The absolute truth! Journey towards SELF…

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The absolute truth! Journey towards SELF…

yogiV   Sep 11, 2024

Life is understood by each person based on their level of realisation or consciousness. A human life is the greatest of all life forms due to the advanced discriminatory ability man possess that is beyond all other creatures. Our advanced internal faculty called intellect is what makes this possible. With this we discriminate between good/bad, right/wrong etc. Man possesses this advanced capability in order to seek the absolute truth of life. The truth behind why we are born, who am I, what is death etc. Only very few people utilise their blessed life form as a human to seek answers to these. Seeking leads him to Brahma vidya, the science about Brahman, Brahman meaning SELF.

He learns about the SELF, he learns that there is no truth but that one Absolute Reality called Absolute Awareness from which orginates everything else. That all that he sees as this world, even as himself is all illuminated by this Awareness. And upon realising and abiding by the SELF or Brahman, everything seizes to exist and all that remains is the Absolute Awareness or Consciousness.

A person on the path of seeking starts to understand the science of SELF intellectually as knowledge. As he progresses in his understanding he steps into the world of spiritual practices where based on the yoga he chooses, karma, raja, bhakthi or jnana, he starts following certain disciplines, the ideals with which he conducts his life, the yogic practices he follows to control his mind, the surrender with which he performs offerings to a higher power, and the constant learning he does in the science or knowledge of SELF.

Upon practicing his disciplines over a period of time, he starts experiencing the Brahman or God or SELF which is the Absolute Awareness or the Consciousness. The last stage is where he abides by the SELF and he realises that he is the SELF and continues his life with that realisation. Attaining this state makes him detached from the world around him and he is no more affected by anything happening in the world of Maaya he is living in. Once he realises the SELF he realises that the only thing that exists is the Absolute Awareness and everything else is an illusion. Some people tend to continue to live in this world of illusion as they used to. Some forego this world of Maaya and do not comply to any norms of the society or the world. Some choose to stay in the body and eliminate the ignorance in the world and enlighten others about this Absolute Reality.

Being stuck in the world of Maaya is because of ignorance and with the Grace of the enlightened, by imparting light of his knowledge, he removes the ignorance in people and that is what we call being realised. A realised man is one who has reached this enlightened state of abiding by the SELF and understanding the illusory world as Maaya.

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