The Absolute Truth
“I am Atman” is the starting point, where from we have to proceed our journey, according to the scriptures.----------This is the approach of the scriptures.
“I am nothing but the product of the mind. I am the chithabasan; I am the Abasan. I am the person who has the ignorance. I do not know what the self is. I know myself only as a limited personality of mind and physical body. I admit I am limited.” — This is the next approach.
Let us have an example.
You are a student of a school. You stand first in all the subjects. You score the highest mark, in all the subjects.
Not only that, you win first prize in sports, essay writing, elocution, singing and all the extra curricular activities in the school level and in the inter school level. Not only that
you have all the good virtues and moral values with you. In short you are the model pupil of your school; You are the role model student in Toto.
During the school annual day function, the principal of the school, speaks in the function. In his public talk, he introduces you, referring your performance, your virtue, your behavior and your success.
The audience, express their appreciation and blessings by clapping their hands.
Now, let us consider this matter in a different way.
There is no change in the facts about you. The facts are same.
But, you, yourself has to introduce yourself, before the public, instead of your school principal.
So you have to describe about you. “I have got first mark in all the examinations of this
school. In the inter school competition, I have defeated everybody and I have got the first prizes. I have got all the good virtues. I am the model pupil of this school. Every student must consider me as his role model.”— You speak all these things in the platform, before
the audience of the function.
There is no lie or falsehood in your talk. All the narrated things are real facts.
But the audience which claps while it is so said by the principal, will feel awkward, when you introduce yourself like that.
Why it is so ?
There is no lie in your words.
Even though it is an actual truth, it should not be described by you. It must be described by the principal alone.
It is neither false nor imagination, if we take ourselves to be Athman.
We are Athman and nothing but Athman.
Athman is our real nature. We are the koodastha;
We are the pure witness; We are the soul; We are the Brahman.
This is truth and nothing but truth.
This is not an ordinary truth; but it is the ABSOLUTE TRUTH .
All these descriptions, do not refer somebody else.
Everything refers you alone; everything refers to myself alone.
Even though, it is the truth about ourselves, the scriptures alone have the right and status to describe it, as it is.
The readers of the scriptures, do never have the status to describe it as their real nature.
Our scriptures are like the parapet of the staircase.
It protects one who uses the stairs.
One has to use only the stairs, either to step up or to step down . One cannot walk upon the parapet wall.
The steps of the stair are the practical and available for us. It is made up of our mind and body. It is the practical truth.
If we are told that we are nothing but Atman; we are nothing but theBrahman; — it is not the practical truth.
It is only the Absolute Truth.
Scriptures alone have the right to speak about the absolute truth.
The scriptures may tell us about Athma Satchathkar – self Realization, liberated state or Durya State.
They all are parapet walls of the staircase. They are not the stair steps. They are not practical truth.
A saint used to tell his disciples that ‘everything is Brahman and nothing but Brahman’. He used to eat anything as the offering to Brahman, saying“Brahmarpanam.”
Once he walked along with his disciples to a village where the villagers offered the saint some village made alcoholic liquor. The saint drank it as the offering to Brahman.
The disciples were happy at the idea of drinking liquor and they also drank the liquor as the offering to Brahman.
The saint and his disciples went along the way for some more days. On their way, one day the saint saw the forge of a black smith. In the forge, some metals were melted in a
liquid form. The saint silently drank the melted metal, in the highest temperature of heat, saying ‘Brahmarpanam’.
If anybody touches the melted metal liquid, his hand will be burnt to ashes. But nothing happened to the saint.
The saint offered his disciples also to drink the melted metal as the liquor, they consumed in the village. The disciples trembled like anything .
Scriptures alone have the right to speak about absolute truth. We cannot apply it for our day – today life.
The practical life is different and its approach is also different.
If we use the words of scriptures, as our own words, then there will be unnecessary confusion.
So we have to approach our day – to- day life, in a practical way . We may get the approval of the scriptures, as we use the parapet wall of the stairs. Keeping the parapet
wall in hand – having the reference of the scriptures, We can safely walk up the stair steps; — we can adopt the practical way.
This is the practical way; This is the normal way; This is the perfect way.
We can discuss and examine the actual activities of our mind. We can discuss with the participation of our mind in various situations. We can examine the functions of our
mind, in the day – today activities.
But we cannot examine the status of Athma Satchathkar — Atman, in a practical way .
The function of our mind alone is in our hands. That is the actuality. The totality of our world is in our mind alone.
We have the experience of pleasure and pain only through our mind. We have the intelligence, in our mind; We have the ignorance, in our mind.
The function of our mind is important. We have to examine it in a practical way.
The scriptures also render their help to examine our mind in a systematic way.
The scriptures describe the mind in its own way.
Thereby, the experiences of our mind are classified into four categories .
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