Max Planck: ~ “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
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All scientific inventions are based on the dualistic perspective, whereas the ultimate truth of existence is based on the nondualistic perspective.
The scientists and the world in which they exist and their inventions are created out of single stuff. And that single stuff is consciousness. Knowledge of the single stuff is Advaita.
Advaita is the rational truth, scientific truth, the ultimate truth, and universal truth, and it cannot be contradicted. The Advaitic truth was declared by the Sage Scientist Sankara 1200 years back.
One day in the future, the scientist will also confirm and declare that the universe is nothing but consciousness.
Both modern science and religion offer hypotheses and theories, but there is one vital difference--science begins with facts that 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. It also declares that oxygen is protons or electrons. But in pursuit of truth, the whole physical existence (universe or mind) is considered an illusion, and science and its inventions, which are based on the physical existence, are limited to physical existence. The truth is within, but it is beyond physical existence.
Science demands physical proof. But the physical proof is part of the illusion. Hence, science cannot go beyond physicality because the truth cannot be traced in laboratory conditions. Deeper self-search is required if one wants to push the quest deeply enough.
Common people and primitive minds fall into faulty thinking through their inherited conditioning, such faulty thinking and reasoning make them accept the experience of birth, life, and death as reality; taking what one sees through the senses as real, taking what is apparently obvious, and superficial as true because it is less troublesome.
Many People adopt the attitude that what they know is the truth. And what others say is false. This attitude makes them not verify anything other than what they know. One needs to be rational, not merely logical. Logic has its value only in the physical plane(duality).
As one advances towards the spiritual plane, he sees the logic underlying experience and becomes more rational. His reasoning is two-fold- implicit and explicit.
There is a need for facts and 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 uncontradictable has to be accepted as truth.
The truth is based on the invisible Soul; the Self is worthwhile; without it, one has something else, not truth.
Most people refuse to venture into the pursuit of truth because they do not want to go to the root of things.
The seeker of truth has to study, inquire, and reason at the beginning of the pursuit of truth because it is very much necessary in the pursuit of truth.
One has to know the Self is not physical, but the Self is the formless Spirit or Soul. The Spirit is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness gives one the awareness of the three states.
The ignorance of the true Self is the cause of experiencing the duality as reality. Ignorance vanishes through the realization of the true Self, which is the Soul or Spirit or consciousness.
The Soul, the Self, does not lie in our body or in our brain or our ego, but it is the essence of the dual and non-dual experiences, which come and go as waking, dream, and deep sleep.
Mundaka Upanishad 1.3:~ Complete knowledge includes knowledge of the phenomenal world, the spirit behind it, and the source of both of them. When the cause of all causes becomes known, then everything knowable becomes known, and nothing remains unknown is Gnana.”
The Goudpada Karika-s of the second, third, and fourth chapters are the authority that a mumukshu ought to resort to. Since the reality of duality is born of ignorance even to a just born animal, and therefore the cause and characteristic of samsara, bondage, misery, the Upanishads and the Sages who have followed the Vedic tradition teach the unreality of the duality and redeem the suffering humanity from the misery caused by the duality.
For the sincere spiritual seeker, duality (dvaita) and suffering are synonyms. So, Nonduality (Advaita) and bliss (sukha) are also synonyms. The Veda, especially the Upanishad portions, are full of teachings directed at establishing the unreality and miserable nature of duality and upholding the non-dual nature of the Atman, the sole reality.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.3.22 alludes to this experience:~ (In this state a father is no father, a mother no mother, no personal God, no Vedas. In this state, a thief is no thief, the killer of a noble Brahmana no killer, a monk no monk, a hermit no hermit. This form of his is untouched by good work and untouched by evil work, for he is then beyond all the woes of his intellect.)
Mundaka Upanishad:~ The study of the Vedas, linguistics, Rituals, astronomy, and all the arts can be called lower knowledge. The higher is that which leads to Self-realization. The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self has neither caste nor race, neither eyes nor ears nor hands nor feet. Sages say this Self is infinite in the great And in the small, everlasting and changeless, The source of life..:~Santthosh Kumaar
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