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Rohit Kaliyar

Ultimate Reality

Epistemology of God and SpiritualityExistential Inquiry

We all are interested in experiencing unknown, ultimate reality. How can unknown ever become known? Not a chance. We can not experience unknown. Ultimate reality is not negation like 'Neti Neti’, negative approach of Vedas. When they failed in positive approach then they invented 'Neti Neti’ the negative approach. But 'Neti Neti’ is still a positive approach because they are interested in reaching their goal and all goals are positive goals.

There is no such thing as Beyond or Unknown or Ultimate reality. Unless we understand this, we will keep doing something to experience unknown. The search will not end as long as goal is there. There is no way to know unknown by anyone and no one can express it. When this dawns on us then all goals, all hopes goes off. There is nothing to search, nothing to understand. When this search is not there or any movement to know unknown is not there then what will happen no one can imagine. Bliss, Love are all poetic concepts only.

Meditation will not help us to realise unknown. Meditation is like drugs which can damage our sensory system. Teachers ask us to control our thoughts and be aware of thoughts, but it's just not possible to be aware of thoughts and we can't control thoughts. We can't separate ourselves from thoughts and say these are my thoughts because we are actually thoughts. If thoughts are not there, we won't be there, no one will be there to observe the thoughts. Everything around us is created by thoughts including illusion of our own existence. If thoughts are not used just for their original basic purposes then it becomes our enemy, it creates illusions after illusion and we lost ourselves in those illusions.

If someone experiences space between two thoughts as thoughtless state, he feels extraordinary about it but its again thought induced space between two thoughts. Thoughts are very much there, space is just pause between two thoughts. To control thoughts we are asked to control breathing, this may choke and damage our body. We can't achieve that state by any efforts, all our actions should fall to their natural state.

U G Krishnamurti

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