge, not to inquire, analyze, and reason.

Many people sound a strong convictioned, and their knowledge is based only on the teachings and other opinions. 

They support their arguments with references from philosophical books or scriptures or the thoughts of the great thinkers.  

The seeker has to remember for every strong argument there will be a counter-argument. The truth is always based on nonduality; therefore, what is the use of arguing on the dualistic understanding, which is the cause of ignorance. In ignorance, one ignores the Truth itself.

Those who get involved in intellectual debates, which are based on the ego, will get only hallucinated realization based on speculation. 

Many people think and discuss the authors of books or teachers. As seekers of truth one have to know where the author or teacher has got stuck in assimilating the Self-knowledge for their own research. 

There is no need to criticize any authors and teacher. If one bases his reasoning on the soul as self then he will know how far they have reached in their understanding and assimilation of the non-dual truth.

The value of Self –Knowledge isn’t to be found in books. Those are just the external appearances of self; they're not the realization of “Self” as proof. If one realizes the “Self” then he realizes the formless substance of the mind, and he sees the truth in it. When the truth becomes apparent then it cuts off the stream of delusion. Their writings are pointers to truth, not truth-in-itself. That's why merely believing in their books is pointless.

Some of the great thinkers think that there is no difference between the ‘thinker’ and ‘thought’; the ‘observer’ and the ‘observed’ emphasizing the correlation between the internal and external worlds, for a complete understanding of Truth. This understanding would bring about a radical transformation of the mind, by the mutation in our brain cells and would change our perception of the world.”

But they fail to understand the thinker and the thought are part of the illusion or duality. There is neither thinker nor thought in reality.  The thought will not rise without the form; therefore the thought will arise only when the physical self is present. The physical self is present only when the waking experience or dream is present. The waking or dream is present only when the mind is present. Therefore, there is a need to understand all these facts, before moving ahead in pursuit of truth. 

 When the self is not physical but is formless,  then there is no question of basing it on brain cells psychology because they are based on the physical self.  The physical self is the false self. 

If thinker and thought of the dream and observer and observed of the dream disappears along with the dream. The same way the waking ‘thinker’ and ‘thought’; the ‘observer’ and the ‘observed’ disappear in deep sleep.  It is not the waking entity that is aware of the coming and going of the three states. The formless witness of the three states is apart from the three states. The three states are unreal on the standpoint of the formless witness of the three states. And the formless witness is also the substance of the three states.   Therefore, the one which is aware of the three states is not physical; therefore, the question of mutation of brain cells does not arise. 

Since the thinker and the thought exist within the duality and thinker and the thought both are objects to the formless witness. Therefore, one needs to understand the fact that the subject [true self/spirit] is formless and an object is a form [three states].  The subject and the object are one in essence because the object is created out of the formless subject. 

Since scientific inventions are based on the physical self and physical existence; their invention will not go beyond physical existence. And they can only discover the truth of the fragments within the consciousness, not of the whole. Until and unless they discover the fact that, the self is not physical, their understanding will not go beyond physicality. When the self is not physical but the Self is the formless spirit, searching truth within the physical body or brain cells is of no use. 

To assimilate the self-knowledge effectively, the seeker needs to be receptive.  He has to have patience and humility and allow the person to speak freely express himself about the Self-Knowledge, without hindrance or interruption. In return, the seeker will receive free expression and then, try to grasp what he is saying. A seeker should not judge on the base of his accumulated knowledge and simply argue on his own point of view. The seeker has to accept other views if finds them un-contradictable truth.

 The seeker has to verify the validity of all claims by using his own reason. The seeker has to get all the doubts cleared by questioning patiently and point out all the doubts and confusion with humility. The argument is the greatest obstacle in pursuit of truth, therefore never indulge in arguments.   Therefore, discussion with humility is the way towards the ultimate truth.    This will enable him to provide the understanding and to see the fellow seekers perspective that is not to say that, he has to agree with their point of view, however, it will offer or enable one to consider another option. And it helps the seeker to think deeper when he is not satisfied with the answers and find an answer on his own reasoning, till the un- contradictable answer is found.  

If one can truly understand “what is Mind”? “What is the substance of the mind?” it would lead to resolving a lot of perhaps unnecessary trouble, and conflict.

If we look closely at the nature of the mind, what it is really, how it has come into being, and what constitutes it, then it will become clear of the fact that mind is merely an illusion; the formless substance and witness of the mind, which is the Spirit, is real and eternal. 

Remember:~

There is no need to study the philosophies of Berkeley, Kant, Hume, and other western and eastern philosophers; they are not the means to acquire Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

They are in fact an obstacle in the pursuit of truth because they are based on the dualistic perspective. There is no necessity to study the philosophy of any great thinkers to ensure firm realization.

Philosophical Authoritarianism merely assumes as true what another says, but what has yet to be proved.

Many Gurus will teach “Who am ‘I’? but none have deeply analyzed it scientifically, none can prove it.

The rational proof is needed in pursuit of truth, so that one can arrive at knowing truth i.e. Wisdom; theirs is mere dogma, parrotism, repetition of what they read in scripture, or accumulated knowledge from different sources.

The philosophical argument leads nowhere. If a philosopher says the ’Self’ is formless “another will reply, "No, Self has a form! If one says "his adopted philosophy has a higher value than all other philosophy” another will say, "No, that is lower and there are many philosophies higher than that." It is impossible to get anywhere with such talk because both sides are merely assuming and imagining.

There is no need for any philosophy to verify the truth of the Self. All that is intellectual wealth, useful in explaining doubts and difficulties if others rise them if he himself encounters them in course of thinking. But to attain realization, all that is not necessary.

The seeker of truth should not hold any philosophy as a yardstick. One needs fresh water to drink, but he does not require all the water of the whole lake to quench his thirst for truth. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar