1. "The aspirant through intense desire, dispassion and effort is finally lead to the golden threshold of the Self-realisation. He experiences divine Aura round the heart and head and finally merges in the Absolute. In support thereof the experiences of the great souls as revealed in the Vedic literature are quoted and this presents vividly the personal experiences of the Mahayogi. This humble attempt to spread the knowledge and point out the Supreme behind all religions is the unique contribution in this century to the humanity and to every individual now and in the coming generations".

2. In the annals of philosophic expression on the spirituality we do not so far have a book, where the actually realised person revealed his experiences in agreement with those of the scriptures.

3. This small humble attempt merits the attention, co-operation, assistance of the intelligentsia, and the publishing and other institutions for spreading the message to the benefit of humanity.

4. The Supreme Soul and the Spirit is impersonal, eternal, all pervasive, unborne, undecaying, without parts and divisions, pure and auspicious, serine and untainted, peace profound, splendour and wonder, deserving the best of glory, free from comment, far away from the word and form, cause of all causes, unknowable but can be mentally reflected on its own nature and this is the inner controller -

5. IS for the purpose of worship and satiation of human desire personified and anthropomorphized and brought into the names and forms with human attributes of love, grace, reward and punishment, anger and hatred. Thus are borne the Gods and Angels, Devils and Satan, Heavens and Hells and the various sects and religions. We are aware of the man made misery under this background in the past thousands of years.

6. WHETHER "LORD KRISHNA" IS THE GOD OR "I AM" THE GOD, AS REVEALED BY THE FAMOUS BHAGAWATH GEETHA - LET US EXAMINE.

Fifteenth Sloka of Chapter-XV "Purushothama Prapthi Yoga" says the entity `I' is ensconced in the heart of all from which the knowledge takes birth. Sixteenth Sloka says the apparent body of man is perishable and it falls under third person in the language. The individual Soul seated in the heart is the second person, pronoun, behind name and form, more expansive in nature and is imperishable.

Seventeenth Sloka says, the entity `I' being the first person in the language is far behind and other than the perishable and imperishable and it is therefore said to be the Supreme Self that spreads over and holds the three worlds as all pervasive and eternal entity. Eighteenth Sloka says, such Supreme Self is projected in the scriptures (Veda) as the Supreme person and is accepted in the world as the worshipable.

In Nineteenth Sloka, Lord Krishna enters the scene as saying "The wise, whoever understands "Me" thus worships "Me" with all the mind and He is not allowed by the Vedic Scholar, Vyasa to say "The wise whoever understands "himself" thus worships "The Self" with all the mind. Sea change. While the Self is the Supreme, all pervasive eternal and points out the impersonal, the same is presented as Lord Krishna and the human community is moved to worship "Krishna" as the Lord and the God, as a result man is trained ignorant of the all pervasive invisible, self within. Yet, the Vedic Scholar, Vyasa is accepted as God and is offered salutations as "Guru" every year on Guru Poornima Day, for his contribution to the ritualism. This is well opposed by Lord Buddha, resulting in the birth of Buddhism. Adi Sankara also opposed the practice of Vedic Karmakanda, but his teaching of Tatvagnana was swiftly undermined by the overwhelming revival of ritualism in his matts subsequently.

7. There are two paths for man to select - take the path of illumination and merge finally in the Truth, as the first preference and declare yourself as the Cause for world movement

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If that is not possible, do extreme good, selfless to the society and the Universe in general. Both are going to yield the best in the Cosmic Scheme of the world movement, which redeems man from the clutches of the nature.

8. Ignorance and blind belief is disastrous in spiritual life. One should know the Cosmic Scheme of the matter first and make his choice for the struggle in the life.

9. There are three constituents functioning in man. The first one is the Self and the Spirit, supplying infinite Cosmic Energy as radiance for the life and world movement to function.

The second is the inert matter of the body and the world to change in variety of forms under the combinations of the five elements and their multiples.

The third is the cognitive part in man stretching itself from the first person `I' and percolating into and spreading through out the world movement and identifying with each and everything. Knowledge of these three constituents provide complete knowledge.

10. When this `I' stands as a witness in its pure and highest state and goes on narrating the entire Universe with beings, becomings, events of destruction, death and birth in the three worlds, can we then imagine and enjoy the panoramic grandeur and terrifying scene ?

Is Viswaroopa Sandarshana, as described in Bhagawath Geetha different from this narration? It's a wonderful concept brought out by the Author, Vyasa to the human mind in disturbance as a dialogue between the two heroes, Lord Krishna as God and Arjuna as the mighty warrior and thereby perpetuating the supremacy of the personified God, the Lord of creation, the ritualism, the worship and the prayer for grants and the eternal dependence.

11. The Cosmic Law and the precision with which it guides, regulates and conducts the world movement is itself the supreme wonder. There is no place for gimmicks and miracles in spirituality and they need not be aimed at hypnotizing the gullible momentarily for one's fame, power and pelf at the expense of ignorance of others.

12. Can we tell the heavenly pleasures that the departed soul is granted by God to enjoy are different from the best of the cherished desires and luxuries of man in this life? Same is the case with the sufferings in the Hell. Are not they the projections of human mind into the subtler layers? The Qu'ran says "Allah has provided Heaven on this earth itself to be enjoyed in your life and a Hell too with miseries untold as results of your bad actions.

13. Ritualism in ignorance at all levels from the unlettered to the scholar, leads man only to the darker and the darkest worlds, as per the Cosmic Law of cause and effect and verily these worlds provide a short stay for a limited time and these are the worlds where the departed Souls (our forefathers) live. They are deprived of the light because in their lifetime they never made attempt to understand the very light and the radiance of the life force.

14. Fear is the worst part of man. Whom are you afraid of? Another man for your behaviour? Wild animals and the venomous insects and snakes? God? An invisible witness of what you are doing and may lay a mighty blow on your head, now or later? All these beings whom you are afraid of are really the various puppets of matter, strengthened by the Prana energy to act against you. You too are possessed of the same life energy. If your mind concentrates on the same pranic energy and gains mastery, whom are you afraid of then?

Fear arises from the mind and the mind functions under the energy of prana. When this mind, through intense effort dissolves itself in the same Cosmic Energy, the All Powerful, where does fear arise from? Does God or Satan dare stand before you in strength? Know therefore more of prana and its source the Self. That is the fulfillment of the life.

15. Truth is very simple to understand but when it is brought into scriptures it has become impregnable to the mind to pierce through.

16. There is this question from the earnest seeker of the Truth. The Supreme Self, which is oft spoken, realising which man is fully freed and the purpose of his struggle in life is fulfilled - where is It and how to achieve It?

This Supreme Self is not faraway but always resides in your body as the all pervading radiance, the life force. This Supreme Self is the God of gods, the Self of all Gods and it can be obtained only through the discriminative knowledge and own concentration and the struggle to merge into It and not by observing painful austerities of dos and don'ts in ritualism.

Both the question and the reply are very ancient perhaps at a time in the creation when man found himself in bondage and failed to obtain results of his work in fulfillment of his life. But both are ever fresh and relevant for the changing generations. It is the man in the body and mind that is changing through birth and death and hence the question and reply are fresh for every man seeking relief from the conditioned life. The Self is without change, all pervasive, ever fresh in its existence and this is the essence of human wisdom.

17. Can you point out the point where Self is absent so that it can go there? Can you collect at a place more Self? Know therefore the Self is one indivisible, transcendent indwelling uniformly and eternally at every point and is always invisible. It is ever pure and untainted. It is beyond word and definition for the reason such word and definition fails to survive without the support of the Self.

18. Can pupil make collective effort and apprehend the Truth through collective prayer, finance and charity and service? Self can be apprehended only by individual own effort and concentration under the strength of the discriminative knowledge.

19. Can human mind account how and why God always remains invisible and away from human knowledge? At the same time He enjoys the human ignorance and the futile exercise in ritualism and belief. Is He playing hide and seek with His own creation? What a diabolic person is God then being Himself beyond the opposite enjoying the human misery and suffering in the contradictions? Is He then cruel and unconcerned? Yet man is so benevolent to accept God as the sole saviour and redeemer and worshipping.

20. Though there are two eyes they do not see an object differently. Same is the case with two ears hearing the sound, the two nostrils smelling the odour etc. It is a paradox to find one tounge receives all tastes, one mind works out on the opposites of pleasure pain, horror and repulsion, love and lust etc.and embraces all in its single fold of illusion. What a wonder is the cosmic pattern?

21. How to define Absolute time? Once we say it cannot be defined it means that the Absolute time is immeasurable and it is beyond mind and intelligence. It is formless and it does not move. Itself, it is immeasurable but it measures the movement. As per the cosmic law the movement or the vibration is the birth that takes place in the cosmic seed, cosmic substance.

In the cosmic scheme movement is called change and all change is cyclic. In respect of man, birth and growth represent the movement in the first half and time measures the same to the ecstasy and acceptance of human mind. The movement in the second half is decay and death, which is also measured by time.

Is there anything called time at all? Absolute time has no definition. Yet it is pervading the universe and makes its appearance felt in the form of era, epoch millennium, century, decade and the year and it supports the opposites and the contradictions in the events.

As said earlier that time cannot be defined. Let us bring it within the ambit of the mind and listen how it speaks regarding the movement in the second half. Time, while measuring decay and death is terrific, dreadful, horrible, merciless, cruel and mean, swift and fierce like a hungry tiger pouncing on the prey; it looks frightening with bloody tongue protruding, with blazing red hot eyes, with wild and violent dance to the tune of thunders of dark clouds with flashes of lightning, stretching its long arms to grab the beings into its fold of death of dark tunnel and the black hole pulling its fiercest foe, the light rays into its wide open jaws for its breakfast sip and swallow.

Time works with cosmic precision using its unerring shafts of infinite arms for killing, slaying, slapping and swallowing everything in the three worlds. Can Gods and Satan stand in strength and challenge the Absolute time? Nay, never. Who can stand before the time other than the time itself? - The Self and the Spirit is the strength and support of time.

22. Thanks, I am born in the religion with a culture and I am nourished to grow independently in mind and intelligence. Thanks to the religion, out of self-effort and struggle under the strength of discriminative knowledge, I am able to fly away from it and enjoy the panoramic pattern of creation and the ever-shining Truth behind it. The life's struggle yielded results. The result is I understand and accept the manifold world movement, as it is where it is. This is the light of wisdom, the essence of religion that should percolate into the humanity. Bharath is the epicenter for this light of wisdom and it is expected to cast its tentacles on and provide radiance through the world sometime now or later. This supreme knowledge of the Light of wisdom, the Light of Lights, the Self of all is the glory of mankind.

23. For the ecstatic understanding of man the supreme Soul, the "Iness" is comparable as follows:

(i) I am likened to the sap in the tree, the fragrance in the flower, the oil in the seeds, the essence in the things and the fire in the water, wood and plants.

(ii) My glory is that of the firm broad base of the mountain cliff sustaining the tides tempests and storms in the ocean.

(iii) My purity is that of the untainted, pure sunlight, ever shining purposelessly causing the life and the germination on the surface of earth.

24. The requirements of man for perfect life are as follows:

(i) Self knowledge - Both verbal and practical. This provides complete knowledge of the Supreme Truth, the Spirit, the Cosmic Cause and the process of expansion into the physical world.

(ii) Strong desire, mental force and intense concentration.

(iii) The discipline of struggle - fully applied human effort.

Man's object of life must be high and there stands nothing in the way of success in the three worlds, if a person acquires the competence as mentioned above. Even the Creator vacates his seat in favour of this man. All the celestial beings follow this man out of fear and awe. Such a man is the knower of everything, he is all pervasive and he is the controller of the Universe.

25. Is there anything which cannot be learnt from man, who is possessed within himself.

(i) The Soul and the Spirit.

(ii) The world movement from seed to tree and back to the tree.

(iii) The cognitive consciousness from `I' down to the external world? It is a paradox man ignores himself and runs after the outside objective world for acquiring knowledge, strength, peace, pleasure and visits Gods and Temples and finally returns disillusioned. After tracing his way into the heart through the wandering mind at last he proclaims the triumph.

26. Be seated for a while with empty mind in peace and placid without agitation and dejection and observe the changing world. You will find everything from the remote galaxies down to the particle is changing and moving at great speed. Change is the Cosmic Law under precise and fixed formulae. Where is peace in this change? You will come to know that the unchangeable substratum alone is the primal, which provides peace in the true sense.

