The mind is present in the form of the universe. The Mind is an experience. Mind appears as waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). Man and his world are within the waking or dream. The waking experience is a parallel dream. And the dream is a parallel waking experience. Thus, trying to experience the truth as an individual is a total impossibility. Thus the people who are trying to experience the ‘Self’ as an individual are in hallucination because ‘Self’ is not an individual it is universal.
The Soul is the innermost ‘‘Self’’. the Soul is present in the form of consciousness. the consciousness pervades everything and everywhere in all three states.
Thus, the people who are expounding knowledge an individual can experience the ‘‘Self’’ are playing with the feelings and sentiments of the people and make them hallucinate and keep them permanently in the grip of hallucination.
The truth has to be mentally traced and grasped, understood assimilated, and realized by deeper ‘Self’-search because it is hidden within the three states but it is beyond the three states.
That is why Sage Sankara indicated: -‘VC- 65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the ‘Self’, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.
66. Therefore the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.
Seeker of truth has to direct realization of the true '‘Self’' through deeper Self-search and avoid losing precious time and effort losing himself in philosophical studies.
Both modern science and religion offer hypotheses and theories but there is one vital difference--science begins with facts which it collects; religion begins with fancies. Science evolves its hypotheses from such facts, religion from fancies.
Science declares that oxygen combines with hydrogen to give water. And it also declares oxygen is protons or electrons. But in pursuit of truth, the whole physical existence [universe or mind] is considered as illusion and science and their inventions, which are based on the physical existence is limited to physical existence.
There is a need for facts of physical proof in scientific invention, whereas in pursuit of truth the proof has to be grasped mentally and realized. Therefore, the truth is realized only by a few who take this mental pursuit. “Whatever facts revealed, which is un-contradictable has to be accepted as truth.
Science is dualistic wisdom whereas the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sankara is nondualistic wisdom. Scientific wisdom is limited to form, time, and space whereas Advaitic wisdom is based on the formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
The truth is within but it is beyond the physical existence. Science demands physical proof. But the physical proof is part of the dualistic illusion. Hence, science cannot go beyond physicality because the truth cannot be traced with laboratory conditions. Deeper ‘Self’-search is required if one wants to push its quest deeply enough. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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