We are drowning in information but starved in knowledge - JN

What is Brahman! ( The Vast) - That Thou Art... Tat Tvam Asi.

Through a process of negation, Vedanta teaches that Brahma is non-dual, one limitless fullness - that Brahman should be realized.

Pervading the world and extending beyond, illuminating the entire universe, Brahman shines like a glowing red hot lump of iron.

Atma abides in your heart as the light of consciousness, destroying ignorance, pervading the universe, sustaining all, and illuminating everything.

There is no drying, burning, wetting or cutting for me, pure consciousness even by real wind, fire, water or weapons, what to speak of imaginary ones.

For the insentient world, its appearance without consciousness, is impossible. Therefore I am all pervasive consciousness.

Even when ignorance appeare due to absence of inquiry, it is like mist in the space of consciousness that lasts until the sunrise of inquiry.

Evn when an observer of objects, an awareful witness, it is not my true nature. It is merely an incidental attribute of the waveless ocean of consciousness.

Existence alone (is-ness) alone is my nature, like space-ness. It is not an attribute. Because there is no existence other than me, it is no a category, (that has  members.).

The manifold nature the on reality could never have. Therefore I am indivisible, free from divisions of the world.

How far deep down the rabbit hole does one wishes to go in order to discover one's innate true nature, one's original being one's ground of primordial consciousness; a question that was raised in 'The MATRIX', the movie. How passionate are you to discover the fact that you are living in world of illusion and yearn to break free from this 'Net' to live a life of the real you? It is a question that haunts most awakened minds who ever walked the human existence and many have made the journey to the end and found self liberation, the enlightenment of the Buddhas and the Unity of One-ness with the Divine. Many who have tried but failed to get to the bottom of the mystery only to return to carry forward what was left behind in life after life. Then there are the masses that are oblivious to the awakening process, drowned in their own self deluded ignorance, trapped into the lures of this realm of mental formations and physical manifestations to forever evolve in cyclic existence of the herd mentality, following the leader, blindly being led to the slaughter houses at the end of the day; the Matrix existence.

We are living in a toxic waste dumpsite of our own creation a site that has been building in size ever since man discovered the wheel or perhaps even when he discovered the fire. When man discovered that he has the ability to overcome the lesser sentient beings and nature itself through his ingenuity, his arrogance grew and he became self centered to the point of every man for himself with the attitude of the devil may care.  Infected by greed, hate and ignorance became a malignant virus that threatens to destroy it very host sooner or latter.  Most of humanity that is enslaved by ignorance and succumbed to the herd mentality are impotent to do anything about the predicament we are in and can only give lip service in protest for anything attempted beyond this would incriminate against one by law or cast one as a pariah of society. Man has lost his passion and integrity to transcend the fate he is in, He has lost his pride as a warrior, a fighter, a divine ordained 'Khalifah', a seeker and defender of the truth,(the real), Man has become a pigeon that sits and wait to be fed at the right time of the day by the owner or the old retired fart who sits on the bench in the park; He has forgotten that he has wings that fly him anywhere and find the food at his own leisure. Instead he depends on ''Grab' for his transportation to get to the grocery store. Man is so removed from his divine nature that he needs to look up the dictionary to find out what the word divine means.

Most religion and spiritual school of today will acknowledge that ignorance is the cause of human suffering and that knowledge removes ignorance and thus puts an end to suffering. Yet how many truly know or even understands of this simple truth and how many would attempt to put this truth to practice. Most of us have practically resigned to the fact that we are a sorry lot too far damaged to be repaired, like Humpty Dumpty had fallen and no matter how many King's horses or King's men could ever put us back together again. In this day and age of information super-highway, of high tech and artificial intelligence, we humans have found ourselves on the brink of a catastrophic collapse, we are like a sinking ship that is full of state of the art equipment that is of no use because these tools and equipment did not come with a operating manual. The ship is sinking simply because no one knows what a screw driver is used for. The acquiring of knowledge takes dedication, commitment and work, that is why we always keep asking our children if they had done their homework.

Definition. Jnana is knowledge, which refers to any cognitive event that is correct and true over time. ... Jñāna yoga is the path towards attaining jnana. It is one of the three classical types of yoga mentioned in Hindu philosophies, the other two being karma yoga and bhakti.

As we age and often looking back at what or where we have been in this life we begin to wonder more and more what is wall about. At least for those of us who have the discerning mind about the path we have taken all the while believing that we are headed towards something or somewhere that would be our final destination. Most of us are guided by some form of lesson or teachings handed down from our ancestors, our forefathers and some of us simply fall into the groove of the existing rut called cultural ground of our society. Whatever religious doctrine or spiritual school that we find our self we soon realize that we are being led by the herd mentality of following the crowd, being inclusive with the norm and fitting into the groove of the common ground. For most this is perfectly okay and as a matter of fact preferable than having to think and explore beyond the confines of the box we find ourselves. This freedom from having to spend the time in seeking for the real as opposed to the unreal allows us the freedom to explore the more the pleasures of the physical life. In this circumstances our spiritual growth is stagnant and taken for granted. Because I have observed the precepts of the religion I will go to heaven when I die; The Book said so and the priests and Imam has guaranteed so; off course, 'the devil is in the details'.If one finds the time and commitment to delve deeper into the teachings one would soon begin to discover that having strong faith alone does not guarantee one's liberation form this world of illusion of Maya. To have lived 70 odd years of my life and still having doubts about he nature of who I am and what happens when I die is no small detail to grapple with. I could off course accept the teachings of Good Book on good faith and hope that it was a right choice; blind faith. 

It is not that i have  lost total faith in God or religion and I do not come to this conclusion out of fear of divine retribution in the after life. I have said time and again in the past I would rather not go to heaven or hell, but instead I would like to simply go home to where I had originally come from and if it means returning to the divine nature of the universe or God, so be it. It would be an insult to my intelligence if I would be kept in perpetual punishment for my transgression in this life after I die. What is karma and what is sin and what is life without karma or sin? The answers to these abstruse questions are in having direct knowledge and understanding of them and this takes effort and work to attain. We can keep asking questions as much as we can till the ultimate one;is there a God? If there is, what is His purpose in creating this life as it is, why the chaos and turmoil sprinkled by a dab of illusory fun and pleasure. Why allow for war and pestilence, corruption and most debilitating of all why so much waste? I refuse to accept that it is due to our human condition having free will and so forth, nor would I accept the excuse that the devil has something to do with it. No Sir! I have resigned myself to hold fast to the God of Love, of cOMPASSION OF gRACE AND mERCY! and my God would not have allowed for His creation to go awry, out of wack and approaching self annihilation while there is so much greed, hatred and suffering among His 'best of creation,' along the way. 

One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

Napoleon Hill