No mystic experience ever reveals the truth because such experience is possible within the domain of the dualistic illusion or Maya.+

One need not doubt that mystics saw God or Goddesses in their vision. That they saw visions may be an undeniable fact. But the question is “Was what they saw the Truth?

They no doubt had such vision but they never stopped to inquire if their visions are true. One has to take all the facts and then find out which is the truth through deeper Self-search.

The seeker of truth has to collect as much evidence as possible, even contradictory, and then proceed to examine all of it and Analyze, how far is it true.

After years of effort, a Christian closes his eyes, and Jesus comes to him. A Hindu closes his eyes and Hanuman comes to him. A Buddhist closes his eyes and Bhagavan Buddha comes to him. A Jain closes his eyes and Mahavira comes to him.

Jesus doesn’t come to a Jain; Mahavira doesn’t come to a Christian: only the image you project will come.

Your effort was with some Goddess, and the image became almost solid. It became so real from constant repetition, from continuous remembering, that it seemed Goddess was standing in front of him. No one was standing there. Consciousness is alone. There is no second here, no other. People want their own imagination, not truth.

No mystic experience ever reveals the truth because such experience is possible within the domain of the dualistic illusion or Maya.

The feat of a Guru, touching people and thus putting them into mystic states is purely a psychological one; based on the power of suggestions. It is nothing to do with the question of truth. It is just a higher variation of the effect produced by patting younger people on the shoulder to encourage them.

How is one to know that what he believes as God is true? This question must prick the seeker of truth.

People who are saying ‘I Am GOD’ are hallucinating that they become God. First, you must know what God is supposed to be.

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Patanjali takes for granted that there is an Iswara (God) that gives it for the purpose of concentration, and then naturally people find God in their meditations. But it is only their imagined God.

Mystics see what they are looking for or that whose existence they presuppose. Therefore Patanjali Yoga belongs to religion, not to the ultimate truth or Brahman.

No one has proved that the existence of an individualized God. Such individual Gods are available in the domain of duality. From the ultimate standpoint, the duality is not reality. Personal experience which is not universally valid is no proof, neither is an ecstatic feeling.

Man and his experience of the world are a product of ignorance. Ignorance is the cause of experiencing the duality as reality. The duality is merely an illusion from the ultimate standpoint.

All the thoughts, words, feelings, attachments including the man and his experience of the world are part of the illusion. The illusion (universe) is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness.

The Soul is the Self. On the standpoint of the Soul the Self, no second thing exists other than consciousness. Other than knowing the Self, there is nothing to know and realize. :~Santthosh Kumaar