Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Yogic bliss, not Gnanic Advaitic bliss. Yogic bliss is limited to the physicality.+

When a yogi finds the yoga is inadequate and useless to realize the 'Self' he must drop yoga and take up the path of Gnana.

Sage Sankara said:-Neither by the practice of yoga nor philosophy, nor by good works nor by learning, does liberation come, but only through the realization that Atman and Brahman are one in no other way.(1) Vivekachoodamani v 56, pg. 25

Lord Krishna confesses that the oldest wisdom of India (our true Advaitic wisdom) has been lost: people misinterpret and falsify it today as they did then. It is not yoga but the philosophic truth. But nobody knows it. The teachers of philosophy and leaders of mysticism or religion do not want to inquire into truth and have no time for it. (Gita –Chap- IV-v.2) 

In Gita Chap. IV where Lord Krishna says: ~ "This yoga has been lost for ages" the word yoga refers to Gnana yoga, not other yogas: the force of the word this is to point this out. 

Lord Krishna describes some of the other yogas but devotes this chapter separately to Gnana Yoga. So one sees even in those ancient days people did not care for Advaita; they wanted religion; hence, Gnana got lost. That is why Krishna calls it "the supreme secret." Krishna points out that the yoga must-see "Brahman in action." 

Gita Chap.IV: "He who achieves perfection in Yoga finds the Self in time." This means that after his yoga is finished, he begins the inquiry into ultimate truth and in due course this inquiry produces the realization of the universal Spirit as the result. 

Experience is possible in the domain of dualistic illusion or Maya. In the realm of the Soul, there is no second thing that exists other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

How can you get enlightened when you are part of the illusion? The world in which you exist is the product of ignorance.

When ignorance vanishes, the unreal nature of the world in which you exist is exposed. You are not the Self. The Self is the Soul. It is not you, who has ignorance, but it is the Soul, the Self, is in the sleep of ignorance of its own nondual true nature.

It is the Soul, the Self, has to wake up from the sleep of ignorance. The world, in which you exist, prevails as reality until the Soul, the Self, remains in ignorance of its nondual true nature.

When the Soul, the Self, wakes up consciously in the midst of the waking experience, the world in which you exist is merely an illusion.

The final state is that consciousness is everything, the whole; there is no second thing exists other than the consciousness, whereas to say, "God is in me" is mysticism. Consciousness is God in truth is the rational truth, scientific truth, ultimate truth, and universal truth.

Atmic bliss is non-dualistic awareness; there is no enjoyer present to enjoy it or to distinguish it from misery. The yogi revels only in 'bliss' that is experienced i.e. that comes and goes, but Yogic bliss, not Atmic bliss. Yogic bliss is limited to the physicality.

All chakra-based bliss is within the domain of physicality. Atmic peace will be disturbed only if one recognizes a second. Hence, the yogic peace is temporary: the only enduring peace belongs to the sages of truth, for it is non-dual.

Dualists could not distinguish between the ‘I’ and the ‘formless witness.’ They take the ‘I’ as the Self or the witness. Their highest is to say I AM THAT without verification.

Dualists so much attached to the 'I' that they do not want to think that 'I' itself is an illusion. Again, one is unable to detach the ‘I’ from the Real witness, which is ever formless.

Dualists foolishly hold that the “I” persist in deep sleep, but they cannot prove it. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar

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