27. There is the seer and there is the seen. One is the subject and the other object. The relation between these two is illusory and transient, neither real nor unreal. The one that witnesses this relation as an impartial umpire is beyond expression and is the silent spectator and that is possible when there is neither subject, nor object but the cosmic cognitive consciousness.

28. When the pure consciousness shines in your heart, you feel no distinctions between the world of objects and yourself. You only see the conscious light as an infinitive ocean in which the world particles rise and fall as bubbles and waves in the ocean.

29. From these still waters of the ocean, the objective world of names and forms arise, viz. the time, light of knowledge, various mental faculties, the sense organs and their properties.

30. The space in fact has no form, yet it appears as blue sky, in the same way the Self is formless, but as the factors such as mind, memory, intelligence, ego, etc. intervene same Self is experienced as the projection of manifold creations of names and forms. If one stands far, far behind these faculties, what is there to look at or to be aware except the infinite and the formless?

31. Self-knowledge is so pervasive in and out, mere study and listening with rapt attention helps the seeker to realise the Self verbally to a great extent.

32. The span of human life of 100 years is reducing itself every moment, but man is mad after running external, even though, he is conscious of the fast approaching death. He struggles in vain to catch up the targets of desire. What remains then is misery, discontentment and insecurity.

33. The surest way for Self-realisation is detecting the difference between the three persons, the first, the second and the third - the difference between the subject and object and after establishing the sole monarch as the first person `I', then withdrawing the third person and the objective world relations into himself and finally annihilating the `I' consciousness and merging in the absolute.

34. The question often raised is, how to quieten the mind and go beyond. Mind spreads its net on the outside world for the fulfillment of the desire. Desire alone sustains man to live and work for securing the fruits of desire. Therefore, mind works automatically, instinctively and without the knowledge of man for pursuing this desire.

One can therefore understand the potency of desire prompting mind to work incessantly. Comparatively, can we say the questioner has any desire to see God and what is its potency-prompting mind to think of God? One can understand now and assess the requirement of strength of desire for Self-realisation. The strongest desire supported by stronger effort, definitely leads man to God realisation.

35. There are three kinds of persons conducting worship and prayer in three stages. Image worship is the most ineffective and unintelligent way. Chanting prayers are mere satisfaction to the mind. A person with no knowledge of the Self or the concept of God, practises this ritualism, worship and prayer and develops strong belief.

They accredit God with all powers of reward and punishment, kindness, love and grace. They peg their hopes on God for protection and open up the bundle of desires in course of the prayers. On visiting pilgrimages and holy places, they also change the Gods, the worship and prayer for achieving their temporal desires and end up their lives rarely fulfilled and mostly ungranted. Yet they train up a strong psyche in weakness and dependence. This psyche is projected into the higher spheres, creating heaven and hell. This is the bondage and the thralldom in which the individual soul goes round and round within the matter.

The second category of people conduct prayers and worship in the mind. While the purpose of prayer and worship and the chosen God remain the same, this form of worship is intensified with painful austerities, such as penance, retreats, pilgrimages, fastings, offering charities, afflicting self punishment as an atonement and appeasing God. Their temporal desire, the ignorance and the dependence on God continue unchanged.

The third category of persons are the True seekers of God or the Self-realisation. Their desire is spiritual but not material. They enjoy peace and tranquility. They shift the worship of God and prayer from the mind into the cavity of heart, where the Gods merge into the formless flame of eternal light and all the mental reflections of prayer and the divine feelings dissolve in silence and perfect peace. This is the well established stage from where these persons resume the journey into the absolute Truth.

THE CENTRE OF SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE IS THE SUPREME, THE BED ROCK, FATHOMS DEEP IMMEASURABLE UNLIKE THE SECULAR KNOWLEDGE WHICH ARISES FROM A PARTICULAR PALPABLE OBJECT AND IT IS COMPARABLE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN. THE MIGHTY MAN DIVING TO THE BOTTOM FINDS HIMSELF AMIDST HEAPS OF GEMS AND PEARLS. CAN HE INNUMERATE THEM WITH DESCRIPTIONS FOR THE PLEASURE OF THE AUDIENCE?