The Soul does not reside in the human body. People think it is in the brain or forehead or Ajna chakra or the third eye, but all these are imagination based on false self (ego) within the false experience (waking).
These body-based theories have no value from the Advaitic perspective. Such theories hold no water when the Self is not the body.
Your judgment has to be based on the Self, which is the invisible Soul. The invisible Soul is present in the form of consciousness, is the ultimate reality or Brahman, or God in truth.
From the standpoint of the invisible Soul, you and the world in which you exist are an illusion created out of the invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is ever present.
Without consciousness, the world in which you exist ceases to exist. Consciousness is Self-evident. It is not established by extraneous proofs. It is not possible to deny consciousness because it is the very essence of the one who denies it. Consciousness is the basis of all kinds of knowledge, presuppositions, and proofs. Consciousness is everything. Thus, consciousness is the ultimate truth, or Brahman or God in truth.
Bhagavad Gita says: ~’ Brahmano hi pratisthaham’ ~ Brahman (God in truth) is considered the all-pervading consciousness, which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material. (14.27).
When Bhagavad Gita says, God is considered the all-pervading consciousness which is the basis of all the animate and inanimate entities and material then nothing has to be accepted as God other than consciousness.
The invisible Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is real and eternal. The world in which we exist is an illusion created out of consciousness.
The scientists now concluded that you are not the brain (body). Consciousness requires the joint operation of the brain, body and the world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are.
" The Biology of Consciousness
by Alva Noë. Hill and Wang, 2009
Alva Noe, a University of California, Berkeley, philosopher and cognitive scientist, argues that after decades of concerted effort on the part of neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers, "only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious ... has emerged unchallenged: we don't have a clue." The reason we have been unable to explain the neural basis of consciousness, he says, is that it does not take place in the brain. Consciousness is not something that happens inside us, but something we achieve; it is more like dancing than it is like the digestive process. To understand consciousness that we think and feel, and that the world shows up for us, we need to look at a larger system of which the brain is only one element. Consciousness requires the joint operation of the brain, body, and the world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."
Thus, science is going in the right direction in its invention and one day it will declare that everything is consciousness, which Sage Sankara declared 1200 years back ~ everything is Atman- because Atman is in the form of consciousness.
Thus, you have to discard the age-old belief that the invisible Soul resides within the human body. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
No comments:
Post a Comment