Pitfall in the Self - - Reaching self is reaching Lord?

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I. Reaching self is reaching Lord?

Everybody aspires the highest fruit through the easiest way. The easiest way is

the path of knowledge, which does not require any sacrifice. The highest fruit

is to become the very Lord right now from this moment onwards. They like the

preacher to say that they should just come out of their house to receive a heap

of infinite treasure lying down before the doors. Anybody will be happiest to

receive the news that, he has become eligible to join the post of district

collector in whatever stage of his study to the I.A.S. Examination he is

present. The post is offered to the fresh student who just joined the I.A.S.

Course and also to the student who passed the I.A.S. Examination. Both are

equally eligible now itself to join the same post. If the preacher says that

already both have joined the post and that they have forgotten this truth, now

all the effort is only to recognize that they are the district collectors. This

gives the idea that there is no need of any future effort.

This is the mis-interpreted philosophy of monoism (Advaita) of Sankara.

 

 

 

Every body is very much attracted to this path. The influence of this path is

so much that no body is coming out of this illusion. It is so sweet that they

are unable to leave this state. The basic mis-concept is to think that the self

is the super-self. Self is any living being in this world. Super self is the

Lord. They just find one common point i.e., the pure awareness (Chit) exists in

both. The Prime Minister and his peon have several common points like pure

awareness, similar form of external human body etc. Both eat and sleep

similarly. Both are married and both have children. Because of these common

points can you treat the Prime Minister and His peon as one and the same? Based

on one common point i.e., pure awareness, how can you say that self is

super-self? Veda says that by the order of the Lord, the Sun is shining. In

summer due to sunstroke a human being is killed. Let the Advaita scholar stand

against the sunstroke and order the Sun not to kill him.

 

 

 

When the disciples of Sankara thought that they are also the Lord, Sankara

swallowed the molten lead and asked the disciples to do the same. Then they

fell on the feet of Sankara. Then Sankara told " Shivah Kevaloham " , which means

that only He is Shiva. The word Kevala (only) is important here. Sankara while

taking bath in the ocean at Puri told " Oh! Lord! Though the qualitative identity

is in between us, the quantitative difference exists. The water is common in

both the sea and the wave like the pure awareness in the soul and super soul.

But the quantitative difference exists and one should not forget that the entire

wave is in the sea but the entire sea is not in the wave " . This is stated as a

message for the sake of ordinary soul. These Advaita Scholars filter all the

differentiating points and finally get the common point filtered down into the

beaker as the filtrate. The differentiating points are the residue on the

filter paper and the filtered common point is in the

downward beaker. They see only the beaker but not the filter paper.

Therefore, the whole spiritual path is twisted and confused almost all the human

beings.

 

 

 

Seeing this situation the same Sankara came as Ramanuja and Madhva and clearly

differentiated the super self from the self. Some devotees have come out of

this illusion but several people are still lingering there only due to their

unreasonable and unimaginable ambition for the fruit. Unless this basic concept

is realized, all the stages of the spiritual effort cannot be healthy. The

poison injected in the foundation has spread all over the upstairs of the

construction. Your question has already assumed that self is super self. You

have no doubt about that basic concept. Nobody likes to touch that basic

concept. If that basic concept is analysed the entire castle of their ambition

will collapse. They cannot tolerate to loose the highest fruit, which was

captured by them by the easiest way of self-realization. Now for such

self-realization, you are asking whether the meditation or the study of

scriptures is the path. When the goal itself is absent what is the use of the

path? It is something like asking whether one should pass eighth standard or

ninth standard to become the district collector. Neither of these two standards

can give you the post. By passing those two standards one can get the post of a

peon. One has to pass the I.A.S. Examination for which he is eligible after

passing degree examination, which is far from both those standards. These

advaita scholars argue that the peon is the collector. They do not accept the

existence of any higher post other than the peon.

 

 

 

The reason for this basic misunderstanding is the word " Brahman " . As per

Sanskrit grammar this word comes from the root " Bruhi-Vruddhau " , which means

that the root meaning of this word is greatness. Anything that is great can be

called as Brahman. The soul is the most precious and greatest item of the

creation and is called as Para Prakruti, which means the greatest of all the

created items. The soul is included as a part of the creation (Prakruti) and is

called as Para Prakruti as said in Gita (Prakritim Viddhi me paraam….). It is

not Creator. If it is Creator it cannot be called as Prakruti. It is only the

modification of food during evolution as said in Veda (Annat Purushah…). The

same inert energy called as electro magnetic radiation working through a special

unknown technology is life. The materials of the technology are known and the

working inert energy is also known. But the special technology in which it

works is not known and therefore, life energy is not

synthesized so far. Only God knows that technology.

 

 

 

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

 

surya

 

 

 

 

Era <n0ndual wrote:

The most exalted tapas, according to [Ramana] Maharshi, is

the destruction of ahankara - the ego, the I-notion - leading to

the knowledge of the Self. Ahankara is an imposter--posing as

the self- and so, upon enquiry, resolves into the Self which is

its true basis.

In my view, the idea of a capital S Self is a tricky business because

 

 

SURYA

surya

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